Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-23

son, Jack, that turned out to be very handy
like with his fingers when he wanted any
thing that didn't belong to him. Well, that
Jared we'll till Jack grew up to be a stout,
strappin', able lump of a gorshoon, when
the king comes to ould Billy, his father,
to make complaints on Jack, SEEM that he
wasn't leaving a movable thing about his
castle or grounds but he was hosting off
wild him.
Now, Billy Bogan,' says the king, says
he, what is your son Jack going to turn
his hands to?"
why, yer reverence" says Billy, that
way, back to him ''throgs, / think he'll
turn his hand to anything you laive in his
way"
och! I know that" says the king, says
he. ito my own cost, but l mean to say it's
near time you were thinkin' of givin' him a
thrade, for the short and the long of it is
that l won't have him about my house or
place longer. l caught him." says he, "only
last night thrying to carry off the best
mare l have in my stables, Light-o'-foot
and that, you know, is high thrayson; and
we know that the lightest punishment for
high thrayson is to be burned, beheaded
and hung. But I'll pardon him on conditions
that you put him to a thrade at wanst, and
that at the end of three years he'll be so
b"i ~ Nv ~ NAihb L Nuh Y
him in any three things I'll put afore him to
do, but II there's any one of them he can't
do he'll have to suffer his fate for high
thrayson."
why. yer highness' reverence" says
Billy, 1.-THE farms is mortal hard, STILL
andiver We'll have to do our best, and sure
the best can do no more. But what thrade
will I prentice him top
Why, as for that" says the king. says
he, 'plaise yourself, only mind my unpro-
vokable conditions"
We'll" says Billy, says he, in a brown
study that way, II think the only thrade
that ever I could make an honest thrades-
man out OF him at would be a thief, for I
think it's the only one he has the inclina-
tion for"
"Plaise yerself, Billy" says the king back
70 him again; 'only mind my conditions"
Well, to make a long story short, Billy
thramped off and found Jack and tould him
what the king of the castle was afther
saying.
well, father" says Jack, says he, what
can't be cured must be endured. so you'd
Bother be up betimes in the mornin' an
come along with me till we meet some
daicent thief that's masther OF his thrade
that your prentice me to. for, between
ourselves, l was long switherin' to go an
larn the thrade properly anyhow. for, though
they say that n self-made man is the best.
still In this BACKYARD place one has to work
under a great many disadvantages in the
uphill part OF the business, so that
there's often ] would have given my one eye
for n couple OF good hints from a purfcient
in the thrade."
No sooner said than done. Jack and his
father took the road early next mornin' and
a weary travel they had of 1t that day
through a strange country till tor'st night
they came TO an inn where there was en-
tertainment for man and baste-and for
boys, too-and they put up there that night
and slept sound, l can tell ye, and. more
over, when Billy paid the landlord the dam
age next mornin' doesn't my brave Jack
stale twicet as much back again out of the
till before he left. Well, they started that
morning again and travelled on and on, of a
not. INNER day, when tor'st evening who
did they meet but the mastherman thief of
all that country. and there ana then Billy
bound over Jack to him fc~ three years, and
he gave Jack his blessin' and told him make
the most of his opportunities and to always