St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1892-10-22

rlght direction. "A penny saved Is Z
penny got my child. am sure YOU
will never forget that again." f
ADVERTISEMENT, ten dollars: tele.
gram, four seventy five" I was saying
to myself. But no matter"
| IL
HE is moved in. num-" said Bridget,
on Me?day.s when ! returned frpN =
The what?" exclaimed.
The milkman, num-" said Bridget
There's a couple Of horses in it, and
two wagons. and niver to be counted n
the cansr'
] sat dumb with amaze meut. Ih.d
thought Of nothing but . private car
rage. Z M
"A mil<msn! Oh: he must eo:- I
cried. Il cannot allow this high
handed proceeding!"
AN the clashin' and the banein'
will be somethin' fearful Bridget
added
1t was 1t two o'clock every mornine.
the household started awake in various
stages of insane terror. On one occ,.
sion. Bridget sure that the house .vss
in flames. threw herself promptly oft
OF the window. She ouly fell % fer u
the roof OF the wash-house, but she
broke her arm. and the surgeons ban
was twenty-five dollars. Fifteen and
ten added to twenty-five make fifty.
l had hegun 10 keep . Nttls reeord O
what it cost me to let my stable. Re
sides. though il il highly respectable to
deal in milk. the clipping. stating that
l now made living in that way,
which'was sent me by . dear frisld
wh0eatt'ft HON . fashionable iouusl.I
wis'ssSfslihK ''' III
"You cannot holp IL, you kDow,sj
CRc!e IHX8N1 said "You evidently /
did not read the lease prepared b. M. 1
Cnpronounceable. before you signed It.
Console yourself BY the thought that
you ere aRviag Eve dollarn . month
He has brought the Ould Boy Win
him this TIME, num- said Bridget, .
lew days after this, - she sat on the
back porch; with her arm in q slinssI
while I cooked the breakfast. Iran to
ook. Behold, tied 70 q ring on the
stable wall, . black goat, hairy and
erocious, with the countenauce Of the
lend himself. ventured down the
'ath to look 1t him. lie evidently con-
idcred It liberty. and, lowering his
'orns. made plunge 1t me. I ned il
error. However, he was tied fast,l
nd nothing happened that time. |,
1t was the day on which Mr.. Cnpro-
ounceable came to pay his rent
!ncle Franklin had spent Sunday with I
6. and was not yet Oh and away. He
Stoned calmly at the window q rel
,cnstrated with my tenant IL
II did not expect . goat" said IL
"A goat goes always init shtablsl !
ou ask any von," he replied. "Ener q
id you see . shtable midout . goat? I
!. is lawful"
Perhaps Il ID" my uncle said, midi.
:; ''and when you look 1t thia." and
: spread the five-dollar hill ont upon ?
'e table, 'you will feel proud Of your .
.
It was on returning from nv i
ak 70 the train With Uncle .IssnlseI 4
q that l passed my. house without b
1owinR t. ! could not q 1rjS un- .
'rstand what change had come 81
IN =; bpt = la4t it.davpell 40 9
E that all those fine plants which =
had placed along the beds. all the n
'wering shrubs and box borders, even 81
the vines, were gone: And s2sesG u
side the fence. calmly devouriug the b
It rose of summer. BY way Of dessert, al
BOD Capricornus, the goat! ~ n
He ate livery wan of them, aud NJ q
able to do anything but screech." q
ID Bridget 81
Fifty dnalArs' wsrtAl AZ spnssfsa b
armured. Fifty and City mako . hum "
ID" tn
He ate up my wed shoe. muzser." =
d Tot, from the window. -
Well. you do not egspeet human in
lligence Of joost . goat" said NJ
lant, when ] entered my complaint.
nd now We will let him run around IN
del. every day: be will make your IN
IS down like lawn-mower."
But We have lawn nower!" ex-
lined I: and am sure IL Il much
ter than goat" sdded goaded to ~
,ation BY the tenants coolnes& ~.
Ese it. mees? Veil, ve will see! In
shpsce of N hour. dotRtaS vh make oO
N dot lawn ss il vas before never ~
de down" II = EEpTTi N
[e did. He also made down" any. :
x which hung within his reach on IL
ii days and 1t other times devoured Mr.
~ hats baskets and 0aea1lnes In the
little expense book I noted down, ex,
N item Of ny stsble expsnes: Eff ter
! dollars for sundries devoured by see
r!cornuS.' sf3 -gsl on
|Shsta frlshtful srell Of bad 70. has
~ ] ss4is &d0sA oe6 da1O let!
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