The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1908-02-19
.eYou sHALL HAF BEER." !" I SAYS.

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Awhile. Sometimes think one thing
und sometimes anodder. Shust now /
yhas thinking dot you vhas an old
Dootchman dot won't have anything
in der house. to eat in week longer
if you don't wake cop und bring some
peesness here Begin on dot heel while
i talk to you. &c vhas 20 cents, but l
gif you two hoonered dollars worth
OF advice instead of der money:
I looked at him for awhile und den
took his shoe, und purity soon he says:
"Cobbler, don't you make study OF
der people"
/. .1f / cobbla shoes dot yhas all ] can
do. /. says. S..
.sDots where your head vhas screw
ed on der wrong way. If you don't
study der peoples you don't make q
sooccess in peesness. Der first thing
You have to learn Is dot der peoples
ALWAYS vhant What dey can't, get.
Dots What makes me a tramp I like
TO be president Of savings bank. I
can't get der Job, rnd So goes tramp
Ing. Anybody can come in dis shop.
'0f course"
sUnd SO only a few come in. Sup
pose it vhas locked oop und had sign
on der door dot nopody could come in?"
.Den Iyhas q bankrupt"
ADen you vhas getting ready to
make lot Of money. Now, you listen
to me. 4 yhas nobody, und yet ! study
human nature. II don't yhas starv-
ed to death, in week! II I vhant to
sleep in a farmers barn, do you belief
ask him? No. sir. | ask him If I
can sleep under q tree In his yard. Dot
mases him say sshall sleep in der
barn. If want good meal l don't
ask his wife for.it say would like
a drink of sour buttermilk. She likes
to have it her vhay, und so she makes
me sit down to der table und eat a
good square meal"
"yhell, mebbe dot vhas so" says.
"So? OF course it vhas so. II you
like people to do one thing tell 'em to
do anodder. In dis world we all like
to have our yhay. If you keep dis
shop open some one comes in when he
likes to. If you shut him oop q hun
dred peoples come here und pound on
der door to get in" u
Vhell, dot tramp talks to me for two
hours. Before he comes / don't belief
dot q tramp knows anything. After
he goes AWAY belief dot tramp
knows all about it. I talk things over
NIT my wife, und she says 90 ahead,
und so der peoples who pass my place
next morning find my shop shut oop
und q big sign In der window which
reads:
s..Notice to Some PublIcs.-Der Ger
man ccbbler has gene out Of peesness.
No moro cobbHng done here. You
yhill find a dago shop one block down" ."
ssShustsash soon ash eats my break.
fast I put on my soonday clothes ,ind
take some walks. ! stop in efery
store und house and saloon und say:
81 vhas here to say dot vhas gone
out Of peesness. Please don't bring
any more shoes to my shop"
IL Stopped BY People.
;. More ash feefty people like me to
stop und tell why, but ! pass along
I 70 for half a mile around my shop,
una speak to children On der street
und I keep AWAY from der shop all
day. Ny wife says somepody vhas
knocking at der door all der time In
der afternoon, but she don't mind #
Nheu, like to tell you dot der first
thing in der morning man comes In
NIT three pairs Of shoes und calls out:
"Here, now, but What vhes all dis
abouty'
II shust go out Of peesness," / says.
'vhat for?"
''Oh, / vhas ghetting old"
'Nonsense! You vhas going to stay
Tight here for five years yet. Here
Shas some shoes to fix oop. You cam