The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-23

Bowser, rs the goat left some stove
pipe to hunt for fish bones. do you
remember when you bought . horse
for $250?"
what Of it?''
Nothing except that in about ten
days you sold him for 500 to get rid
Of him. You bought him for . sound
horse, but it turned out that he was
wind-broken. spawned. ring-boned.
near-sighted. vicious. and twenty
years old. and"
s'It didn't turn out anything Of the
sort! You got afraid to ride after
him, and what could do but cell
him? And what has q horse to do
with a goat? OF all the silly. sense
less things woman ever did this II
the capsheaf! I'll bet a hundred dol
lars to a cent you paid as much as
SIS for him.
And after horse came q cow"
quietly observed Mrs. Bowser. 1T
coaxed and argued, but you were
bound to have a COW. You paid $40
for a red COW. She was guaranteed a
new-milk COW. The seller guaranteed
that she would give ten quarts Of milk
a day. In one week.
I'm one week. Mrs. Bowser. you
drove me into parting with her! You
were obstinate and determined; you
used to go out and annoy and torment
| her until she was half crazy. I sold
her for $50 to save her life, poor
brute. Look at that goat chewing
an oystc- can! OF all the fool things
in creation a goat takes the cake.
can get a carload Of goats for -
apiece, but suppose you paid $40. for
| this one!''
! And after the COW came a pig, %
continued Mrs. Bowser with sigh of
regret. "You paid $12 for a So pig,
went to an expense OF IS for a pen,
and in four days you sold the pig for
$3.50 and smashed the pen into kim
be homelike to hive a pig. You fig-
ured out profit of $50 in three
months but
But what?'' shouted Mr.. Bowser at
the top of his voice. You were down
on that pig from the hour that got
him. You used to go out and pound him
1 with the hoe handle and throw boiling
water on him. I found marks on him
crowbar. 1 sold him out OF feeling Of
mercy. and you know it, Whatever put
1t into your head to pay so or rs for a
good for nothing; squint-eyed. sap-headed
Then came chickens, Mr. Bowser{$25
for chickens and 80 or $12 for a coop. to
food You wanted to hear your own
roosters crow in the morning. You want
ed fresh eggs from your own coop. You
were going to make enough profit on
| thing. In ten days you
Yes. in ten days had to sell what few
| hens remained alive for quarter apiece,
but why was it?' he almost yelled. who
| went out to that coop with a baseball bat
and pounded those poor fowls into the
| earth? Who sneaked out and mixed paris
green with their food? Who jabbed 'em
with the clothes pole until the neighbors
| threatened to have her arrested? I lost
money. but why? And what's that mis-
cradle critter of yours trying to do now,
| buckin ag'in the barn in that fashion!
OF all the silly, idiotic things I ever heard
Of in my life this buying q goat sweeps
the board. II I'd even paid e for him
you'd have Drained me with a spade.'
And then you bought a dog" continued
! Mrs. Bowser, with little pathos in he1
| tones. He was setter. He sat and
howled all night. Then came q patent
fire escape, which escaped $50 out Of your
pocket. Then you bought some microbt
| killer. and almost killed the cook and had
to pay her $50 damages. Then some one
told you to sleep in a hammock, and you
fell and broke your leg. Was it after that