Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-05-31
THE NIGHTMARE.

garden, stretching as far as the crum.
bling ivy covered city wall, and was
called the convent garden. Probably
the piece of ground had an owner, but
] did not know him. considered the
garden my hunting ground, gayly
chased the rose bugs, which swarmed
about the e~lderberry bushes, and with
a net captured swallow tail butterflies,
which summed themselves on the bios.
soming onion stalks.
But there was something more that
drew me To the convent garden.
Leaning u-aiu>t the city wall. aud
glued TO il like a chimney swallows
nest, WAS Il little di'apidatcl house.
The Iaoytlr Lad fallen away from the
walls Lerc and there, showing the
framework, House lcrks grew on the
roof, aud on the walls hung wire
cages. Ia which inches sang their
plain.iyc wood SONGS and big cross
bills climbed restlessly up and down.
In front of the house "A magplc. which
had lost It's tail feathers, was usually
hopping about.
In this little house lived the old
Zapf, aud the old Zapf and | had
struck up a friendship.
Who was old Zapf.
Properly speaking he was a shoe.
maker, but he had not worked at his
trade for a long time.
Having become poor and needy, he
trained bulltinches, linnets and other
birds, made wire cages and prepared
bird lime. But that brought him only
a sorry profit; aud if it had not been
for his wife he would have been
Obliged To go hungry oftener than he
really did. Mrs. Zapf was in great
demand. Nobody in the city could do
fine washing as well as she. Besides
she clcansed gloves and removed
grease spots from wearing apparel
with a fluid Of her own invention. She
was a strong woman, with broad hips,
= very ugly face, and she could scold
like a Turk. But one did not notice
that, for, as has already been said, she
was a clever m She worked
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in ,bn house aud tho Moor old y,nf
Lad fev h,nny DAYS
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chair and ,,n old man would hring
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