New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-08

men whom he had Joined would have
drunk with hum all day. They seemed
to have no other business.
Had you in The 'boose the last time
you were in town, didn't they, eh?''
asked Nat Boles.
eyes, but that's none of your look
out. l generally pay for my whisky
which is more than you can say and
tell the truth. -
81 didn't mean any harm by it. You
are getting to be such crank that no.
body can say word to you
''That's all right. You sit around
mere and guzzle every day. but if
happen to come to town once in
while and get a little off, you 90
around singing it.
81 don't do any such thing.
merely spoke about it just now
.'Oh, l heard of you. Fine joke for
you. Why don't you drink your
whiskyp"
''Reckon I want to drink with a
man that talks to me as you do?''
eyes you'd drink with the devil.
''I'll just show you.''
Taking up the glass, he made mo-
ton as though he would throw the
whisky on the floor, but his appetite
being stronger than his resentment,
he drank it and said:
81 don't want to have any trouble
with you, Eli. We are too good friends
for that
They sat down around the stove, for
the weather was intensely cold. There
is no place on earth more dreary than
a saloon in small town, but men stay
there. Yes, for man will stay any
where. When evening came, Eli was
beastly drunk. He had thrown away
the shoe, but the boy recovered it, and
to keep from offending his father by
the sight of it, carried it under his
coat.
"We'n 90 home now,' he said. tax,
ing hold of the boys shoulder.
'It's awful cold for you to attempt
to walk; I'd stay in town, Eli, said
man who looked with pity upon the
child.
"We don't have to walk" replied
the boy. ''Our horse is at the stable"
mo, my little fellow, your horse is
not there. Your father sold the horse
when he slipped away from you before
dinner time"
The child burst into tears. His IA
Their declared that having spent all his
money, and that as he could not get
whisky without it, he wouldn't stay in
the Internal town. He vowed that
everybody was trying to rob him, a
belated but not altogether untrue re.
Election. ''Come on" said he, eve
don't care for the snow, do we. Tom?n
"No, sir.''
But if you want to stay, Welt
stay"
The child, looking at him reproach-
fully yet afectionately, replied, 81
wouldn't stay here If l knew we'd
freeze to death by going out in the
snow"
..All right, Macoovey. Come on.
Drunken than an owl. Full as goose,
Tom.''
eyes, know
"What'll the old lady say?"
'.she won't say anything, but you
"Pretty good woman, Tom. Your
mother, amt she?"
eyes, sir.''
CHATS what I thought. Man new
er has but one mother, Tom. Never
heard of man with two mothers, did
your
.'No, SIR
t'That's what I thought. When "a
man tells you that he has two mothers.
call him 8 liar. He NAV have two
sisters and a front yard full of BROTH
| ers, but ne won't have but one moth
| err
They were struggling along a lane.
The chnd's teeth chartered. .sCan't
60 any further tonight, Tom.'' said
the father, stopping in fence corner.
'tJust so tired l can't 90 any further.
You 60 home and tell the folks not to
be uneasy. I'm all right Going
Tom?" q
s'No, sir.''
EARLY next norm Traveller dis
mounted to examine something he saw
in a fence corner. 81 will never for
get that sight, said he in speaking of
it. '-The boy had his arms around
the fathers purple neck, and had
pressed his cheek close to the rough
face of the drunkard. Both were dead,
and on the dead mans breast, there
lay Little WORKOUT shoe" -Arka,asau
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