Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-10-02

the sharp little freckled visage that
was upturned as he replied: Il am
Mr.. Kane, my boy. What do you want
with me?"
Sure, I'll be tellin' ye, bat it's nigh
ty glad l am to see you, sir. Shake,
then! I'm namesake Of yours, though
belize you're not KNOWN it, and I'm
glad that l favor you, now that I've
set me two eyes on ye."
Favor me, indeed, you young scare
crow"
"On the inside, name, and I'd be
glad if it was on the outside, for It's
mighty fne-lookin' gentleman ye
are, then. They do be tellin' me you
have the rintin' of a-many of the
houses hereabout, and it's to rint tho
small place at the foot of the hill I'd
be askin'. I'll pay you as much as SO
cents a week for it, and worruk out
the rint if You say it's BARGAIN
Mr.. Kane was growing interested.
The small boy had a brisk, business
way with him, quite out of proportion
to his size, which was that Of an aver
age 10-year-old.
1T is little out of the usual line to
take work in RETURN"
| "Oh, it will be equally satisfactory if
ye pay me in cash, then, Mr.. Kane, sir,
and tbs a good bargain ye'll have, wild
me mother along wild me, and she that
aiger to be at rest wanst more. 'Tis
the PLACED woman she'll be that alls
settled so we'll"
"But hold on" said Mr.. Kane. 81
| like to know something about my ten
ants. What security can you give me
that shall find you responsible?"
Sure, 1 tould you that was named
after you, didn't L? It's Peter Tidmore
Kane Mulligan | am, and me mother
says yell be sure to mind Biddy Moran
that was cook to ye wanst. But I'm
Tid for short. Well move in the day,
and I'll just come up for me orders in
the mornin'," and It'd walked away as
! contentedly as if he carried a signed
lease in his pocket.
"Biddy Moran? To be sure She
worked for US one summer a dozen or
more years ago." said Mrs. Kane, when
her husband appealed to her for con-
! firmation OF the boys story. mot
much Of a cook, very green and lit
! tie queer, as | remember her. I'm
afraid they'll be load on your hands,
Tidmore."
"Well, the old shell can't be much
worse with them in it than standing
empty, and I'll warn them out if they
| prove a nuisance The boy will get
along if he favors me on the inside,
as he says" and Mr.. Kane laughed in
recollection of the sharp, little, un-
couth figure as contrasted with his
own well-favored person.
Sure enough, the first sight that
| greeted Mr.. Kane the next morning
was It'd, keenly examining his garden
beds, shaking his head portentously
over poppies and lilies, and getting
down on his knees to sniff at the to-
mato-vines, with curious uncertainty,
not to say contempt, that sent the
gardens owner hurrying down to pre-
vent any possible catastrophe.
cts fine lot of weeds we've saved
up for me, sir" It'd greeted him,
brightly, "but I'm feared they've run
over the plants intirely. Or it is a
wild garden you do be having here?
Me mother tells me that you grow
things small in this state, ana ye do it
uncommon we'll, I should say. Belize
1t has to be TUX out of you that way for
the big hearts we've got" with re-
spectful Difference that disarmed his
employers wrath.
"Why, you young jackanapes, where
have you seen anything finer that YOU
should be turning up your nose at my
garden, pray?"
"Faix, think II wor in Californay,"
hazarded Tid, as If he were drawing
his recollections from some deep well
of memory. THE tomatuses growel
on vines as high as the house, | mind,
| and there we're men up on stepladders
pickin' them, and the lilies and the
vi'lets and the poppies all run wild in
the fields, they did and the roses We're
like to smother the house, and the Coo
cumbers were as long as l am. and a
dale longer sometimes. That's the
country, if it's gardenin' ye're after"
81 wonder you left it," remarked Mr..
Kane, sarcastically.
"Td wonder that mesilf, If there wor
ary show for dacint Americans out
there" admitted Tid. The pigtails
and the greasers have 1t all their own
way It's quare how there's something
forninst wan most iverywheres in the
West. In Nebrasky it wor the hop
pers, and in Kansas the drought. Up
| in Washington it aither rained all the
| time or the chinook blasted things.
and down in Texas there wor the cat
tie every which way. 1t do be good to
get home to the states" and It'd drew
long breath of satisfaction. But
this isn't worruk at ALL and il yell
put me to it, I'll be diggin' in"
Mr. Kane found the boy eager to
learn and tireless in his efforts to
please, and although he made some
blunders, by the end of the week he
had won the favor of the household,
and was allowed to make himself use
full about the place in very much his
n,,r, ,rou e., >e racu1ta5 IN