The Republican journal., 1915-04-29
Perkins Corner News.

LAKE Olgglns DOG spot, cum Outen
sum bushes last week and sot his teeth
inter old man Harvey's leg. Sue More
was cumin' long Their road, and Sue sed
it wasn't morn ten minits fore ''Spot"
was ded. LATE took on turribly, an sed
tibet he wood hev Their old man fined for
publik nusence if he he'd happened to
hev he'd more'n one dog, but az he didn't
hev dogs enough he he'd to give ct up as
he couldn't make kase.
Thets ther way tibet things seams ter
run right through sum folkses lives, wen
a good things Gums erlong they amt got
nothin' ter corner it with-so what's Their
use?
Their was er Teller stoppin' down ter
Their tarvern tibet nobody scanned ter no
much erbout, 'cept tibet he sed as how
his rame was Kinks, an tibet he was
prospekter lookin' erround ter better
his self by settlin' down and buyin'
place fer his own. AFTER he he'd stuck
Ground fer vile, he lowed tibet Their
Wilder Spillins place was jest erbout
whot he was lookin' fer. When Their last
copy of ther Clarion cum out it sed tibet
Josh Cummins he'd sold Their COW tibet he
got first prize with over ter Union fair
last year to sum city Teller tibet wanted
ter get some prize stock tegather ter sell
milk ter them city Teller friends ov his
tibet didn't hev no cows of Their own.
The widder's place jined Josh's on Their
North. Their wasn't nobody Twin on
ther Widder's place, the winders was all
boarded up, an Their sign tibet sed "For
Sail' was almost faded out. Josh he'd
Their care Of Their place fer the widder's
nephew tibet lived over ter Spragg's
Mills.
Kinks went up ter see Josh erbout
Their widder's farm, an he liked Their
looks ov it fust rate, an he tole Josh tibet
he would send home fer Their muny to
make Their first paymunt On it, so he
moved frum Their tarvarn up ter Josh's
ter stay til Their muny cum. Wall arter
a few days ned went by Kinks got er
check an Josh cashed it fer him fer
hundred an forty dollars an he took Their
muny. Josh tole him where ter go an
he started ter 60 over ter see ther wild
der's nephew an ter call in an see Ez
Harlow, down ter Their village and buy
sum furnature tibet Ez he'd when he an his
wife Martha kept house before she run
with thor na61ar
next mornin' Josh waited til near noon
fer Kinks ter cum back, an he thot he
he'd got lost, so he hitched up old
"Pomp' an driv over ter see Ez, an he
foun out tibet Kinks hadn't never been
Their; so Josh, thot then, so he sed, tibet
Kinks he'd gone over ter Onionville
mebby ter get sum furniture of the fur
niture dealer, sum iron bedsteads, meb-
by, like Their summer folks hev. So
Josh on his way back went inter Their
store an spent erbout all of Their check
for things he needed, an paid Sam Bar
low hill tibet he owed him outen it.
Sam sent Their check over ter Their city
ter have it put onter his bank account
and pretty soon Their Teller ter Their bank
sent it back ter Sam, marked "Nothin
doin," or suplthin like tibet, an Sam sed
it ment tibet Their Teller he'd went an
drawed all Their muny .outen Their bank
afore Their check got Their, an Sam sed
tibet Josh wood hev ter make tibet paper
good So Josh went over ter Square
Holiness an borrered sum muny more'n
he he'd, fer it took erbout all he got fer
the COW ter cash Their check with, an he
paid Sam his muny.
Then Josh got his darnder up, an went
down ter Their village an got out war
rant fer Mister Kinks, an Josh, he give
it ter 81 Hubbard, Their town constable,
an pity tibet Teller when 81 gets him!
I don't no as he will darst ter cum
back arter he reads whot it says erbout
him in ther Clarion; if he he'd been any
thing ov man he woodn't hev gone an
drawed ell Their muny outen Their bank
afore Josh got Their with tibet check.
81 sed in the paper 'theJ he wood rest
tibet Teller on sight, an they amt So
green down in Perkins Corner as they
mite be, by gosh!
Jim Parsons hez mechanical turn ov
mind, an hez invented sum things tibet
wood have made him famous if he'd ad-
vertised them right. Jim cum home
frum visit ter his sister Clara's over
ter the Duckvrap, an vile he waz over
Their he saw woman tibet moved Their
frum Their city, guess Chicago, maxim
preserves, an arter Jim he'd got home an
done up his chores he went over ter see
Bill Kimball, an he'd big can made, an
Jim took it home and stewed up lot ov
stuff and filled it morn harf full and
screwed Their COVER on tite and sot it
outside ov Their barn, til he got charnce
ter finish up his preservins. Jim throwed
his checked boss blanket over it, an then
he forgot all about it.
A little vile afterwards, one mornin
erbout four o'clock, Dan Simmons went
Or1t thor harm tor food HI,