Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-12
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81 dom 90 how 4 mar could he'll
maxim mistakes with that schoo! teach
er's umbrella wLang;ng away at his
knowledge box. HUt wasn't goin' to
let on. She amt no Jew nuther, says
L, and sLe's your daughter, too; you
needn't tty to play no tricks on me. Pay
me my money and take her away as
quick IS you can, that's my advice, or
before you know it you'll be nabbed.'
Pay yer he yelled; do you think I'd
pay you ary thing for that little Jew?'
She's just as much a Christian as you
are,' says /. Amt you Christian, lit
tie gal? and isn't this gentleman your
father? and amt you surprised that he
wants to give you back to be put in the
bag" l said this hopin' she'd have
sense enough to say he was her father
SOS to get rid of me.
"The wretched gal had been clean
dumfounded when she was took out of
the bag, and hadn't done nothin' so far
but blubber and cry, and try to get away,
which she couldn't, because l held her
frOck, but now she ups and screams he
wasn't her father, and she'd never seen
him before, and then he storms and
swears, and tells me to take her back
where got her, and tell him I'll see
him hanged first, and what l want is my
money; She screams, and he swears he'll
not pay mo cent, and squares off and
says that III thrash him out of his skin,
and then he calls in his coachman, and
they both make at me, and l backs
out the door to get my cabby to stand
by me, and l found that he'd cut out,
havin' most likely got frightened,
afraid of bein' mixed up in trou-
BILE. Then l seed on the high road, some
half mile away, some men comm gal
lopin', and the gent he looked out and
seed 'em too, and then says he to me:
You'll jist take that little jew gal back
where you got her from; she's no use
to me; I'm goin', and at that l hollered
for my money, and made grab at him,
but the coachman he tripped me over
backward, and before / could git up agin
they was both off with the horses on a
run.
81 was so mad 1 couldn't speak, but
there wasn't no time for foolin', and
hadn't made up ny mind which door
should cut out of, when the fellows on
horseback went ridin' past as hard as
they could go. They must have seed the
carriage drivin' away, and thought for
sure it had the gal in it, and they was
after it, lickety-spiit.
"When they was clean gone looked
round for the little gal, but couldn't see
her, but all of sudden she came out of
the fireplace where she'd been hidin'
She'd got over her cryin' and over her
scare, too, judgin' from her looks. I'm
glad he's gone, says she, and I'm mighty
glad, too, that Mr.. Haskins and them
other men didn't see me- who's they3'
says I. 'They's neighbors,' says she;
IF they knew was here they'd took me
back We'll, you little mink, says I,
isn't that what you want?' No. says
she, Il didn't want to go with that man,
for 1 don't know him and hate him,
but 1 don't want to go back to that
school. 1 hate it worse than any thing
in the whole world. You haven't no
idea what a horrid place it is. They
just work you to death and don't give
you half enough to eat. My constitution
won't stand it. I've told pop that and
he thinks so, too, but marm she don't be-
lieye in it, and my stayin' here is all her
doin'. I've been wantin' to get away
for ever so long, but l didn't want to be
took off in bag, but now that I'm out
OF that horrid hole 1 don't want to go
back, and if you'll take me home to pop
/ know he won't let me go back, and
he'll pay you real handsome besides
who's your pop?' says /. He's Mr..
Groppeltacker, of Groppeltacker &
Mintz, corset findings, seven hundred
and something or other, l forget the
number now, Broadway. o, pop does a
lot of business, l tell you, and he's got
lots of money. He sends corset find
ings to South America, and Paris, and
Chicago, and Madagascar and the utter
most parts of the earth. I've heard him
say that often. And you needn't be
afraid of his not bcin' able to pay you.
A lot more than that man would have
paid you for his little gal, if you'd
catched the right one. So if you take
me to pop, and get mo there safe and
sound, il will be an awful good spec
for you.'
Now begins to think TO myself that
perhaps there was somethin' in what
that little jew gal was sayin', and that
might make something out of the sal
after all. l didn' count on gettin' big
pile out of old Groppletacker-it wasn't
likely he was that kind Of man-but
whatever l did get would be clean
profit, and ! might as well try 1T on lie
couldn't make no charge agin me fur
bringin' him his daughter, if she asked
me to do it; so says ! to her: Now, if
take you home to your pop will you
promise, on your word an honor, that
you won't say nothin' about my carryin'
you off in a bag, and say that you seed
.re wall1in' along the road and liked my
looks, ana tola me you We're sufferin,
and asked me TO take you home 80 your
kind parents, where you might be took
proper care of: and that said wasn't
goin' that way, but ia do it out of
pure Christian charity, and nothin'
more nor less, and here you was? And
then, of course, you can tell him he
ought to do the handsome thing by me-
sPIs d. that says she, and I'll tell how
you talked to me awful kind for more
than an hour tryin' TO keep Iae to stay
at the school, and it wasn't till got
down on my knees and weeped that you
agreed TO Sale mo to my kind father
'All right says 1, 4 might as we'll take
you along, but wen have TO go back %
she railroad and foot it at least two
miles to the station. and l don't know
about walkin' across the couhtFy with a
little girl dressed as fine as you are.
might get nyseif suspicioned.' That's
so,' says she; we mighs meet somebody
that'd know me- and then she avriggisd
up her little forehead and began TO
think. l never did see such