The San Francisco call., 1906-10-21
RATTTYC STORIES
9cTEK GRIEF lie BRINGS
70 COCKRSzACH FAMILIES

He say his old boss would give me
fine chob. i asked him what doin and
he says to be an observation-disclosures. l
ask him what he means by that and
when he tells me Il IS to kill leetle
bugs from houses ] say Veil. won't
do that He laughs and that was all
that we said about it. Then I come
by myself and kept always looking for
work till my money was ali, all gone.
Always wes men wanted to be ex-
terminashioners, in the papers. One
day went to place and there was
a lire OF men standing from the side
walk up. up. up to the top OF the
building I didn't know about wait
ing no turns. so I went right up
ahead and went in. ] got chob and
the next day ! went out by another
man to learn the business. He was
TO let me look on-but he was that
did the work But 1 don like it an
I don think I'll ever learn TO"
Have you been az 1t very long?"
asked the listener
''Thirty-seven year come winter"
was the reply But 1 don't think I
ever will Ike It. Awful fierce on the
lungs
Why have YOU kept at 1t so long
II you disliked IL and found 1t un-
heslthful?" she demanded.
oh. had my pay raised when I say
20 my old boss, guess 1 do something
else He tell me he need men who un-
derstan' the work an what's all broke
in. so 1 keep on for a time But soon
/ think maybe go back to my trade /
had in Denmark. Yes, think maybe
do something else, for the powder Is
bad on the lungs, and 1 haf FIVE hun
dred places to be always looking after.
Some days I go to one hundred and sew
enty OF them. Yes, thinks maybe
gif 1t up. No one left now but ma an
me to look after-all my children mar
ried and gone for themselves but my
youngest girl and perhaps she marry
some one next month. hope so. Then
Ma n me can enjoy ourselves, and
shan't work so hard. cause it takes
lots of bugs to be killed TO bring up
nine children an do well by EN- And
the powder SO. SO bad on the lungs!1
Bugs Is Bugs.
Which kind of bug gives you the
most trouble?" suggested the young
woman.
Veil, now. that IS question. The
cockroach Gle hard, but he's nothin so
bad as the bedbug. He was a wise one.
that bedbug. Ma'am, maybe you
wouldn't believe me. but look on my
honest face and you will see that
don't tell no lie when I say he has in
telligence. 1 tell you a big story what
is every word the truth Once where I
board before I married my first wife
I had no peace by them. so I move the
bed from the wall and the legs of the
bed 1 put in cans OF kerosene Then
] Just watched, and bimeby 1 saw q
wise one go UP the wall, an he go an
go an come up on the ceiling und come
round und come round. und then he
get right over the middle of the bed
und jump: Yas. right down on the
middle OF the bed he drop, Vas he
knew what he was doing. that wise
one. Now how can you sign a contract
to get the best OF q whole tribe of
scheme makers like that I always
tells peoples do what I can for them.
but no one can speak the truth when
he say he will clean them out with
positiveness- I am always glad to kill
them-the only bug I don like to harm
nohow is the little spiders what brings
YOU good luck. II is the worst mistake
YOU ever seen to hurt . spiders.
81 likes to see one when il goes up by
the thread. for then 1t brings me some
tings good, but I feel awful when it
comes down. Und ! don't like to kill no
rats either" he added. MY firm dom
handle anything but reaches and bed
bugs. and that's troubles enough for
me. But I could tell you some stories
about rats. DON / hate EN-? One
night I was lonesome. so / goes to get
a glass OF beer. 1t was YER nice, and I
feels better, an then bimeby in comes a
man and he carried big box. He say
to the man what keeps the place that
he clear out the rats for twenty fife
dollar. The saloon man got awful mad,
an said there warn't no rats In his
building. an, anyway. he won't gif but
fifteen dollar for clearing them out.
The other man considered a while an