Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04

try to spend that fer a quarter, they'll rest we!
Thuty forty, fifty, an half dollar is Six Sxtwenty,
thutty forty fifty cents-thats ninety and dimes
dollar Two dollars in nickes-you kin count EN- an
if they amt right bring EN- back. That makes eight.
Elght-twenty, twenty three tWenty-slx an two two
cent bits is thutty. An half dollar is eght-eghty,
an anuther twentys nine. An there's fourteen cents
in coppers, maxim efourteen-an' if it amt right
I'm pirut! There you bel Kin you git it all in them
pockets of yourn? My! but air they any limit to what
a boys pants'll hold? Now along to school, an
if yere late don't tell the teacher you was hangin'
round One Arm Jakes"
As review the circumstances from this distant day,
l am thrilled with anger and shame not at myself but
at One Arm Jake. He should have known better. He
must have known that boy of could not have any
business with tendollar gold piece that is legitimate
business He should have questioned me, and, finding
that had not come by it in regular manner should
have called the transaction off then and there and
quired the return of my purchases can account for
his failure to do so only in way.
One Arm Jake merchant of vast experience.
Perhaps he knew that the moment his goods went
the counter they ceased to remain in condition that
would allow them to be returned to advantage 1t
certainly true with the eatable portion of his sales.
yawbreakers were mouthed cookies were nbbled, be-
fore their buyers pennies had than left their
hands. know that to have been the with what
had bought My pockets filled with sticky things
that were gradually assuming the oonglomerate taml-
arty of mush ntermngled with slate pencils and buck
shot The juice of the pickle lines not assisting in
preserving the integrity of the various Objects ether
however. l insist that his conduct reprehensibe.
But let pass. One Arm Jake with his other
now-and am still here
7 EMANATED from the emporium of One Arm Jake
in dazed condition of mind, but soggy with my ILL
gotten possessions and round shouldered under the
weight of the ballast the change made. But
reused from my dream and brought back to real
ties by the frantic ringing of the schoolbel My heart
sank.
That is, it would have sunk; but it encountered
obstacle in the form of deep layer of material objects,
such as caramels, rubber bands and pill covered cook
les, all held in place by the elastic waisband of my
shirt. l took hold of myself and essayed running; but
| was far too we'll overburdened to make anything in
the shape of record. The best could do to roll
along, sogging anging at every STEP the pickle lines
in my trousers pockets exudng their juice, spreading
spots of which already showed through my thin linen
garments, and melting in with the coin of the realm;
tumphs of the confectioners art grinding themselves
into sticky pulp, with the newest designs of the mint;
my progress being for all the world, | imagine, like
that of ship whose cargo being loose is smashed from
keel to hatchway in the trough of boiling
l have often wondered how covered the short dis
school that day. and passed the critical eye of
Red Headed Anderson. Red Headed Anderson