The Minneapolis journal., 1904-12-31
THE SZORYzEZZER
BoURGUARD'S APRIL FOOL.

Bourguard did not like his landlady but that was not
strange Bourguards landady did not like him. Then,
Bourguard did not like children and of course his land
lady did At least there eight little Walkers to
demand the landadys attention and love, and to
Things had not been running oiled wheels for
four or five months and now that March had and
Mrs Walzer said it time to let the fires go out,
Bourguard began to think he might find atmosphere
more congenial to his tastes and lkngs.
The xhole tzoqh1e had orignated whea en- Reurguara
street and had stored his bulky paraphernala in the
woodshed He might have known that Dutch bachelor
Of 40 could not live in Heavenly peace" with stout,
trm energetic German of 20 with little pugnosed and
tailed noisy and shining boys and girls from months
to IL years Of But he tried it and before the
tive smoothness. Bourguard dressed his dolls for his
"baby shows, read his German dramas and his Dutch
papers and ate his dry bread and drank black coffee
the breakfast table without word to the family.
It was early in November when he handed tickets
70 MI ne % on upo
Gretchen, the eldest, went with Mr.. and Mrs. Walzer
The whole show in German, Gretchen fell
asleep Mama Waller read the advertisements on her
gagement he had downtown.
Gretchen told Sadie all about it afterwards Sadie
talkative and Bourguard learned how unapprecia
tive his landady and her family 1t grated harshy
his tender
for That a tne t a he fsr s9 tb ata
"chips Of the old block'' asleep in corner,
and ninety ninth bucket of coal $50 the landady sa)
and found con Tqmpany He proceeded to make himself
stood performances and exceled the
"unexcelable'' Bourguard. That grated the bach
eor nerves. too He lnatured the next morning.
back his coffee to be made stronger; he gave the
four eldest Walkers lesson in manners 'Don'd ggge
ad der table, you ehidrens No, l don'd excuse you.
You mus d do nodings what should be excused
yet and fowned darky that the remainder of the
repast eaten in silence.
The gulf widened and deepened and when gorgeous
ly-dressed Dutchman with red and green eyes
nved the fourteenth of February, Bourguards slow
blood boiled and he cast omnous ganees at 'dose i'm
pudent scaavags.'
Now it was the twenty-ninth of March. An express
man came to clear the woodshed Bourguard to give
another doll show and he would need all the boxes and
rigging this time Bourguard's landlady unsuspi
altho his rent amounted to slightly
over IS.
s'Man wants but little here below Bourguard
wanted nothing but solitude He gioomily avoided the
family and went about with the air of thief
It was the first of April The day of ttFools.''
Mama Wazer jumped up from the breakfast table
claiming "a runawayt runawayi'' Bourguard sprang
to the window and returned with a dark fown The
I viii show you how to do, vonee'' But the landady
laughed and Bouguard ate his meal IN silence.
It warm bright day: The that
NAMED in shaded melting, the board side
walks steaning the sow-footed children lag
ging from school, too sleepy arowsy to Tho
buds just bursting the shone hot IN the eloudes
SKY. Everybody seemed at rest but the energetic Mira