Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-20
Carl, nIlNuEfk.
lie 4 Rapidly Learning the Ways Of the
Country.

lilo Is Rapidly Learning the ways Of this
Country.
IDetrois Free pressl
Well, Sergeant, saluted Mr.. Dun.
der in q lively way as he entered the
Central Station yesterday to pay his re-
spects to Sergeant Bendal
oh, it's you.
Yes, she vhas me. / like to hat some
talk init you.
Anything wrong?s
No, sir. Everytings yhas all Q. j,
ash der Yankee says.
20. K. you mean Been away"
II vhas in Cleveland Yes, sir, + 80
down to Cleveland und come back
alone"
and didn't get swindledl Well, ]
declarelr
Sergeant, vhas I green as grass ?
Vhas I some idiots? Vhas I crazy
yhas / der greenest Dutchmans in all
Amerika ~
aI've sometimes thought SO, Mr.. Dun
der.
"Vhell, maybe I vhas green sometime
ago, but dot vhas all gone. have to
learn der country und der peoples, You
know Maybe / vhas not some razors.
but know how to take care of myself
shust like Yankee hal ha /! ha!'
You feel pretty jolly
@Vhell, dots SO! Maybe I vhas
sharper ash Yankee. Hey ?"
Tell me all about it.
@Vhell, pefore / goes AWAY eaferpody
tells me to look oudt for some conf
dence man. / keep dot in mind. When
I vhas in Toledo man comes by me
und says: She vhas very hot day I
Ishpot him for confidence man so
queek as dot, und tells him: III you
doan' fly AWAY I'll knock you oafer to
last week. He goes. He finds oudt
dot vhas no haystack. =
"That was good.
"Vhen I goes by der train from To-
ledo shentleman takes q seat beside
me. He yhas an awful nice man, but
hat some bad luck. SOMEBODY robs
him of $500 in sleeping-car. Dot
makes him dead broke, und maybe he
doan' get oudt OF. Cleveland. Well,
dot vhas too badt, und poorly soon he
says he shall pawn his diamond pin"
@The one you have on?"
dot vtas she. He buys her in CAL
ifornia for $500, but if somepody lend
him $50 he can hold it two weeks. If he
doan' come NIT der money dot pin vhas
mine"
II see. It's very old"
aOld? Was dot diamond old? 1t
makes no deeference how old he vhas. +"
"Well?"
"Vhell, dot secures me und I vhas all
right. If I hold 5000 he Will come up
and pay me $50. It yhas singular dot
he trust me SO, but he says he can read
my face like some books"
$50 can I. Did you tell him you
lived in Detroit?"
"I-I-maype I said Toledo!" stam-
mered Mr.. Dunder.
Il presume so. You wanted that pin
for $50"
"Vhell, if he doan' come of course.
Poorly soon he goes oudt to shpeak nit
der engineer aboudt running SO fast,
und some ouder man comes in. He
vhas shentlemans, too. He knows me
right away. He says: 'Vhell! vhell
but how vhas you, Mr.. Dunder, und did
you see my fadder lately?' His ladder
vhas Mr.. Hurdlebacker, who owns der
First National Bank"
ooh! lie does! Go on"
"Vhell, his fadder sends him $4,000
by express, but he doan' get her. He
owes party on der train $40, und if l
like to take check for $50 and lend
him $40 he was SO mooch obliged dot he
can't keep still"
|, "And you did,"
"Doan' like to make ten dollar? Do
you pellet dot nopoty but Yankee
likes money? / makes ten dollar by
dot check und more as $500 on dot
diamond. Greenhorn, Ell? Hayseed,
Ell? Maybe I can come in when she
rains-ha ha! hal"
It took the Sergeant quarter of an
hour to convince Mr.. Dunder that he
had "let go" again. and when he fully
realized it, he said:
Sergeant, gaze by my eye! You
vhas right. Ivhas SO green dot some.
pody shteals off my eye-winkers.
doan' know so much as cabbages. In
der morning
"What?"
aPlease see dot der papers say dot I
vhas an eminent citizen, great patriot,
und friend of humanity, und dot ]
died happy. Farewell, Sergeant! I go
hencew