Mexico weekly ledger., 1882-04-20

stand one day and had to pay a dollar
and . half damages; and once I
chased q coal cart till was clean
beat out, and had to hire a coach to
kerry me home.
But the wost ont was, Twas gittin'
all discouraged, and I was willin'
to own at last that I had got the mo-
-nomanier, or a touch ont any way,
and finally I consented to let EN-
call in doctor.
He said how't my sistim needed
tonin' up, and he left me some medi-
cine. I took the medicine faithful;
but knew, and Minty knew, too,
that couldn't never git toned up
right, till I found that pesky coal
man.
Our advertiser didn't amount to
shucks. A few smutty-faced, lynn
fellows called on us, expectin' to
make somethinsSout ont, / 'spose,
but we want so easy took in, and
they went away as poor as they come.
One day, Minty showedin a young
Lishman. He come bowin' and
scrapin' up to the table where sot
sewin' threw down his old hat and
put out his black paw, with flourish,
as if he was tickled to death to see
me. &
"By my sowl, "says he, Iii it isn't
the identikle old lady, herself, now!
I knew ye as quick as I set my two
eyes on YETI
singular, = says I, cool as could
be-for I'd got used to ,em, you
know. singular. but I never see
you afore, !. says I.
"oh, now" says he, eoaxin' like,
Eye wouldn't forgit SO aisy. Think,
now, how would it be-, say, barrin'
the baird and the short cut of me
hair for the hot weather." says he.
''Barrin' as much as yer mind to-"
says I, 81 don't know ye and I don't
wanter, and now if you'll stop your
blarney and tell me what ye want,
I'll be obliged to ye."
He looked all struck Of heap for a
minute, and then says he: ssDidn't t
yer advertise for the young man as
driv ye ter the depot on his coal cart
last Christmas?"
81 did," says I.
''And isn't it mesek as is the very
fellerT' says he slappin' his knee,
and lookin' up as bold as brass, agin.
"Now I think ont, I dunno but
| ye be,' says I. "Yes, I~guess you
be the very Teller, and so I 'spose
you've come to pay over that ave
dollars I lent you," says I, and I riz
up and hid out my hand to him.
You orter seen that man he looked
all ways to once, and everywhere,
but me; then he picked up his old
hat, and says he:
''Its mistaken am now entirely
It's not meseH at all. I name, it's
not yourself at ALL" =
40 yes, it is" says I, ''it's myself,
but it amt yourself" So sayin'
opened the door, and he went out in
a hurry. :
And this was only one Of quite a
number of experiences we went
through, and all for nothn'.
One morning Minty came to nae
after breakfast, and says she, "Aunt
Ruth, Jack is gpin' ter be away awhile,
and you and neil give party; 8
coal mans party" says she. awe
will advertise IN every way we can
for tive days, and on Thursday well
hold the recepshun in our basement
Well have lemonaid and donuts an6
sandwidges enough for all the coal
men lin town. What do Won thinE
on't?" says she.
I hid my breth's much as mint
I was SO struck with the idea.
''Minty, it's jest the thing!" say
II. "You are a genius
So we set right about it. 1t was
awful hot weather, and it stood t.
reason that no hard workin' coal mar
would miss chance o. gittin' goot
lunch and . cool drink o. lemonaid
free, for nothin'. "That must fetcl
him." thinks I, and I felt encouraged
| The advertisement run this way:
Gree lunch to Coal Men! At No
s5 Clay street (basement), from. l
a. m. to O clock, Come one, Com
ALL"
1 asked Minty what she s'posed tn
neighbors would think, when they Sc
the doin's. go
J, She said she didn't care what the
, thought; but they'd probably thin
we was exsentrick, and took that wa
1 O. doin' good. It was fashionabl
ter be exsentrick.
81 Wall, when the time come, it ws
3 was well worth dur trouble, jest tt
! fsee ,esn land If it hadn't a'ben #
d my monomanier, we sh'd had lost {
fun out ont. ~ll
There was line o. coal car
Z lstandin' up and down our streets
i Ter Is you could see, beth ways an
d them fellefs KEEP . piliin' inter tn
basement as biziness-iike as yo
= please, as ef, for ell the world, it vi
an everyday thing to 'em; and the
scrambled fol, the vittles, and drar
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