El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-10
THERE SHE GOESr"

which adjoined his own, and managed
1t for them, and they lived with him.
And very poor living they found it, for
Mr.. Prout's one idea in the world was
to save money and buy land. and din
ners of green's and pork and suppers of
bread and fat were very different from
the gentler fare to which they had been
used in their fathers day. "Your IA
ther didn't know nothin,'' Mr.. Prout
would say. EFF 1 hadn't taken holt O.
his farm, it'd been run inter the ground
long ago. Most run out as It's. No.
you go to work S'pose I'm goin to
have two great boys hulkin round here,
doin nothin an livin off me?" And so
to work they went, helping the hay
makers their small best, and there was
already more than the barns could hold,
and huge stack had been made in the
low meadow at the foot of the hill field,
a half mile away. "Clear gain" said
Mr.. Prout. "That is.
y He meant it to be clear gain to him
self, but that hay was made on the
boys land and would have brought a
tidy little sum for them had it been
sold and the price put to their account.
But Mr.. Prout had done nothing of that
sort in the three years of his steward,
ship and very evidently felt that if he
left their farm in a better condition
ihan he found it he was doing his whole
duty and a little more. "There was
their keep" said Mr.. Prout.
Leaving work in haying time, and in
such hot. sunny weather, too, and TAX
ing days pleasure, was so in the line
of the enormities that the thought of
the boys daring to propose it kept recur-
ring to him. ''Can't knock off haydn
for all the FourtLs O. July in creation.
An both O. you together amount to pooty
near one ablebodied man, an ablebod
led men s hard to get this time O year."
said Mr.. Prout, going along beside the
boys to the farther lots. can guess
you can make your own balloons eff you
want 'em,'' as he saw their disappoint
ment.
GLOW do we know how to make bal
loonsf' said the outraged Joe sullenly.
t'Then you'd better learn" said Mr..
Prout. ''I'd be ashamed O myself eff
couldn't make balloon. You jest go
to work tonight an make one any
wayi"
81 suppose you're in earnest" said
Joe.
"O' course I'm in earnest. I don't
spend much time fooIin, do I Pr
Make their own balloonl As if they
knew how, when all was saidl AS if any
one could make bricks without straw
anyway And as if any balloon they
possibly could make would repay them
for the disappointment of not seeing the
great buoyant creature go sailing
through the clouds down at Portl
Don't look SO down in the mouth,
whispered one of the men. 81 made
balloon onct. I guess I kin give you
lift
"You, Bart7''
Eyes, an a beauty she was You
can't make one up to that eff you try
when 1 got her done. 1 took the powder
an balls out'n roman candle an tied
'em in wads O. paper an run a fuse
through 'em an fixed the fuse in her
mouth, an I filed her an lighted the
fuse, an up she went An, by George.
you never see sech a sightp'
1--WE can't make anything like that
said joe
"P'raps not quite. But you come out
to the wellhouse after supper, an we'll
see, said Bart. ''I've got some news
papers O. my own, an we won't have to
rob Prout's junk. An maybe there's
enough wire in that old hat O. mine.
Eff we only he'd some sperits to wet
sponge with an let her go up afre'-
"I'n get some, Bartl' cried Joe.
eve saved our money to go to Port.
an we'll buy some sperits an some red
paper an some stickin stuff
''That's the talkp'
can I've got sponge now"
''An right said Bart; "you be on
hand"
Bart had to wait a few moments al