Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-31

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bin ferd, toad to git, kickd owt;
that's the kind of vakayshun I am en-
joying. ri.
"What waz the reezen?" SEE I, try
ing to look ez simpathetick ez my
harsh feetewrs wood allow.
"Reezen," he YIELD, ."why, it waz
one of them pesky kritters tibet il awl-
waze poaking thare noses into other
peepel's bizness, that's awl. He he'd
a kind of soopervishun over things,
to sea tibet the roofs waz enfoarsd,
and he took it into biz. nodded tibet it
waz hiz dooty to go owt and poak
arownd to find owt what waz going on,
insted of wayting till sum one kahn
to him and maid kick abowt sum-
thing, ez emmy ordinery man wood hev
dun. Yu no the awthorittys waz try
ing to git rid of the muskeeters, and
I waz the 9th assistant muskeeter
ketcher. Well, I liked the plais awl-
rite, ez fer ez drawing the pay waz
konsurnd But I diddent beleev in
getting rid of the muskeeters. Thay
waz good for bizness. Thay' kawsd
lots of sickness, giving wurk for dok-
tiers, nurses, druggists, etsettery, and
so foarth. Fellos tibet kahn thare in
tending to stay only a few days mite
get sick and hev to stay for weeks and
months, and hev big bills to pay, thus
bringing lot of monny into the plais:
1 beleev thet every man hez a rite to
beside for himself if a rool il good or
not, and if he thinks it Amt good he
kan wurk agenst it. Believing mu-
skeeters waz good fur the plais, I Of
koors dun awl 1 kood to prevent thare
destrukshun. Sum fellos started reg
gewler breeding ponds for the insekts.
Of koors this he'd to be dun on the sly,
but the awthorrittys got on to what
waz going on and thay drsned owt the
ponds ez soon ez thay fownd them.
But the biggest pond waz kept 60
ing for long spell. 1t waz purity
we'll protekted, I tell yu. 1t waz To-
kaited in littel room, reechd throo
a dark kaiv. Yu started from the
Koolebra kut, went throo q board
gait, kut kittykornerd in a northwest
ern direkshun till yu kahn to a mario
passaij, followd this till yu kahn to
sum steps, went up theas, turnd east;
went down three steps, then north
throo another mario passaij, turnd
west, up three steps, opend door in
to littel entry, turnd east into a
room thet he'd number of konnek
shuns with an underground toob, went
north II feat till yu kahn to door;
thare yu gaiv one mock, and when the
door waz opend yu went down two
steps and fownd yurself at the edje of
a pond full of vegetables. By gum,
I thawt it waz> purfex,ly saif, but do
yu no, tibet pesky overseer hunted it
up, and the awthorittys swoopd down
on it. Thare waz three men in. it at
the time, but fortewnaitly thare was a
trapdoor into another underground
kaiv, throo which thay eskaipd. The
affare waz then. investigated by the
kommishun, and ez I he'd bin sean in
the vissinitty noemerus times I waz
kawld in ez witness. Of koors I dun
my dooty like man; swoar to en-
nything thawt wood help the he'd ek-
squirt of the wiggeltale bizness,- an Elk
slid Rooshan nobelman naimd Hand
emoutski. And what do yu think them
pesky commissioners dun? Thay Civ
me the lye rite to my fails and made
my boss fer me on the spot. What
ar things koming to when a man kant
help friend without loosing biz Job
for it? 1 had to wauk the plank, so to
say, and hear I am within of my
luv for vegetables and wiggeltalers. {"
swell, Jack" SEE 81 am awfully
sorry yu koodent stay with yur trends,
who I understand ar boarded and
lodjd at the ekspens of the awthorit-
tys." J1MuNNY CR1CKETTs.
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