Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-04-04
Financial DeafiinQS
OF Dugvay'S Boy !;
Ie Tried Hard to Mako 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 a con.
tidential mood.
1--WE been tryin to make some money
again." he said
500? snid the visitor. "But that's
nothing new, is it?"
We'll, don't KNOW" replied the boy,
curling himself comfortably among the
pillows on the lounge, 81 s'pose 1 try
often enough, but 1t looks like ain't
u money maker. Pa says 1 am cut
out for Il confidence man, but l don't
seem to get the hest of him ever Say,
do you keep books, an do you know
when you have too much moneyy
never found out that had too
much"
We'll, pa has, an 1T makes him feel
bad. When l go down to the office
l 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. I asst
pa about it, an he said that he knew
to n cent how much they was because.
he Kept books an made them balance
every night l was wonderin whether
he'd know the difference if took a
little of it, just what ! needed. don't
like to asst pa for money!"
"Why?"
Vance wriggled little and bit his
handkerchief. "Well," he said at last,
he always wants to know what j
want to do with it,"
"lmpertinent curiosity. Why don't
you get him to make you fixed allow
ance-so much a wccli?'
II did try. ! wanted him to give me
nickel day. | don't want a whole
lot of money, but 1 like to have some.
Ted Cunningham always has money,
nn when lie wants me to pitch to a
crack or anything I have to own I'D
that I'm broke"
Puts you in an embarrassing stu.
alton"
II thought l would see whether pa
could tell about his money, an so when
MI. Jones was gone to lunch an pa was
i'll the back room | put the so cents
that you gave me that day in with the
other so cents in the tray / 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
havin the dickens own time over at
the office because Mr.. Jones an him
couldn't make the cash balance. There
was so cents over. He looked awful,
mad about it. an ma didn't say any.
thing more about him ben too late for
dinner, an | didn't like to say about
me havin put the so cents in, because /
thought he wouldn't like it. thought
the best thing | could do was to tell
ma, so told her, an she said that had
better go to pa an tell him was sorry
an how 1t happened. l didn't do it, but
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
rs that again or he'd make me need
skin graftiE. He said that lie worked
tour hours on account of what I'd
done, an it wouldn't have been so bad
If there had been so cents too little.
asst him why. an he said that then he
could have called 1t mistake an paid
the so cents out Of his own pocket.
don't see why he couldn't have given
the so cents away to somebody an said
1t was a mistake, do you?"
at looks to me like false logic" said
the visitor. did you make up your
mind to fix 1t for shortage next
timc:"
II don't know what you mean.
didn't do anything. told ma want
ed TO lnake some money. an she told me
to think up some way an she would
help me II she could. and so thought
l might raise some chickens. so went
to Mrs. Mcclellan an asst her what she
would sell me dozen chickens for.