Arizona republican., 1906-11-25

there may be was one hundred
 and sixty dayo pigs once. but wake UT
 don't be a back number. I've got even
 eight hundred, now shall collect TOT eight hundred or what how about six
 ty-four dollars paid out for cabbages. .' IL required a great many letters back
 and forth before the audit department
 was able to understand why the error
 had been made of billing one bundere
 and sixty instead of eight hundred. and still more time for it to get the mean
 ing of the "cabbages."
 F1annery as'crowded into a few feet
 at the extreme front of the office. The
 pigs had ali the rest of the room and
 two boys were employed constantly att
 tending to them. The day after Elan
 nery had counted the guinea pigs thero
 were eight more added to his drove,
 and by that tme the Audit Department
 gave him authority to collect for eight hundred. Flannery had given up all att tempt to attend to the receipt or the delivery of goods. lie was hastily building galleries around the express office, tier above tier. He had 4.O64 guinea-pigs to care for, More arriving daily.
 Immediately following its authoriza- ton the Audit Department sent an- other letter. but Flannery was too busy to open it. They wrote another. and then they telegraphed:
 Error in guinea-pig bill. Collect for two guinea-pigs. fifty cents. Deliver all to consignee."
 Flannery read the telegram and cheered up. He wrote out bill as rapidly as his pencil could travel over paper and ran all the way to the More house home. At the gate he stopped suddenly. The house stared at him with vacant eyes. The windows were bare of curtains and he could see into the empty rooms. A sign on the porch said, ITO Let" Mir. Morehouse had moved, Flannery ran all the way back to the express office. Sixty-nine guinea-pigs had been born during his absence. He ran out again and made feverish inquiries in the village. MT. Morehouse had not only moved. but he had left Westcote. Flannery returned to the express office and found that two hundred and six guinea-pigs had entered the world since he left it. He wrote telegram to the Audit Depart ment.
 Can't collect fifty cents for two dago pigs consignee has left town address what shall I do? Flannery.'>
 The telegram was handed to one 6f the clerks in the Audit Department, and as he read 1t he laughed.
 "Flannery must be crazy. He ought to know that the thing to do is to re- turn the consignment here" said the clerk He telegraphed Flannery to send the pigs to the main office of the com pany at Franklin.
 When Flannery received the telegram he set to work. The six boys he had engaged to help him also set to work They worked with the haste Of desper- ate men. making cages out of soap boxes. craker boxes and all kinds of boxes. and as fast as the cages were completed they filed them with guinea pigs and expressed them to Franklin. | Day after day the cages of guinea pigs flowed in a steady stream from Westcote to Franklin. and still F'lan- nery and his six helpers ripped and nailed and packed-relentlessly and feverishly. At the end of the week he had shipped two hundred and eighty cases of guinea-pigs. and there were in | the express office seven hundred and four more pigs than when they began packing them.