The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-08-07
SERIMP'S INVESTMENT.


hWHATd did the hogs fetch. sime?'
Wv Mrs. Shrimp asked her husband
ON his return from driving the fatted
hogs to market.
''Six hundred am seventy-fve dol
lars Simon Shrimp replied, rubbing
his hands and smiling contentedly. 1T
was er good price ! got, Liza. an Inever
see hogs weigh up better'n they did.
They brought at least 500 more'n I ex-
pected. An then I got the money
right of. I struck it inst right in seIlin'
when I did"
I'm glad you did, Sine.
In co'se we're all glad to do the best
we kim
Yes, q course What yer goin' ter
do with ther money!"
II hain't fairly settled it in my own
min yit, Jest what / will do with it.
I'm sorter haltin' atwixt buyin' Of that
timbered 20 of old Mike Allen, and
loanin' it to them Herringtons. |
KANT well make up my min as towhich
er Their two 'ud be Their best"
.You hain't no use fer the timbered
90, Slime, SEEM es how you have more
waste Ian now than is profitable, an
II you buy it, you'll jest hev that much
more to pay taxes on fer nothing"
sYas, that's so. / hain't no perticlar
use fer it, but it's down cheap at $500,
an 7 dunno eff it wouldn't be err
good speculation ter buy it. But at
Their same time / kin loan ther one
to Bob Harrington for ten per cent,
ar Is'pose that mout be about es good
er thing es I kin do"
1T pears ter me, Slime, like 'sif you've
Jet them Herringtons hey enoughmoney
already"
ssThey owe nj nigh Almost $1,000,
it's true, but what's the difference,
E'long's we git the intrust2"
sBut hev you got the intrust?"
'No, I hain't never got it in money,
but ! get their notes for it, am it'll only
be all the more when it's paid; an es
we don't need it, hedn't it es well be a
DRAWN of more intrust?"
yes, I s'pose it he'd. But someway /
feel es if it hain't best to let that money
out to them spectators. You hain't
got no kim o. security, es / kin see,
'ceptin' that one ov 'em goes security
for t'other, an s'pose they wus ter bust
up, then how'd you git yer money
from 'em?"
" 'Tain't no wise likely es they'll bust
up, s'long's they've got thousands o.
acres of the fines lam in Their county.
Other peoples monty willin' ter trust
'em, an ! reckon ! needn't be scarf
ohn4tk for,~atv<8 ~ am na-sIA-H r 1A-g
see whut else | kin do with Their money,
fer es yer say, Mixes 20 is somethin'
we don't need, and I've pondered over
the matter several days an KANT fgger
out nuthin' else that 'ud be profitable
ter invest in. We dom want no more
No, we dom want no more stock, ner
no more land, fer it keeps you an Their
boys a-diggin' from mornin' till night
to keep up with whut we hev.1
.'Then whut am ! goin' ter do with
Their money if I dom loan it?"
For q moment Mrs. Shrimp was silent.
and piled her needle with unwonted
rapidity. A faint flush came to her pale,
faded, ca~re-furrowed cheeks. Then
with a timid, haIf-seared air she looked
and said:
Sine, mightn't W. buy the girls a
pianer2 You know the Aliens have one,
and the Smiths are goin' ter git one, an
eur gals air jist crazy for one, too. It
looks ike paying out lots o. money, but
I've been thinking over it o. late, an ii
like II I'D only be whut's right
towards em. We've got as much as Al
l<n u smith, an kin jest es well afford