The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02

said. E went on most outrageous.
stood uD to i'm about it, just to dror
i'm out. Wouldn't you stick to art
soy. not if you found it in the street!
1 says. Certainly not, e says, certain
ly l wouldn't What, not if you found
it as a sort OF treasurer Young man.,
e says. there's a 'igher authority than
mine-Render unto Caesar-what is it?
Yes. we'll he fetched up that. A rare
and at lifting you over the cad with
the Bible was the old man. And so e
went on. E got to such snaclzs about
me at last 1 couldn't stand it. / promis-
| ed Jane not to answer i'm back, but
+, it got a bit too thick. II give it
i'm
Mr.. Brisher, by means of erigmatical
face work, tried to make me think he
had the best of the argument, but L
knew better.
4 went out in 'uff at last. But not
before was pretty sure 1 'ad to lift
I that treasure by myself. The only thing
that KEEP me up was thinking 'ow I'd
| take it out of i'm when 1 ad the
CASH
There was a lengthy pause.
| Now, you'd 'ardly believe it, that all
| them three days I never 'ad a chance at
the blessed treasure. never got out not
even a 'arf crown. There was always a
observation-disclosures.
'Stonishing that it isn't thought Of
more" said Mr.. Brisher. Finding
treasures no great shakes. It's gettin'
tit. I don't suppose l slep' wink any
of those nights thinking where 1 was
/ to take it, what l was to do with II,
! ow I was to explain it. 1t made me reg
ular ILL., And days 1 was that duh, it
made Jane regular 'uffy. You amt the
same chap you was in London she said
several times. 1 tried to lay it on 'er
| father and is Snacks, but, bless you.
she knew better. What she must ave
but that I'd got another girl on my
mind. Well-we 'ad a bit of row. But
1 was that set on the treasure didn't
seem to mind bit anything she said.
''Well-at last [ got q sort ~ plan. L
was always a bit good at planning,
I though carrying out isn't SO much in
my line. [ thought it all out and settled
en- q plan. First 1 was going TO take
all my pockets full of these ere arr
60 WINS, see? And afterward, as L shall
tell.
Well. L got to that state I couldn't
think of getting at the treasure again
in the daytime SO 1 waited until the
night before l 'ad to go, and then, when
everything was still, up L gets and
slips down to the back door, meaning
to get my pockets full. What must
do in the scullery but fall over a pailI
| Up gets 'er father with a gun-'e was
a light sleeper, was 'er father and very
suspicious-and there was me; 'ad to
explain I'd come down to the pump for
a. drink, because my water bottle was
bad. e didn't let me off a snack or
two over that bit, you lay bob
and you mean TO say began.
"Wait Bit" said Mr.. Brisher. 81
say, I'd made my plan. That put the
kybosh on one bit, but it didn't 'urt the
general scheme. L went and [ finished
that rockery next day, as though there
wasn't a Snack in the world; cemented
| over the stones, 1 did, dabbed it green,
and everything. L put dab of green
just to show where the box was. They
all came and looked at it, and said 'ow
nice it Was-even e was a bit softer
like to see it, and all e said was: It's a
pity you can't always work like that.
| then you might get something definite
to do he says. Yes l says-I couldn't
'elp it put lot in that rockery,' ]
says-like that. See? put a lot into
that rockery'-meanin' -
Il see" said for Mr.. Brisher is apt
to over-elaborate his jokes.
"'E didn't" said Mr.. Brisher. mot
then-anyhow.
"Owever-after all was over-off 1
set for London.
"On'y I wasn't going to no London"
said Mr.. Brisher with sudden ANNA
ton, and thrusting his face into mine.
NO feari What do you think?
Il didn't go no further than Colches-
| ter-not a yard.
I'D left the spade just where I could
find it. I'd got everything planned and
right. I 'ired a. little trap in Colchester,
and pretended / wanted to go to Ip-
switch and stop the night, and come
back next day, and the chap 1 'ired it
from made me leave two sovrings on it
right away, and off L set. L didn't go
to no Ipswich, neither.
Midnight, the 'orse and trap was
! 'itched by the little road that. ran by
the cottage where e lived-not sixty
yards off, it wasn't-and 1 was at it like
a good I'm. 1t was jest the night for
such gameS-oveTcaSt-but d trifle too
'ot, and all around the sky there was
summer lightning, and presently a
thunderstorm. Down it came First big
drops in sort of fizzle, then all I KEEP
on. I whacked at it'll didn't dream the
old man would ear. L didn't even trOu-
BILE to go quiet with the spade, and the
thunder and lightning and all seemed
to excite me like. l shouldn't wonder if
1 was singing. I got so ard at it
clean forgot the thunder and the 'orse
and trap. 1 pretty soon got the box
showing, and started to lift it.
Heavy" l said.
81 couldn't no more lift it than fly 1
was sick. I'd never expected that 1
got regular Wild tell you, L cursed.
got sort of outrageous. didn't think of
dividing it like for the minute, and
even then l couldn't ave took money
about loose in a trap. 1 hoisted one end
sort of wild like, and over the whole