Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-11-08
ND y toI heavens sake, do it quick
And after Danny went out Righy
connected himself with Tie speaking

| -~Ad zlcI4 heavens sake, do 1t %Qlllck!!
And after Danny went out Righy
connected himself with Tie speaking
tube again.
Make a sign, Brown" he said,
telling the men that our whistle is
| jigging-What a Ord!-and that for
the ensuing three weeks, until our
! own is thoroughly cooled, they will
listen for the whistles of adjacent
faclDries. Put it on the same post"
There's no room, Brown chuckled
Then take another post. There's
plenty of posts,' said Rigby, going
back to his newspaper.
Danny got another little idea, too.
His fireman had to cart out ashes
and bring the coal from the pile in a
big sheetiron wheelbarrow, and the
| way lay over the cobblestones under
the window of little Rigby's Office. :.
Just before Otis died, he bought
Danny fine new wheelbarrow for
the purpose, for the old one was loose
in the joints and pretty rickety gen
orally, and when man was pushing
her she sounded more than anything
else like a carload of tinware being
struck by lightning.
But two or three days after the
whistle stopped work, Danny-he's a
tender-hearted feller-Danny got a
sentimental feeling for the old wreck
| and dragged her out of the scrap heap
and set his fireman wheeling ashes.
back and forth, back and forth, back
and forth, till the din sent Rigby to
! the speaking-tu once more.
Brown" he cried, what on earth
ais that WheelbarroW?"
ripe old age," answered Brown.
well, does it have to make that
! noise?"
'The poor thing can't speak and
tell U.S." chuckled the old gentleman.
II presume it does.''
well, it's enough to drive man
mad" said Rigby. I'll have it stop
ped, except when I'm out of this Of
| fee. Listen! You make another sign,
reading like this: 'Workmen are pos
itively prohibited from carting coal
and ashes without obtaining permits
sion from the superintendent Nail it
up
Another sign!" muttered Brown.
Eyes, another sign!" shouted Rig
by, who heard him. "I'll make these
men understand that they're to do as
like and not as they like! And III
get this Internal place whacked into
shape if I have to plaster the walls
inside and out with signs, from the
ground to the roof"
| Rigby didn't come back that noon.
time, but he sent a boy to Brown
with a note, saying that he had a
severe headache, and would the fac.
tory kindly try to run without him till
the following morning.
| He took his time getting there the
| following morning, too, and by the
time he finally did arrive the boss had
come in in fury.
What under the sun is the matter?
Why is the factory shut DOWN." he
demanded of Brown.
''Too many signs," snickered Brown
"The last of them being the most re.
sponsible." !
What do you mean?"
"Well, to put it another way, want
of coal is keeping US from running
Goal! Great Scott" shouted the
boss. You had 60 tons last week
What's Rigby doing with it? Eating
it,"
II haven't seen him at it, said
Brown, speaking slowly and distinct
ly and enjoying every word. But
he forbade any man to touch
the pile without his permission, and
he hasn't been here since yesterday
noon. The boilers were cold at 81,
.'clock."
| Brown, Brown, Brown!" groanet
the old man. Had you no more sense
than to follow fool orders like that?'
"Why, bless mel" said Brown
looking at him squarely with his in
nocent old eyes, isn't it one of the
new notions? One of the latest wrin
kles in acid manufacture? I'm doing
my best to cooperate"
The boss looked back at him for {
full minute, and he had to smile a
last, bu, it was smile as hard a:
flint.
And what wretched idiocy is this 2
he said, pointing to the new sign, ant
then to the others, with his cane
What are they doing here?"
"Mr. Rigby's ORDERS
"Well!-" said the boss. And Their,
he had to stop, for the situation wa
too much for even his extended va
cabulary.
When ne got breath he said:
"There's another sign in your hand
Brown. What is it?''
"Well-oh, that?" stammered Brow
going red.
Lets see it," said the boss. What
ever it is, heaven knows it can be n,
worse than the others" 49,.
And with that he took it and rea,
this: -. .,-. -.
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