Judge — June 10, 1905 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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[|FATE © THE, CIRCUS TICKETS.|| nor. tut when ‘Lije got Josh Roper’s old sheep, and ¢ yheerd what he was caleulat- in’ on doin’ with it, Caleb was madder than oe i JE PERG KAMPER is follerin’ Caleb Cronk up, sure as he’s livin’, and if there’s any law worth a pinto! shoe-peys, he'll make Caleb sweat, E bet you! Will he 2 Well, you jest listen to me, and then je Sol Cribber, of the 1 over to the € chuck district, was Panother chapter of do: ings, fresh trom that interesting preeinct, was. surely ready tor delivery. If there ever disapp'inted, heartsore and sot-dowr folks, them folks is “Lije per and his wite Katury. And if conscience ev tccluteh on to any 01 and give himares, then conscience ov to have a hitch on to Caleb “ Five year or so ago a circus cony ory, to that bailiwick, and ‘Lije and Katury got tickets to the show for lettin’ the showmer: stick some pictur’s on tottheir cow-shed door, “There hadn't been a show ny sort along: that way sence, not ull last week, and) when and Katury heerd it was con somethin’ like ame th ayo, they was feelin’ chipper as cathirds, ‘ea at the eo they was pretty r show ‘d want the cow-shi 1 door : in for pictur’s, ugh, the big thunder o' the deestti show feller druy up to ‘Lije’s one day, jest ahead that was bearin’ down on to that edy “Lije pweshed asked tim in the hous and he drawed up the papers for the door and ‘Lije signed ‘em, ‘Lije made an all-tired pod bargain with him, too, for the feller throwed in tickets for the man-eatin’ cannibal andl the pig that played keerds, Well, sir, jest as the feller was signin’ t paper for the tickets a blaze of lightnin’ busted out right over the firm and swooped down fon to the cow shed. In less time than I kin tell you, the cow-shed was. snappin’ and ervekin ind the consekences was that before they hardly knowed what was goin’ on, there wasn't no cow-shed door lett to stick a pictur’ on, Of course that en ght there, and Katury ta) k on tremendous, for she had sot her heart on goin’ to the show, and here there wasn't 1 “Some folk nther thin on the place to stick a pictur’ on, Lije says, mowt ‘a! thought that Katury felt wuss over th killed in the shed by the dightnin’ than aver the p th ont acquainted with Katury’s y’arnin’s, he says aff ot the face ot the a 3 by Gslabedoor; but setch tolks. Cows ain't skeerce “says Katury, shut Pil bet there won't be snother eieus within a hundred mile o” this spread ov hen lock not an says. t Leastways, not one with a pig that plays k emit,” Hse that little caper ot the lightnin’ made ‘Lije and Katury’s show look somethin’ out of the rest cand things was atl had run y jemny around thet premises, and no mistike, Josh Roper nt job, but Je le emptyin’s on cash, and there wa'n't much show of Lije gittin’® » pester hit no tellin’ how Loi ye «you know he's a little clase to the wind, but wtte be dad. Pell bi bat Katury got an idee over to Josi’s and tell him that you hate that there's sc eneus comin’ and vetivan’ ba says Katur ! at you'll take that o! sheep of histn and call it She, Prem show folks has got te fave meat for their ‘ says, fand you kin trade ‘em that sheep tor tickets to the Show she says; hut sttel: te havin’ ‘em for the pig that plays keerds ane) the man-eatin’ ¢ Laje he went aver to Jost on the ju ap. Je sot tive slullin” tor the ewe, hohe we'n't no way Slow on ta tor he er hin ein’ Laje druy the sheep home, and things ¢ © This Caleb Cronk ered up around there amazin’ ves jest beyend ‘Lije’s, and never t cowshed nor nothin’ else that anyborly could stick a shew pictur an thar TD tor Hekets to the show he was ine to, se when he he spectin’ to hire his: cow-shed fer ‘na snake, eanse he didn't have no Shadder of a chance of yitin® here himself, “Then n he heerd al for tickets. S.ygrinnin’ meaner than a hyeny, that ‘Lije’s shed was ext up by lyghtnin’, and that th yeas oll, he came aver to". So you've ebat ed your mind about goin’ to thes! nw, have: you 2 he says to‘Lije. tits goin’ to be a hummer, they tell me, be says, shi couldn't 26 neither, and there was some consolation in teat, tor if Calely had lidn't say much to him, ‘cause he knowed that Caleb VLije says he'd a jumped on to him right then and that he cou wt'a’ yot ont ina month, And ‘Lije by not doin’ any E tell yee be di betore, and he come over to ‘Lije’s and said had his opinion of folks that ‘ lions and ti trade off an innocent old sheep tor Hrs to te Fup and e: ireus that jest to git in and see wa'r't goin’ to amount to much twitted hi Laughed at Caleb, and yto the show, and asked him sive to be him « ‘cause he could how much of vie" is clearin’ | Katury on show day elt sorry for him, to think what him and Katury was goin’ to «Caleb was goi to miss, * On the mornin’ o' the day before the show’ je went ont to ta vlook atthe sheep, and the sheep was gone! A hear h the woods, killed the sheey !come out 0 und eat it all up but a piece of its tail, Highton the premises, without ‘Lije ever yittin’ an inklin’ of it, Ki swooned dead away when “Lije went in with the news, and he uury ys he felt lke singin’ «t rk, trom the tombs,’ 1 throwin’ ashes all over When Katury come to she give a few gulps, and then says s+ Don't you say a word so that Caleb's folks ‘UE says. Pd rather go right over Jurdan this n Cronks Fo" this,’ she to hear them Joatin’ ‘cause Pean’t xgit to see the show ! she says. “So ‘Lije hep’ n n. And he gloomed for a couple of days. Then Caleb come over, yrinnin’ wuss than ever o Didn't see you and Katury to the show, he says. it was a hummer! he says. + How do you know 2 says “Lije, turn Wh fully. cold me and my folks was there, says Caleb, chucklin® Phen ‘Lije most fell dead. Ves. says Caleb, * Mornin’ afore the show 1 seen ac bige be: in’ kind of quarte way from your pl Jed the x he says. +E only had Shoot him once, he says. + And who de you think bought him ? The he ime and 1 off towards the woods,” he says. Lgot my gun and ti J showman! He give me ten dollars for him, and tickets for nner ant all the ye ans, a to the pig that played keerds Sorry you your minds,’ says he. + You missed a1 and the 1 Katury changed says he. a I sock it to hy 1 knock And now ‘Lije Pergenk mper is tolle lel Cronk up, and if there's any Low worth a pint of st preys he a make 1 him that bear with him sweat! Why? ‘That bear stole ‘Lije’s shee} and Katury out o' gittin' to the show, Caleb: ball “'That bear stole ‘Lije’s sheep. Lije’s sheep in it, and Kato by yallinipperst And at 'Lije don't sock it to Calely hed hina “Sy exeessory alter the La outof. 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