Connecticut western news., 1901-02-14
Financial DEALINGS
OF Duuudu's Bou
He Tried Hard to Make 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 con-
fidential mood.
'I've been tryin to make some money
again." he said.
"So? said the visitor "But that's
nothing new. Is it?" a.#
We'll. don't know" replied the boy,
curling himself con- fortably among the
pillows on the lounge, 81 s'pose / try
often enough, but 1t looks like amt
a money maker. Pa says 1 am cut
out for a confidence man, but 1 don't
seem to get the hest Of him ever. Say,
do you keep books, an do you know
when you have too much money!
II never found out that l had too
much"
well, pa has, an it makes him feel
bad. When l 60 down to the office
l see ell 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. / asst
pa about 1t, an he said that he knew
to cent how much they was because
he kept books an made them balance
every night. was wonderin whether
he'd know the difference IL 1 took
little of 1t, just what needed. / don't
like to asst pa for money"
"WhyT
Vance wriggled u little and bit his
handkerchief. "Well," he said at last,
''he always wants to know what j
want to do with it."
"Impertinent curiosity. Why don't
you get him to make you fixed allow
ance-so much a weekw
Il did try. l wanted him to give me
a nickel a day. l don't want a whole
lot Of money, but like to have some
Ted Cunningham always has money,
an when he wants me to pitch to q
crack or anything l have to own up
| that I'm broke"
puts you In an embarrassing stu
alton"
II thought / would see whether pa
could tell about his money, an so when
Mr.. Jones was gone to lunch an pa was
In the back room l put the so cents
that you gave me that day in with the
| other so cents In the tray. l didn't
like to take any out, because / didn't
| know but 1t 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 1t. an ma didn't say any
| thing more about him bein too late for
dinner. an l didn't like to say about
me havin put the so cents In, because
thought he wouldn't like 1t. thought
the best thing l could do was to tell
ma, 80 told her. an she said that had
better 60 to pa an tell him l was sorry
an how 1t happened. l didn't do 1t, but
| I guess she did, because pa threw down
my so cents at the breakfast table IL
the mornIn an told me never to let him
catch me at any such monkey tricks
as that again or he'd make me need
skin graftin. He said that he worked
four hours on account of what I'd
done, an 1t wouldn't have been SO bad
II there had been so cents too little.
asst him why. an he said that then be
could have called 1t q mistake an pait
the so cents out of his own pocket.
don't see why he couldn't have giveI
the so cents away to somebody an said
It was mistake, do your
'It looks to me like false logic" said
the visitor. did you make up your
mind to tx 1t for a shortage nex'
timer
81 don't know what you mean.
didn't do anything. l told ma | want
ed TO rake 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 chickens, so | wen
to Mrs Mcclellan an asst her what she
would sell me q dozen chickens for
She said that depended on what I
wanted, whether 1t was Plymouth
Rocks or Brown Leghorns or banties
or what. So said Plymouth Rocks
an she told me she would let me have
dozen of them for S25.
Il knew that 1 couldn't get that
much money, an thought 1 might just
as well buy eggs an set them under q
common hem"
THAT was a bright idea"
Yes; Mrs. Mcclellan told me II
would be the best thing could do, NJ
! thea could raise 4 daxsn chickens n