The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-03-29

| Daniel Lambert At this point Of Mr..
Gays meditatiOns, Herr StieffelblitE's
voice came rolling out Of the window,
deep, full, sOnorOus aud clear he was
speaking to some one in the back part Of
the house. What voice for a fish,wo-
man think hear him singing for her:
Bass, or After this Mr.. Gay entered
the bakers shop.
Good morning, Mr.. Stiefrlblitz. You
supply Mr.. Gays family, in Dash street,
with bread
oh! yaw. S'bly Mis'r Kay nit brate.
The rolls are very small
Och not so varree schmol te vlour
pin so varree 'igh'
Yes, but its cheaper now, much cheap
err and want you to make them larger.
My wife, Mrs. Gay
Her GOtt, ter Missus Kay pin your
wife! Son 4! bOte she is sehr schOen,
varree fine irtty- Ach IIimmel, bote she
spakes ter Chairman so gOOt
Wee gaits, mine leeberv s,on&e Mr..
Gay at this juncture, ambitious Of airing
his Black Dutch.
1t would be an act of injustice to Mr..
Stiefllbl to say that he laughed on
hearing Mr.. Gay, tor that might imply
only movement in his face, whereas his
great joy and delight extended down to his
slippers and up to the crown of his head.
He laughed all over, so heartily, so gener-
ouSly, that two little chimney y-Sweepers
passing along the street-under the guild
ance Of decaved 'cullud gentleman far
gone in green spectacles and long wand
with a golden head, or at least brass
door-knob highly poliShed-alSo caught
the laugh, and kept it up till out of sight,
as well as sound.
+s,,-.za.sl 2 added Ne. Gey 'Stsd eosv that
we are all Dutch together, want to tell
you something's. You make the rolls all so
tkY.. ~>tAIe N 'RHS 1S1IS..---
nerwetter! Then yoh fMt tnem in the
oven, good. Abes I2air YsSoee the draft
is so strong, u great deal of the flour in
them flies up the chimney, and when you
take them out Of the oven they are so
small y pointing to several very diIninu-
tive rolls lying on the counter.
Herr Suetfelbltz appeared in dark
brown study; he carefully watched Mr.
Gays face; he could see no trace of any
joking there-only steady, satisfactory,
thorough, trusting belief i'll the theory ne
advanced.
Ter Herr Kay is right: dcre am too
crate trait to dem chmmaeeS.
Now listen, Herr StietftlblitZ. ] want
you to have fine sieve put up, 50 that
the flour won't 60 up chimney any more.
| want you to have your rolls just twice
as large as they are now and if next July
when you send in your bill, you really
find you have not saved anything by keep
ing the flour from going up! why, add
twenty five per cent. TO the amount Of my
bill, and | will willingly pay it, rather
than see you suffer unjnstiy, by having
people suppose that the -four did NOT go
up the chimney
The Herr StietFelblitz here saw the in
tense fun of the thing--at least part of
it !. the rest he studied out in the course
Of week, and an explosion Of laughter
followed, threatening all the paneS Of glass
in the neighborhOod. a week after this,
in one OF the morning papers, there was "A
shocking article ON slight earthquake,
felt in a certain portion Of the city. On
LTaClHS up tnlS T0tNOT IL WAS lOuHu tO nave
come from the neighbors Of Mr.. Steiffel-
blitz For the especial benefit of gentle
men having accounts current with the
weather, shocks, and so on, we must cor
rect this rumor. 1t was not an earth
quake but Dutchquake that took place.
Herr SteiffelblitS, waking up at midnighta
week after his interview with Mr.. Gay,
suddenly saw the full force OF that gentle
mans argument, and bursting into II roar
of laughter, "shcok the adjacent earth
with the intensencss of his mirth."
In justice to somebody, let us conclude
by saying that the rolls were doubled in
size after this talk, at least those that Mr..
Gay received, and no additional twenty
five per cent. was made in his July bill.
Mrs. Gay lost her bet, and has had the
greatest curiosity to this day to find out
how Bill, who only knows two dozen
words Of German, could do so much with
them!' Mr.. Gay has repeatedly assured
her that he found them amply sufficient
assisted as they were by u POWERFUL AR
GuMENT.