The sun., 1910-05-22
'VANNTE PR?YRSOCKET, PIRATE
SHEEP PELTER RELATES AN
ANECDOTE OF MS FATHER

And Reseues PaFsAeT BIll Leonard Prem
TIE Clutches - . PeHieF of Patent
Righta-A Ptnai Comparison mat
LED 10 Resort 20 IRE swinging DoWFs.
GOSHEN. n. Y. May ip.-Ths patsnt
rights man had cut Od the retreat Oi
Farmer Bill Leonard and backed him
In a corner where he was insisting that
unless Farmer Bill produced In spot oaah
the price Of the right 10 sell the No Plus
Ultra eight day clOokWork COW milker
and magic feed mixer he had better keep
his refusal 70 do ~ q secret from hia
folks when he went home or they would
run him ont Of the country for missing
tho opportunity The man who goes
about tho country buying up sheep pelts
listened until there came a pause. Then
he said:
Anybody who remembers my father,
Vandalia PetersOck8t. and the most
worthy and blameless life he led. / am
SURE would be amazed 10 know that he
started out once 10 bo a pirate Ahl'
said the sheep pelt buyer 10 the patsnt
rights pedler. that startles you. ] eel
Yes. uirl You would hardly believe that
now. would your II was before hs got
10 be my father though
Would he have been your father II
he had gone pirAtinGl' said the patent
rights man. retaining his hold on Farmer
Bill ieOnard's coat.
mo- replied tho sheep pelt buyer
rsflectively. Il think not No
Then said the patent rights man
sneeringly. -he might better have gone
piratingl-
Tbs sheep pelter looked at the patent
rights pedler a. II he was sorry for him,
hut got Farmer Bills attention and went
on:
1T was entirely out Of the good
nsss Of his heart. . said he. and from the
promptings Of filiaI piety that my worthy
father once turned his inclination toward
becoming a pirate Nov that seems
strange too. doesn't itl You would
hardly think that such sacred emotions
a. those would lead fellow 10 start out
with the determination " be fierce and
rampageOus pirate blood wading skim.
mer Of the rolling deep 30 20 speak,
Well. that's what moved him 10 IL. Moth
ing else. | assure you
Farmer Bill Leonard wiGgled out Of the
clutch Of the patent rights pedler and sat
down. The patent rights man sat down
in front of him and prepared TO return
10 his attack. hut the shsep pelt buyer
resumed the parental biography.
sAs near a. vahdalia PetsFsookss used
10 be- able 70 recall L.. said he. -hs was
Just turning 10 years of age when he got
the idea Of starting out as bold buc-
oanceN There vas q mortgage on his
fathers little farm. up along the old
Passadanky. and Vandalia was helping
IN Hft IL by trapping foxes and offers and
minka and the like Of that, for their pelts
we're worth much money In those days
almost a. much. by juniper. ~ you farm
ers stiok b 10 that sheep pelts are worth
nOwadAysl' said the sheep pelter. pausing.
whereupon the patent rights man took the
advantage ard began al Farmer Bill
himsel and sAid:
sAs was saying. this Ne Plus u
Then the sheep peltsF came 70 the rescue
aRain:
Their pelts we're worth much money. .
taid he. -and u Waa along about that time
that Old GrizxleiOp appeared In the Paasa-
dRnky country, with whiakerH enough 70
stuff pillow. a voice that seemed 20 have
Its start way down in his boots. a mouth
full ~ teeth a. yellow a. saffron and only
one eve That eye. though. looked just
as u Z could shoot fire, and he told my
father that II vas no trick az all for him
N melt candles just by turning that eye
of his on to 'em sharp. but he eAid it made
his head ache tremendous 90 do II, 30 he
never showed my father the trick
Nobody ever knew where old Grizzle-
top came from. nor what hs real name was
We didn't Aeem 20 have any particular
business around there. except To sit in
the tavern and say Yes promptly every
time anybody asked him II he would have
something.
-little Naudalia Petersocket was in
the habit of passing along by the tavern
every morning on his way TO take 40 and
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With little Nandalia. ard the first thing
the sympathetic yOungstsr knew, he had
told him all about himself ana ms folks.
-One day little NandAlia was on his
way home with the pelts he had trapped.
and he was passing through thick piece
II woods when he heard something that