The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-03-13

Ec|hwenkavillO, concluded u year ago to
come to the city ana get a boy from one
OF Il institutions to work on his farm,
Joe, as he is known at home, failed to
get a boy at any OF the well known
homes, for the reason that he could not
give tho necessary satisfaction to those
in charge, He, however, secured a half
grown lad on Bedford street and took
him out on tho farm.
Yesterday Joe came to the city in
search OF another boy to fill tho place
made vacant by Jimmy McGuirs's noe
turnal departure. That Jimmy was u
live boy there can be no doubt, judging
from Joe's own story us he told it 10 a
friend.
"When l come down here, more'n a
year ago, | had a hard time trying to
get a boy from these instertushidns you
folks has down here. ! STAYED in town
fur three days. That cost me all OF a
tiye-dollar note, trying n place alter
mother, till l got tiredand mad ut being
asked a whole heap OF questions about
recommends and securities. So | made
up me mind | wasn't going to waste any
more time or money, and | went down
to one Of your 'telligent Offices, where |
was told I.could get a boy down town at
u place on Bedford street. | went there
and picked out n bright and spry.look-
ing little fellow, with a sorrel.coIored
head.
"He had business in him, lie had;
fur, when / asked him to 60 live with
me, he ups and asks: DO yon want me
to do any work? Ii you do, what's the
pay that belonga to the positionT l
told him I'd allow him half q dollar Il
week and his board and close, and do
YOU know he said; Not much. Mister.
Pm not the kid you're looking fun,
Double the pay and I'll try you, per,
widen you'll warrant the close ter lit.'t
~ was tired out, and agreed TO his
terms aud took him to q store some-
where on South street and rugged him
out. After getting something to cat at
one OF them big restraints we started
for homo, where We arrived u little be-:
fore milking time. l introduced Jimmy
to the folks, and my wife took him up
stairs to show him his room, and told
him to put on his old close and 90 out
to the barn where I'd show him what
he had to do.
".My old close said he to my wife,
why? | amt got any. l left my old
buds that were tied up in a bundle, at
the railroad station in the city, My
wife was nader n a hornet, but didn't
let him know, but she came right out
to the barn and said: Joe Acton, you
re the biggest fool in the country; here
you went and brought that new boy
home, and lett him leave his old close
behind at the railroad station. Now
you'll have to do the work yourself to-
night, and I'll have to make him q suit
TO work in out Of some OF your old
duds.'
Jimmy slicked matters over so nice
with his talk that l concluded he really
did forget the bundle. After supper,
and / believe that boy was more'n half
starved by the way he piled away the
vittles, my wife got some OF my old
close, and before she went to bed that
night she had afull suit made.
"You should have seen Jimmy when
he came down stairs next morning with
them close on. The trousor5 reached
up to perty near his arm-pIts, and he
tramped on the bottom OF the legs till
after he'd rolled them up, and his coat
stuck way up on his neck and reached
down to his knees. He wore the suit,
and I'll bO blessed ii he didn't get down
to work better'n any boy I'd aver had.
lie worked and whistled till dinner
time, and when / went into the house /
said to my wife: Mary, l drawed u
prize from the lottary when | got Jim
N.Y. and she agreed with me and said
she was glad | had.
"Well, sir, Jimmy kept on till after
pertater and corn planting was over,
He never seemed to get tired Of work,
which Just suited me. When the per.
taters came up you should a seen 'em;
pom my word ii was a picture. Instead
Of sticking their little green heads up
in rows they popped IN out OF the
the ground in big punches, which
showed that no had spilled them in
spots by the bucketful. When / brought
him to task for doing it, he ups and
ar.ys with me that he didn't, and that
the man | hired to rake in the manure
pulled them in heaps with the rake
cause l hadn't given him better whites
10 cat. The man, old John Carter, was
dead. He died OF lockjaw after he cut
his foot with an axe when he was cut
ting wood for old Phoebe Miller down
near the creek, 10 | couldn't tell him
about it.
"When the corn got UP tho crows
Games in drovGs, and l asked Jimmy If
no knowed how to shoot, and he said
he did. So / loaded up tho old musket
and fixed him in a big hole | dug along
the fence, in the corn field, and told
him to shoot the crows from the hole.
"He ran out to that hole with a
whoop and said no was going to play
pawnee Bill. He threw Il lot OF corn
that no had soaked in Il quart OF my
best whisky h0 had stole from the front
room closet, on tho ground, near tho
hole, before he crawlod down in it, aud
covered tho top with cornfoddor and
bushes. Ho hadn't been there an hour
before tho musket went oil, and in a
little while he was running to tho house
with both hands full OF crowB.
"When he got into tho house he
threw twenty dead crowa on the floor
and then tg TX sixteen more out of the
bosom Of , ~ shirt. Gracious me, ii ho
hadn't Id I'D thlrty-six at tho first shotl
/ reloajsd the gun and sent hun out
ngain, and no came In Don afterwards
with tw%onty.nino moro crows. Then
went out to tho field and never saw
such % sight in my life. Why, the
ground was covered with crows. all
cawlng and staggering about, some OF
'om trying TO stand up on their bills. !
walked about and kicked over II hun.
drcd to death, and | found out that that
was the way Jimmy had killed what no
took to the house.
uVhiIn 1 ,sos kiiiibp thn nrotvu N,iyh.