River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-03-05
THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON
Row it was Viewed by an observant Colo
RADIO Scriptural Student.

I
Century.
| | read considerable to Jim about
kings and dukes and earls and such,
and how gaudy they dressed and how
much style they put on, and called
each other your majesty and your grace,
and your lordship, and so on, stead of
mister; and Jim's eyes bulged out, and
he was interested. He says:
81 didn't know dey was SO many un
UNI. I haint hearn bout none un UNI
skasely, but ole King Sollermun, onless
you counts dem kings dat's in pack er
k'yards. How much do king git"
"Get?" I says; "why get 1000 a
month, if they want it; they can have
just as much as they want; everything
belongs to them"
Ain dat gay En- what dey got to
do, Huck?"
"They don't do nothingl Why, how
you talk. They just set around"
"No; is dat SOP"
"Of course 1t is. They just set
around, except maybe when there's a
war; then they go to the war. But
other times they just lazy around; or go
hawking just hawking and sp-Sh!
D'you here noise?"
We skipped ont and looked; but it
warn't nothing but the futter of steam
boats wheel way down coming around
the point; so we come back.
eyes, +" says I, "and other times, when
things is dull they fuss with the Par
| lyment; but if every body don't go just
so, he whacks their heads off. But
mostly they hang round the harem."
ROM de which,"
"Harem."
whats de harem?"
| 1.-THE place where lie keeps his wives.
| Don't YOU know about the harem? Sol
ONION had one; he had about l 900, 900
wives"
''Why yes, OATS SO; I'D done for
got it. A harem's bo'd'n house. 1
reck'n mos likely dey has rackety times
1 in de nusserv. En- | reck'n de wives
quarrels considable; en- dat crease de
racket Yit dey say Sollermun de
wises' man dat ever live. I doan take
no stock in dat. Because why? Would
wise man want to live in de mids' er
such blimblammin' ali de time? No
| deed he wouldn't. A wise man'd take
en- bull biler factry; en- den he could
shet down de biler when he want to res.
well, but lie was the wisest man,
anyway; because the widow she told me
so, her own self. ;"
II doan' k'yer what de wilder say, he
want no wise man, nuther. He had
some er de dadfetchedes' ways / ever
see. Does you know bout dat chile dat
he uz gwine to chop in two?"
Eyes, de widow told me all about it,
well, den! Warn dat de beatenes'
notion in de worr? You jes' take en-
look at it minute. Dah's de stump,
dah--dat's one er de women; heah's You
-dat's de yuther one rs Sollermun;
en- dish yer dollar bills be chile. Bofe
I'm you claim it. What does | do?
Does / shin aroun' 'mongst de neighbors
en- fine out which I'm you de bill do
| b1ong to, en- han it over to de righe one
all safe en- soun,' de way dat anybody
dat had any gTlmption would? Mol
axe en- whack de bill in two, en- give
hat I'm it to you, en- de yutner hat to de
yuther woman. OATS de way Sollermun
was giving do wild de chile Now / won't
to ask you; what's de use er dat haf
bill ?-can't buy nuth'n wild it. En- what
use Is a hat chile? / wouldn't give a
darn for ,000 900 on um."
but hang 1t, Jim, you've clean miss
ted the point-blame it you've missed it
900 mile.
"Who? Me? Go'long. Doan talk to
me, bout 70 pints. [ reek'n / knows
sense when / sees it; en- dey ain no
sense in SIGH doin's as dat. De- spute
warn't bout half chile: de spute was
bout a whole chile; en- de man dat think
he kin settle spute bout whole chile
wild half chile doan' know enough
to come in out'n de rain. Doan talk to
me bout Sollermun, Huck. KNOWS him
by de back. !"
But / tell you, you don't get the
point"
"BIame de pintl reck'n / knows
what I knows En- mine you de real
pint is down furder; it's down deeper
1t laws In de way Sollermun was raised
You take man OATS got only one er
two chilen; is dat man gwine to be
wasteful o'chillen? No he amt; he can't
ford it. He knows how to value EN-.
But you take q man dat's got bout