CARL DUNDER'S BOY JAKE.

Waikato Times, Volume xxvi, Issue 2458, 8 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

CARL DUNDER'S BOY JAKE.

+ "Dot Shake plays some more games on me again," said Mr Dander as he entered the Central Station yesterday. "You knows Shake !" " Saeim as if I had hoard of him." " Shake vhas a shmart boy. Dut time. he goes to Toledo he trades watches mit » confidence man, und gets one twice a* big as his. One time be goes to Chicago und doan' get lost, nor meet some bunko men.' " What has he been doing now if" "Veil. Shake sees some tracks in der snow, und he comes to me und says mayba some coloured shentleman would like to steal our shiekens. He goes oop mit a •econd-hand store und buys a big beartrap, and I help him set her py der coop, Dot vhas all right. If nome colored ahentlemans got in dot trap he vhas a goner. I got oudt und look at him und gif him. avhay mit der police," , - "lsee." " "We keep dot trap set two days, and nopody comes aroundt. Last night Shako goes oudt mit der back yard und eets lire to some straw in a box. Eaferybody begins to call 'fire !' und a big policeman shumps oafer der alley fence trad '"comes down on d.it trap. I neafer hear such awful yelli in all my life. It vhas like two hundred lion* acrpacnin' out in der night after beef. It takes four men to pry him oudt, and he. limps nroundt und ahweara und says. be can lick two thousand men met one hand tied pehind him. He saya Shake pub oop dot fire to make him shump oafer. und dot he shall take him to shaft for twenty yeara. We look around for dob boy, but he vhas gone. I guess be goes by his uncle in Springwells. Sergeant, I like to ask you if Shake haf to go in a lawsuit ?'' "I don't think to." " Dot policeman says I vhaa ia der plot to murder him; can he send me to shall!" "No." "Dot makes me feel tickled like a shild. All last night I dreams of cow-boys nndi shails und Supreme Courts, and I guess dot Shake doan' shlecp a wink. I goes down after him this afternoon, Sergeant !M! M "Well." " Vhen I get Shake home I shall tell him to come down cellar und see if some coloured ahentleman doan' steal our potatoes ! You tell dot •dicer on dot beat if be> hear some awful whoops und shrieks und? veils to walk right on. It vhas me und Shake lookin' for der coloured shentleman's, mit a strap !"