Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-07
THE GERMAN COBBLER.
He Studies Human Nature and Makes
n Ten Strike.


Copyright, 1901, by c. B. Lewis.)
Dot leetle tailor und der plumber und
druggist und more ash feefty peoples
comes around und tells me how to do
peesness, und I make a failure eafery
time. BY und by vhas so cleaned oudt
dot l don't hat cents in my pocket
und | goes oudt in der back yard und
sits down und shmokes my pipe und
thinks. My wife calls to me, but
shakes my head.My shildrens calls to
me, but keep right on thinking. For
two hours my head vhas like cabbages,
but den 1 begins to smile und laugh
und slump around. Dot leetle tailor
comes in und says:
Hans, you vhas good mans, but
you don't understand America und had
better go back to Shermany."
Dot plumber comes in, und dot coal
man comes in, und more ash ten people
comes in, and says to my wife:
Keep an eye on your husband. Peo-
pies always laugh und smile before dey
60 crazy. Poor Teller! 1t vhas because
he don't know how to draw custom dot
he goes crazy"
don't say nottings to nopody, bit
der next morning l puts some bricks
und a pail Of mortar on der sidewalk
by der door und hangs oop sign dot
reads: Danger. Look oudt. Don't
come in. n you vhas killed, l vhas not
responsible" lock der shop door und
put down der shade, but don't eat INV
breakfast before a man NIT pair Of
shoes to fix pounds on der door uni
says:
Hello, cobbler, but you can't scare
me oudt by some dangers! You shust
fix oop dose shoes, und If der shop falls
down it vhas all right"
1t don't seem ten minutes pefore
second man comes along und WANTS
patch on his shhoe, und den comes
third und a forth. People stop on der
sidewalk und look und look, und poksn
oueek a lame woman comes along.
Some boys yell at her to beware, but
she stops und reads dot sign und den
comes into der shop und says:
"Cobbler, vhas dot building unsafe?"
"She may fall down In fife minutes"
I says.
"Vhell. I vhas no womans to take
bluff. Eaten if der city hall vhas to fall
down it don't scare me. II you Will
send aroundt to my house, you Will
find four pairs Of shoes to mend"
All day peoples vhas stopping und
looking und talking, und SO many shoes
comes in to be fed dot can't work
fast enough. I make more ash fife dol
lars by cement patches. Dot eafenings
der leetle tailor comes around to see II
1 vhas crazy, und pefore he knows how
it vhas he says:
1T vhas no use, cobbler. You might
ash vhell shut oop your shop und go
fishing"
But don't do it. goes oudt In my
back yard to think some more. think
so long und so hard dot my head swims
und seems ash big as barrel. but by
und by l shumps oop NIT yell und
vhas all right. Dot eafening I breaks
der glass In der shop door und makes
sign to read:
Keep out some more. II der cobbler
is eooken NIT a fit, nopody can hold
him"
don't begin work in der mornings
before fat man NIT shoe in his hand
comes in und looks at me und says:
'gPut lift on der heel Of dot shoe. I
neffer comes here before, but vhas a
customer now because l like to see
man NIT a fit. Can you show me how
she goes?"
1T vhas too soon in der day." says.
"Oh. very well. I'll call In der after
noon. II you can show me some Ats I
shall pay you quarter extra"
In ten minutes second man comes
in undn buys box Of shoe polish und
looks at me uned says:
How long hat you had emp