Evening journal., 1899-02-15

d.dn sen no word tb me. He lef' me
lIome to hcI' the bag. After they wuz
set al the talbil Addicks tor them fel-
ters as how he had copper mine out
in a place witch he called Montana.
{ don knew where hit il, but don
thik hits in Delaware. Them felers
tor him as how they wuz serprised.
They moved as how he had a big pile
. brass, but they had 10 idee ais how
he had a mine o. copper. Well, Bin,
he sold them fellers a let of copper
shares. Newell Bawl got 'em at six
teen sents an now they're se,lin' fur
n'lnely-sevin sents. He's clered about
six tkousan' dollers on that dinner
an I'm still greeven over that Bay
Shalt gas | bot Ef Addicl1s had let
me git out On copper nit wouldn
bin so bad, but he didn' do hit, an
don believe you'H blame me fur
actin go, Bill" I sez, "Ill see Ad-
dicks about this. an eff you hahn got
no objeckshun I'd like to have You sub
skribe fer a hundred Shares of stock
OF the Sandtowh, Hollandisville. Mas
tens Corner an Socl1em Erectrick
Raleway Cumpny. Hits good thing.
an we're gin to bild a branch line
TO Buzzard's Hill, an make a big
plesher rescrt outten hit" An then
he sez, ''Has Addicls got ennything to
do with hit?" / sez, Hes a-goin' to
Ne president" 'Then I'm outten hit,
he SEE, "an es 1 kin do hit TN git out
an injunkshun to keep you fellers
frum bildin' the rode. Hit hahn
nuthin' agin' ysu. Bill; but eff l kin
do ennything to hurt Addiclus I'm
a-goin' to do hit, an no mistake"
Yesterday felEer walked up to me
Ia the State Hohse lobby an sez: "Bil,
understan' there's a bill yere with
q snake in hit, an 1 hope, as a per-
snail favor to me yoll watch fur hit %
l sez, ''All right" an 1 wen down TO
the cripple an cut a good big hick'ry
stick an stood in the House waitin
fur the readin' clerk to git bit so that
cou'd kill the snake wen hit drapt
frum the bill to the fiore, but / hahn
seen no snake yft Ell kiln hit in
tend to have hit slzint an stuff, an
IN sem hit home to yo' jes' to show
You how much I'm doin' fur the peo-
PIE. Now, who do you spose 'ud dig
down in the groun this time in the
lyere' an git a snake an put hit in a
bin an SEN hit yere unless he had
an undyin' spite agin the feller wot
lnterdueed the bin or the readin
lcLerlk? That's a low-down way NV
gfttin' even ef know ennything
about hik. That snalze's got to be
purity rpry an weEl thawed out ef he
gifts away frum me an this yere
hick'Ty chunk
Mary Ann, hits long road that hahn
got no turnin' in hit down in suts-
six county. Bout too months ago
my on fren' Prothownotary Adams.
nv Georgetown. got a sawdus' ham by
exspress. He pade good money fur hit
to the exspreEs cump'ny. Hit turned
/, out that that there devil Joe Hern SEN
hit to him fur joke. Adams didn'
say nofhin' mulch. He jes bided his
time fur too months an then he sen
tkat sawdus' ham 10 Ba,ty
more by a fren' an hit wuz
exprest back to Joe Hern, an
wen hit get to Georgetown he pade
his little forty cents like a man. After
ne had opened the box an seen his oil
fren', the sawdus ham, he wuz jes so
mad that he ct hit, an fur week he's
bin Epittin' sawdust an cussin' my OF
fren' Adams. Theirs sum fel.ers wot
kin never take wnt they sem
That feller wot sed as how men IL
but boys Of a larger growth moved
wet he wuz a-ealkin' about, Mary Ann
Wen we wen down to Delmar to look
at that there ditch Dave Rose wen
along. After we had desided to have
the ralerode ties clered off of that
ditch so as how the committee on mu-
nisepie corpyrasluns could slide on hit
in winter we wen on up to Seeford
The boys wuz a-cos.in on the Mill.
Dave Rose Civ one Of them boys FIVE
sents fer his sled fer a ride down He
got on the derned thing on his hands
an nees an set cut down the hill
There wuz a barn at the foot Of the
hill. Bob Burns yelled out. Dave.
I'll betcher caint hit the barn" Take
yer bet" sed Dave. an he won nit.
fur he hit That harm dore so burned
hard that he seen stars fur five min
It's Wen Dave cum to Bob Burns wuz
holdin his he'd in his lap. an he lookt
up an sed: Did l win yer bet, Bob?"
An Bob sed, You mos certenly did.
Dave, but hitl COS you $3.50 for a
new barn dure." Hit wuz an inspirin'
site, Mary Ann.
Mary Ann tell the hired man as
how he mus clene the snow frum
agin' the celler winders before the
thaw sets in, an to Civ the stock lots
Of long fodder to eat an not to furgit
20 throw plenty OF straw in the barn
yard fur the cows to s,epe on, fur
bein' exposed to this kind Of wether
don take long to make a COW mftev