The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-19

here and now that I shall exact ter
rible revenge"
you know I won't do any such
thing, but let that go. You have the
goats. Now for the profits. Let me
see your figures
Mr.. Bowser had to walk the length
! of the room six times and back before
he could overcome his emotion
sufficiently to sit down again and
say:
Il buy three goats at SIS each.
That's $40 capital laid out. You can
understand that, I suppose?"
Perfectly"
"It costs nothing to keep a goat.
| There is grass in the back yard, and
the cook can throw out crumbs and
bones and whatever is left from the
| table. Each goat gives eight quarts
of milk per day, making twenty-four
quarts in all"
But, they don't, Mr.. Bowser-they
don't No goat ever gave that much
per day from each one you will be do
ing well. Why, it's only few cows
that give eight quarts
Eight quarts apiece from every
goat. Mrs. Bowser. You, must un-
derstand that these are not the COM
mon goats that go around eating
scrap-iron and garbage pals. One of
them is a Corsican, coming from the
same town Napoleon did, another is
a Swiss from William Tells own farm,
and the third is of German breed
and known as Tuggenbund. Eight
quarts a day and not a drop less
well, there's "a quarts a day."
"And goats milk sells at SIS cents a
quart. That gives us a little income
of $40 day. or almost $50 a week"
would sell at that price?" asked Mrs.
BoWser.
Never you mind. I have not gone
into this thing without making all
due inquiries. Goats butter is selling
today at so cents a pound. and the
demand cannot be half met. We
shall make at least $1,000 year
from these three goats. Some men
would be content to stop there, but 1
am not. l shall add six more goats.
That will give us an income of $15,-
600 a year and be something like.
Now, then, am I a dead failure as a
business man. or do I seem to know
a thing or two?"
ut may come all right" sighed
Mrs. Bowser.
"Why, woman, what in thunder
ails you. Do you want a greater in
come than that? If SO. all we have
to do is to increase the number of
goats. I thought you'd clap your
hands and swing your hat at my
figures
But who's to milk the goats?''
81 am, of course. 1 shall get up
half an hour earlier every morning."
And the butter "
well, if you think it won't be a
play-speH for you to make it then
we can hire a girl. We can let the
butter go for a while and you can
sell the milk alone and take in the
money. 1 should think it would be
fun for you to take in $40 a day."
Just then the cook came up stairs
and beckoned Mrs. Bowser into the
hall, and after they han conferred
together for couple of minutes
Mrs. Bowser returned to say:
well, Anna wants to co.
"Humph' What for?"
"On account of the goats. She says
she's afraid of them
"Bosh, Not one of those goats would
hurt a fly. Look at them from the
window here. Did you ever see three
more peaceful animals? Why, babies
could play with them
But you can't always keep them
tied up, you know. Anna says her
mother lost her life by goat"
Anna be hanged. I'll go out there
and prove to her that those goats are
as affectionate as three puppies. You
watch me from here"
Mr.. Bowser hied him to the kitchen,
and from thence to the backyard.
When the boy led the goats in and tied
them up they looked innocent-hearted
and seemed perfectly peaceful What
had come over them later on was hard
to say, but the moment Mr.. Bowser
stepped into the backyard they all
sprang to their feet and uttered
whistling noise. He left the door open
behind him and advanced to give the
Corsican a friendly pat, but he never
patted. With a wild rush and bleat
| the goat was loose and coming for him
head-down The others followed suit.
| Mr.. Bowser was turning his back on
| the dairy business and its tremendous
profits when the Corsican struck him
| like a brick house with second mort
gage on it and he went to the grass.
and entered the kitchen and dining
room After wild gallop around the
room they went gathering up the
basement stairs Mrs Bowser was
| equal to the emergency. She opened
| the front door. and, with the Corsican
still in the lead, they jumped over ey-
front steps and over the fence, and
the BoWser dairy was no more on
earth Ten minutes later Mr.. Bowser
came limping upstairs and picking the
grass off his clothes. He stood and
| looked at Mrs. Bowser for a long
minute, and when she queried:
'Wen?" he said:
IT will call up my lawyer on the
| telephone. and whatever alimony he
says is fair I will pay you!"-(Copy-
righted 1908 by T. G. McClure.)
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