New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-02-13
Counting Ahead.

uOCu uanQS. IVY uear, WnaL 90 you
suppose this is about?''
LET me see, demanded Mr.. Spoop-
endyke, snatching at the paper. "Why
it's a lottery ticket! What peddler Of
sacred literature have you been patron
izing now? Where'd you acquire pos
session Of this monument to wealth?''
Il found it," huttered Mrs. Spoop-
endyke, making dive for it, as though
the explanation of what it was made
the slightest difference in it's contents.
"1s it really lottery ticket? How
much do we VIM"
''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.
''And I'll have my seal skin dolman,
after all!' squealed Mrs. Spoopendyke.
clapping her hands and peering over
her husbands shoulder at the mysteri-
Gus document. II wish they'd hurry
up and send the money. When do you
think they'll send it, dear?'
''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 find? Been making any other
purchases of similar character?''
No. cooed Mrs. Spoopendyke, '.And
yon shall have = What would you
like dear? Wen buy what you want,
and if there is anything left, we think
about the dolman."
''Don't think there will be much
left grunted Mr.. Spoopendyke. ut
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 it? All you thought of was
the dolman and you want me to
advance the money for that?'
Il 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 a good deal
more than the seal skin will. What's
the matter with you? AS soon as you
get q 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 coat? S'pose I'm going to sit
around here like label on bottle and
have the neighbors fetch in cold pie,
while you skin around after washing in
a seal skin dolman?" l tell you this
moneys going where it will do some
good! Hear me? Pm going to build
barn and buy a horse.
Wont that be nice!' exclaimed Mrs.
Spoopendyke, her face illuminated
with smiles. "And at one end of the
barn We'll have a piggery, and at the
other end We'll have q hennery.-
OH"
1--WE won't,' snorted Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke. ''Think L m going to have lot
of measly hens scratching with one
leg and growing all night with the 9TH
CT? Got notion that I'm going to
put money into pack of pigs that'll
squeal when you let up long enough to
give them 4 chance?'
''But little pigs are SO sweet" plead
ed Mrs: Spoopendyke. ''And / dote
on hens"
"Well, you do the doting, and I'll
take care OF the funus" 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 climbing
beans over the window, we could make
it look"
''Ihink I'm going to put half of this
money into hiring somebody to find out
what you are talking about, don't your"
roarcd Mr.. Spoopendyke. Know what
barn is? Think it is some kind of
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,
Il thought it would look pretty"
sighed Mrs. Spoopendyke.
''That's it," yawped Mr.. Spoopen-
dyke. you've been thinking again!
With your disposition to throw every-
thing into the form of thought, you
only want stick of gum and bad
reputation to be a female boarding
school! Don't you interfere in this
business any more until l call you to
see the horse! Understand me?''
eyes, DEAR" replied Mrs. Spoopen-
dyke, leaning on his shoulder and look
ing closely at the ticket ''What do
you suppose that June, 1881, is on
there for?''
Mr.. Spoopendyke glared at the slip,
tore it into thousand pieces, scattered
them over the floor and danced on
them.
Whats it for?" he yelled. 'It's to
put arms and tail to and be borne
around by an eighteen carat idiot as
sea'skin do man. Wher'd ye get it? How
many suits of my clothes did you trade
Oft for this measly ticket, three years
old? Which museum did you start
lnose dOd gasCed Deans climbing into,
with these miraculous financial re-
sults?''
''Never mind, DEAR" said Mrs.
Spoopendyke, soothingly. ''I'm sorry
you re disappointed about your barn,
but TIL give up the sealskin sacque. -
Mr.. Spoopendyke bent on her ono
long, lingering look and then climbed
into bed.
Il don't care" murmured Mrs.
Spoopendyke, as she rolled up her friz-
yes 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, be
won't have to 60 to the expense Of buy
ing the corner lot, and that's a saw
ing And with this economical re-
Election, Mrs. Spoopendyke measured