The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-05-03

OObBLEh. DEh OhthAN OlhL NhAoI Oh6-
oop a sign In der window dot reads,
"All der shoes for orphan children
shall be fixed oop free of cost" vhas
pleased und my wife vhas pleased und
we go to bed happy. 1t vhas a great
advertisement for my shop If all der
orphan children In town come in NIT
DER shoes. | don't eat my breakfast
before somebody knock on der door,
und when | lets him in he vhas a mans
NIT a tear in his eye und six pairs Of
shoes in his hand.
"Cobbler. | hat come in to take adj
vantage of dot sign" he says. You
vhas a cobbler NIT a heart. you vhas. ]
vhas an orphan for forty-eight years
but dis vhas der first time anybody
vhas good to me. You can mend oop
my shoes While l wait"
But how can you be some orphan
children? 2" | says.
dot vhas dead easy. / hat no fad
der or mudder, und If l vhas a man in
years l vhas a child in my heart.
Would you like to hear me say Mary
Had a Little Lamb? Yes, / vhas ash
innocent und tender hearted ash a
child two years old. und your goodness
brings tears to my eyes. Hurry oop
NIT my Shoes
don't do it. tell dot mans he vhas
a fraud und a d%eceiver. und he shumps
at me und shakes his fist in my face
und says he al break eafery bone In
my body in two minutes. 1t takes me
- --4-.k-- -4& Is-r 2-& - 1o- C6Ar1
und he don't get around der corner be-
fore a young mans NIT his hat on his
ear und a bad cigar In his mouth comes
in und says:
"Vhell, old mans, / vhas looking for
an orphan asylum more ash four years,
und I vhas glad to find you at last.
You can put fife cement patches on dot
right shoe und six on der left, und den
you can take me out for some beer"
How vhas your l says.
II vhas a poor little orphan boy four
years old, und der cold, cruel world
don't care for me. All last week I vhas
crying because | don't hat nothing to
eat. All, cobbler, may you neffer know
how she vhas to be left a young or
phan."
But you vhas a young MANS" !
says.
dot vhas all in your eyes," he re-
plies. "You don't see straight. l may
look to be twenty-five, but. alas. l vhas
hardly more ash a baby. Please hus.
tie on dose patches"
He can't fool me dot he vhas some
children, und when says so we hat a
row. If l don't hat my hoe knife in
When he goes out, he says he Will hat
me arrested for false pretenses, und
my wife has so scared she shakes all
oafer. Maybe / had better take dot
sign down. but after two minutes an
old womans comes in. She hat a zane
In one hand und a pair of shoes In der
odder, und she says to me:
"Cobbler, der orphan girl vhas
come"
"How you vhas" I says.
81 vhas some orphan childrens to get
my shoes fixed oop Free"
But you vhas an old womans."
"Ah, cobbler. do not spoke like dot
to me! 1t vhas because l hat on my
grandmudder's clothes dot l look so
old. You don't know how he vhas to
be a little girl und hat no home. Do
you hat some beer in dot pail"
"Of course not"
"Vhell, / like some beer to make me
forget I vhas some orphans. but neffer
mind. If you fix COP my shoes heaven
shall bless YOU"
say she had better go out und dry
some games on der drugstore. und she
gets mad und creams und yells till
more ash one hoonered peoples m
around. She don't go out till she
breaks my lamp und calls me names,
und l shump oop und take dot sign
down so queek as neffer vhas. She
was shust down when dot fat police
mans ome along und says:
"Ho! no! So you hat some o
rows, ehY'
1T vhas all oafer," l says
"But let me see. So you fix oop shoes
for orphan childrens free Of cost? Why
don't you tell me about dot?"
Because you vhas no orphan chill
drens."
"Oh. I amt? Maybe you don't know