Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-02-14
Financial DEALINGS
OF Dugvau'S Bou
He Tried Hard to Make Money, but
Always Failed.

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Dugway was out, but was expected
back shortly, and Vance undertook to
entertain the visitor. He was in con.
hdential mood.
"Tve been tryin to make some money
again." he said.
$50" said the visitor. "But that's.
nothing new, is it?"
"Well, don't know" replied the boy,
curling. himself comfortably among the
pillows on the lounge, 81 s'pose l try
often enough, but it looks like I amt
a money maker. Pc says l am cut
out for confidence man, but / don't
seem to get the hest of him ever. Say,
do you keep books, an do you know
when you have too much money!"
Il never found out that l had too
much"
"Well, pa has, an it makes him feel
bad. When l go down to the office
] see all kinds Of money around-dol-
Lars an half dollars an quarters till
You can't rest, an nobody seems to pay
any attention to it. particular. asst
pa about it, an he said that he knew
to cent how much they was because
he kept books an made them balance
every night. l was wonderin whether
he'd know the difference II took a
little Of it, just what needed. l don't
like to asst pa for money"
"WhyY
Vance wriggled little and bit his
handkerchief. "Well," he said at last,
''he always wants to know what ]
want to do with it."
"Impertinent curiosity. Why don't
you get him to make you a fixed allow
ance-so much a week."
II did try. I wanted him to give me
a nickel day. l don't want a whole
lot of money, but like to have some.
Ted Cunningham always has money,
IN when he wants me to pitch to q
crack or anything have to. own up
that I'm broke.'
puts you in an embarrassing stu
ation."
II thought I would see whether pa
could tell about his money, an so when
MI. Jones was gone to lunch an pa was
In the back room l put the so cents
that you gave me that day in with the
other 30 cents in the tray. l didn't
like to take any out, because l didn't
know but it might be SO. Then ma an
me went home, but we had to wait din
ner for pa that night, an then he didn't
come for ever SO long after we was
through. Ma asst him what made him
so late, an he said that he had been
yfv, <ha ;aI,
the Office because Mr.. Jones an him
couldn't make the cash balance. There
was 80 cents over. He looked awful
mad about it, an ma didn't say any
thing more about him bein too late for
dinner. an l didn't like to say about
me havin put the so cents in, because
thought he wouldn't like it. l thought
the best thing l could do was to tell
ma, SO told her, an she said that had
better 60 to pa an tell him was sorry
an how it happened. l didn't do 1t, but
I guess she did, because pa threw down
my so cents at the breakfast table in
the mornin an told me never to let him
catch me at any such monkey tricks
as that again or he'd make me need
sfin graftin. He said that he worked
four hours on account of what I'd
done, an it wouldn't have been SO bad
II there had been so cents too little.
asst him why, an he said that then he
could have called it a mistake an paid
the so cents out Of his own pocket. l
don't see why he couldn't have given
the so cents away to somebody an said
It was a mistake, do your
at looks to me like false logic" said
the visitor. ibid you make up your
mind to fix 1t for a shortage next
time"
81 don't know what you mean. I
didn't do anything. / told ma l want
ed TO rake some money, an she told me
to think up some way an she would
help me If she could, and so l thought
/ might raise some chickens. so I went
70 Mrs. Mcclellan an asst her what she
would sell me a dozen chickens for.
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