Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-25
CHAPTER VI.-continued.

fathers laughter now. After it had
subsidized he asked:
What did you do wiss the tomb
stone?"
Left it there"
That's bad, Seffy. He'll put it up
at the store an you ken nefer go there
no more"
Seffy's look of horror was re-
minder to his father that it would
have been better not to say that. But
Old Baumgartner had tremendous
aplomb.
Meier mind-nefer mind. Mebby
he won't sink of that'-though he
knew the store clerk would be certain
to think of it.
Upon a sudden thought the old man
leaped up.
And where was Sam? Say! When
you woke up?"
81 don't know"
"But-he wasn't there-at Sally's?''
NO" said Seffy hopelessly.
His father clutched his shoulder and
set him on his feet.
'Well-you dam little idjiot-aha-
ha-ha-don't you see that you did set
him out-say! Why, you're winner,
Seffy! I'm proud of you!"
Seffy started and looked a little less
inert. His father laughed hugely. 4.
Il knowed you'd do it! Aha-ha-ha!
Nobody ken beat a Baumgartner
counting a gal! What's sleeping-if
you stayed! Huh! You stayed tell
daylight! Sef-I'm laughing Why, ]
used to sleep when l set up wiss you
nanny efery time another Teller was
there. l done it a-purpose! And she'd
wake me up when the other Teller was
gone and it came time for me to 60
Why-say-I stayed and slept all
night-tell broad daylight and go home
wiss the cows in the morning-many
time! Yassir! Chust like you, Self!
Sef, you're all right. Goshens, but
you had a narrow excape, though |!
Chust suppose you'd "a woke up and
forgot what you was up to-you do that
sometimes, Sef, when you're dreamy
and gone home before you remember
ed that you was out-setting him /!
He'd "a had you dead, Seffy, dead and
buried in the family lot But you got
him, Seffy, OF boy-and Sally, too, be.
goshens! Shall we get at the fence
to-day?" Seffy did not respond. And
his father knew better than most of
US where suggestion should stop.
"All right. We bose busy to-day
Mebby we better let it be tell to-mor.
row."
OF course Old Baumgartner was well
aware that his logic would not bear
the least scrutiny. And he regarded
Seffy anxiously as he raced through
it. But dull happy Seffy saw no flaws
in it. He agreed with his father that
he had out-sat Sam. And, if it had not
been too plainly accidental, he would
have adopted the fancy that he had
had heroic purpose in it-so con.
vincing was his fathers logic to his
little mind.
The old man ratified on. Seffy must
not think much.
And snoring! Hah! Messing
Messing at all / could gife you les
sons in snoring. And you nanny
use to say that she liked it. 1t wasn't
so lonely and she knowed l was on
deck and alife. Snoring! Aha-ha-ha!
What's that-if you are sure of the
gall"
Seffy ahemmed several times and
looked less like a condemned male
factor-though still far from suborned
THAT dam asses-tapper-he' s
got to be licked-and if / got to do ii
myself-though / amt much of lick.
er. The whole county'll know about
that-to-to-" he turned away to
smile-"tombstone. l bet he's got 1t
hanging up in the store nov! We got
to let EN- know that you set him out
SET! Yas-stayed tell daylight! Woke
up and stayed! Sleeping was chust to
ketch him! You was awake all the
time! Lie little, hah?"
His father was proud of this last
AS they drew apart he called back:
N'If she don't like snoring, Sef, wear
clothes-pin when you set up wiss
her-one of them wiss spring-not?
Aha-ha-ha!" And then: You all
right, Sef-yassir! you all right-you
the conquering hero comes! Go right
back-mebby to-night-you entitled to
do IT,"
"Begoshens, / will" said Seffy in
his fathers own slogan.
Seffy would have pressed his suit
even without this, think because OF
those moments in the dark parlor.
One does not soon forget that sort OF
thing
Now" advised his father, you