Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-20
what belongs TO me and what don't.
Names the same as other thinrs.''

Names the same as other things"
well, now, jerry says I, you
needn't think you're goin' to make any
thin by KNOWN Us. You've got 10 fork
| over your cash all the same, and if you
think TO make any thing by peachin' on
Us after we've cleared out and left you
peaceful in your bed, you're mistook so
far as In concerned, for I've made the
track clear to get out OF this town be-
fore daybreak, and l don't know when
I'll come back. This place is gettin'
/ little too hot for me, and you're my con-
claim exercise Jerry he sat still for
= nliEyta consi1crin'. lie WASH no fool.
and he knowed that there WASH no use
gettin' scared, nor cusSin'. nor hollcrin'.
| What's more. he kno~Cd that we was
there to get his money, and if he didn't
fork it over he'd get himself laid ont, and
that was worse than 1osin' money any
day. Now. boys, says he, 4 II tell you
| what III do. Ill make you ar offer.
fair and square offer. What money I've
got I'll divide even with you, each of
US takin' a third. and I'll Try to make
| up what | lose out OF my next contract.
Now. nothin' could be no squarer than
that How much money have YOU goc.
/
| know I've got thirty-one hundred
dollars even says he, and that will be
one thousand and thirty-three dollars
! and tiirty-three cents apiece. I've got
! bills 10 pay tomorrow for lumb and
bricks, and 1ay third Will pay EN-. II l
don't III 80 to pieces. You don't want
70 see me break up business. do you?'
Now. Jerry saws l. that won / do. You
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parts. Putty and me agreed 20 90 halves
with what we get out of you, and when
I lay out piece of business 1 don't
| make no changes. Half of that money
is for NE, ana half is for Putty. SO just
hand it out, and don't let's have no
more jabberin'-'
| Jerry ne looked al me pretty hard
| and then SAYS he: You're about the
/ closc-tisted and meanest mar. l ever met
/ with. Here l offer you third part of
ny money. and all you've got &c do IS 10
| take it and go away peaceaole. Id be
/ willin' TO bet TWO - one that its more
| than you expected 10 ct. and VT you
are not satisfied: now III be Hanged i
| ! N going to do business for you.' '1ou
! can be hanged + you like says ], but
! you'll do the business all the same no,
/ | won't, SAYS he. and he turns TO Patty
| Henderson. Now, Putty SAYS he.
| You've got a pile more sense than this
| pal Of yo2rn. and In goin' to see + |
CAM dc business with YOU. Now, YOU
/ and me together can lick this Tommy
/ Randall i,Ist as easy as not. and # you'll
! hip 1"e do il III not only divide The
i money with you. but III -iEe Won fifty
dollars extra. 50 that instead OF fifteen
! hundred and fifty dollars Jhat's al he'd
! given you. # he didn't cheat you-you'n
have sixteen hundred, and III have If
! teen hundred instead Of The thousand
and thirty-rhree dollars which / would
have had left If my ti~st offer had been
| took. So. Putty. what do YOU say 10
tEat?' Now. Putty he must have been
/ littlc sore with me on account Of the
| arguments we'd had about divi1tn.
| and he was mighty glad besides
- get the chance of maxim fifty dollars
cxtry, and So he said i was all right.
and he'd agree. Then l thought it was
about time for me 70 take in some OF
my sail, and says /: Jerry. that's Z pref
- good joke. and You can take my hat
Is soon a ! get a new one. but of course
l don't mean to be hard on you, and if
You really have bills 10 pay tomorrow
III take q third. and Putty'u take an
other, and Wei go away peaceful No
you won't sings out Jerry. and with
that he jumps out of bed right at me,
and Putty Henderson he comes at me
from the Other side. and, between the
TWO. they gave me the worst ickin' I
ever got in my born days: and then
they dragged me downstairs and
kicked me out of the front door, and
had hardly time TO pick myself UP be
fore | saw a policeman abouta block off,
and if he hadn't been fat one he'd had
me sure. 1t wouldn't have been pleas
ant. for I was good deal wanted about
that time"
i think you were served exactly
right" said Aunt Martha: and l won
der such an experience did not induce
you to reform
1t did, ma am. it did, said the burg
| lar. Il made VOW that night that il
ever again l had to call in any one IL
help me in business of that kind I
wouldn't 60 pard with him. Ii pay
him 50 much for the job. and ID take
the risks, and I've stuck to it.
But even that don't always work.
Luck sometimes goes agin a man, even
when hes working by himself. I re-
member thing OF that kind that was
| bcascly hard on me. y gentleman en-
ployed me to steal his daughter"
What exclaimed my wife and Aun.
Martha. steal his own daughter.
! What do you mean by tbat?"
That's what it was" said the stout
burglar. no more nor less. I was rec
commended to the gent as a reliable
party Tor that sort of thing. and l met
MIN 70 talk u over and then he told ne
just how tho case stood. lie and his
wife were separated, and thu daughter.
about eleven years old, had been given
10 her by the court, and She put her into
boarding-school, and the gent he was
goin' to Europe and he wanted TO s-at the
| little gal and take her with him. lie
tried TO get her once and il slipped I'D,
and so there WASH no good in his show
in hisself at the school any more. which
/ was in the country. and he knowed that
if he expected to get the gal he'd have
to hire professional to attend to il.
Now. when / heard what he had TO
say. put on the strict pious. and. says
l, That's a pretty bad thing you re aSllin
me to do. sir, TO carry away little gal
from its lovin' mother. an more an
that. to take it from school where it's
gettin' all the bene Its Of cddication.'
'Eddication.' says he: that's all stuff.
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