The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-07

SSAoAASA Il
Don't 1t beat four Of kind how WIN
ter holds on this year? Worst ever see
since lef' Wisconc. SIS no use goin,
t1shin' now. Say, this climates gittin's SOS
1t fools Teller worse'n the tenderfoot
fooled men whole passed. O. fellers down
home, n they was fellers in that crowd'd
fooled j. p. hisself. WI they was: even
one fun Philadelphy. m mos all Of 'em
was lawyers. That gang oughter fooled
the old devil. Special with me to show
EN- how, but the tenderfoot done the
whole b1lln. up Worse'n J. p. done the
Board crooks, n thet's useless d
Thus the Sage of Grand Rapids who
paused for breath about there and allowed
a query as to u. P.'s'' doing up of the
( Board Crooks to cross the rapid current
OF his speech, whereafter he resumed.
Didn't you ever hear Of that? See ere
you ought to take bout fourteen years off
n. post up. Wy it was way back in the
Old times Wen they :warn't no law .er gos-
pei above sBrainerd, en mighty little er
either there. i mean there warn't no
real laws, fur's gospels goes, they amt
enough ter hurt right now. But they was
bluffs at law. lots of ,em, en- mostly run
by crooks fer what was in EN-.
I disremember wat kind er. board this
was but it give the gait to J. r. plenty,
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game fer no. man. Well, bime by this
board wanted some land er his'n, an
wanted 1t bad, m makes a bluff at him
to git 1T. Sol. p. he shoves the price
way up, kinder KNOWN they was due to
try to rope him inter a crooked play, m
give him the worst Of it. tt Then they goes
to him and says his price is too steep,
which he surely: did put it in the clouds,
but If he. comes down a bit, and gives 'em
a rake-off, say. Is per cent, WY 1t goes.
An j. P. he says it goes; don't say wat
goes: you mind, and they don't tumble.
They goes to work, buys the land, gifts the
deed m hands over the price, expectin' j.
P. hands back their sheer. But he shoves
the wad down In his jeans an walks out,
sayin' nothin'. An them guys don't say
nOthin' neither. It's all over 'em, an
they knowsit, m oughter knowed 1t fore
they tried to do J. p. up. ~
''But this blaine tenderfoot puts. 1t all
over us a darn sight worse, n never let
on to know enough to come in outer the
rain neither. THIS is how it was: This
gang came up fer a holiday, n fetched
the telderfoot along, n to look at. him
you'd a sworn the cows'd eat-him .if they
ketched him out 'thout- keeper. And he
didn't act a bit wiser'ns he s1ooked..-j /
kinder reckon he was a real te1lderfoot
wen he struck the woods, but plumb fox
Wy HdCuI II SWHCSTf TO sledTIl lIldH% there
was any fun in.
'"The rest Of the gang was wise guys
all right, N q tenderfoot was due to have
about DIS fine a time longer EMS a new
frogs got comm wen he starts to. swim
q thorofare full 30 hungry bass. An he
got all that was comm to him, you bet he
did. Them other fellers put up every job
that was old enough to have gray whisk-
ers onto him N ever time they ketched
him. They sent him on all the fool arr
rants that's been thought Of since Noah
grounded his wanagan, n he run ZEN
cheerful lsA...E : *
An they wound up with ssettin. him
affshin' fer trout in a pizon spring branch
where there hadn't been a fish. sincetthe
world was made, and where ne fish
couldn't live nohow. An that innocent
walked up'n down that branch, acrawlin'
thru bresh, n atearin' the clothes off,
hisself where it's too deep to wade, n
awadin' were it want; q whippinH the
water with all kinds O. artificial flies, an
agittin' the hide fairly chawed off n him by
real ones; aworkin' all the time by like
a dead game sport. IN never lettin'E a
whimper out n him.