The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-09

He Uses an Ordinary Gander to Catch
Geese.

one day When I don't have no Gus
toners und NJ work, und it seems mn
der Dago cobblers vhas getOnB al
custom, an old bum comes atoms -"
WANTS a patch on his shoe. ne IN
have no money, but I don't cnarsS Re
anything. When L vhas LHlOue
aHans. it vhas all in knowing oer
American peoples" how,
fIf dey don't come IN my snOP'
shah I know emp / says
Make en- come in
pull EN- in init some ropes. We
mo. sir, Shust get a noVeily.
vhas a peoples who want - r.
new ali der time. NOtttngs WAS -
fashion over a month in p year -
vhas something's new, new, new
lief in one year more we shall
lager beer saloons in u g~raNeyaLu'
to see how it seems. NoVelty' H"
When ike to find an honest man
und put him in der window says
I'VE haven't got but one IN les
country, und he vhas too pusS, ~
vhas kind to der old bum uHU NO"
me tell you something's r
He talks to me five minutes hHu \
goes bv der market ind buys an oIu
gander. Next morning he WAS IN ny
show window, und 1 have a sign Ie0U
ing: Guess hat it vhas.
L Q0AA L EEGlA w. 100
shop Was open before g woman comes
in nit a pair of shoes, and says
"Cobbler. I don't p%atronize you pc
fore. because you have only pegs uHu
leather around. Now you haEe ~
novelty. I think I can guess Nhal sott
Of a bird dot has. I have read Oh MN
In natural history. He vhas der ana
tross."
you vhas an awful smart woman,
I says nit a smile. ,,,,
ANnh hr~N I 7rua1 To fR2En- SR0OOl--
she SAYS. Yes, dot bird vhas der al
batross, und history says dot ne can
fly two thousand miles mltOut fesllu6.
He breeds on islands in der ocean, Oue
If he is made prisoner he never si4sS
any more. He shust stands on one leB
and looks solemn, der same as II ms
heart vhas broke. All der school emil
dren ought to come here una stuuy
natural history"
face, und anodder woman comes IN.
She vhas a little woman init a sharp
voice. und she brings i'm a pair OF her
husbands shoes to be fixed up.
sfNow, dis vhas something's like, she
says. as She looks at her solemn olq
gander. Dis vhas something's new ana
appeals to der public. Guess what II
vhas. Cobbler, do you belief YOU can
fool a womans like me on DOT Dlrd. l
have travelled all over Europe, una l
have seen too many storks to be mis-
AIKEN i DEL 10u OlA2 0tAA +N 49,
send to Amsterdam for dot stork-
Come, now"
4 don't belief you vhas so sharp ash
ssvhv. could tell What sort Of a bird
It vhas clear across der street. Many
und many a night when I vhas in Am
sterdam der storks sung me to sleep.
He has a note something k a phlp-
poorwill. you know
yes. know: but I bet not two ID
- L. zfA- --n coz dpT go ~ g
ash you did. I shall be glad to have
o come in often, und you can wit
your friends, too
Thanks. You has way ahead Of
der geological gardens, und der peo-
ples ought to know it. Dot bird vhas
der biggest novelty for ten miles
around"
Der next customer vhas a man. He
vhas der undertaken around der cor
ner. He takes all his work to der Da-
goes, and never looks at my shop be-
fore. He now comes in und says he
shall have two cement patches on his
shoes, und den observes:
Does anybody come in here who
can't guess vha dot bird is?"
do you belief you can guess?'
de first time. He vhas a gander."
My dear mans, everybody always
says dot you vhas a smart und edu-
Gated man, und L vhas proud to have
you in my shop. When did you last
see a gander2"
"vhell. maybe it vhas twenty years
ago Let me look a leetle closer. uni
Hal"
Can you name her now? ?" I says.
~Of course-ha, ha, hal I guess I
vhas near-sighted. Vhen me n my
wife vhas at der Ponce de Leon hotel,
Florida, last winter, paying $40 a day
for our room and board, 1 see hun
dreds Of such birds around. I must be
a chump not to know him at once. He