Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-07-16
Jerry Loves Fool Luck.



git along in this world withou
auarrelin' We had an awful feud her,
years ago, an the end amt in sigh
yet An yaller dog started it. VIVA
cid man BascOm saw in the dog, an
what the dog saw in old man Bascon
Is more'n L know. 1t jes' seemed Il
De sort of mutual admiration society
one of them beautiful an touchin' IL
lnstratiOns of a dogs devotion to man
that folks are always talkin' about
lOsin' sight of the fact that it some
times shows a lack of common sense
On the part of the dog.
"Old man BascOm an Jerry Lowe
ased ter be ez thick ez two fleas on a
dogs tail. Like every self-respectin'
community we have a story of buried
treasure, an them two was always
lOolin' fer it together. 1t was COM
mon sight to see the old man diggin'
fer dear life with Jerry sittin' not far
away playin' Down in a Coal Mine on
4 cornet that he had. 1t never seemed
70 occur to the old man ter let Jerry do
some of the work, an folks said that it
was jes' some of Jerry's fool luck.
But one day the dog got under Jerry's
feet an he gave it a kick. That started
the teud an they never hunted fer the
treasure together again. Old man Bas-
come swOre that he would git even
with Jerry; but somehow or other it
ala not seem eZ if he never would. jes'
because Jerry had so much fool luck.
Once the old man threw a dead cat
under Jerry's house, an when he
crawled under ter git it out he found
mems nest with sixteen eggs in it. An
once Ba. com tied cord across a path
when Jerry was comin' with a pail of
water an he fell and split the water;
bnt I'm bowed if the water didn't
wash up a twO-bit piece that somebody
had lost. But Bascom stuck to it that
Ae would git even.
ut did seem ez though the old man
had trouble enough of his own without
Worryin' Jerry, fer it was his misfor-
tune ter be married to a female buzz
% remain single old man BascOms
Wife furnished it. The way them two
1t an fOut was awful to see Jerry
lived near them an when he heard the
racket start he would git out his cornet
an play Home. Sweet Home an 'Jes'
Before the Battle, Mother an tunes
ike them. l amt denyin' that it was
sort Of aggreyatin' to have a neighbor |
.hrowin' out insinuations through a
but that's what he did Folks |
got so that they knew from Jerry's |
'layin' jcs' how things was goin' on |
down at Bascom's. An when they |
heard Jerry playin' See. the Conquer
n Hero Comes, they knew that the
light was over an that the old man
VAS sum fer peace.
We'll, one day the neigh6ors heard |
Terry playin', We Shall Meet Beyond |
he River That wasn't in the code. an |
nobody knew what he was drivin' at |
I'LL they heard that old man Bascom |
was dead. ASsumin' that Jerry was /
light, an that they do meet. l give it
put ez my humble opinion that there |
will be 4 fight!
We'll, after the funeral was over l !
vas called upon in my official capacity |
~ justice of the peace ter read paper
hat Bascom had left. l knew what it
vas, cause l drawed it; so | gave out |
he tip, an everybody was there. in
,ludin' Jerry. 1t read like this:
ITO all those present l wish to sol |
amnly declare that l believe in the /
sacred bonds of wedlock; that | don't |
believe that it is good for man Tor |
woman either to be alone. 1t is my |
asst an most sacred wish that my wife |
should marry again. an l hereby de- |
flare that | have no objections to her /
so dom. To hasten this end leave |
20 the man who shall marry her the !
contents of the brass box that is In The 1
corner of the room l make but one /
an that is that the man /
must play the cOrnet To my neighborS /
with one exception l leave my kind 1
regards an this advice: Waste no more 4
time lOokin' fer the buried treasure /
Ny dear friend Seth Buggy has the key |
10 the box an command him to hand !
It to the man who shall meet all these /
Hold on said l. ez everybody start /
I'd talkin' ut once. this here paper has /
an error In 1t, l drawCd il an l know, /
This paper is in old man Bascom's
an I guess that when he
,opied it front the one that | wrote he
cropped out Il word. What wrote an
What he wanted me particularly to
write was: That the man must not
play the cornet"
I'm thinkin'," said Jerry. that the
stands"
&c There amt no gittin' around that
,sid I, but it amt what Bascom
meant"
Well, sir. il did beat all what a rum
'Us that dOckymint kicked up. The
dugle men an the widderer was fer
.Oin' ter law an try an have it cor
'ected. But the married men grinued
IN said IL was no use tryiu' to buck
,gin Jerry'S fool luck. an they give t
81. OF course everybody saw at once
hat BaScom had found the treasure.
m in tryin' ter keep Jerry from ever
ettin' hold of il he had thrown il right
nto his lap.
We'll. the next day Jerry kim ter me
m said: Seth. what's II that there
,oxg'
I don't know said !.
Seth said he, kinder excited Ike.
I tried ter lift il an l couldn't bulge
: an inch, There amt but one conclu-
sen. That there brass box contains
he hidden treasure that everybody has
been iookin' fer, Just a cool SI.0O0.OOo. /
n the man that marries the wilder
-ifs it,
He'll earn his money saws 7
Jes' cool Sl.ooO.OO0. says he. kind
q dazed like.
Jerry says I. we amt rnln' ter
lake advantage OF q mistake. be Won.
N marry old man Bascom's wilder d