Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-01-03
FINANCIAL DEALINGS

:Hortly, and Vance 0lueF1ooH --
| .he visitor. He was IN a ~eonn0entlAl 49,
1--WE been try ing to make some n
again. he said.
..So?" said the visitor bnt thaes
lpg new, is it!'
sWell, / don't know replied the boy.
.rrl;ng himself comfortably among the pr
Tvs on the lounge. Il s'pose 4 NY oI1en
enough. but it looks like l am a mohS
maker. Pa says that / am cut out ior aeIn
! fdence man, but l don't seem 70 &C.
asst of him ever. Say, do you Keep nooASSs
and do you know when you nave
money!?
Il never found out that l had too mushj
"WeIL. pa has, an it makes HIM lee, oa9-
When l go down to the office 1 Seea Htnus
of money ar~ound-dollars, an h~ai-GonaLss
IN quarters till you can't rest, an nooooy
seems to pay any attention TO IT, paftSu@
{ asst pa about it, an he said that ne AnS~
20 a cent how much they was because No
kent books an made them balance every
nigbt. was wondering whether he's know
he difference If / took a little OF u-lns1
what | needed. i don't like to ast pa i0r
money"
"Why?'
Vance wriggled a little and bit his hand
kerchief. '"WeIl," he said at last, he al
yuys wants to know what i want to do wltS
it,"
Impairment curiosity why oSA !oe
get him to make you a fixed allowances
much a week..
"I did try. 1 wanted him to give me .
nickel a day. l don't want a whole lot or
money, but l like to have some. Ted Gun
Bingham always has money, an when ne
wants me to pitch to a crack or anythn
save to own up that I'm broke.
"Puts you in an embarrassing situation
IT hought 1 would see whether pa could
tell about his money, an 50 when Mr.. Jones
was gone to lunch an pa was IN the back
room / put the SO cents you gave me the
other day in with the other 30 cents IN the
tray. / didn't like to take any out, because
| didn't know but it might be so. Then ma
and me went home, but we had to wait din
uer for pa that night, an then he didnt
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 bal
ance. There was so cents over. He looked
awful mad about it, and ma didn't say any
thin more about him being late for dim
xer, an / didn't like to say about me hav-
ing put the SO cents in, because 1 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 it happened
I didn't do it, but !. guess she did, because
pa threw me down my so cents at the break
fast table in the morning, an told me never
20 let him catch me at any such monkey
trick again or he'd make me need skin
s~raftin'. He said that he worked four hours
on account of what I'd done, an it wouldn't
bave been so bad if 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. i
don't see why he couldn't have given the 50
cents away to somebody an said it was q
mistake, do you?"
ct looks to me like false logic" said the
visitor. "Did you make up your mine to fix
it for a shortage next timer"
81 don't know what you mean. 1 didn't
do anything. / told ma / wanted to make
some money, an she told me to think up
some way an she would help me if she could,
and so / thought / might raise some chick
ems, so / went to Mrs. Mcclellan an asst
ner what she would sell me a dozen chickens
FOR. She said that depended on what I
wanted, whether it was plymouth rocks or
brown leghorns, or b%anties, or what. So I
said plymouth rocks, an she told me she
would let me have a dozen of them for S25.
81 knew 1 couldn't get that much money,
an l thought / might just as well buy eggs
an set them under a common hem"
That was a bright idea"
eyes; Mrs. Mcclellan told me it would
he the best thing l could do, an then I
could raise a dozen chickens and sell them
tor $25 myself. Ma gave me the dollar to
euy the eggs an loaned me a hen what
wanted to set. 1t takes a hen a awful long
time 20 hatch chickens, though. 1 used to
go out most every mornin' an raise her up
60 see If she had got any, an she sQuawked
an pecked at my hand. Gee! But it was
about three weeks before l got any chickens.
an then there was only three of 'em. That
old hen wouldn't wait for the others to
match, an when l broke them open to see If
there was any chickens inside of 'em / wisht
| had let 'em alone. / guess that old hen
knew all right"
what was the trouble?"
Vance held his stub nose expressively be-
tween his thumb and forefinger.
Il was slidin' down the kitchen roof" he
continued, IAN / knocked a board down.
an it fell on one of the chickens an souashed
It dead, an the other two was both ROSTERS
l wanted some money one time, an / sold
one of 'em to the lady next door for a quar-
ter. That was all she'd give me for il. +
tnld her it was a blooded plymouth rock.
but she said she didn't mind that, Just so
long as it would make a good fry. / kept
the other one all summer, an then took IL
to Mrs. Mcclellan an asked her what she'd
give me for it.
"She said she'd trade me a pair of rah
bits for it, an i could make more money!
raisin' rabbits than / could raisin' chickens
an the rabbits was worth one dollar a pair.
So l took the rabbits. One of them was
named Dick and the other Lizzie. / used 10
like Dick the best. Ma wouldn't let me
keep them up in my room, so / had to build
a place for them out in the woodshed an
keep them there, except when / turned them
loose. They was awful cute. Lizzie used
to eat dough out of my hand. She liked
dough better than anything"
Haven't you got them stil?"
mo; | gave them away. I got kinder
tired of tendin' them, an they didn't have
any little rabbits at all. / couldn't see
how l was going to make any money ont of
EN-, an when said anything about il to pa
he'd laugh.
II asst Mrs. Mcclellan about it, an she
aid that hers had had two or three fitters
since she sold me mine, an she couldn't see
how it was. Pa said they didn't have lucky
names, at least Lizzie didn't. He said She
ought to have been named Willie or Pete~
"Then the rabbit business wasn't a snc-
"N'huh. l lost all 1 put into it exceptin'
The quarter l got from the lady next door
CT the little rooster"
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