Pete Svensen is ‘lockin’
horns with the gov’mint.
again an it’s them damn.
forms he filled in. The
gov’mint wants to know how
come he hired a 10-year-old.
Kid an didn’t Pay him
enough. -

Hardhat says he will bet
Pete got more work from the
kid than we is gettin’ from .

_ the gov’mint an he. asks Pete .

how come?

Pete says this famblydrove’
up when the tourist: season |

_ was goin’ fall blast an they

ast him how much jest: fer
pitchin’ @ tent?

Well sir , says Pete, you

jest wouldn’t believe the car -

they was drivin’ because the
transmission had give up the

ghost an it was a helluva —

wreck. It was perty clear, he
says, they didn’t have money
fer throwin’ around an he
says itwouldbe a buck an a

half a day an he would throw -

in greens. from the garden.”
out back an they went into a

_huddle an talked it over.

Finally they figeered they

wy the TEES

could do it an ‘they hauled out
a tent which must have bin
surplus from the Boer War.
They didn’t have air matt-
resses, sayS Pete, an they |
was “gonna sleep on the
ground, so. he throwed in
some hay which was baked
perty good in the sun an says
it was given a trial run about
2,000 years ago an it should |
still do the trick.

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Pete thinks her over somé a

‘more an says he will hire the

kid fer- workin the pump an.

fer the se

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Pete sees isa bucket an a big

‘smile runnin’ back an forth.

Perty soon the. horse
trough is runnin’ over, the
campers an trailers is filled,

‘an the kid has watered the

garden till the turnips is
" startin’ to burp.

Pete figgers there must be |
_ Some way to stop the kid so
he saddies Old Baldy antells
_ the kid to get eggs once a day :
‘from Jake Menzl. ~

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The kid is back in an hour

_ an Pete starts goin’ nuts, se
he gives the kid.a bucket an

says he wants the.tadpoles
counted in the little lake back
from the ranch.

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. Hardhat says his beer has

‘runhed out an Pete.can tell a
him how it come out while he |

filis her up again, an. Pete
throws down a paper an says
he broke even.

Pete is’ ‘perty ‘at

good
keepin’ the books, an it says: ..
Fer camping, two weeks at

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On t’other side of the
ledger. it says:

Fer pemping, at one cent a §

bucket..............55.79

‘Fer eggs, at ome’ cent a
CBG. ccccccccccccce nc SOG |

Fer countin at one
cent each............10.82

And Pete has ‘writ “across:
the botiom, “Pad

Hardhat looks | her Over
‘awhile and then says what
. happened to the 65 cents? An -

le in foll.””

Pete says“he took the car

-down-to Jake Wenzl’s and |
they pult the transmission an .
‘put in new layshaft ailed at

and oil seaJs an he called. it
square.

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