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    The Water goats and other troubles
    The Water goats and other troubles
    The Water goats and other troubles
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    The Water goats and other troubles

    By Ellis Parker Butler

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    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    The Water goats and other troubles
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    Ellis Parker Butler

    Ellis Parker Butler (1869–1937) was an American author of more than thirty books and two thousand stories and essays. His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. Despite the enormous volume of his work, Butler was, for most of his life, only a part-time author. He worked full-time as a banker and was very active in his local community. A founding member of both the Dutch Treat Club and the Authors League of America, Butler was an always-present force in the New York City literary scene. He died in Williamsville, Massachusetts.

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      The Water goats and other troubles - Ellis Parker Butler

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Water Goats and Other Troubles, by

      Ellis Parker Butler

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      Title: The Water Goats and Other Troubles

      Author: Ellis Parker Butler

      Release Date: September 17, 2008 [EBook #1285]

      Last Updated: January 9, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WATER GOATS AND OTHER TROUBLES ***

      Produced by An Anonymous Volunteer, and David Widger

      THE WATER GOATS AND OTHER TROUBLES

      By Ellis Parker Butler

      By The Same Author

      Pigs is Pigs

      The Great American Pie Company

      Mike Flannery On Duty and off

      The Thin Santa Claus

      That Pup, Kilo, etc.

      Contents

      I. THE WATER GOATS

      And then, said the landscape gardener, combing his silky, pointed beard gently with his long, artistic fingers, in the lake you might have a couple of gondolas. Two would be sufficient for a lake of this size; amply sufficient. Yes, he said firmly, I would certainly advise gondolas. They look well, and the children like to ride on them. And so do the adults. I would have two gondolas in the lake.

      Mayor Dugan and the City Council, meeting as a committee of the whole to receive the report of the landscape gardener and his plan for the new public park, nodded their heads sagely.

      Sure! said Mayor Dugan. We want two of thim—of thim gon—thim gon—

      Gondolas, said the landscape gardener. Sure! said Mayor Dugan, we want two of thim. Remimber th' gondolas, Toole.

      I have thim fast in me mind, said Toole. I will not let thim git away, Dugan.

      The landscape gardener stood a minute in deep thought, looking at the ceiling.

      Yes, that is all! he said. My report, and the plan, and what I have mentioned, will be all you need.

      Then he shook hands with the mayor and with all the city councilmen and left Jeffersonville forever, going back to New York where landscape gardeners grow, and the doors were opened and the committee of the whole became once more the regular meeting of the City Council.

      The appropriation for the new park was rushed through in twenty minutes, passing the second and third readings by the reading of the title under a suspension of the by-laws, and being unanimously adopted. It was a matter of life and death with Mayor Dugan and his ring. Jeffersonville was getting tired of the joyful grafters, and murmurs of discontent were concentrating into threats of a reform party to turn the cheerful rascals out. The new park was to be a sop thrown to the populace—something to make the city proud of itself and grateful to its mayor and council. It was more than a pet scheme of Mayor Dugan, it was a lifeboat for the ring. In half an hour the committees had been appointed, and the mayor turned to the regular business. Then from his seat at the left of the last row little Alderman Toole arose.

      Misther Mayor, he said, how about thim—thim don—thim don—Golas! whispered Alderman Grevemeyer hoarsely, dongolas.

      How about thim dongolas, Misther Mayor? asked Alderman Toole.

      Sure! said the mayor. Will annyone move that we git two dongolas t' put in th' lake for th' kids t' ride on? Will annyone move that Alderman Toole be a conmittee of wan t' git two dongolas t' put in th' lake?

      I make dot motions, said Alderman Greveneyer, half raising his great bulk from his seat and sinking back with a grunt.

      Sicond th' motion, said Alderman Toole.

      Moved and siconded, said the mayor, that Alderman Toole be a committee t' buy two dongolas t' put in th' lake for th' kids t' ride on. Ye have heard th' motion.

      The motion was unanimously carried. That was the kind of City Council Mayor Dugan had chosen.

      When little Alderman Toole dropped into Casey's saloon that night on his way home he did not slip meekly to the far end of the bar, as he usually did. For the first time in his aldermanic career he had been put on a committee where he would really have something to do, and he felt the honour. He boldly took a place between the big mayor and Alderman Grevemeyer, and said: One of th' same, Casey, with the air of a man who has matters of importance on his mind. He felt that things were coming his way. Even the big mayor seemed to appreciate it, for he put his hand affectionately on Toole's shoulder.

      Mike, said the mayor, about thim dongolas, now; have ye thought anny about where ye would be gettin' thim?

      I have not, said Toole. I was thinkin' 'twould be good t' think it over a bit, Dugan. Mebby 'twould be best t' git thim at Chicagy. He looked anxiously at the mayor's face, hoping for some sign of approval or disapproval, but the mayor's face was noncommittal. But mebby it wouldn't, concluded Toole. As a feeler he added: Would ye be wantin' me t' have thim made here, Dugan?

      The big mayor patted Toole on the shoulder indulgently.

      It's up t' you, Mike, he said. Ye know th' way Dugan does things, an' th' way he likes thim done. I trust thim that I kin trust, an' whin I put a man on committee I'm done wid th' thing. Of coorse, he added, putting his mouth close to Toole's ear, and winking at Grevemeyer, "ye will

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