The Baltimore County union., 1875-10-16
Il dunno. 4 dunno: IT'S burned purity, bu


"I dunno. Il dunno. It's burned purity, bu
it's whole hoss and buggy"
| The jeweller fattered him little and urget
him some more, and offered him a writer
| guarantee that the watch was all right; anC
the young man soliloq uized another soliloquy
| He said:
"Think of me walking up to Susan with thil
| ere watch kicking minutes into hours! And
won't the other fellows skulk around the cider
mill when this ticker SHES up to their old bulls
| eyes and vanished cases There's boss barn
full of style and dignity right here; but then
it makes me sigh to think of putting horse
| and buggy into my vest-pocket"
He laid the watch down, picked it up laid it
down again, and started for the door. Hating
midway, he said to himself:
"lll have it-by golly, I'll have that ticker
if the old man never looks me in the face
again p
He handed over the money the ieweller gave
him cord for nothing, and he hurried out of
store as if fearful that he might change his
mind. Going around by the post office, boot
black asked him if he would have shine
There was his opportunity. He pulled out the
watch with majestic air, sprung open the
cases, and loftily replied:
81 haven't time"
"'say, you p cried the boy, "but that's nice
ticker !"
"See there see there w whispered the young
man with orange-colored whskers "when me
and the old boss and buggy was rolling along
ssrs tor me shssE h eEJads. saidf e''''' ~ Ky
| AS he walked up the street to point from
whence he could view the City Hall clock his
heart gave Jump lie trernbed as he pulled
out his watch to compare time, but after a
glance his face cleared, he slapped his leg, and
the boys heard him saying:
"She's right to a tick, and feel zif I could
holler like drover."
He wanted to go home, and yet he had
planned to remain all night. He was unde-
cided, when small girl with wart Oh her
nose, bareheaded and barefooted, approached
and asked him the time of day.
"Certainly, certainly" he replied, as he pull
ed out his watch; sit is just exactly ten min
utes and second and half to twelve o'clock"
She passed on, and he kicked one foot out be-
hind, poked himself in the ribs, and whispered: :
"See there! That watch just brings folks
around me like calves around a salt-barrel!"
He decided to remain. He went to a hotel,
and as he informed the clerk that he wanted
dinner, he pulled out the watch and com pared
time. He went to the wash-roon ana pulled
out the watch to see how long it would take
him to comb his hair. AS he sat down in the
Office it seemed to him all at once as if the
time piece had stopped. He pulled it out, held
it to his ear, and a smile travelled clear around
to his back collar button as he heard it ticking
away.
ooh, yes, this ERE watch stops, it does !" he
whispered "it haint worth an old white boss
and quill wheel buggy, it haint"
He looked at the watch as he sat at the table;
he compared time after dinner he ru1laa it
out as he rode on the streetcar. When night
came, the young man from School District No.
4 had gigantic contempt for all men who don't
wear watches. When he went to his room he
made up his mind to sit up all night to "watch"
l1r thieves. Some one had trailed him to the
hotel without doubt, and would murder him
to get that time-p piece. Then he got sleepy, and
hid the watch between the beds. After five
minutes he put it under the pillow. Then he
got up and hid it under the bed He felt easy
for ten minutes, and then hid it in one of his
boots, and hid the boot under the bed.
Dreams came to that young man as he final
" slept. The old white horse came and stood
over him with tears in his eyes, and then turn
I'd around and swallowed the watch. Thieves
broke in and stole it. His sisters red headed
baby bit it square in two. 1t took legs and ran
away from him. At midnight he awoke, saw
that the moon was up, and as he got into his
clothes he said to himself:
"It's only eight miles home, good going, and
dunn me fl don't walk right on the hull family
fore daylight"
We all differ, you know, in our makeup, but
then that was his first watch, and who could
| blame him?