The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-01-24
Counting Ahead.


| studying a slip of paper she held in
both hands. my dear, what do you
suppose tLis is about?"
''Let me see," demanded Mr. Spoop-
endyke, snatching at the paper. sWhy
it's lottery ticket! What peddler of
/ sacred literature have you been patron
izing now? Where'd you acquire pos
session of this monument to wealth."
al found it," futtered Mrs. Spoop-
endyke. making dive for it, as though
| the explanation of what it was made
the slightest difference in its contents.
"Is it really a lottery ticket? How
| much do we winP'
"Well, if it draws prize, and if the
expense of collection don't eat up the
amount, and the lottery pays up, we
won't be much out of pocket, returned
Mr.. Spoopendyke, examining the ticket
again.
| Sand Pl have my seal skin dolman,
after all!'' squealed Mrs Spoopendyke.
clapping her hands and peering over
her husband s shoulder at the mysteri-
Gus document II wish they'd hurry
up and send the money. When do you
think they'll send it, dearp''
''Praps it's on the way now!" NUT
tered Mr.. Spoopendyke. ''Of course
the lottery folks know that you found
| it, and they will break their necks TO
! pay up before the owner can make any
trouble. Have you ordered anything
| else besides the dolman On the strength
of this findP Been making any other
| purchases of a similar characterP"
mo, cooed Mrs. .Spoopendyke, ''And
| you shall have a. What would you
like dear? Wen buy what you want,
and if there is anything left, we'll think
about the dolman."
Don't think there will be much
left," grunted Mr.. Spoopendyke. '.Jt
| didn't occur to you that we could put
this money in the bank, or l could use
it in my business, did it? Never sug-
| gested itself to you that we could lay it
away, or speculate in stocks and double
| it, or buy horse both of us could en-
Joy, did itp All you thought of was
the dolman and you want me to
advance the money for that3'
II didn't know murmured Mrs.
! Spoopendyke, rather crestfallen. Il
thought maybe there would be enough
for us both, and if there was I'd like to
get the sack. Say, dear, how much
would the STOCKS COST!
'Depends upon how much you paid
for them," lucidly explained Mr. Spoop-
endyke. They'll cost good deal
more than the seal skin will. What's
the matter with you? As soon as you
get few dollars you want to bum it
away on clothes. Haven't you any no.
ton of saving? Think you'll excite any
more interest among the other inmates
by clawing around the poor house in
sealskin coatp S'pose I'm going to sit
around here like label on a bottle and
have the neighbors fetch in cold pie,
| while you skin around after washing in
a seal skin dolmanp" 1 tell you this
moneys going where it will do some
good! Hear mep I'm going to build
| bexn and buy horse. F"
Wont that be nicer' exclaimed Mrs.
Spoopendyke, her face illuminated
| with smiles ''And at one end of the
| barn we'll have piggery, and at the
| other end we'll have a hennery.-
| Oh"
1--WE won't" snorted Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke. Think I'm going to have lot
leg and Growing all night with the 9TH
| er? Got a notion that I'm going to
put money into pack of pigs that'n
squeal when you let up long enough to
! give them chance?'
'.But little pigs are so sweetr' plead
ed Mrs. Spoopendyke. ''And l dote
| on hens"
"Well, you do the doting, and I'll
| take care of the fundsr' retorted Mr..
Spoopendyke. Il suppose I've got to
buy the corner lot SO as to give the
| barn fronting on the street"
.'And I'll train some vines over the
door," said Mrs. Spoopendyke. with
| vines around the door, and clim bing
| beans over the window, we could make
II look
Think I'm going to put half of this
money into hiring somebody to find out
what you are talking about, don't you?'
roared Mr.. Spoopendyke. know what
a barn is? Think it is some kind of a
nuisance, with shelves in front for pots
and broken leg behind? Well, it
| amt, and it amt going to have any
beans fooling around it! The first dod
gasted bean find climbing over the
window of that barn will get the chief
part of its trousers loaded with shot"
81 thought it would look pretty!'
| sighed Mrs. Spoopendyke.
That's itr' yawped Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke. you've been thinking againi
With your disposition to throw every
thing into the form of thought, you
only want stick of gum and a bad
reputation to be q female boarding
school! Don't you interfere in this
business any more until call you to
| see the horse! Understand meP"
Yes, DEAR" replied Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, leaning on his shoulder and look
ing closely at the ticket. What do
you suppose that June, 1884, is ON
there for?''
Mr.. Spoopendyke glared at the slip,
tore it into a thousand pieces, scattered
| them over the floor and danced on
them.
whats it forP" he yelled. ''It's to
put arms and tail to and be borne
around by an eighteen carat idiot as
sealskin dolman. Wher' We getitp How
many suits of my clothes did you trade
| off for this measly ticket, three years
| old? Which museum did you start
those dod gasted beans climbing into,
with these miraculous financial re-
sults?"
'.Never mind, DEAR" said Mrs.
Spoopendyke, SCOT tlingly. 'I'm sorry
you re disappointe1 about your barn,
but TIL give up the sealskin sacque.
Mr.. Spoopendyke bent on her one
long. lingering look and then climbed
into bed.
81 don't care" murmured Mrs.
Spoopendyke, as she rolled up her friz-
zes and plastered them with ounce
seed. 81 don't care. The horse would
have run away with him and broke his
neck, and if it didn't we might not have
drawn anything. At all events, he
won't have to go to the expense of buy
ing the corner lot, and that's q saw
ing" And with this economical re-
Election, Mrs. Spoopendyke measured
her husbands sealskin cap to see if it
contained enough material for collar
and pair of cuffs, and finding that it
did, she planted her feet in his back