The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-12-18
TUFTED SULTANS.
The Mean Trick by Which a Mean MAJ
Got Even with His Mean Ncighbors.


The Mean Trick by which n Mem Man
Got Even with His Mean Ncighbors.
Old Hayseed Maginley was one of the
mcanest men in all the mean commu-
nifty in which he lived. If he could save
u dollar year by subsist'ng entirely on
pork, he would gladly dedicate himself
permanently to the pig. All he thought
of day and night was money. Not
money to spend on luxuries. or even
neccssaries, but money to save. simply
for the sake of saving.
One day he concluded that good
way to make some money would be to
purchase setting OF eggs of some very
choice strain, and in time be able to sell
settings himself to people in his ne gh-
borhood, and thereby add to his capital.
So he sent five dollars with an ach-
ing hearty to n man in Massachusetts,,
and got setting of Tufted Sultans, and
deposited them under a setting hen that
was pining for just such an attitude.
Old Haysecd Maginley smiled all over
his unshavcn face as he figured up what
he ought to make.
'I'll be gol-swizzled if 1 don't get
enough outen them there critters ter
raise the mortgac G, begosh!'
And this reflection made him so hap
py that he would have danced, if he
hadn't been to mean to wear out the
amount OF sole-leather that usually ac-
compan'es Jig.
'How's them, what-do-you- call -'em,
high-falutin pullets gcttn' alongp' in
quired Mrs. Hayseed Maginley one
day.
''First-rate, Marthy, first-rate; and
when Brother Fairbanks first sot eyes
ont 'cm, he like to bust with surprise.
He was a-iiggcrin' on gettin' Il pair. /
guess, an had to shift the talk around
until after he had went. 1 tell you.
Marthy, nobody has ever saw sich chicks
in these parts"
While Haysecd Maginley was figur-
ing what he could make out of the
eggs, the other mean men OF that mean
community got together and agreed to
buy no eggs from the owner of the
Tufted Sultans.
"Just leave him alone" was the
unanimous expression of the communi-
ty; "and after awhile he will have his
hands and his closet-shelves full of Tuft-
ed Sultan eggs and he will have to take
them to town and swap them off like
common eggs, and we can get them for
Il quarter do en-"
So they never offered to buy Tuftcd
Sultan egg from Hayseed Magiuley. who
was almost losing flesh over his disap-
pointmcnt. The eggs were accumulat-
ing slowly, but surely. until he had sew
eral pans-full. Finally the owner had
! To t,,l-, tLn,, tS fbo x,il In fro orrnony, ,,,I
sell them at the price paid for ordinary
eggs.
1t was hard blow to him, and hc
was too sad for utterancc us he drove
home behind the old gray, who looked
as though he had been grazing all sum-
mer in some pleasant valley of anti-fat
And he had no sooner than got home,
than all his neighbors, who were Just
dying for setting of Tufted Sultans,
ran forth and told each other that Hay
seed Maginley had sold his eggs.
And no sooner was it noised around
than they started for the village, entered
the grocery store and asked for Magin-
lev's eggs, all of which they purchased.
And that night. when Cassiopcia sat
in her easy-chair in the liquid blue-for
it was the close of wash-day she saw
all the mean men in the mean, conf
munity of Hayseed Maginley placing
Tufted Sultan eggs under their COM
mon fowls.
At prayer-meeting they would ex-
changed winks while old Haysecd led.
And they whispered it in the grocery.
and in the post-otlice, until every one
in the place was aware of the manner
in which the Tutted Sultan eggs were
got for Il quarter dozen.
Rut old Hayseed kept his peace. and
finally the time for the little Tufted Sui
tans to appear arrived. But they didn't.
Their owners became impatient; SO did
the old hens.
And after the old hens had got tired
of setting, and deserted their nests, the
men who had invested in the Tufted
Sultan eggs got very mad And one
day. when old Hayseed Maginlcy was
among them, one of the party said
"What kind of eggs be them Tuftcd
Sui ans for setting, any wayP"
"First-ratc, r>pIied old Haysecd,
hide large healthy smile that had Just
burst into bloom.
"Wcll, got some of 'cm down to
| i<tiil ''hcu'Nci ., uiiNt lop oHc VI Clil
came out.
Then old Hayseed burst forth:
"You critters wouldn't come to me
for 'em, would ye? You waited till l had
to sell 'em for or nary eggs. ehp Then
yon go m and b., y EN- for quarter
Il dozen. ola Wen, knowed that was
what you was III a-waitin' for, and, sez
to myself, sc /; 'Hayseed, old boz,
you must gc. even with 'em.' And so
before takes cm TO the village gets
Martly to bill Il kettle of water, and we
dps 'cm in, every one on 'em, and
that's why they warn't no good for
hatchln'."
And the laugh that followed was a
solitary one, because old Haysced had it
all to himself. none of the purchasers Of
the Tufted Sultan eggs having tho requl-
site vitality to join mr.. x. Munhit-
trick, IN Puck.
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