Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1877-11-28
A Mean Trick.
From the Lowell Journal

Our readers, we presume, have not for
gotten the joke one of our village gamins
played or an u~nsuspecting, honest heart
ed German recently by selling him a
dog fish for twenty-five cents. You rec
ollect how the boy lied to him and de-
ceived him, and how, subsequently, Our
friend Hans interviewed the little rascal
and tried to get his money back, and
failed. We wrote up the item just as we
would write up n other local event,
and supposed at the time that We were
giving an impartial account Of the affair.
We still think we did no injustice to
| either party and have never been asked
to retract or modify a single utterance
uttered by us in regard to the matter.
! We have met Hans fifty times since then
and he always greeted US with Chow you
vos Sheemgragsw and we. always felt
well. He always had a friendly word
and we have never lost an opportunity
to ask him how his folks were and what
he got for his wheat, and such other
questions AZ would show a friendly in
terest in his welfare.
1t is now two months or more since
Hans bought the dog fish and threw it
away. But his memory, it seems, is
more than two months long. He came
into our sanctum the other day and
found us very busy figuring up the
I number Of cubic inches contained IN a
big cabbage, that had been kindly left by
u delinquent subscriber who promised to
bring us a load Of wood when sleighing
comes.
"Vcll, how you vos to-day? Nice
vedder aind it? You peesy"
1t is a rule with us to wait on our pat
rons promptly, whether busy or not, and
we assured Hans that we were his to
command.
, swell, I hat a leedle shob vor del
babers+vos going to brint mine warm in
der ShourndI, und maybe, somepody puy
|, id? Shoost wride id town-Nice,
warm, goot 'ouse; pig parn; shoost q
, hoodred and dwendy ayers; goot pig
orchard; blaindy water und ~eferytine
: shoost vot dey want Wride id town
= all aboud il und poot id in der Shourna
e in a good blaze where efery pody see il
right away"
We never wrote up q" Farm for Sale
in better shape than we wrote this notic'
for Hans.
i "Dot ish goot," said Hans, spreading
smile wei the whole length and breadtl
of his countenanee, "poot id in de
I iMournal shoost like dot"
CAN right, sir, how long will you hav
it published, Hansy"
. "Vell, how much id cost do brin
. dot?"
"Well, we generally charge a dolla
for the first Insertion Of o notice lik
! this, and % cents far each subsequent in
~sertion, Hans"
! "Yaw, veil, sheap enough MAYBE
You brint him shoost as leedle an,
. shoost as long as I vans 'em ! shpose?"
Certainly, one week, three weeks O
just rs much longer AS you say"
: "Yaw, veil, dot ish all right, but
! hat got no money to-day. Viii bay yol
ven der advertise vas dock oud de
|" ,Momnai."
/ "All right sir. Pay when the motto
. expires. How long will you have i
published, Hans?"
swell, Sheemgrags, l will hat it but
lished shoost Won hoondert year."
"What?"
Shoost one hoondert year, dot is all
! den ] bay you when der nodis egspires.
: And after fooling away two hours of GU
: valuable time Hans started for the dool
: turning, just as he stepped into the hal
- and sporting out in the most insinuatin
: manner, "Vell, goot tay, mine trent,
: will 60 now right away oud und puy
!. leedle tog-vish, maybe. ! bay you vhe
der nodis egspires."
- We offered to discount the bill so pc
' cent. for cash, but the great, pig-heade
Dutchman, without saying another wore
walked down stairs as coOlly and delil
. erately as if he owned the whole blocl