The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1916-03-23

! ry 'em atterward. Some day. goes on
this gentle despoiler of pigpens. Il hope
to become reckernized as the champion
shoat stealer Of the world
| ITS proper to be ambitious saws
L. 'and hog stealing will do very well
for Mount Nebo, but I'M the outside
world, Mr.. Tatum. 1t would be consid-
cred as crude a piece of business as a
bear raid on Bay State Gas. However.
it will do as Il guarantee OF good faith.
Wen go into partnership. I've got
| $1,000 cash capital, and with that
homeward plods atmosphere OF yours
, we ought To be able to win out few
/ shares of Soon Parted preferred I'm the
! money market
so | attaches Rufc, and we go away
| from Mount Nebo down into the low
lands. And all the way | coach him
! for his part in the CRAFTS l had In mind.
l had idled away two months on the
Florida coast and was feeling all to
the Ponce de Leon. besides having so
many new schemes up my sleeve that
| had to wear kimonos to hold 'em.
II intended to assume n funnel shape
and NOW n path nine miles wide
through the farming belt of the mid.
die west. so we headed In that direc-
ton. But when we got as far as Lex
ington we found Binkley Bros circus
there and the blue grass Deasnntry
romping into town and pounding the
Belgian blocks with their hand begged
sabots as artless and arbitrary as an
extra session of Datto Bryan duma
never pass n circus without pulling
the valve cord and coming down for a
little Key West money. so l engaged
couple OF rooms and board for Rufe
and me ut house near the circus
grounds run by widow lady named
Peevy. Then l took Rufe to cloth
ing store and gents outfitted him. He
show cd up strong, as knew he would,
after he was rigged up in the ready
made rutabaga regalia. Me and old
MiSiitZky stuffed him into bright blue
suit with Nile green visible plaid eff
feet ana rivctcd on n fancy vest Of n
light TuSkcgee normal tan color, a rcd
necktie and the ycllowcst pair Of shoes
in town. They were the first clothes
Rufe had ever worn except the ging-
ham layette and the butternut top
dressing of his native kraal, and he
looked as self conscious as an Igorrote
with new nose ring.
That night | went down to the cir.
Gus tents and opened q small shell
game. Rufe was to be the capper.
gave him Il roll of phony currency to
bet with and kept bunch of it in Il
special pocket to pay his winnings out
of. No, l didn't mistrust him. but |
simply can't manipulate the ball to
lose when | see real money bet. MY
fingers 80 OIL strike every time I
try IL.
Il set up my little table and began to
show them how easy it was to guess
which shell the little pea was under.
The unlcttercd kinds gathered in n
thick Scmicircle and began to nudge
elbows and banter one another to bet.
Then was when Rufe ought to have
sin%lcfOctcd up and called the turn on
the little joker for Il few tens and fives
10 get them started. But no Eufc. I'd
seen him two or three times walking
about and looking at the sideshow pic
lures with his mouth full of peanut
candy. but he never came nigh.
The crowd piked n little, but trying
10 work the shells without a capper is
Hike nShinG without bait. I closed the
game with only $40 of the unearncd
Increment. while | had been counting
on yanking the ycomcn for 5000 Mt
least. | Went home at II and went TO
bed. supposed that the circus had
proved too alluring for Rufe and that
hc had succumbcd TO it. concert and
all. but | meant to give him a lecture
on general business principles in the
morning.
Just after Morpheus had got both
my shoulders to the shuck mattress
hears houSeful of unbccominy and
rlba!d noises, like youngster screech-
ing with green apple collie. opens my
door and calls out In the hall for the
widow lady, and when she sticks her
head out ! says. Mrs. Pcevy. ma'am.
would You mind choking off that kid
or yours so that honest people can get
their rest?
Sir says she. it's no child Of mine
It's the pig squealing that your friend
MT TGtum brought home to his room n
couple of hours ago And IL YOU are
uncle or second cousin or brother TO
II id appreciate your stopping its
month, sir. yourself If you please
II put on some Of the polite outside
habilimcnts Of external society and
went into Rnfe's room. He had got
up and nc his lamp and was pouring
some milk into n tin pan on the floor
FOR dinGy white. half grown, squeal-
ing pig.
How Is this, RufeT says |. You
f'miianmed in your part of the work
tonight and put the game on crutches.
Ana how do you explain the pig? 1t
looks Ike hacksliding to me-
"'Now don't be too hard on ME.
jeff says he. You know how long
I've been used to stealing shoats. It's
&ss4 ID bbir ~ ttrr ne--zfffd TO,
night. when see such a fine chance.
] couldn't help takin' it.
'NVnIl' I snoyha yo,,'va raoI