The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-10-16
But the grasshoppers so gallant
Called to arms each nimble Gallant,
With their wings, and stings, and nippers
Bee, and wasp. and hornet, awful; @
Gave the william such lawful, E
There he slipped away in slippers!


Bee and wasp, and hornet, awful; tsssNss
Gave the william such lawful,
There he slipped away in slippers!
Ha! ha!-spped down into the mud that he
emerged from" cried Hans and, selling his fid-
die. dashed off the Hippopotamus in n style that
did hin, a world of good, and makes us wish that
we had the musical notes oft. Then he fell to,
and dav and night he wrought. Work came; it
was done. He wanted little--a crust of bread
and merry tune were enough tor hm HIS
money grew; the sum was nearly accomplished,
when, returning one evening from carrying out
some work-behold! his door was opon! Be
hold! the lid of his pot where he deposited his
treasure was off! The money was gone!
This was terrible blow. Hans raised a vast
commotion. He did not even fail to insnuate
that it might be the interoper opposlte-the
Hippopotamus Who so likely as he, who had
his eve continually on Hans door? But no mat
tpr-the thief was clear off; and the only COM
fort he got from his neighbors, was being rated
for his stinginess cay said they, "ths comes
of living like a curmudgeon, in great house by
yourself, working your eyes out to hoard up
money What must young man like you do
with scraping up pots full of money, like misere
| 1t is shame'-itis sin! 1T is a judgement!;
Nothing better could come oft. At all events,
you ght afford to have a light burning in the
| house. People are ever likely to robyou. They
sec house as dark oven; they see nobody
in it, they 60 in and steal; nobody can see them
come out-and that is Just it. But were therea
light burning, they would always think there was
somebody in. At all events. you might have
light
s.There is something in that" sud Hans. He
4 was not at all unreasonable; he determined to
to have light N future: and he fell to work
t again.
Bad as his luck had been he resolved, when
he became Burgermestier of Rapps.. to be espe-
cialv severe on sncaking thieves, who crept in
to houses that were left to the of Providence
~ 3l,a A.
I steverlastingly burning in his window; and the
q people, as they passed in the morning, said,
rItaThis man must have good business that re-
figures him to be up thus early; and they who /,
passed in the evening, sad 'sIhis man must be
d making fortune, for he is busy early and late
r Atlength Hansleaped down from his board with
s theswork that was to complete his sum, second
81 time; went returnel j, with the future Burger
insigteq growing rapidiy upon him; when, as he
turned the corner of the streeten and mercies!
| what aspectacld! His house was in a full burst
Il of fame Illuminating, with ruddy glow, half
If the town, and all the faces of the inhabitants,
Is who were collected to witness the catastrophe.
$, Money, fiddle, shop-board--all were consumed
l. and when poor Hans danced and caPered, in the
1t very ecstacy of his distractlon-tAy, said his
: neighbors, ethis comes ofleavlng light n an
empty house. Itwas Just the thing to happen.
J. Why don't you gets sersehoay 10 take care of
# things in your nbseEcegs 49,
n Hans stood correctedsfor, as | have said, he
u was aoon touched to the quick, and though III
i his anger he did think itrathcr unkiDd that they
who advised the light, now propheslcd after the
o event. when that was a little abated, he thought
there was reason in what they now said. SO,
# batting not jqt of his determination to save and
\ to be Burgermister of Rapps, he took the very
: next house, which luckily happened To- be at
d liberty, and he got journeyman. For long
), had to pay three hundred per cent for the piece
is OF table, two s.ools, and couple OF bags OF
d hay, which he had procured of Jew, and which,
# with old pot, and awooden spoon or two, CON
n stituted all his furniture. Then, he had two
h mouths to feed instead Of one; wages to pay; and
r not much more work done than he could man
IS age himself. But still--he had dreamed, and
A. dreams, if they are genuine, fulfil themselves.
3fI The money grew-sloWly very slowly, but still
it grew; and Hans pitched upon secure place,
as he thought, 10 conceal it in. Alas! poor
:. Hans He had often in his heart grumbled at
~ ~ the slowness Of his Handmerks Bnrsch, or jour
: = neyman; but the fellow eyes had been quick
= ~enough, and he proved himself hand-worl
y y fellow to some purpose, by clearing out Hanss
- hiding place, and becoming journeyman in ear
~ y nest. The fellow was gone one morning; no
" great loss-but then the money was gone with
" him. which 'caS terrible loss.
g This was more than Hans could bear. He was
=, perfectly cast down, dishear,ened, ard inconso
- - liable AT first, he thought of running after the
:, ~ fellow; and, as he knew the scamp could not go
!" far without passport, and Hans had gone the
round of the country himself, in the three years
: ofhis Weadel Jahre, as required by the worship
ful guild Of taors, he did not doubt but that he
: should some day pounce upon the scnundrel. 80
: But then, in the mean time, who was to keep
= his trade together? There was the Hippotanus
: : watching opposite! No! it would not do and
: his eighbor coming in to condole with him,
: sad-sCheer up, n,an! there is nothing amiss
= yet What signify few dollars You will soon
- get plenty more with those ninlble fingers of
I, yours You want only somebody to help you
= = keep them: You must geta wife Journeymen
: were thieves from the first generation. You
: must get married.!
:, .sGet married. thought Hans. He was struck
:, all on heap at the very ton of it. sect
! married. What! fine clothes to go wooing in,
10 and fine presents to go wooing with; and par
- - sons fees, and clerk S fees; and wedding dinner,
- fees. and nurses fees, and children without end;
ii That is ruin!' thought Hans-"without end!'
:" The fifty dollars and the Burgermeistership-
g they might wait till doomsday
~ s'Well, that is good!' thought Hans, as he
W took little more breath. ssThey first counsel
~ ed to get light-then went house and all
in bonfire; next, | must get ajourneyman--
then went the money; and now they would have
d me bring more plaques upon than Moses
lie brought upon Egypt. Nay nay" thought Hans;
sc you II not catch me there, neither.
le Hans all this time was seated upon his shop
re board, stitching, at an amazing rate, upon gar
E ment which the rascaly Wagner should have
is finished to order at o'clock that morning, in
d stead of decamping with his money; and, ever
S. and anon SO far forgetting his loss in what ap-
peared to him the righteousness of this advice.
p as freely to laugh ont All that day, the idea
le continued to run in his head; the next, it had
lost much ofits freshness; the third, il appeared
n not SO odd awful; the fourth, he began to ask
IS himself whether it might be quite SO monentous
" as his imagination had painted the fifth, here
= ally thought it was not bad neither; the sxff.
'e it had SO worked round in his head, that II had
fairly got on the other side, and appeared clearly
to have its advantages children did not come
scampering into the world all at once, like focl,
Of lambs into a meadows wife might help to
gather as well as spend--might possibly bring
something Of her own--aye! wideal would