Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-01-16

"ooBBLER, DER ORPHAN GIRL WAS COME =
oop 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 II all der
orphan children in town come in NIT
DER shoes. don't eat my breakfast
before somebody knock on der door,
md When lets him in he vhas a mans
nit a tear i'm his eye und six pairs of
shoes in his hand.
''Cobbler. hat come in to take ad
vantage OF dot sign," he says. "You
vhas cobbler NIT heart, you vhas. l
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?" 1 says.
dot vhas dead easy. / hat no fad
der or mudder, und if I vhas man in
years l vhas a child in my heart.
Would you like to hear me say Mary
J.
innocent und tender hearted ash
RI = years old, undr your goodness
brings tears to my eyes. Hurry OOp
NIT my shoes"
| don't do it. 1 tell dot mans he vhas
fraud und a deceiver, und he shumps
at me und shakes his fist in my face
und says he can break eafery bone in
my body in two minutes. 1t takes me
ten minutes to get him out of der shop,
und he don't get around der corner be-
fore a young mans nit his hat on his
ear und bad cigar in his mouth comes
in und says:
"Vhell, old mans, I vhas looking for
an orphan asylum more ash four years,
und l 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" | says.
Il vhas poor little orphan boy four
years old, und der cold, cruel world
don't care for me. ALI last week | vhas
crying because | don't hat nothing to
eat. All. cobbler, may you neffer know
how she vhas to be left young or
phan."
But you vhas a, young mans,' I
says.
dot vhas all in your eyes," he re-
plies you don't see straight. I may
look to be twenty-five, but, alas, / vhas
hardly more ash baby. Please hus-
tie on dose patches"
He can't fool me dot he vhas some
children, und when / says so we hat
row. If l don't hat my shoe knife in
my hand he would hit me on der jaw.
When he goes out, he says he Will hat
me arrested for false pretenses, und
my wife vhas SO scared she shakes all
oafer Maybe l had better take dot
sign down, but after two minutes an
old wOmans comes in. She hat cane
III one hand und pair of shoes in der
odder, und she says to me:
"Cobbler, der orphan girl vhas
come"
How you vhas?' l says.
~ 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 | hat on my
grandmudder's clothes dot I look so
old. You don't know how he vhas to
be 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 l vhas some orphans but neffer
mind. If you fix oop my shoes heaven
shall bless YOU"
say she had better go out und dry
some games on der drugstore. und she
gets mad und screams und yells till
more ash one hOonered peoples comes
around. She don't go out till she
breaks my lamp und calls me names,
und l slump oop und take dot sign
down so queek as neffer vhas. She
was shust down when dot fat police
mans comes along und says:
'Ho! no! So you hat some more
rows. eh?'
1T vhas all Oafer," l says.
But let me see. So you fix oop shoes
Tor orphan childrens free of cost? Why
don't you tell me about dot?"
Because you vhas no orphan chill
drens."
'Oh. amt? Maybe you don't know