Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1901-12-26
OR
"TEN ACRES TOO MUCH"
THOMAS w. LoYLESS.

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could hear Henry. chuekle over that phone
four miles away.
,,,.I But. boss you ought to let me get =
70 drive all night givin' dis load er truck
erway," again spoke Henry.
to see II my wife was still listening, but she
yes. Henry I replied with killing kind
ness. but II you don't succeed in giving all
those vegetables away during the night.
kindly dump them into the vineyille branch
leaf OF them back here I'll kill you, and
II you don't report to me first one when you
get here III Kill you again.
Henry seemed to grasp the situation. 50 I
hung huns up the phone ana went IN to face my
what happened to him. dear7" she asked
Nothing at all" laughed-but &c was
metallic sort Of laugh-"except that the fool
sary in order to sell few remaining punches
Of beets and few heads Of cabbage and
while under the bottom Of the load. It was a
big load, you know. and this was to be ex-,
pected. told him to go take them to few
friends Of ours and come on home" and then
laughed merrily and tried to seem pleased
with the world.
two dozen names TO take them to. and. you
absurd thing. don't you know there won't be
distributs them among that crowd Why
don't you try to stop him somewhere. and tell
but maybe they haven't room for-I mean
maybe they don't like vegetables" / STAN
mered. Anyway. better lst i go as fxed
ter all. He's got all night In which 70 do L
In, and they'll all be repaid for being walked
what web by On b.,ns PRESENTED with trn,D
saThey'iI ali think You are drunk and say.
has Henry sold any vegetables at ali ?" de-
mandsd the wife Of my bosom IN that cold:
brings her terms
Well, to tell you the truth, my dear" I
managed to say after a little time in which
all of them, and is simply trying to beat US
out Of the money; that's why / told him to
pie. That's how I'll catch up with him. Now,
admit, a woman never could have thought OF
that piece q strategy. could she7 Regular
IT don't, know. but I rather expect
Munchausen. However. ! mean to have every
business-life fashion.
why. of course. my dear. that has been
more. you shall have all OF the truck on the
farm, sell II yourself and take every cent of
the prooeeds." was half afraid she would
refuse IL.
That seemed to appease her. and we dined
the minds of both Of US. In hers as to wheth-
not I had told her the truth. and In
mine as to whether or not she would. ever
anyway. Henry got in shortly, after mid
and in all probability the twenty cents, too.
in SADLY night ticker" all right. But
couldn't say that blamed him. He had run
into somebody and broken a wagon wheel
on the way out. But there not going TO
be any differences between Henry and me II
I could prevent 1t by diplomatic and even
liberal treatment.
Eyer sho oughtn't blame me. boss" was
the first thing he managed to blurt out.
Blame you, h. snapped. ct congratt-
late you for getting home with the horse and
wagon. even II one wheel is gone. But it's
all right; just don't you ever say word TO
anyone on earth about It. II you do I'll kill
you and IL you don't III increase your
wages"
think Henry grasped the situation. Least
wise he made the compact.
z Then made a mental calculation that
he had sold an imaginary S24 50 worth of vege-
tables and given away the other $50 worth,
so / went back into the house and settled up
with my wife on that basis. She took 1t, but
seemed to think IL was careless management
that didn't make him sell the other $3.50
worth.
However she ran the truck farm after that
and kept the proceeds of all sales. while
went back and settled down TO newspaper
work again as OF old, and tried to pay up
what had lost on the truck farm