The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-01-22
BY NJ. z. sERvoSs.

So YOU wants me to dells you apout dot
lager pier, does you? Veil, l dells you
dot pooty quick. You see mine leetle
poy Fritz blaying Offer dare, de o dot
ish shtanding oop mid mis- heat on top
off de grountP Veil, dot poy ish shust
awful schmart; l soomdimes drinks dat
ven he ish grown oop he will pc shust 30
schmart like his fadder.
Veil, Won day ven l vos Thinking my
bier out in de garten. Fritz he cooms
O ID, an says he, ''Fadder, dot pier ish
apiul goot, Won't you gifes me soom?"
Dot makes me schump u leetle inside,
but | holds myself shtill and asks him:
''How you know il ish goot, Fritz"
"Veil," says he, "ven you wrist sends
me by dot saloon mt a pail for pier il
looks nice and l taste a leetle, but it Vas
not goot; next times / taste him again
an he vas u leetle peter, an dc next
dimes he vas peter yet, an py-an.py l
likes him shust SO veil rs | can. Ven l
get, to pc u p x mans, like You, ladder, !
franks HIM all day long. Oh! ven 1
drinks bier ! feels 80 y .ot an jolly; let
ne ha.e soom now, fadder, Won't your"
You peter pelieve | lett yust dreadful
to hear my poy talk dot way. First l
wish soom-yot you call him-earth-
uIdkc-HItkI uidhC toh itOiC th oO
g,ount AN docks me right in; an next
| drinks | cGnn0 20 deal now, because !
m let safe my p0y, mine leele Fritz. It's
IA very well, / fought, Tor u pig man to
trink his bier dwo, dree times u day but
OH u leetle ny likes HIM 30 re.i dot he
vuuts To trims ail dc dunes, den dat po.
ri.l pc scnrapc,i oup ~ vi dc gutter
uon day AN pc daken f. de c~liapoose,
n dc merit times Le goes to dc peII-l-
tertiary, we're dey puts peoples IN Pc
nint iron pars yust like Wild animals lii
deere cages. On, my leetle Frlz; Vol
shall | say 10 dat pow? If | dells him
| pier isll not goot Tor him, ell he rays IL
makes him leel gOot, am IL doe not iIur,
his ladder; an II l say 1t ish wicked, den
ne will say "Fadder, ypt niakes You ~
vlcked?" An'if l say he must not dook
pier, den he viii say holdings; but ven
ne gifts dot pier first den he will 20 py
de saloon and spend his pennies FOL
pier, and de mans viii gife hun som,
more yust to See how funny he vii act
Oh, il had meier send him py dot sa'
loon! He knows DE road 30 easy now.
he has peen 20 eiery tay for dwo years
an | fought II 80 schmart Ven he va.
pig enough to 70 after pier for his fad
der. Oh! vat shall | do? All, 10Y l hait
It! Somepody dells me vonce dot peel
vas pad for ~dnypodies; dot de great Ger
man Liebig say so, but | don't believe j
den, because l wants my peer; now
guess It is drue, an / Will get me som
pOoKs an reat all apOut tan / will DELI
Fritz dot hafe found dat pier ish no
goot for de pig mans. nor de little mans
shtop because he will a n to do like hi
fadder, amt it?"
Den l fought, "Dot ish all right, only
maybe, Fritz don't p~elieve it because h,
wants his pier yust like his fadder did
How / did wish dere vas o a salool
III de land; an den | recolmeniber how
q mans say vonce "Dere will not p'
Won saloon in de coundry in den yea
from now, if efery man does his dut,
and totes de P~rohibishun dicket efer,
dimes"
Oh, how mad dot mode me den; bu
someyay it toni make me 81 mad hk
dot now; it sound goot.
Ven | dells Katrina, she laughs ar
says. yust to dry me, ~ guess You trim
some lager pooty quick vens he coome
along, amt it?" An / says, "Katrins
you drinks | cares nottings for dot leetl
Fritz?" An py-and-py ven l goes ofe
py the shtore. Shake, he asks me to 6
oud NIT him an hat some peer. An
dells him mebbe he peter hadn't tai
dot way tn me ! vos Won de.APsranS
man now.
"Vot! you a Temperance crank?' say
Shake, and he vos 30 excited dot b
stepped pack into a half pushed measur
dot stood Oop gainst de wall, IN ven b
got oOp an rubbed de blaze vere he 8,
down, It hurried HIM 30 dot he said h
. wouldn't give ten dollars to do d.
again.
An / tole HIM he might dake me ft
dwo cranks if he wants to, but l don
trink no more Of dot pier"
An he says: Peer don't hurt an
man." because it meier hurt him; al
/ asks him how he gets dot plack eyt
/ An he says dot he fell from de celler
de gaIret, yesterday, an shtuck a kno
hole in his eye. An l dells him if
vas temperance ans ! don't got som
knot-hOles.in my eye; amt il?
/ dells you, mine friendt, | vas a pc
ter mai now l sht0p dot peer, an
feels peter, am Katrina, she says
looks peter IDIOT makes me feel Il lit
sileap). Ven IL man trunks his peer al
slinokes his pipe, he gets Ia pc nottii
but II peer parrel on doc rs, vid
snnIok, --liia, X on top O it. You din
IL man ntr Il right 10 HIahc u snHiok'
shtack # himself, ell? -
So on se,. | ish Won IF dos p-oh
hislim cranks, an | Va Is To eel =
yust van ting: you can't turn a.. Kin
of cranks but Won way .neider, dots yu'
81 sure as my name is SCHNEIDER. An
lsh going to sale dot lectle Fritz someWO
an if | can't keep bun away from d
pier, den l yust totes so ase to keep d
pier away from him ven he croes Dol
dots all.