The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-04-11
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I think
1 asked.
=" Ten dollars.
p" 'Whew 'Tain't worth more'n
six
!" Well, she said some one told
her they ought to be worth ten apiece.
an I can't jew woman
Apiece? Snakes an tadpoles |
Has she more?'
eyes
" But where's my damage to come
from, Tom?'
Guess you got that down in the
patch, from the looks of things
tom is sly. He could say that
without smilin', an 1 tell you I
watched him purity close. Now that
was purity smart in Tom, if Mrs. Jack
son did git ahead of him, wasn't it,
Squirrel Veo, that's true sl1e got
ahead of me, too.
But that amt all. No, not by a
jugfull. In couple of days another
of the confounded hogs turned up
down in the patch an tore up a lot
of late sugar corn. l didn't try no
merry-go' round business with that
one, but sent Tom an the boys to git
it into the pen. I sent Tom over
again, an said:
=" Now, Tom, if you buy this one,
you might hint to that woman, in the
language Of the immortal Burns, that
this is purchasin' joys DER dear, an
that she might try to keep the rest of
them penned up OF course Tom
bought it.
eve had no more trouble for a
couple weeks, an the patch began to
pick up wonderful. You'd never
know there had been hogs in it.
Then disaster came. I could see it
long before reached the patch, an
turned back an called Tom an the
men. 1 said aside to one of the men
Here, Clark, take this gun an
shoot 'em.'
Better not said Clark. Suit
for cruelty. She'll have you sure.
Widows is p The word he said
is not in my vocabulary, Squire, but
as he went slouchin' off without the
gun, how l wished Clark had been
with me that first day down in the
patch !
"This time they fetched up three,
an that night Tom went over to see
about 'em.
eyes, 1 bought 'em, said Tom,
AN Mrs. Jackson said the other one
was carryin' on so from grief an
loneliness in the pen, bought it,
too, an her man will bring it over
today, so now, pap, l guess your
patch is safe
Thomas, / said, in business
like tone, got all six of 'em now,
hain't your
"Yes.'
eyes, sixty dollars of it."
" That's too much.
Got some left, said that boy.
4" Tom, you're fool.
How SOP
" Them pigs amt worth over thir-
ty-fve dollars-top-notch.'
Let's see,' said Tom, comm
down to business. In two months
they'll dress two hundred each
hundred for the lot. Forks worth
seven cents seven twelve's eighty
four. Sixty from eighty-four leaves
twenty-four dollars-forty per cent.
for sixty days-that's purity good in
terest, amt it pap?'
"'Yes, Thomas, so far so good, as
an investment, but how about the
feed for sixty days, where's that to
come from?'
"'Oh T said Tom, in his uncon-
cerned way, I'm feedin' your corn
Ny corn?'
eyes
"'But where do I come in on the
forty per cent?
Why, you get the manure to
raise more sweet potatoes an things !
" Then Tom went out, an l jes'
set there an looked at mother till
she busted out a-laughin' an l
thought 1 would die.
:" 4 get the manure 7
''I got down on the old sofa-guess
they call it davenport, now-an'
rolled an laughed.
"'That amt all, either, mother
said, after l had laughed myself into
a coughin' fit.
For heaven s sake What else =
1 gasped.
""Tom's goin' to marry Maud
Jackson bout the holidays l'-W f.
McSPGr7en.