Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-05-11
A GIRL.

lnQlcemeht for her to stay. She make it
her special duty to meet agents and beggars
at the door, and to dispose of them without
the least annoyance to the family. She has
a rule to meet each case, and her rules are
perfection. The door-bell never fools her.
She can tell q callers ring from a beggar's
ring as certainly as the bell in touched.
When she opens the door and finds a man
with a red goatee having a clothes-wringer
in his hand. she doesn't wait for him to hem
and haw and say that his clothes-wringer
beats all the other wringers ever made. She
gets the start by saying:
"You seem like a decent, respectable man,
and as a friend [ warn you that the owner
OF the hous saw you come up the steps and
he ran into the back yard to unchain his
Russian bloodhound.'
The man with the red goatee sings that
wringer over his right shoulder and canters
out of that ~neiglborhood with his teeth on
edge and cold chills playing tag up and down
his back.
The next one may be a young lady, who
boldly inquiries for the lady of the house,
and has a new kind Of face powder to sell.
You can go ill.," whispered the girl,
and | will stand at the door so as to rush
in when you call. If the mistress asks you
to taste anything, beware of poison. She
this morning, and | guess it will be safe for
you to go ill.,"
"Why-why-?" stammers the young
lady.
go right in-she may not be dangerous"
"Never Mindful call again-I'm in a
hurry"
And that settles that case.
The next is one of those old chaps who
20 about with tears in his eyes, willing to
to work if work can be had, but never find
ing any work their health will permit them
to 10.
Madam" he says, as she opens the door,
"for mercy's sake, let me work at something
long enough to earn a slice of bread"
She motions him to go around to the side
door, and is there to let him in. She hands
him an AK weighing seven pounds, with a
straight handle, points to three or foul big
knots which have become almost petrified,
and softly says:
"You look lungery, and as soon as you
split those up, I'll give you the best meal
you've had in amonth.''
She goes in, and he splits on his hands,
looks at that old AK, and then folds his little
tent and slips through the gate like a shan
ow of fate.
Then the little girl who canvasses for the
orphan asylum, rings the bell. She is met
with a smile, and the hired girl says:
"You poor little thing! I pity the or
phans, and I'd like to give you some money.
If you will get the mayor to come here and
say that it is all right, | will give you three
cents"
The little girl thoughtfully pursues her
way, and another case comes, is met and
disposed of, and the mistress of that house
is never disturbed or annoyed.
What kind of q dodge she would resort to
if q Montana newspaper TAI should call, is
more than we can tell. 1t is more than like
ly she would give mp in despair, and that he
would be admitted.
ADAMS FIRST WIRES REyENGE.-The old
Hebrew cabalistic legend of Lilith, the first
wife Of Adam, is told by M. D. Conway, in
his lecture on the Devil, in language which
is as beautiful as a finished poem. She was
a cold, passionless, splendid beauty, with
wondrous golden hair. She was created
Adams equal in every respect, and therefore
properly enough refused to obey him. For