The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-09-12
THE MAN WITH THE YELLOW
WHEELS.

~ shu US ueshf soAi tufuuHu tbe tNetl
Of The bgsy town. One large concern us
el Quantities Of soft black coal. and Jo
bad found out that the easiest haul iher
add back vas along the Hne broad aYenn
where those who owned trotters speede,
them. aud those who did not vat upon th
fences and made dispsraging remarks
Bot Of oil those who hew past ice ss b
Numbered slong the road. not one eI ctes
bis ire hall 30 much as man with "yellov
wheels"
Sometimes II was horse OF one collol
aud sometimes another. but always yellow
wheels Joe Just hated the very sight ol
him. He was 81 well dressed, he was al
ways so self contained. bis team" was SC
spick aud span, aud he drove so we'll. that
/ 10 himself Joe hsd wasted npon him al
The choice epitbeis that he had lesrned 10
the army.
5 Joe Jtffas bad driven tepm OF some
nd ever since he could remember and
: II was therefore most natural that he and
the war maturing about the same time, he
should enlist as WAGNER and become the
driver OF mule team
He saved bis boun,ies and bis pay. and
at the close OF the unplessantness conclud.
cd to settle down and go to work. But he
missed being under orders. and looking
about him, wooed and won his next door
neighbor. fragile little ligb haired fac
tory girl. aud swore alleg glance to her for
life.
His hands and face were not black then,
and his dark curly hair crowned head OF
youthful. manly beauty.
Youth had long since gone from, Joe, the
little ligbt-baired girl had become deli
cate, siling woman. and his heart sank
many and many q time as be clim bed up
the dinRy stairs to bis attic home. The
"iittle woman. though, had proved on the
whole good investment. Every month a
little from bis pay went into the great
stone savings bank in tbs centre OF the
town.
wouldn't the time ever come, the little
woman kept asking, when they could buy
the little corner lot they could see from
their windows. and over which the soft
summer breezes coming up from the river
Kept the grass and trees so green?
And then Joe would light bis pipe and
go down and sit upon the doorstep, and
think, always think about the "yellow
wheels"
Now this feeling was not SO strange after
all Tor into everybody's life at some time
or other, in in some way or another there
enters something very. very nearly akin 10 {
the man with yellow wheels" And so IL
came to pass that one day succeeding the |
time-worn wish from his tired wife that 9
numbering along the avenue he cauObt
sight OF bis enemy. b
lie bad pulled up toward the side walk
10 see man. A line OF heavy wagons was D
'oming in the opposite direction. Joe 9
Kept bearing closer and closer down upon y
he yellow Wheels" away from the an q
preaching team; he had taken in the situs. v
ION ct glance The yellow wheels could
De rasped and cut into by the end OF his d
'lanking whipple-tree, il the man didn't Il
'ull ont literally upon the sidewalk. Now Il
oe could clear him Just as we'll as not il "
10 wanted to; but he didn't. m
Unconscious Of all this, the owner OF the
yellow whells' laughed and talked with 81
is friend on the side walk On and on
ame Joe, his face blacker than usual. ell
hreatening and slaughter in bis teart spd Ut
wi in his eyes. In less time than IL takes pl
tell II the heavy whipple tree was play th
ig hide aud seel, among the spokes: The
olse bad Jumped and backed, almost ga
irown out the msn, knocked his bat of an
the mud and put one foot squarely upon TO
, while Joe, unconcernedly, face to the pa
ont, was clankiug along the road. Very ph
ION Joe knew the man was coming Tor do
i'm; be beard the horses hoofs nearer and
carer, and now the "yellow wheels" we're n.
read OF bis team. Co
say. said the man, what did you do hi,
IAt for? mr.
Go Ion. answered Joe. apparently to his
'rses, really to the man. FRI
say, repested the man, what did you nc
, that for2 ssd
And then Joe. using the most forcible int
preston be had learned 10 his army sbt
'ys, asked bin il he thought that be and bol
yellow wheels owned the whole
rect Ell,
The man with the yellow wheels" kept vi,
: place along side. but seemed buried sy
thought. AMI
Two things we're open to him; be could Of
msDd that Joe come down from his wis
rch snd settle II then and there 10 the 20
fashioned way. or be could get the YOU
mber OF bis cart aud make il disagree An.
Ie for Joe later on. vb,
looking at bis damaged hat, which vas ira,
. cheering sight TO see. and at bis love- tim
dishsured wheels, he gathered up bis TO
us aud aew down the road. and
d Joe; IL was the hsppiest nom sns OF han
life Inst then. whs
rbe consciousness oi having hurt bis you
my crowded ont oil other thou gbts Tor bat.
time; but the haul wss still long one an
sun very warm. the horses tired and o
less. and Joe began 10 wonder IL after ";
be hsdnt made fool Of himself 70 say life;
lesstf What would the tired little 70. com
D say Who never had heard Of those The
lIos wheels" II he should tell her eqn
!, be bad donef And then be wished Y
isvori,e wish. tbs, be had never been ipqr
81 10 d
90 mus, get her ont Of this. ssid the And