The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-07-24
promise me. Michael. yell Tot 1gh;

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give 'er a kiss er two in tn way iv
cheerin' er up. SO done it, an Their
wuz no more tightin'.
.Wan day ez | wuz comm back to
tn ingine house from dinner
sthopped in at tn Hogans fer a
word er two.
'sWhin come in who shud see
si.tin in tn Hogan's kitchen, ez big
ez life. but Nolan himsilf
Nolan wuz tellin' Maggy an 'er
mother a great sthory about cuttin' off
wheels. Did | tell We Nolan had been
made driver iv tn clinical? Well, he
wuz-he got it through his uncle fwhat
Wuz foreman fer Clancy, tn con-
thracter-an' greatly wuz he set up
by it. An, ez | say, he wuz a-tellin
Maggy great sthories about cuttin' off
wheels.
Eye don't know fwhat that is? Well,
l shud explain to We, thin, that it is
tn ambishun iy a young driver to cut
a wheel off iv wagon wild his own
machine TIL way It's done is this:
Whin he's runnin down a good, easy
sthreet, answerin' call, an sees a
wagon on ahead iv im--most gin rally
an ovid dray err some ither Tckety
thing wild tn wheels ready to fall off
he steers in behind it an swings out
jist in time to ketch tn hind wheel.
His horses bein' on tn run whin he
strikes tn wheel, it goes to flinders,
tn wagon drops down in tn sthreet,
an tn newspapers puts in piece
about tn carelessness iv teemsters an
tn great danger to tn brave fire
men-an' fer a month that particular
driver hez head swelled to tn size
iv a barr'l.
81 sthood it fer bit, an thin I says:
'Ye're somethin' iv a driver yerself,
understand, Mr.. Nolan.
az kin drive he says, lookin' at me
ez If he'd like some wan to idintify
me- I kin drive. Ye're right there.
| know a thing err two about drlYln'
I'd like to find few min in tn day
partmint to match me, he says.
An this cuttin' off iv wheels ye
WIZ telln' iy, | s'pose ye're up to
that
Dye mean to say | can't do it,
says he, gettin' little warm. 'Wud
ye like to bet me anythin' | cant do
ito
That's jist fwhat | wud, says /,
it,3
bet ye fwhat we will ye can't do 1t,
an niver can, fwhat's more
"'I'll take ye, says ne in a mint.
'Fwhat'll it be-
81 see me chanst, an | turned to
Maggy Will We sthand by it, Maggy?
says |.
cit rists wild you entirely, says she,
still a-laughin. I hev nothin' to do
wild it.
"'But We will decide tn winner?
says |. 'Ye will chuse wan Nv us?'
Il looked at 'er straight, an she
give me laugh an quick bit iv
look out iy 'er eye that made me heat
jump like thruck horse, an she says:
'Yis. Michael, I'll chuse wan
An wild that come away, contint
to lave 'er wild Nolan afther seem that
look in err eye.
We'll, Nolan waited an waited fer
a chanst to git wheel, an his chanst
come 1t wuz about four o'clock wan
afternoon whin a call come in from
box siyinty-six.
"Wh1n we turned into Fox sthreet
an Nolan let EN- out fer tn straight
run, | see single runabout wagon on
ahead iv us, goin' our way an well
over to tn right iv tn Sthreet, He'll
niver try that says to mesilf. But
Nolan wuz more iv fool than | give
him credit fer bein', an in he turns
behind tn rig 'Howly Mother says
to mesilf, we're done fer, sure
An tn thought had no more than
got through me head whin tn smash
hind tt rig an come into it on tn
run. | heard a crash like two box
cars comm togither, an telegraph
pole an tn side iv house sailed past
me an | landed like a sack i meal
We'll, ez | say, | landed easy, an
ez soon ez | cud git togither sfnse
enough to know wher | wuz, | looked
around to see tn amount iv tn day
sthrucshun. An Their certainly wuz an
abunjunce iv it Our two ingine
horses WIZ LYNN on tn ground wild tn
pole broke-wan iv EN- had a strained
shoulder an niver ran agin-ther wuz
pile iv kindlin' wood an scrap iron
where the runabout wagon had been,
an tn half-dozen men prisint WIZ
scattered all over tn sthreet, Nolan
himsilf lyin under tn wagon wild a
broken leg an his head cut open
But tn worst iv it wuz that wan iy
tn two men in tn runabout wagon had
his shoulder broke