The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-07-28
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7 don't GET half enough breakfast
when dcre I'M a great kicking ~ der
sho0 door. und when ! open ii a wom-
an stands here. She lives only a
block avbay for five years. but she
never ~patroniZeS me. She has some
shoes in her hand, und she vhas bare
( beaded und she looks fierce und says:
50 YOU think You vhas der Tam
many q dis nciGhborhood. do you?
VA believe you can shut oop your
shop shuSt when you please, chg
"But my mudder-in-law vhas dead,
doa't you see:"
Il don't care a pin for dot. Does
somcpoddy's mudder-in-law stop all
pcc>ne>S when she dies? Is it some
t.uSs 10 me if she lives or dies:"
II you so by der dago he Will give
you a Teddy bear"
Der dago und his Teddy bears be
hanged. ! 20 by any shop | vhant to.
ShuSt now ! come by your shop, und
you shall fix oop desc shoes or have
some rows nit me-"
Dere vhas some tears in my eyes for
my mudder-in-law, but I take in der
shoes. In ten minutes more a tall und
solemn man nit some shoes in a paper
ome IN ind says:
Il goes by here a few minutes ago
uud sees your sign. So you have lost
her."
Yes"
"Vhas she very old?"
about eighty"
"Uud she vhas good?'
"She yhas some angels"
"Yheil, let US hope she vhas gone to
dot better land. You say you shall
shut COP shop for three days?"
Yes"
ITO crieve for herr"
Yes
"Yhell. you vhas some shackass If
you do. But you won't do sooch q
thing. Der pooblic has shoes to be
mended, ind it vhas your duty TO
mend 'em. Do you believe l wear a
shoe nit a hole in it because your
mudder-in-law vhas dead? No, sir.
II you shut oop dis shop l go by der
police about it,"
Why don't you 60 by the dago
shop l says.
"None of your peesness. l go where
! like. Make a good job Of desc shoes
or you vhas some dead Dootchmans."
Cnd den the plumber comes in. He
vhas a sharp man, and l don't believe
1t Of him, but he has some shoes to
be fixed, und he says:
Look a-here, Hans; you can't shut
this shop oop for three days"
But if my mudder-in-law dies"
Public Wants Shoes Repaired.
'Then let her die. The idea of your
incoming around for three days for an
old mudder-in-law is all foolishness.
The public vhant some shoes mended, |
uaa ycu have got tn he here to do it.
Suppose my mudder-in-law dies. Do
l shut oop my shop and cry around
for three days? Not any. l go by
der funeral, and den l vhas ready for
peesness again. If some water pipes
burst ind 1 vhas three days AWAY
What would peoples say of it,"
"Dot dago cobbler vhas q good
man."
Hang der dagow
"Cnd he gives a Teddy bear NIT
every cement patch he puts on"
Hang his Teddy bears. Look at
me IN my eye. You bury dot old
woman in two hours und be back
here at work. If you don't do it dere
shall be sooch a row around here dot
your shop falls down."
1t vhas der same NIT fifteen peoples.
When l don't vhant some work dey
rush 1t in on me; if / vhant some
work dey go by der dago's. take in
weeks repairing in one day, und
when der leetle Sherman tailor comes
around again he hears about it und
"Vhell, Hans, maybe you vhas not
sooch a big shackass ash ! believe you
vhas, but l dunno-I dunno"