New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-05-30

hlc-. way? and he tried to rise from
his chair with a frantic effort. The
next instance he, the chair and the bas-
ket he held in his hands, went over in
q great wreck, and when I went over
to him the old fellow was actually cry
ing.
My anger fled in moment, and
knowing the penalty. which he.
had to pay on the morrow in the way
of headache, and what is spoken Of
somewhere in the dictionary as .stom
cat misery" I proceeded to divest him
Of his shoes and coat and bedded him
on the lounge. He thankfully seized
my hand, and having brought him q
cup of water, with little salt in it, he
drank it down hurriedly, and sinking
back on the pillow, closed his eyes and
fell into troubled slumber. / let him
sleep, of course, and started to pick up
the chair and the basket. Sure enough
there were the morels, mixed up in a
sad mess, with .'Waldmeister,'' Indian
potatoes and butter-nuts. just think,
butternuts; the poor man could not dis
tinguish between morel and butter
nut.
Oh, Gambrinus, you must indeed
have played a joke on my poor Jacob!
A slight move on the lounge made me
hasten toward it, and my husband
stretched forth his hand. l seated my
self by his side, and told him to tell the
whole story, whereupon he should have
forgiveness.
''Well Gustie," he began, '.John,
Chawlie and / started for the bluffs,
and you know we wanted to hunt NOR
els, don't youP Now sure I never
thought Of going after anything else,
and you aren't angry any more, are
you, my dear Gustie?'' ssGo on with
your story and gave him stern
look. Instantly he resumed. .'John
led Chawlie and me further and further,
sometimes up and sometimes down the
hill, and all along we found a few NOR
els. 1t was warm in the woods and we
became SO dry; please Gustie, get me
some more water; well we went
further and further, till by and by
Chawlie said he wasn't q race horse
and sat down on a stump. I stopped
also, and when John saw us giving up
he came back and asked what we would
now do. Chawlie was the one that
said this; now mind, Gustie, Chawlie
was the one. Boys, we'll go back and
follow the road to our friend Blimstein,
who keeps the Gambrinus Refreshment
Hall, and when we have rested we can
go on and find some more morels. Well
we followed his advice and before we
got to our friend we were so tired and
warm and dry, that we nearly gave up.
Finally we came there, and then you
ought to have seen how glad we were.
I asked for some seltzer, sure Gustie I
did, because seltzer is so good when
one is thirsty and warm at the same
time, isn't it, Gustiep Well, Blimstein
had no seltzer, so / drank what the
others did. They had hold a lof big
tin measure, and one couldn't say how
much was in it. tell you those other
fellows found it out bye and bye, and
if it had Mt been for me, Gust1e, they
wouldn't have come home yet. Oh
they are horrible. Well, finally John
said that we ought to have q good time
while we were at Blimstein's, and then
we sat down to a table and told stories
about Koenig Fritz and ziethen and a
good many others. Then we talked
about politics, and we were all Demo-
Gratis Of course. We used to be Repub-
licans, but then you know, Gustie, they
say those Republicans make such high
license laws, and that the beer will
therefore cost 10 cts. a glass bye and
bye, and so we must vote against them.
You bet, Gustie, we can't support the
temperance folks, can we?'' thought
that my Jacob would never sup
port them, although it might have been
better he had that day. bye and
bye" Jacob continued, I'VE began to
sing: Ich weiss NIGHT was soil es be
deuten,' = and then we were all happy,
and started home, John and Chawlie
were SO tired yet, they could hardly
walk, SO took them by the arm and
walked with them. They were singing
right along and talked about Ames,
who is such an awful good man, as
Chawlie says. Why just think Gustie,
Ames was in saloon once and made
a speech and said that he would not
stop preaching against the Republicans
till every man, woman and child had
glass of beer. believe Henry the 4th
of France said something like it once