Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-09-26

got up hot, ate my breakfast hot, ant
stood in the hall doorway, before goin.
down town, hot. Jack was there, and
observed.
"a hot day!''
: ''1s it? Thanks for the information. B,
the way, am going to count the numbe
OF times that remark is made to me TODAY
Yours is only the fifth"
Sand, for an experiment, / intend not Il
make it again to-day"
''You will make it twenty times.''
IL intend not to make it again to-day
e And, more than that, am not going tc
utter one syllable which shall bear directly
or indirectly on the weather."
E 'I'll bet you hat you do"
'I'll take the bet"
That was what all the trouble came
from.
, started down town, and the first man
met was an acquaintance, who bowed and
said:
"a hot day"'
simply answered, "Good morning." as
we passed. He looked back over his
shoulder. | think. but if he expected me to
crafty his expressed opinion, he was dis
appointed.
At the corner Bundy Joined me.
''Hullo! But this is going to be a
scorcher. amt it?''
1t was pointed question, and pointed
ly replied:
See that Whites got new lightning
rod on his house. Do you believe in
lightning-rods 90
He didn't know about that, but he
thought it was just about as hot as perdi-
ton.
! asked him if he recoIlected the mathe-
nautical rule by which lightning-rods were
put up.
lie answered no. He didn't ''know no.
thin about lightnin'-rods. nohow:" look
ed at me point-blank tor full three seconds.
and then settled into sulks, saying never
word during our walk.
Arrived at the office, found two fellows
sitting in the doorway.
III agree to leave it to Yarrow," said
one.
''All right. Yarrow, we are having an
argument as TO whether this is the hottest
day of the season or not. What do you
say?"
1 suddenly had desire TO see Mr. -Ratts.
''1, Se'''io'--'-----i-> onc,,nnti with mo
office. and passed the two dispuIants III
business-lke haste, with mumtlcd, 'sBe
back in minute.''
Dc -, hca ~ H.,
greeted me with a cheerful
''Wcll, Quippie, is this Eot enough for
yon?'
..Er-ah:: Ned Uckles hasn't been here
this morning. has he:''
Then backed hurricdly into the ant
room again, and from the doorway came
tie question
swell. Yarrow, what do you say? Is it
the hottest
''Blamcd if didn't forget that letter."
and turn and lounge back to Mr.. Bats,
who comes at me again with
81, is really warm enough to-
''Oh, recollect now!" and back l go
| into the ante-room.
"Well, is to-day the hottest. Or"
''Did you call me. Mr.. Bats? p and
shuttlecock to the rear once more.
''No. but if it gets much warmer
"Oh! thought you did!' Out dance,
and as near the two sitters in the door
way. Mr.. Bats called to me
'Say. Quipple, look at the thermometer
out there and see how it stands"
And yell back:
mo, don't see anything of Thompson.
Don't suppose he's come from breakfast
yet"
Wiereupon charged by the two sitters
in the doorway and onto the sidewalk, and
commenced a remark on the Louisiana In
vcstigating Committee.
allow did you say about our question,
Yarrow. Is it the hottest"
s.Hullo, Spinks! Hold on there min
ute! Excuse me. gentlemen; must see
Spinks I" and shot off after Spinks, won-
dering what in the nation l am going to
say to him, as. to my knowledge, l have
with him no business whatever.
'.Morning!' ~ he salutes me as 1 join him.
.Hottest day we've lad, amt it?'
'.Er-rer, Mr.. Spinks, did you ever know
a fellow by the name of-of Robert X.
Milldamg''
Cant say that I did. Where did he
live?''
sOh! it's of no consequence-no conse-
auence, tllanks,' and turn into the post
office.
ANY warm weather round your way?''
asks the polite clerk, as he hands me my
mail.
s.I'd like to know what this nincOmpOop
is writing to me about-that is-ha !" and
!, l slink ingloriously away. for discove,
that the handwriting of the ''nincompoop'
is that of the clerks father, and the clerk
, himself seems as it he were about ready
, to leap over the letter boxes and just turr
himself loose on somebody.
! After that took turn on the square
and had to make about twenty-three irrel
eyant answers to each Of the following:
s'Hot dayv
e ..Putty warm!''
: "Hot enough to melt!'
= SLOWS this for hot p
3 ssH0ttest day Of the season, amt it?''
swarm weather we're having now!"
Al (blazes!' -
, the dickens r'
/ s'Hot as You please!"
3 they make 'em!"
III pertlitiOn ~
Il You can imagine that, to avoid touching
. upon the weather, my replies to the abov'