The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-02

getting up 10 lend me and kusset a
'and with Us nevy.
- Ny idea is this, ses Ginger;
take is close off i'm and dress i'm
IN in that there winder blind. or some
thing o. the kind; tie i'm MP with
bit o. line, and take i'm round to Ted
Reddish in the 'Ighway and sell i'm
for 'undred quid as wild man of
Borneo
d 'Wot?' screams Beauty, IN an aw-
F.! ful voice Let 90, Peter; let go, d 'ye
heart -,
"''Old your noise. Beauty, while
your elders is speaking. ses is uncle,
and | could see e was struck with the
| idea.
50 you Jest try dressing me up in
| winder- blind, ses his uevy. half-crying
with rage.
&. Listen TO reason. Beauty, ses G in
ger; YOU III ave your share Of the tin;
| il III only be for a day or two, and then
when we We cleared out you can make
! your escape. and there II be twenty
! FIVE pounds for each of us
:" COW do you make that out, Gin
! aor?' ses Sam. in a cold voice.
q 'Fours into a 'undrcd, ses GIN.
q 'Ho,' ses Sam. '1Io, indeed. 1
WASH t aweer that e was your nevy,
! Ginger
90 Share and share alike, ses Russet,
'It's very good plan o yours, Gin
| ger.
"'Ginger holds lis 'oad up and looks
at i'm 'ard.
81 i thought o the PLAN e ses,
Sam IS Us uncle, and 'e's the wild
man. Threes into 'undred GO
* You needn t bother your fat 'ead
adding mp sums, Ginger ses Russet,
very polite. Il m going to ave my
share; else I I'll split to Ted Reddish,
"None of 'em said word about me;
two of EN- was sitting on my bed;
Ginger was using 'ankerchief o mine
wot e found in the fireplace. and Peter
Russet 'ad 'ad a drink out o the jug
on my washstand, and yet they never
even mentioned me. That's iremen all
over, and that's ow it is they get
themselves so disiked.
''It took 'em best part of an our
to talk round young Beauty, am the
Iangwidge they see ft to use made me
thankful to think that the parrots
didn' t live TO larn 1T.
'You never saw anything like Beau
ty when they 'ad finished with i'm. If
e was bad in is cloes, e was a per-
feck horror without 'em, Ginger Dick
faxed i'm up beautiful, but there was
no pleasing i'm. Fusj he found fault
/
didn't it; then e grumbled about go
ing barefoot, then e wanted some
think TO ,'ide Us legs, which was nat
ural considering the shape of 'em. Gin.
ger Dick nearly lost is temper with
I'm, and 1t was all off forever He
was finished at last, and arter Peter
Russet 'ad slipped downstairs and
found a bit o broken clothes prop in
the yard. and ed been shown 'ow to
| La, r,l all
said as 'ow if Ted Reddish got i'm for
'undered pounds ed get i'm bar
gain
Z" EWe must ave cab ses old Sam.
'Cah2' ses Ginger. What for?'
We should ave half Mapping fol
lowing us, ses Sam. Go out and put
your ring up, Ginger, and fetch a cab
''Ginger started grumbling, bat he
went, and presently came back with the
downstairs leading the wild man by a
, bit % line. They only met one party
: coming up, and e seemed to remember
, somethink ed forgotten wot ought tc
be fetched at once
; "Ginger went out fust and opened
: the cab.door, and then stood there wait
, ing becos al the last moment the wild
! man said the winder-blnd was slipping
] down. They got i'm out at last but
| before e could get in the cab was 60
Y ing up the road at ten miles an hour
with Ginger angling on to the door
. calling to it TO stop.
cit came back at about a mile an
= a 'alf an hour, an the remarks of tn.
cabman was ggstrordinarY. Even wher
!. he got back e wouldu Il start till 'e {
] got double fare paid in advance; hu
they got in at last and drove off
/, HThere was fine scene at Ted Red
p dish s door. Ginger said that if ther
{ was bit of a struggle il would be
t good advertisement for Ted Reddish
e and they might pr APPS get more thar
y a uudered. and all the three of ZEN
i could do, they couldn't get the wilt
r man out o The cab. and the cabmal
was hopping about 'arf crazy Ever,
l. now and then they d get the wild ma
J. 'arf out, and then he d get in agin AM
snarl 'E didn t seem to know whe
e to leave of. and Ginger and the other
got almost as sick Of il as the cabmar
IS 1t must ha taken two years wear on
J. o that cab, but they got i'm out a
t. last, and Reddish s door being open I
1t see what. the row was about, they wen
lr straight in.
Ie " FWot 8 all this7' ses Reddish. VIII
was tall, thin man, with dark mou:
D. tache.
o. IT'S wild man o. Borneo,' Sc
le Ginger. painting; we caught i'm in
forest in Brazil, an we We come 'er
x TO give YOU the fust offer
rs Tied Reddish WAS so surprised
couldn Z speak at fust. The wild ma
as seemed to take is breath away. and
I looked in 'elpless kind o way at i
= wife, who d Just come down. She wa
y, a nice-lookin' woman, fat, with lc
n, o yaller hair, and she smiled at EN- a
q though she d known 'em all their live
e ' Come into the parIour,' she SO
it kindly, just as Ted was beginning {
W get is breath
n "They followed 'em in, and the vii
I man was just going to make hissel
r. comfortable in a easy-chair, when Gil
e, ger give i'm a look. am e curled IL
q on the earthrug instead.
to t'E ain Z q YerY fine snecinann