Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1894-11-17


seemed to her fancy price.
Il gwyne let yer eat twel yer got
plenty fer half a dollar-eash, she
said. An expansive smile dawned and
spread itself slowly over Peters sooty
countenance, and reaching somewhere
into the depths of his ragged trousers
he pulled therefrom small tobacco
pouch, from the grimy depths of
which he ished five small silver
pieces and laid them on the table
Then, drawing on empty fruit box
to the curb, he sat astride of it and
began to eat.
Tempe proffered knife and fork,
but the implements were calmly ig-
nored and huge jacksnife taken
from handy pocket was brought in
to play.
Slice after slice of bread and ham
disappeared, but Pete showed no sign
of quitting. and Tempe began to feel
that she had not made such salts
\ factory bargain as she at first sup
posed. The ham was lessening fear
! fully under Pete's well-applied jack
knife, and Tempe remarked, "Look-a-
yere, niger, ant yer gwyne quit?'
when gifts done.
''Yuh done eat TO dozen biskit an
now all dat ham. OATS too much
! eatin' for on'y half dollah. F"
| dat what yuh axed indifferently.
Another onslaught on the shattered
remains of the ham which left a
fleshless bone exposed to the aston
ished eyes of Tempe, and Pete care
fully wiped the jackknife, replacing
| it in his pocket.
Then the real fun began. Reaching
/ for the pile Of tempting cakes, they
began to disappear with astonishing
rapidity. Six, a dozen, two dozen,
\ and still Pete gave no sign of being
done. Tempe now asserted herself.
Spreading her hands over her wares
She exclaimed, fierce determination
/ on her shriveled, black coautenance.
''Look-a-here, niger. yuh jess quit
dat
Amt yer gwyne femme git done@'
I No, l ant gwyne let yer eat no mo
dem vittles
',Yuh done low, lady, dat could
eat twel | warn't a-hungry no mo fer
dat half dollah.
.'Hit makes no differ. Yuh done
eat out de half dollan on dat ham an
braid. Now, you quit"
But Pete insisted on the terms of
the contract, and was beginning to
exterminate Temples stock anew,
when old Judge Tice appeared around
the corner. Tempe waddled ont from
behind her table, hailing the magis-
trate in excited accents:
'Jedge Tice. sab. oh, Jedse Tice!
Speak yere ter dis yere niger. He
bout ter eat all Use got"
The judge sauntered to the curb,
surveying the scene with amused eyes
and Pete explained the situation
IBIS Teddy low l cud eat twel l
warn't hungry no mo fer hat dol
lah, sab, an done gee her de money,
but ant eat huff yit."
Fore Gawi, jedge, he done eat meh
ham an all de biskits, an mos all
dem cakes. Dat much truck cos meH
tree dollahs, sab, an he out done git
meh but one ieetle OIL hat"
dat what yuh low hat"
'Gawd, man, low you was folks, 7
'Huhr
"Yas. sab, an now yuh is got ter
pay meh fer dem vittles er / gwynt
carry yuh right befo dis yer magis-
trit. Z
Il carry yuh dar, CONAN. ant
done"
.'Who, me?" Temples voice ros,
shrilly in indignant protest, and few
oilers attracted by the raised voices
gathered about, and the old woman
encouraged by the attention she at.
tracted began to explain her griev-
ance to the crowd. She stood on the
curb, her back to the table, one arm
akimbo her huge hip, the other point.
ing at the object of her wrath, sitting
coolly on the box.
Little Elihu Walsingham Lamkin
slipping through the crowd, took in
the situation at glance, and lodging
behind the portly form of Tempe,
filed every available pocket in his
Topped and Widowed raggedness with
the remainder Of the cakes, stealing
away unobservcd to enjoy the feast
Tempe, turning about at the end 81
her harangue, the empty plates met
her eyes.
Fore Gawd.'' she exclaimed sol
EMMY, "ef he ant done conjured dc
balance err dem cakes often de plates
Use gwine quit, kase | done knowed
hit warn't no ev'y day man what
could git outside all dem vittles. f.
he ant de debbil he kin to him. an
black huff to be hesef ennyhow."
of course the venture, having struck
such a cyclone of an appetite as Pete
had, was failure, but Tempe always
talks about the money she would have
made if she hadn't met dc debbil II
: store cloes,"
The Founder OF Modern Chemistry.
, northumberland, Pa, at the con
fuence of the Susquehanna's nortE
r and west branches, has world wide
, fame among chemists as the former
residence and burial place of DR.
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