The Newark journal., 1908-07-10
Forgot. but not gone

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 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 a re- hinder 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 sudden thought the old man leaEed up
 And where was Sam? Say! When you woke up?"
 I 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, Seffyi I'm proud of you"
 Seffy started and looked a little less inert. His father laughed hugely
 T knowed you'd do it! Aha-ha-ha! Nobody ken beat a Baumgartner counting a gal! Whats sleeping-if you stayed! Huh! You stayed tell daylight Sef-Tm laughing, Why, l used to sleep when l set up wiss you nanny efery time another feller was there. 1 done it a-purposei And she'd wake me up when the other feller was gone and it came time for me to go Why-say-I stayed and slept all night-tell broad daylight and go home wiss the cows in the morning-many a tfmei Yassiri Chust like you. Self Sef, you're all right Goshens, but you had 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 g had you dead, Seffx, dead and buried in the family lot But you got him, Seffy, o1' boy-and Sally, too, be goshens! Shall we get at the fence to-dttS 91lL. uit ltOt lt5 IJO4ltl- kA4iNt his father knew better than most of Us where suggestion should stop.
 All right We bose busy today 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 EIe bg #3.5 it. But dull happy Sefy saw no flaws i'll it. He agreed with his father that he had out-sat Sam. And. if il 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 logie to his little mind
 The old man rattled on. Seffy must not think much
 And snoring! Hahl Messing nossing at all, I could eife you les sons in snoring. And you nanny use to say that she liked it. It wasn't so lonely and she knowed I was on deck and alife. Snoring, Aha-ha-ha. Whats that-if you are sure of the gall,
 Seffy ahemmed several times and looked less like a condemned male factcr-though still far from suborned
 '''.'hat dam olasses-tapper-he's got 70 be licked-and if got to do it myself-though 1 ain't much of a lick CT. The whole county'll know about that-to-to-" he turned away to tombstone. 1 bet he's got it hanging up in the store nowi We got to let 'em know that you set him out. Sef! Yas-stayed tell daylight Woke up aud stayedt Sleeping was chust to ketch him! You was awake all the timei Lie little. hah?"
 His father was proud of this last. AS they drew apart he called back.
 If she don't like snoring, sef, wear a clnthes-pin when you set up Wiss | her-one of them wiss a spring-not2 Aha---ha-har" And then: You all l right. Sef-yassirt you all right-you the conquering hero comes, Go right | -mehby to-night-you entitled to ! do it."
 "Begoshens I will" said Seffy in | his fathers own slogan
 Se9y 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 .hiry.
 "@fw,' advised his father, you .tnow well enough what kind of tenn per goes wss her hair-I use to haf hair aDnnoh right when it's on your side But hell when it's ag'in you. Them red-heads always regrets-I do and she does,