Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1916-03-30

want Sou W Dut eSBS hof inc -
Sure. an Floridy water an talcum
powder. II you say the word Look
here. Smoke. II you want TO go In for
high Twin you go an buy your own
eggs"
Il am going to buy. but want you
TO help me TO buy. You 60 right
straight TO slavovitch's. Pay as nigh
az So. but buy all he's got
Three dollarsr' Shorty groaned
An heard tell only yesterday thai
he's got all Of 700 IL stocki Twenty
one hundred dollars for hen fruit Say.
Smoke. I'd sure do anything for you
II you had a cold in the head an was
iayin' with both arms broke I'd set by
your bedside day an night an wipe
your nose for you. but I'll be everlast
in'ly id II I'll squander twenty-one
hundred good iron dollars on hen fruit
for you or any other two legged man
They 70 not your dollars. but mine.
shorty. it's . deal have on. What
I'm after 10 to corner every blessed
egg In Dawson, IN the Klopdike. on rhc
Yukon You've got to heip me out
bsven't the time 10 tell you OF the IN
wsrdneSs OF the deal. will after
wand and let you 60 BAR on IT II yop
want TO. Bot the thing right now Is
TO get the egg Now. you hustle up TO
Slsvovitch's and buy ali bc's got. And
then keep on Nose out every css tn
Dawson and Ouy IT, UnAcrstandi
Buy it,
Never Was a marker corneTed more
quickly In three days every RDown
egg I'm Dawson With the exception OF
several dozen was IN IN. hands Of
Smoke and Shorty
The several dozen not YET gathered
III were in the hands OF two persons
One, with whom Shorty was dealing
was mn Indian woman who lived ~
cabin on the hill back OF The hoSpiial
III get her today Shorty announc
ed next morning II Il Oe back In
jiffy. If ! don't bust myself a.shovn
dust ~ her
In the afternoon when smoke re
turned 60 the cabin he found Shorty
What mex Siori, s>Ard rgtrrlr~>
~ after several minutes nad pl~~rl
Nothing dom. >urh. answered
How did yOu get on Wlin GO, ~qgaN
Shorty cooked hi~ n,eid trnmpuani
~ toward "a tin pas! or cs-~ "u The Ga
bic. seven dollars claitrt though
he confessed
Il offered $40 hually. smoke SAM
and then the fellow fold mr uc'd uI
ready sold niS eggs Now that Ioub =
had. Shorty somebody else Is m the
market Those twenty eight eggs are
liable to cause us trouble iou Scu
the success or tile corner consists IN
holding every last
He broke OF 10 stare at his partner
4 pronounced change was coming over
Shorty-one OF agitation masked by
Extreme deliberation. do you mind
eindly just repcatin over how many
eggs you said the man didn't sell to
vou?" be asked
'Twenty-eish
HUM Shorty communed TO nim
self ''rhey's JUST exactly. precisely
nor nothiD more or anything ,ess'n
twenty-eighr eggs In that there pan
settin on the table. an they cost. every
dinged last one OF en-. just exactly
seven great big round iron dollars a
throw. n you stand in cryin' need or
my further items of information I'm
willin' and free to impsrt"
Go on" Smoke requested
well. that gcezeT you was dcksrin'
with Is big buck indian Am
rlgbtY'
smoke nodded SUD continued TO nod
30 each question.
Hes got one cheek nslf gone. where
4 bald face grizzly swatted bin. Am
right? Hes q dog trsder-right. ehf
Ills name Is Scar Race jim That's %.
amt it? Dye get my driftY'
You mean we've been Didding"-
Against each other Sure thing.
That squaw's his wife. an they keep
louse ON the hill back or the hospital
could IA got them eggs for two a
brow II you hadn't butted In
And so could l." Smoke laughed. III
you'd Kept out But IL doesn't amount
- anything We know that we've got
The corner That's the big thing"
shorty spent the ueSt nour wrestling
with a stub or pencil on the margin
n "A three yeaf-oId newspaper
There she stands" he said at last
~i1mme give you the totals You an
IRE has right now In our possession eI
actly 973 eggs They costs Us exactly
g. 100 IL we stick up Wild Water for
SO an egg We stand TO win. clean Del
an all to the good. just exactly So.
40"
AT IL that night Smoke was routed
rom sound sleep by Shorty
n just seen Slavovitch lie says 70
me. Shorty. want TO speak 10 you
about them eggs I've Kept II qniet
Nobody knows / sold en- to you But
Il you're speculatn I can put YOU wise
GO good thing An ne did. too
smoke.
We'll. maybe lt sounds incredible
nu, that good thine was Wild Water
harley Hes oomn 10 buy eggs tie
goes around % ~inroviicu au ouers
aiw So an egg. 300 before 1e G'its ne
l1crin So Au siafofiicn $3.50 -at no
eggs Last thine Wild Wafer snys t1
snvowtch is That nen neal me ueaa
YGen him IL ne ever finds ut Siavo-
ilb kas eggs cached aHa5 some
leres savoviten mad % cen M ue d
Sold me cess. but that .ne buyer WIS
secret
"Slavnvilch ays 10 iet him say toe