Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-08-25

81 offer fife dollars a mont for dot
| shtables." he said. You can ask
efferybody. Dot is de regulor egs-
bense of such small shtable. Not?'
He was about to go; and what did /
know about it, after allo
IF that is really fair rent" I said,
| hesitatingly.
at is chenerous.'' he said. stoutly.
| Every well, then / said. 1t oc-
! CURED to me that Uncle Benjamin
Franklin would think much better of
| me for letting the stable even though
/ got very little for 1t The penny
| saved principle would be carried out
all the same.
On tie instant my guest replied: $50.
All right" and jerked from his pocket
a pair of papers
Mine son is lawyer, SO that costs
me noting" he said I've sign for Won
| year, noto-
| Thereupon we proceeded to ''sign,''
and. suppose, to deliver" Anyway
l saw those words upon the paper put
my name to. / received ve-+stale
and dingy five-dollar-bill. Thief ,Assnt
Bridget to the Office with Il team
for Uncle benjamin Franklin, Of hich
1 only remember these words: per
| DEAR UNCLE: have let the stabld A Ger
| man gentleman has hired it. I cannp r. remem-
Der his name II sounds Ike thunder and
| lightning Don't say again I'm not econoTn-
! ical The terms are low, but thought I'd ac-
cept them Really feel quite a thrill OF salts
faction when think that the stable is really lie:
| at last-for the principle of the thing, you
know
There was much more, and when
Bridget returned from the telegraph
| Office she handed me a quarter OF
dollar.
The change out of the five-dollar
bill, num-" she said They said they
supposed you'd counted it, at twenty
| five cents for every ten words
One months rent of my stable gone
just to telegraph to Uncle Franklin.
However, the stable was let. and on
the morrow Uncle benjamin Franklin
| highly approved of my action. He al
was dined with Us on Sunday
Five dollars is 4 small sum. Fenel-
Ia" ne said, but it is a step in the
right direction. a penny saved is a
penny got M child. | am sure You
will never forget that again.
advertisement. ten dollars: tele-
gram. four seventy-fire," I was saying
to myself. But no matter
He is moved in, num- said Bridget,
on Monday, when 1 returned from a
walk, land he is the milk"
The WHAT" L exclaimed.
The milkman, num-" said Bridget.
There's couple of horses in it, and
two wagons, and niver to be counted is
the cans
SatI rrrt1h with had
thought of nothing but private car
rage.
"A miIl1man, On he must co. 1
cried. Il cannot allow this high
handed proceeding
AN the clashin' and the bangin'
will be soInetbin' fearful Bridget
added.
1t was at two o'clock every morning
the household started awake in various
stages of insane terror. On one occa-
sion. Bridget, sure that the house was
in flames, threw herself promptly out
of the window. She only fell as far as
the roof of the wash-house, but she
broke her arm. and the surgeons bill
was twenty-five dollars. Fifteen and
ten added TO twenty-five make fifty.
/ had begun to keep little record of
what it cost me to let my stable. Be
sides, though it is highly respectab BILE to
deal in milk, the clipping, stating that
l now made d living in that way.
which was sent me by dear friend
who cut it from a fashionable journal,
was startling.
You cannot help it, you know"
Uncle Franklin said. You evidently
did not read the lease prepared by Mr..
Unpronounceable, before you signed it.
Console yourself by the thought that
you are saving five dollars month"
He has brought the Guild Boy with
him this time, num- said Bridget,
few days after this, as she sat on the
back porch, with her arm in a sling,
while 1 cooked the breakfast. 1 ran to
look. Behold, tied to a ring on the
stable wall, a black goat, hairy and
ferocious, with the countenance of the
fiend himself. / ventured down the
path to look at him. He evidently con-
sidered it a liberty. and, lowering his
horns, made 4 plunge at me. 1 fed in
terror. However. he was tied fast,
and nothing happened that time.
1t was the day on which Mr. Unpro-
nounceable came to pay his rent.
Uncle Franklin had spent Sunday with
us. and was not yet off and away. He
listened calmly at the window as l re-
monstrated with my tenant.
Il did not expect goat" | said.
"a goat goes always NIT a shtable.
You ask any von," he replied. ''Effer
did you see n shtable midout goat?
1t is lawful sl
Perhaps it is" my uncle said, mild |
ly; land when you look at this" and
he spread the five-dollar bill out upon |
the table, you will feel proud of your
economy"
1t was on returning from my |
walk to the train with Uncle Frank |
lin that l passed my house without |
knowing it. / could not at first un- |
derstand what change had come |
upon it; but at last it dawned upon |
me that all those fine plants which |
1 had placed along the beds, all the |
Towering shrubs and box borders, even |
all the vines, were gone! And there, |
beside the fence, calmly devouring the |
last rose of summer. by way of dessert, |
stood Capricornus, the goat.
''He ate livery wan of them, and me |
enable to do anything but screech."
said Bridget.
Fifty dollars worth of plants
murmured. Fifty and fifty make hun
dred.''
He ate up NV wed shoe muzzer"