Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-08-02

pamv little fellows, aud that the health
and pleasant memory Of their days out
inc was all they cared TO take back TO
the CITY. SO Mrs. Kropf added the trout
TO the elaborate dinner she was prepar
ing for them. While it was being made
ready the anglers sat upon the porch
chatting with the old man.
"You have a handsome farm here, MT
Kropff," remarked Mr.. Cute.
well, pooty goot," responded the
farmer deliberately. lit might V
more meadow land; but it might be
worse"
"How many acres have your
zone hundred and twenty. goot unit
strong"
what is Land worth about here IN
terpolated MIR. Sharp.
"Ven. that depends on how much one
man shall want to sell or another man to
buv. Maybe about fifty dollars an acre
ven there vas no h~uctuative influences.
go you know Of any farm in tins
-neighborhood for sale('
mo. sir, l don't
My friend" interposed Dir. Cute
again taking up the thread OF converse
ton. "has a notion that he would get
well if ne 1-dld come up and live IN this
pure air.
farmer. turning with compassionate IN
terest 70 Mr. Sharp.
Yes The doctors say that l cannot
last more than six or eight months, prob
ably, if / do not give up Wall street and
get ont 70 some healthy place in the
country. | suppose l shall have to do
so if l can find the place
well. vot is the matter that you shall
not come up here unit live vile you get
) vellg7
you are very kind, but that would
e hardly be practicable. l must have 2
home Of my own. l have a family and
] require a place. You don't think You
S would care TO sell, do YOU:
Q "No. OF such a thing | would not
think. NV children here were born anC
o here I shall die. / did knock around
the world enough ven | a young mai
d vas. Now l will take my rest. Ever
o Mace in the world would be strange L
Il me ven l should go from here ont.
b "You are right. 1t is a great thing 4
4, be settled down. l would willingly Civ
lie forty thousand dollars for a place Tx
D. this"
The sound Of a plate falling an
10 smashing upon the dining room foo
reached their ears.
is ''My g~racious!' exclaimed Mr.. hropd
ID starting. 'Lieschen is at II again! We
k her Young man comes her mind int
n she imbulsively opens her hands, and
Of she got "A dish in them, down II goe
BY chimiui! We got 20 eat out Of trough
ven sac don't got married pooty kvlck.
ld But he wronged Lieschen that tim
re II was her mother who dropped the plat
ly When Messrs. Cute and Sharp wei
IS, seated at the table, with Lieschen wal
he ing upon them, and dinner enough for
dozen men set out before them, He
nt Kropf settled himself TO resume his l
he terrupted siesta, and was already drowI
I'd, when his reluctant attention was col
,at nelled bv a suppressed but still sha
a voice calling. Heinrich! Heinrich
Away out in the orchard stood M
he Kropf, making vigorous signs with h
ger arms, summoning him. Unwilling
VS. and slowly he arose from his chair.
he IAN aferage Of a dozen garter snak
Oh every summer for twenty-five years,
yor grumbled. 'unt vet she viii not by n
BIT self either kill one OF let it alone. ;
must gall me to smash its head. I
three hundred unit first has no doubt
ers ,peared to her"
TO But when he reached her he fou
that a harmless but offending gar
uld snake was not the vital question.
at "Um gottes willen!' she fairly pam
ped in her combined eagerness and anU'
the to repress her voice. Ivy you did
God yoomp on a proposition like dot ]
BILE. thousand dollarsl"
nap 81 vas not thinking that l would
rse. my farm"
for sNol You would sit there like an
rse. fool ven a man offer you more as
in times so much as the place been WORT
sHow YOU know vat it is vorthE
nan at cannot be so much worth ID
it, rich. it vas no establishment by me
sure Won die init the boorhouse, you got
civ business so lettle head. Don't You e
think vat viii BECOME Of nj bOor 7
two Jacob, ven We are goneg
his "Yes; think he viii go in Jail"
Zach. himmell How you, his vat
gan abuse dot boor poy. You got
Iofe vor dot poy-you yoost look on
like he vas your sohn by anodther va
unit mutter."
Herr Gottl Woman, how you n
that outF'
.'Veu, like he vas adoptioned.'
81 did not think you, any more
me, would like that We should 60
from this old place. Anna, re we're 20
yet ven We cam here together. Liesc
unit Jacob nave been born here.
the leedle one that has slept so N
years under the elm tree-al she k
. of earth vas here. Habit makes tbs
. place dear to me, unit love unit d
n make it sacred. 1 feel az if my gai
IN another world vas right here"
IN "Narrigkeitl Ven We got to die VI
HS yoost so veil one place as some Q
places. You talk sentimentalisch,