Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-11-26
HE WAS FOOLED ONCE
SO JOSH SWAYBACk HAS NO USE
NOW FOR SPECULATION.

The Pathetic Tale of II Loan He Mad
For His Daughters Sake and With
the Bargain.
ono, sir - exclaimed Josh Swayback
as he reached into the barrel and took
out a cracker, "speckylation amt in
my line. Yew kin talk all We wanter
bout 20 year endowment policies an
SIGH, an SPECIFICATIONS, but l don't want
none Of 'em."
The reaper and harvester agent
smiled and broke open a dried prune.
"That's the trouble with the American
farmers" he said; ''they won't risk
anything-that is, the majority of them
won't, sven when it is shown them as
clear as day that they will make a good
lot Of money in the end"
"Hain't nc SIGH thing, snapped Josh
Swayback. 9TH American farmer is tn
nacherul prey of every skalywag on
earth. I wuz done out O. a pile o. money
wunst myself, an / know wat I'm talk
in 'beout."
"How was that" asked the proprie-
tor of the store, who had never heard
of the experience. "Who did it, Josh?"
"~Scruggs' boy, Tom
"Sho', you don't say. Heow"
EASY ez shearin a sheep" And Josh
took a large chew from \ plug Of Rural
Delight.
Then be hitched his thumbs in the
flaps Of his vest pockets and continued:
"Yew remember him, Hi? O. co'se yew
do. Yew also remember, likely ez not,
what a high fier he turned into when
tn old MAJ died? Gosh, but didn't he
jes' throw it on! He wuz IS then, an
fur 'beout a year tn young cuss had
been a-waitin on my Marthy. He wuz
T. tn house 'beout three quarters O. tn
time, till Susan, my wife, seq t. me one
evenin, SEE she, Josh, them young folks
pear t. be a-thinkin a heap O. each 9TH
Ell, an Marthy tol' me t'day tibet Tom
toll her tibet if he wuz 81 he'd marry
her an take her t Detroit t'live.' Well,
t make a long story short, tn persist
ence o. tibet young feller's waitin on
Marthy struck me ez tn real article. |
seen he meant bizness, all my interes'
in his affairs rose 'beout six pegs. They
want no question 'beout his lovin her,
jes' ez they want no question 'beout
her lovin him. They wuz jes' sot on
gittin married. l reckoned on tn money
Tom would have when he come O. age,
quite a pile tibet his father lef' him, an
I thought Marthy likely or not wouldn't
never be able t. do no better. So l in.
couraged tn young folks, ez l thought
wuz right, everything considered.
"Well, one afternoon toward evenin,
when l wuz hoein, deown in tn corner
lot, tibet boy he comes t. me an seq, SEE
he: 1T amt no use O talkin, sez he,
'Marthy an l got t. get married. Meow,
l want t. ask a favor O. yew.' He SEE
tibet t. me, SEE he. What is it?' seq I
An then he goes on an seq, seq he: Tive
got a lot o. money comm t. me when
Pm 21-thetll be in 'beout two year
but right meow I can't afford t. git mar
ried 'ithout yer help. What I want
yew t. do is t. len me $500 fur tibet
length o. time Well, that want out
O. tn question, an l had my Marthy's
future t. heart, so I SEE, AT what in.
terustf' An he SEE, Ten per cent
"That settled it. l let him have tn
money, an 'ithout further ado it wuz
fixed tibet he an Marthy 'ud git married
in tn spring. Then in March she took
sick 18th tn typhoid, an tn date had.t'
be- postponed. She wuz 'beout we'll when
word wuz brought t. 'er thet Tom wus
lyin 18th tn fever too. She got out O.
bed in less'n three days an went down
al nussed tibet boy fur more'n a week,
but 'twan't no use. He up an died long
'beout tn ninth day. AFTER tn funeral
| begun t. think 'beout tibet $500. ]
didn't say nothin t. tn folks, but jes'
went deown t TIL ceounty seat an seen
tn probate jedge. He toll me tn money
couldn't be collected from tn estate.
So | wuz aout, an sence then I amt TUX
no risks with what little cash I've laid
by. believe tibet young reprobate
knowed he wuz goin t. die when he
borrowed tn money an tibet he dallied
long 18th Marthy jes' t. negotiate tn
loan easier. What become o. her? Oh,
she pinned a leetle fur 'beout tew weeks,
al then we sent her t. teown t. visit
Susan's sister In 'beout three months
she wuz Engaged T. a SEWN machine
agent an married him afore tn year
WIZ aout.
"But thet's tn reason I've sorter guy
up specialization. An If yew'll take tn
trouble t. go over tn country talkin t.
tn representative American farmers
yewll find they's others thet's been
done jes' ez bad ez I wuz. detroit
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