Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-05-06
Shoe Strings.

and we had Just taken a seat at oul
} table to write something that might bt
of interest to our readers, when the
door of our sanctum opened, and there
entered sturdy, thick set individual
with good natured face, which upon
this occasion bore the aspect of serious
inquiry. We paused to take an inyen.
tory Of the stranger, whom we recogniz.
ed by his blond complexion, and other
facial indications. as belonging to the
Teutonic race. He is from the country
we inwardly concluded, and as our visi
tor stood still and uttered no sound, we
thought to relieve him from his evident
embarrassment. So we bid him good
morning, invited, him to take chair,
and in accordance with our proverbial
good nature, We inquired what we could
do for him. He took the preferred seat,
coughed solemnly two or three times,
and made known his business in the fol-
lowing concise language:
"Vell, you see l is puzzled like Won
diffel."
What appears to be the difficulty, we
inquired.
"Vell, you see comes from min ranch
in, and / goes to der hotel. Whole lots
PEBBLES in der Office talking till it vos
late. Veil, bamby som fellahs dey gets
up and goes NIT themsefs out. 1 say to
Won young fellar who slant by der stole,
where tenn fellahs 60 so late? He nice
young fellah, he make smile, ant he say,
Oh, dey shust gone da street up to buy
some shoe strings. So dinks dat yos
kinder funny and l goes out and walks
der street up, and all de sthores vas shut
up, only Won which hafe much light, and
l stop and look der window in."
Well, what kind of store was it, we
inquired. What kind of goods die they
have for sale?
well, thinks dey sell some glasses
and tumlers and sutch like fancy goods.
Dey have so many big vons, and liddle
ones, all kinds. Dare yos big crowd out
l dinks dey do big business. Whole lots
OF PEBBLES was slant at de kounter, and
tey tryin der glasses, and der sthore
keeper put some colored water in to
make show if de glasses vas good and
not leeky. Den dey drink de water out,
and dey seem pleased, and | dink he
sell much glasses. Ant / wonder where
de PEBBLES get so much monish to buy
so much fancy tngs like dot. Den putty
soon see dem fellahs come out and 90
to de hotel down, and dey meet some
more fellahs, who say, did you get dem
shoe strings. Ant putty soon dey go to
de hotel Office in, ant whole lot fellahs
dey hollor and laff ant dey say, vat is de
price Of shoe strings. Got in himmel,
| say, what dis meaning is ] see not
shoe strings got, ant no Won vii del me
holdings. So / comes dis morning to
der print shop down, we're dey say vos
a man vot efery ting knows, to fnt out
dis great mishtry dem shoe strings
abut."
We expressed ourselves as very much
grieyed to say, that we could not enlight.
en- him upon the subject, and as we
looked up we noticed that the expires,
sion on the face of our German friend
had changed 1t was not a look of 10y
or sadness, it was not a look Of patient
inquiry, but in its place there was an
expression of fierce determination, and
as he departed he paused at our thres
hold long enough to excaim, II will find
about dem shoe strings out if it take all
summer nit"