The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-04-19
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Shave you q newspaper here 2" I
asked Of q man who came ovcrto whore
we were camped on the edge II - lkslS
Dakota town. 8 .s4ai "a asi~E,.,.
Yes, got one; did have two, but the
Other fellow pulled out last week =
Didn't it pay ?" "''' :" -"
:Naw. he want no gcod-lgos but ths
weakest paper you ever seea."sa {. .!or
What was the trouble with il r. ,.,.,
"No news, or at least pope to, 'mosnt
to anything. Course, if something big
happened that he couidht help seeifi'
he'd get it in, but es'ry week tAsresdibs
lot o spicy things thss he'd keep, stillA
mouse about an stick ir = lot o R;ecee
on free trade, or protection, or mebbs
sometimes the tariff. Bit the other
man want that style-no blown pisces
in.hisn, but all the spicy sa's i.Gsrestia'
news that happened" y..gsso. ssssuor
$50 you froze the long editorial man
out ?" st +.
"Had to do it, T..steil you-hef didn't
know enough to pound sand. wy
lemme tell you little cases Couple o.
months ago | built mss4 new chicken
coop-not a very big 'un cause / only
got six hens an igRtin' rooster-but I
made it very keerful an put in two
round roosts an whitewashed 'em an
three nests. figured on half the hens
restin' an scratchin' while the other
shift was layin' an nailed some Stats over
box in one corner to shut up the settlers
in, an make 'em quit their monkey
business, an fixed her up in style geneT-
ally. Pretty soon old Cooper, this nan
that's gone, come along, an called him
in, an says I: Jes' git onto the new
hen-house I been abu,ldin'.' THAT looks
first-rate,' says he. 'Wiggle it, says I.
He wiggled 1t. 1t pear solid,' says he.
l claim it's the best hen-house in the city,
says /. 'Wouldn't wonder says he.
Then he walked off with his head down,
a-thinkin', reckoned, what he should say
bout it. Somehow didn't manage to see
the other feller to tell him bout it, but
Lordy, how do you think it come ont p
"Haven't any idea. How did it ?'
"W'y, sir, | went over to Hank
Georges and borrowed his copy Of Coop
er's paper soou's it come out--Hank
hadn't got look at it yet himself-an'
took it home an waded through it, but
not line bout my hen-coop! Not
line! Not a word! Didn't say nothing
bout tiny name wasn't in the paper!
| went so fur as to even read clear
through long piece on Our Common
School System thinking mebby that
he stuck in something bout my hen
house somewhere, but he hadn't Well,
l was mad, an think had right TO be.
l throwed the paper down an didn't even
take it back to Hank. But next mornin'
when seen one of the other feller's pa
per down in the store my eyes stuck out
80 you could hung your hat on 'em.
There it was in his paper bout my hen
coop big's Mexican dollar! 1t read like
this: We hear that Uncle Abner Doty
has jes' completed large an convenient
hen-house for his fine foek Of Shanghis,
Bramys, Plymouth Rocks, an SO forth,
together with his famous fightin' rooster,
Ben Butler We have not yet had the
pleasure of samplin' any of the eggs laid
in this new hen-house, but we know that
Uncle Abner is not the man to long forget
ye editor That's the very way he had
it, word for word, name and all. Jes'-
soon's read it went right out an told
everybody we couldn't afford to support
Old Cooper no longer, cause he was
hurtin' the town by not mentionin' the
improvements, an 1 jes' KEEP up the talk
till what little business he did have
dropped off an nobody wouldn't have
nothin' to do with him, an he's left. You
can see yourself that we couldn't very
we'll do anything else after the way he
used me on that hen-house. - Chicago
Tribune.