The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-02-05
THE OLD STORY.
A Prominent Fayette Lawyer the
Victim of a Slick Trick.
He is oOking for a Sedaiia
man and a Parsons
man.

A pathetic story comes floating
across the Big Muddy, from Fayette,
that place which is supposed by its in.
habitants to contain all the wisdom
worth possessing on earth. 1t is q
story repIete with mans credulity, and
the BAzoo in its simplest and gentlesl
manner repeats the narrative as
heard.
There is a lawyer living at Fayette,
who shall be nameless here forever.
He stands high at the bar, foremost
in councils of government and first in
the hearts of his fellow citizens.
About month ago there came to
the residence of this great and good
man OF Fayette,, al ragged urchin and
foOtsore tramp. The lawyers heart
melted within him, and he set the
tramp to saving wood and
went back to his tones of law and
his cases In chancery, ever
and anon, casting his eyes out to
where his tattered hireling "was saw
ing wood and saying nothing" And
day after day the man from a far
country sawed wood and spoke in all
humility to his master. At last one
day the lawyer said unto his new
found treasure
"Why is it that you are a tramp
You are industrious why do you
look as if you had been run feet first
through a corn shelter ?'
And then the tramp opened his
mouth and said "Verily, / am in
hard luck. / have squandered my
time and my substance on a valusb bic
and l have not wherewith
the means to patent the same and
spring it upon a yearning world. /
have been offered $4,000 for an in
terest in my invention by man hv-
ing at Parsons, but | do not like him.
| am afraid he will not make a good,
honest partner. A man also in Sc
dalia has offered me large sum for
an interest, but | am suspicious of the
and the tramp sighed
YEARLY and continued to saw wood.
And the man of law turned himself
away and communed with himself for
the space of an hour and then he
smote himself on the breast and ex-
claimed, 81 have it," which in the
language of Howard county means 81
have struck soft thing"
And 80 the man of law journeyed
to Sedalia and Parsons and found the
men of whom the tramp and inventor
had spoken, ard they told him that
there were no flies on the invention,
and that they were ready to come
Town with the shekels for an interest
n the same.
And so the man of law hied him.
elf back to Fayette and gave his
lawyer of wood two thousand dollars
or a half interest in his invention, and
received bill of sale therefor, and
hen he boarded the train for Parsons,
md as be journeyed along he smiled
md said to himself, SIT is easy to
make $4,000 when you only know
low," and he str0ked himself on the
BOSOM of his pants very complacently.
But when he arrived al Parsons,
he man who was aching for a share
n the patent had journeyed into a
ar country and his whereabouts was
lot known. In plain United States
lie had absquatulated.
So the man from Fayette journeyed
o Sedalia, and 10 and behold the Sc.
lalia man who had hungered for a
lice in the wonderful invention, had
.lso CREASED himself and slid out of |
own into total obscurity.
Hurridly and anxiOusly the mac |
f law journeyed back to Fayette, but
las the woodshed was silent and de-
erted. The shining saw hung on
Is accustomed peg on the wall. but
be hand which erstwhile drove it |
through the stubborn knots of oak |
nd ash, had waved a long farewell to
aw and patron.
The tramp had gone to meet his
riends in Parsons and Sedalia.
They were too flip for the man of
fayette.
THE END