The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-14

1 done me good to talk about Bill like
that right afore his face without his
KNOWN a word Of what I was sayin
even if it was only to crazy Gu
bian.
'Wen, Bill cools down a lot when
he sees what a little man it'was as
had frightened him; an then he be-
gins TO grin, Watchin old Merryvingia
blinkin' across tn table at him with
his beady little eyes.
" You might ask if tn OF lady's dead.
says he, winkin at me, an if she lef'
me any money
" He tells me she's been underground
for some time now l says when I had
sounded o. Merry on IN subject but
that she give you tn great wastes of
Teheran afore she died
Kind of her, I'm sure, says Bill
sarcastic; but no great waists for mine.
not if 1 knows it,
Wei. you don't have TO take them
wastes says /, unless you want EN-
| What I'd like to know is how were go
| in TO get rid of him. If tn old man
/ finds him here when he gets back,
! ther'n be tn devil TO pay
" An no mistake adds Bill.
so when we all sets there" went
on Stoveheter. '.starin' at one another
me an Bill tryin' TO figger out what
TO do with Merryvingia, an that OF
party ruminatin' mos likely on his IL
tied relatives, an their distress an
tOndness for birds of paradise.
" I sees nOthin' for it, says l to Bill
after a lot of hard thinkin' but TO go
for cop, an have this old bird put in
tn cage where he belongs. We CANT
have him settin' 'roun' here much lon
ger, for when tn old man comes back
he'll pitch him an his feathered pets
clean overheard. an like as not me an
you after him.
" He sure would says Bill gloomily;
but for all that it seems a kind of
heartless thing to do. I hain't never
been up to tn asylum, but I don't guess
it's just tn sort OF place you'd want
TO go 10 for a real bangup time. I
minds as how I've read somewhere it
amt exactly a happy dOmicne for tn
afflicted
d" Rats says /; it's a good enough
place of its kind. Them newspaper
stories you reads about galoots being
starved and tortured and all that, is
rot. HowsOmever, l don't go S far as
to say, mind you, that OF Merry would
find it in all respects a happy home
don't reckon he would. though he'd run
UP against enough Docks, an Cars,
an Gran Alarmers generally 20 salts
fy him. If you have a better plan,
speak up, says 1, for time is passin''
What's IN matter with keepin' him
here?' says Bill We can hide him
down I'm tn hold where tn old man
won't see him until that Eyetalian
slOp bucket alongside is due TO sail,
an then smuggle him aboard of her
He'll be better off there anyhow than
upstate behind tn bars
Its a thunderin' resky thing to
do says / soberly. Wed lose our jobs
like lightenin' if tn old man got on
TO it,
He won't says Bill. not II we
takes proper care, an works tn thing
right; an there ought TO be somethin'
IN II for US. too. ASK OF Merry what
he'll pay TO be nicely slowed away for
while where his baffled pursuers
CANT ketch him l done so.
No tengo diaero, nj un centavo,'
says Merryvingia, meanin' he was dead
broke. 1 explains this to Bill.
What be them birds of his wuth?'
he inquiries. 1 know a man who could
buy 'em if they were genuine
Genuine birds Of paradiser I cries,
ashamed of Bills ignorance. Why, you
looney, Their amt no sech creatures.
They're extinct long ago. if Their ever
was any, which l don't believe.
L don't care what you calls EN-
says Bill They amt woodpeckers. or
English sparrers, be they? They're
Wuth sOmethin', enough, anyhow, to
pay for our trouble i'm hiding him for
day or two. / guess
You're right there. I says. Par
TOts like them is worth a dollar
apiece, mebbe two. He'll make an
awful row, though, at partin' with
EN-.
Sc Let him. says Bill unfeelinly. It's
either that or IN bug house for him.
whichever he pleases. Once we git him
aboard that Dago washtub, he can yell
all he likes; it amt nothin' 10 us what
he does. He'll be outer harms way at
any rate