Show WHY BE HE WO WADE E THE I HK SHOES The Owner Recognized the Squeak and So Caught the Prowler Chicago Journal Id as lief net have a dentist file away at my teeth as as tn to walk behind a pedestrian pedestrian pedestrian trian with squeaky shoes said a De trotter who Is well known for some of or his whims And arid I Imay may anay add that there thereby thereby thereby by hangs a a e tale Three or four years yeats ago I sent a pair of ot shoes hoes to the cob cobbler cobbler cobbler bler to be When they came back they squeaked ked I set them in a apan apan apan pan o ot of water for dim ait n hour but it w was wad no good I oiled the soles Boles and edges but they still squeaked I left them out over over night in tile the rain but the squeak was still there I worked at those shoes for tor a month and then gave them away to a darky day ey who was choring around the house He e was proud of o othe the squeak but it grated on me till tul I told the fellow to clear lear out Two uTo weeks later continued the thel l nervous man my wife rile woke me ug up u one night and said there was a man prowling around the yard I sat up p and listened and I heard his shoes go squeak squeak squeak as he moved about It a minute before I t I identified the sound I Its dollars to cents that those are the shoes I gave away to the darky I said I Y IThe The squeak Is certainly the same sante replied my wee wAe I I raised rais d the window and looked out I but it was too dark to see anybody I continued to bear hear the squeak squeak however until I finally lost it In the I alley Next Neat ext morning I got up to find my law laon la n mower and garden hose miss mss missIng lag Ing and three days later the th was behind the bars bal I told the police of f the tb squeaky shoes shoe and they found the stolen goods good In the fellows fellow house OUS to Boss how did you do it he asked as I went down to court It those squeaky shoes I re ye replied reg plied g 1 I heard you moving about bout the yard Belo Beo de but what a fool I Iwas Iwas was was he exclaimed De old woman woma dun told me to go baru but I jest wanted dat squeaky noise stong u ong to tomake to tomake toI make folks think dat da t a was I comin home late U |