The Washington herald., 1907-01-20
LITTLE HENRY'S
MORAL STORIES

IN ms Onc lie Ieia hoM tucle Btl showed
the Furnace Man How to Do His Work
Last week pa hired old man Hankins
TO c5me to our house and fix the furnis
wich was all choked up with ashes and
sut becos when the fire went out last
spring nobuddy thot It was wurth while
to have it cleened out & fixed up.
! So old man Hankins come around along
about 10 o'clock in the morning and sed
times was gettin harder and harder and
the poor man dident stand no show in this
wurld any mOar but thank goodness
when he got to hevven he wuddent hav
any furnises to fix.
/ Unkel Bill he was here and he sed for
old man Hankins not to get too sure OF
that as he had herd that I'm one hearafter
man kept on wurkin at his traid and
/ the chances was that he wud hafto mend
furnlses sum place.
/ Then old man Hankins sed he wanted
Unkel Bill to understand that he was Jest
as religus as the mex man and he coud
nix the stuffin out Of annybuddy that sed
/ his hart wasent full Of brotherly luv for
/ an mankind.
take it all bak. UnkeI Bill sed. Yure
remarks pTuve the case. Wot are you
goin 20 DO % the furnis anyhow?
Old man Hankins sed he was a goin to
I take out the ashes and the sut and eileen
out the graft and the pipes.
/ So Unkel Bill sed he wud 90 down 10
the seller and see him wurk as he luved
to see honnest toll and it was the joy Of
/ his life to obsu-ve the horny handed bull
works Of the nashn bulworlSin.
! Then he winked at me 10 cum along &
see the fun. / knew Unkel Bill was goin
! 10 teese old man Hanklns so I went down
! seller with them.
/ Old man Hankins lugged out about haf
/ the ashes and then he found sum clinkers
/ had go stuk Ia the graft, and he dug at
them with a poker and FINELY tried to
/ knox them out with the shuvveL
/ You newer went TO skule mutch did you
Mister Hankns? Unkel Bill asst
1 went to skuIe snun to lurn that the
pore man hasent got no chance in this
wurId sez cid man Hankins. wiping the
ashes out of his wiskers, and I got enuf
/ sense when / went 20 skule 10 knO that q
furnis otto be cleened out in the spring.
seems 20 me, Unkel Bill sed, that If you
went about II the rite way you c0ud get
/ those clinllers out n a jiffey. l don't sup
pose they tot a course Of Clinker XJraction
I in the skuIe you attended.
! Thay dident. ola man Hankius sed, and
/ If you think you kno how 10 take clinkers
out Of "a CRATE you sho me and lie not
/ charge cent for this job.
So Unkel Bill he took off his coat and
4 vest and collar and be winked at ne and
told old man Hankins to set down and
/ talk it eesy, that be wud sho him q thing
or >
Then Unkel Biz he poked his he'd inside
the furnis door. and wriggled his arms
thrCo 90 the inside and begun grabbin at
the clinkers with his hands.
he wud pull them out Of the graft and
then shuv them out of the furnis along
. his shurt buz1m until FINELY he had got
them all out
/ Old man Hankius set thare saying he
/ be dadgumd If be ever thot Of doin q
that way and : begun 90 think Unkel Biz
was pritty brite until he tride 10 get out
OF the furuis.
but he cujdent get his arms out. he
/ twisted and he pulled and We cud hear
him bump his he'd ageust the furuis and
SEE his legs and feet wrap themselves
around each other and we thOt mebbe he
/ was chokin SO old man Haukins patted
+ him on the bak and told him 70 stop and
rest
+ inside Of the furnis UnkeI Bill coffed
and choked and sputJered and as neer as
we cud make out we sed lt was that he
Z wanted % get out before he rested.
/ by and bye 6 got SCARED and went UP
stairs and told nay ma about IL and she
cum down and the cook come down too
and she sed TO Unkel BIZ
/ Wilyum, do you want Us 70 get a dok-
/ ter?
/ UnkeI Bill coffed sum more and sed
sumthiug that made ma throw up her
hands 10 surprize.
/ wv, WiIyum, she sed. I never herd you
use such langwidge before.
/ You never saw me stuk in a furuis be-
/ fore, UukcI BIZ cOffed. Get me out Of
/ here.
/ So me and old man Hankins and ma and
the cook took hold OF Unkcl Bill and
pulled and tugged al him, bat the best We
Cud do was to tare bis shirt OF.
( cess they dident teech you all about
/ furuls cleanin wen you went TO skule, old
man Hankins lafed.
/ UukeI Bill hOlercd sumthng that
sounded Ike man talkin in a base drum.
mebbe thay forgot 10 teeCh you how 70
get out of furnises yourself, old man Han
+ kias sed.
/ Then ma and the cook sed they wud 60
upstairs and call mister Jones over frum
next door
but I herd them lafiin in the kitchen,
and all the tine Unkel Bill was q
thrashin his legs around sumthing offie.
/ but FINELY he got his he'd and arms out
OF the furnis door. and his shOlders was
/ all scratched and his face was d site TO
I see.
/ if YOU say a wUTd 10 me he sed to old
man Hankins, lie shuv YOU IN the furnis
and kindel a FIRE with your whlskers.
/ So old man Handns never sed wurd
/ till T-nkel Bill had gon upstairs and then
he laid down on the coal pile and LATED
till his breath Civ out
That mite Unkel Bill was layin on the
sofy with linHyment on him and a flax
seed poitus on his eye wich was aXdently
bunged up by hittln the furnis.
/ Henry he sed wen you grow up TO mans
estait thare is just one peece Of wisdom
/ / want you to remember.
/ No matter how mutch YOU know about
anuther mans bizness keep it 10 yourself.
WILBUR NESBIT
Translated Into Prose.
| From Harpus Weekly.
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