Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-04-18
MHGGTE AND MIKES LITTLE
ROMANCE

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Mike Mccarty pulled his team up at
the curb before the office on Delaware
avenue ana climbed DOWN from his
high seat
Hello, natr' he called; anything
newT'
Par shannon, the boss teamster,
poked hislaead through the little win
dow.
''Nothia more the day, me bye" said
he. Then Consulting his big silver
watch, ne added: 1T wants but a
hair avs o'clock Yez kin put up yer
team
Mike looked relieved Il seen a lot
o bales fer Mason an Strange up at
shed Is" said he, IAN / fought i was
booked fer night-hawk load ter Man
ayunk."
Il have no arders, said Pat, '.an'
divil a fut will bulge the gewds till
| git thin. Before ye 80 till the sta
BILE. Mikee," he added. Il want till
have bit av talk wild yer
Nike entered the Office, which had
formerly done duty as a fiagman's
Matchbox at railroad crossing, and
sat down Pat had just cut a load"
from his plug of Rough and Ready
and was grinding 1t between his
palms.
'sYe know. Mike" said he. .I'm after
havinA great call from the mills up in
KensiRgton. Shure the bell av me tel
ephone's jangling all the Gods blessed
day, am it's the diyil's own job till get
The teams up there in tonne" The to-
bacco, was well graduated by this
time and Pat was carefully charging
his pipe
Peter Slattery's bin poor av late"
resumed he. lighting his clay and pull
ing away with great deal of self-sat-
isfaction. He wants till go back
home till Mayo for the gewd av his
health. I have bought him ont-six
pair ay the foinest jacks that liver
stepped an foive trucks as gewd as
new"
Mike had listened approvingly while
the old man was speaking. sJist what
I've bin tellin' ye ter do all along" he
now broke in. .-If We don't hump yer
self the uptown mugs II scoop yer
biz
True fer vel Yez are levelheaded
felly. Mike. An that's list what I'm
comm till Ye see, I have rinted the
back room av Kerrigan's cigar store,
on the Lehigh avenue. an intend till
establish a branch office there, wild
Siattery's ovid teams an drivers till
do the wuFk An now went on Pat,
I'm loodn' fer likely young felIy
till take charge av me branch. Yez
have wurked fer me a long tonne,
Mikee; yez are sober, study bye. an
gewd till yer wildly mother. Will se
take the job? The wurk will be easy,
an it'll pay ye SIS wake"
The munificence Of the offer dazzled
alike. He thought Of the nobby suits"
he could buy on Front street and of
the figure he would cut ON Regan's
cornerton Sundays. He even went so
far asto picture himself stalking along
In the dress parade on North Broad
street on Sunday afternoons, swing
Ing big club of a cane with his
''pantsp rolled up at the bottoms. But
second thought caused these dreams
OF glory 70 vanish. There was a queer
look on his face and an odd catch In
his voice as ne said:
But say. Fat, ye know | can't read
er write
-.Arrah, the diyil fiy away wild me
Ter a biunderin' egitr exclaimed old
Shannon. .Shure niver wanst
fought ay that. That puts an ind till
It. Ye won't do fer the place. Mike;
the wurk's beyant ye''
Young McCarty understood that and
felt it keenly. He rose to his feet and
liz a cigarette, endeavoring to convey
an Impression OF nonchalence. But
the subterfuge did not deceive the
boss
Common since will tell We. Mikee,"
said he, laying a hand kindly on
Mixes shoulder, '.that the man what
takes how'd av me up town branch
must nav a bit av larninr. Give ND
the gang. me boy, stick till yez wurk
an go till the night school
About an hour later, Mike, with a
pail of water standing on chair near
the back door of his home In McGar-
rigle's alley, was scrubbing the Crime
from his hands and brooding over his
first "call down" He thought of the
picture Ignorance Fleeing Before the
Light of knowledge" tackled up In
the reception room of the Aurora Bo-
realis Athletic Club, of which he was
q member, and wondered IL he looked
like the covering wretch typifying
Ignorance" His mother, who was
laying the table for supper, had sew
eral times begged him to "Give over
yer musin' an'thinkin,," but each time
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