Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-12-13
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A BURGLARS CHRISTMAS
~ VENTURE. ~

Christmas time, said the burglar
I've tried it several times and some
thing turned up to beat me ever.
time. Our craft thinks that at IN
/ Christmas season there's lot Of pres
ents laying around loose to git hold OF
And so there IS. But, great Scott. mo.
Of It's rubbish. Tain't nothln to com
pare with weddln's. Weddin's IS I'll.
apple Of my eve. There's where 20,
can pick mp solid silver. and to me ST
ver's as good as coined dollars. BIZ
Christmas amt got no use for.
Last Christmas | had my eye on ;
house where there was boxes aud bun
dies enough goin' I'm to fill the hold o
ship. / saw a small boy playing on
on the sidewalk before the house. ali
I thought o kidnapin' him. though &
vast no more than a thought, for In
not In that line o. business. Their,
amt nothing into it. Steal a man.
silver and he don't make no fuss, bu
steal his child. and not only he and hi
wife. but the rest Of te world. git on O
mighty big hustle that's sure to beat
you out o your profit The kid I'm
speakin' Of had a good lookin' nurse
he called Martha, and she called him
Jimmie.
"She couldn't do nothin' with him
He wasn't afraid o. her nor anybod-
else. lie WAS the cutest little Teller
you ever saw; regular boy; there
wasn't enough girl in him to hang a
pair o. earrings on TO. lie came ont
on the stoop one afternoon when
was surveyin' the house with a doll.
l reckon somebody had just given It
TO him. for ! hadn't seen him with It
before. | was surprised. cause / didn't
think he'd have no use for a doll. II
had a beautiful chiny head and lots o
tow hair What did the little shaver
do but take the thing by the heels and
bring the head down on the stone stepl
That chinny head few all over the
sidewalk. The nurse nearly had 1t,
but Jimmie. he forgot his doll in O
jif'y.
well, / asked the nurse a lot o.
questions. lettin' on / was a-huntin' for
some I'm as lived in the neighborhOOd
and / thought might live in the house
she came out Of. Before got through
with her | had my bearin's all right
People thinks servants is pals with us
crib crackers, but they hain't-least-
ways. not always. It's their stupidity
as does the business. The nurse GIN
me the hull makeup O. the house with
out KNOWN what she was dom.
christmas night people ginerally
leaves things loose, putin 'em in their
proper places the next day. chose
that time and instead O. breakIn' In
durin the night, KNOWN from the
nurse Of the staircases and the habits
o. the family, 1 stole in about 8 o'clock.
when they was at dinner The 49,,
nau let Ourlp4S-allg~siepI IN q
Jimmie's room and he slept In bis
crib There want nobody upstairs.
and l had the free run o the house up
there. Servants sleep sounder ths
people as don't have nothin' to do. and
l concluded that II could git into the
nurses room I'd stand the best chance
While ] was a-rootln' round | saw q
crib through an open door. went
in, found a bed there and got under
It. 1t was one o. the low kind. and
had a hard job to squeeze in.
when the kid come up to go to bed
I almost give myself away larfn' at
him. He lugged a lot o. things into
the room. most Of 'em FIVE cent toys.
sayin' he wasn't goln' to leave 'em
downstairs for burglars. and some Of
'em he took to bed with him. When
he got on his nlghtie his nurse asked
him to say his prayers. He told her
he'd said 'em to his mother. The nurse
said he hadn't done no such thing
Yes, | have said Jimmie. II you
don't believe me. ask Cod
u stuffed my fist in my mouth to
keep from shoutin. and it wasn't long
before Jimmie and the nurse were both
asleep. ! waited TIL l heard a clock
strike /, then ! crawled out. The door
had been left open. and there was n
light I'm the hall had to go past
Jlmmle's crib to git out o. the room
His pet kitten was sleepin' on a plller
beside the crib, aud what did do but
step on the pesky little thing. This
woke Jimmie, and be could see me ~ |
the dim light standin' beside his crib.
What dye suppose the little mon
iey did, He sat up. pulled n tin horn
from under his piller and began 10 |
blow as hard as his little lungs was /
lble. He stopped a minute To boiler
Burglar! Don't let him take my cards
what ] worked at the kintergartenr
Then he started In again TO blow.
Il didn't wait to hear any more. but
rtarted down the stairs four steps nj
. time Before / reached the bottom
he electrIcs was switched on. but the
Nurse had posted me on the ways q
'itin' out and in a jidy ! was I'm the
treet could see the house In blaze
light A wlnder was raised and 1
voice yelled, Burglars. 30.
Ice" and above the clatter / could hear II
immie's horn a-bl0win' and n-blowin' II
5 II he was Gabriel tryin' to raise the
cad.
Il lodged a cop comm. lit into NJ
LEY. vaulted over a fence and hid un II
er coal shed The cop ratified hl
Tub on the curb. and In no time there
7as a dozen Of 'em around the house
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