The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-05-10

Frau Kroph qulvered with excite
ment, joy and the triumph Of a great
speculative coup, for which she took all
credit to herself. Her mind did not
really entertain realizing sense of sum
Of money beyond about fifty dollars-an
amount for which she had standard of
approximation in the ordinary value Of
a COW. She talked of thousands as sho
heard others talked, but comprehended
them no more than metaphysieians
grasp the conceptions of unbounded
space and limitless time, about which
they pirate SO glibly. Even the tangible
pile Of forty five dollar notes daEed her
with sense of vastness that seemed to
include ample provision for Jacobs
happy future. Farmer Kropf listened
to her in grim silence until about dusk,
when, feeling that she made him tired,
he strolled out to the gate and stood
there meditating.
Reuben Chase, bright eyed, quick
witted fifteen ear-old Lad, son of a neigh
Dor, came trndging along the lane
whistiing merrily and swinging a small
string Of trout.
you vas not having good luck nit
the feeshes today, Reuben" remarked
the farmer, good naturally accosting the
boy.
ssNol Well, maybe not; but it was
the best days fishing ever did in my
life, Mr.. Kropff," replied Reuben laugh
ingly.
s'Iow vas tlat?"
"Why, got five dollars from couple
of city swells for the first string Icaught
about twice as many as I've got herer'
s.Zo?'
"They were the chaps that stopped
here. saw them come in for dinner
and drive away afterward."
"Chimini graciousl They give you
FIVE dollars for them feeshes unit then
give them feeshes to mel That vas most
eggstraordinaryl s'pose they think
laugh at them ven they don't got some
feeshes."
They didn't seem to care much about
fishing when saw them"
mol The tall one was tired, l guess.
He is sickly."
What the lean one? Why, he was
doing more work than the other"
Doing more vorkI Vat do you mean?''
''Why, they were both down in the
bed of the creek, shoveling up sand into
iron pans, and then filing them with
water and shaking them around and
flirting the water out again in a funny
way. watched them good while"
'.Donnerwetterl"
In vain the worthy old man puzzled
himself to find an explanation of the
strange things told him by the boy. No
hypothesis could he discover compatible
with belief in the sanity Of the New
Workers, and if they were crazy would
he have any moral right to retain those
two hundred dollars? Certainly rot. In
his perploxity he had the weakness to
take his wife into consultation, a step
that he bitterly regretted before the
night was over.
About midnight she bored among his
ribs with one Of her sharp elbows until;
to his thorough disgust, he was fully
awakened, and then, in tone of tri-
uInphant confidence, addressed him:
Heinrich. see it all nowl"
"Ihen, my dear, wish you would gon-
template it in admiring silence, vateyer
it IS, unit let me shleep," he protested.
Il have been thinking, Heinrich. /"
4 am very sorry to hear it. Always
/ mischief comes ven you do that
'4vill you be still unit listen TO meg'
Il you'd not if l gould he1lup it.
Heinrich, | am sorry for you that you
been SO DUNN
Surely You are not half so sorry for
me that am DUNN as / am sorry that
You are not dumb"
"Achl va, You want to shleep there
like fat pig vile We all go by the boor.
house, but you shall not. You must lis
ten to me.
- am ACCUSTOMED to that Veil, 90
ahesd. Get it off your mind, unit then
rnaybs you viii 60 to sheep again.
/ = know vat for them fellers vas dig
! gin the greek.
"zol,