West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-11-29


like 1t, sir, and you arc a Emphatic
man, sir, and if you can't promise
to do better in future you'll get no
more orders from me-"
Then the dairyman called MIR.
Bowser an old kicker, and in return
Mr.. Bowser called him liar, and
in their excited movements they
| upset two cans of milk and raised
such row that policeman came
in and said it was burning shame.
The bakers face wore smile of
content, and he was softly humming
to himself, when Mr.. Bowser walk
ed in on him and Numbered +:
"If you don't know enough to
run bakery, why don't you get
out and try coal yard ?"
"But what is wrong1" asked the
baker.
"My bread-for dinner Did
you have that bread at my house at
half past 5 o'clock ?"
al am sorry to say | didn't.
was seven or eight minutes late, but
that was because the wheel came off
my wagon. can't make out how
| il haDDened but''
''What are the wheels of your
wagon to me ?" shouted Mr..
Bowser as he pounded on the
counter. "Do / run your wagon {?
Do | run your wheels ? Do |
run your old white horse and red
headed driver? Do ever know
that you've. got wheels to your
wagon1 You were late, sir, and
by being late you spoiled my dinner,
and what are you going to do
about it"
"That's too bad, and I'm sure it
won't happen again. How on earth
that wheel"
"rhat wheel be hanged, sir !
When that wheel came off you
should have hustled all the more. 1t
is evident that you have no head on
YOU"
Then the baker, who felt himself
blameless, began to sass back and
Mr.. Bowser to bear on the harder,
and they finally shook their fists
under each others nose and got a
boy so excited that he ran out and
rang for, the ambulance. Mr..
Bowser reached home boiling over,
but remembered that some shirts
were to come up by 7 O'Clock. 1t
was now after s, and they hadn't
arrived.
"They will never come" he
roared, as he banged open the
door, because l will go out and
hunt that lying shirtmaker to his
doom !"
at is early yet, and they will be
here by O." pleaded Mrs. Bowser as
he gasped for breath and jumped
up and down.
II he heard her, he paid no at
tention, but rushed off down the
steps and out of the gate. On the
corner he met the shirtmaker, who
had come to deliver the goods him
self, but stopped for a chat with a
friend. There was an instantan eous
explosion, followed by a grapple,
and he crowd which speedily
gathered saw two men rolling over
and over on the sidewalk and punch
ing away at each other, while the
three new shirts went dying hither
and thither until somebody picked
them up and sneaked off with them.
BY and by Mrs. Bowser and the
cat looked out Of the front door.
Mr.. Bowser had limped home and
taken seat on the steps. His hat
was gone, his hair mussed up, his
coat split up the back, and he was
looking into vacancy across the
street. The cat went down ant
rubbed against bis back and purrec
to him, but he made no move. Mrs
Bowser quietly asked him, il b,
had walked up the delinquents, bu
he never turned his head. He wa,
thinking Of systems and wonderin,
why they did not pan out as he hac
told Mrs. Bowser they should. Tn,
shirtmaker had also got the best o.
the scrap, and the crowd had saic
they were glad Of IT,
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