Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-20

Boys, Uncle Ike has lost hull slew OF
! them good milyons Of hisen, and las
found them at the Springs, and they tell
him that Nose, brung 'em there and sold
EN-. What have you got to say, boys
Eff you've stole Uncle Ike's mush milyons
I'll lick ye within an inch Of yer lives
Gracious. You ought to seen Sammy.
He turned up that round, smirkin' one
sided face of hisen, and, lookin' Uncle Ike
square in the eyes, said
- cure a nice-0(e-uncie, to come here
an twt me an Nose Of stealin' yer gol
derDed mush mllyons, Don't nobody
raise miiyons in this town of Leb'non but
you? You ought to be ashamed Of yer
self. I'd like TO see ye proee them mil
yons to be yourn Fl you can't prore 'cm
yourn, what are We goin' TO do about it Z;
Sayr
q At first Uncle Ike was so TUX down by
Sammy's sass that he begun to feel sheep
ish like, and WIZ about to beg the fam
ily's parding and 30, when that last mis-
fortunate remark about proyin' prop'ty
riled him agin, and says he, Sammy
stay on yer hoss Jest mint Praps you
kin bluff me and praps you can't. Praps
YOU don't know how't cut the letter T.
onto che seed END of every mush milyon
into my garding, and should know 'em in
Tophet, where gouU be most apt to get a
lick at SIGH fodder if you are lucky
enough to eat anything as co0lin as mil
yons in the futur life
- Oh says sammy, then you kaou
they're yourn. And, say, Uncle Ike, Tn
glad you wuz smart enough to cut the
front corner Of yer fust name onto them
miyons. | think | know the chaps that
stole 'em. | told 'em ON Sunday arter
you had treated Us so nice that it would
be durn mean TO go and steal your mil
yonS, but they didn't mind what said.
"'I I'm ashamed Of my sext. I'm sorry
I'm a boy, and if the Lord spares my life
I'll never marry, bet | will devote my life
to exposin' sinners I've been in the
mush milyon bzniz little and bought
and sold milyonS more or less. but who'd
"A thought | wuz dckcrin' with "A lot OF
thieves? 1t makes my blood bile to think
of it. But it is lucky for YOU and the
huff country thet them milyons wuz sold
to me. 1t may be the means of breakin'
up the al-tiredest mush milyon gang that
ever cussed the country. kin spot every
one Of 'em and bring 'em to Justice
though il II take time and money, and
shall run the risk of gittin' licked like
thunder, for the boys'll be awful mad
But il is time sombody begun to bust these
chaps, or we're ruined. | amt afeard to
go ahead if you amt afeard to foller.
- sammy" says old Mr.. Tilden, |
never wuz so proud of ye afore in all my
born days | druther you'd steal all the
mush milyons in the County Of Klumby
than not git chance to be a refOrmer.
You're the stuff that Guv'ners and Pres
dents is made out ON. Bless We, my boy
90 sammy, says Uncle Ike, with tears
rollin' down his face, I'm glad sich a
brave and honest boy has taken hold of
this thing; and if you'll tell me the names
of the boys that did the stealin' We needn't
pay back nuthin on the milyons, and I'll
90 snucks with We on the money | get
outen the boys dads.
Wall, us boys all got awful lickin,
and our fathers paid Uncle Ike three times
the worth of the prop'ty to have it hushed
up. Sammy cleared about fifteen dollars
outen the entire Consarn, and got the name
of bein' the bravesi and honestest boy in
the hull county, and was mentioned in the
minister's sarmint the next Sunday,
. But land here the old man shook his
head and knocked the ashes from his pipe
don't know about SIGH doins. can't
see why the biggest thief in the hull
lot should git paid and all his tools git
| licked and disgraCcd, That's what both
ers me spose he's got over SIGH capers
now He's old enough to do better any
| how"
gave the old man a ticketto my concert,
and as | hadc him goodaftemoon, and
! folded the paper on which had written
this narrative, rs it fell fresh and quaint
from his lips, he said:
" Say, Mr.. Clark, see you've ben
writin sumethin' but If We print what I've
tole ye, don't give my name, for Sammy
and | wuz boys together, and | shall prob,
bly, vote for him, as never voted nothin'
but the straight Dimocrat ticket and it's
too late tc change now
If any of your readers desire the old
mans address, in confidence, | can send
send il to them ii they will mail me Z
stamp or postal.card at Syracuse, \. y.
lAMES 4, u AK