The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-01

kind of grE1eing consent. Then [ slept
that night ia the shop. When the mas
ter came TO the place he found every
thing IN elegant order, and / had D ade
80 before breakfast by mending a boot.
1 suited him exactly--for / am a guoi
shoemaker. / lived with that man Tor
a year, and saved all my money. / sent
the dear old fellow at home 500. If
you could only have seen the letter that
anne back The blessed old daddy want
ed to know if / thought he was a spend
thrift, That Sl90 he was going to make
do for the next three years. There was
a chance | heard of IN Sacramento, i
went there, my master giving me some
of his ehopworn stock. / did a
splendid business. In six months
! had made for my share
$1,000. My fortune was before me.
Poor old daddy was not forgotten. I
got a cross letter from him this time.
The poor simple soul wanted to know
whether / thought he was going TO the
dogs. Did | want to make him adrunk-
ard "a gourmand, and put ali kinds of
temptation in his way? Too much
money vas the source of all evil. / was
robbinglmYself to pamper him-but for
all that there wat a lot Of sweetness in
the letter,
Well, / thought that fortune was now
mine. But one night a bad fire broke
out and l was burned out. Fires occur
red at Sacramento every night and
were the work of thieves. / gait cred
together the few pairs Of boots / could
put my hands on and placed them with
my money, all in gold, in q trunk, and [
carried it out of the wooden shanty Just
as the roof fell in. For better security
l sat on my trunk and gazed bewildered
like at the flames. 81 have something
left,"I said. after all to begin the
world with" Just then | was struck a
heavy blow over the head with a club
and lost all consciousness. When | came
to l found myself on the ground and
my trunk gone. The thieves had done
myself up, just for q moment, to utter
Poor old daddy" l thought. But | was
not ruined, for that crack on the head
was the means Of making my fortune.
didn't cry over things much, for l
am q good shoemaker, and that is al
ways a solid capital. I had q little mon
ey in my pocket, and / went to San
+ francisco. ! knew nay old master
would take me back, and he did so. /
resumed my old place. There was an
auctioneer among his customers with
the tendereat feet | ever saw and as
a shoemaker, that explains all my
good luck. This auctioneer had been
grumbling ever since l left San Francis
co. When he saw me he was delighted.
sat least now" be said, 81 am out of
my great misery. / shall limp no long
err" AT once / made him q pair of
shoes, and he was delighted.
One day he said to me: 81 had an
auction, yesterday, and l put up with
out getting q single bidder e lot of very
fine French kid boots. They won't sell
because there is a glut of boots on the
market. They were imported a year
ago but the shape is out of fashion now.
1t was o square one then now it is q
round one. Do you buy themf" "How
much2" Iasked. Make your own price"
But have no money" That makes
no difference; you may have them on
pay me when you can" l went
to look at those cases of boots. They
of the finest quality, and excellent
as to make. Some of them were cavalry
boots, but such as only dandy horseman
or general officers wear. Remember /
a good shoemaker and know my
trade. / bought those boots at one dol
lar a pair. The leather alone was worth
twice that. AT night | used to work on
them. | made the square toes pointed
for | am a good shoemaker, some OF
them / cut down into boobies. Oh! l
worked night after night on them after
hours. Then / hired q small shop and
hung up a few pairs in the window.
A Mexican came first. "How much?"
Ten dollars" He took the boots.
Then a miner passed. "How much?"
Fifteen dollars" Then a gentleman on
fine horse came by and looked from
his horse at the boots, and he tied up
his horse and asked: "How much?'
Twenty dollars He put a double
eagle down. / must have made s.. 800
clear on those boots and | putin my pock-
ct 5000 In three weeks, ! worked on for
a year, end made money insny trade
steadily, for / am q good shoemaker.
Then ] got married at San Francisco to
a women / loved, and my married life
has been a very happy one. 1t was a
pang when I said: 81 must leave you,
my love, for q short time-ouly long
enough 10 pay my dear old daddy a Wis.,
it, / left my business in her charge.
1t was a voyage OF business n pleas.
ure, for / went to Paris to buy goods.
Poor old daddy! There was the anne
magpie in the wicker work basket, and
he saluted me, for he remembered me.
When / was q little boy / stuck q tail OF
false feathers on him with ONE cob
bler's wax. He never forgot me, as If
my insult to him had been of recent
date. There was hardly a change in the
room. There hung fathers old watch,
as big as a saucer, ticking away, with q
spray OF lockwood over it for luck. Then
there was on the shelf the same old
earthen ware jug. The handle broke
one unfortunate day, and a piece of
leather was bound around it., and it
hung on q nail by a thong. He had the
same awl in his hand-at least it was
the same handle, for I once came near
getting a thrashing fer having whitfield
it. Even the old almanac of a year long