another store. Why, sir, sometimes there were eight and nine girls in the
store all at wonct, on account of my being there. They came to have me put
extracts on their handkerchiefs, and to eat gum drops--he will lose all
that trade now. My girl that went back on me for the telegraph messenger
boy, she came with the rest of the girls, but she found that I could be as
'hawty as a dook.' I got even with her, though. I pretended I wasn't mad,
and when she wanted me to put some perfumery on her handkerchief I said
'all right,' and I put on a little geranium and white rose, and then I got
some tincture of assafety, and sprinkled it on her dress and cloak when
she went out. That is about the worst smelling stuff that ever was, and I
was glad when she went out and met the telegraph boy on the corner. They
went off together; but he came back pretty soon, about the
homesickest boy you ever saw, and he told my chum he would never go with
that girl again because she smelled like spoiled oysters or sewer gas. Her
folks noticed it, and made her go and wash her feet and soak herself, and
her brother told my chum it didn't do any good, she smelled just like a
glue factory, and my chum--the darn fool--told her brother that it was me
who perfumed her, and he hit me in the eye with a frozen fish, down by the
fish store, and that's what made my eye black; but I know how to cure a
black eye. I have not been in a drug store eight days, and not know how to
cure a black eye; and I guess I learned that girl not to go back on a boy
'cause he smelled like a goat.

"Well, what was it about your leaving the wrong medicine at houses? The
policeman in this ward told me you come pretty near killing several people
by leaving the wrong medicine."

"The way of it was this. There was about a dozen different kinds of
medicine to leave at different places, and I was in a hurry to go to the
roller skating rink, so I got my chum to help me, and we just took the