White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-25


What body means f-tOLD soSo.
- every body in the county Of Essex has heard
. os Bunker, and the quips and cranks by him
Eversted- In tr'Ah he was famous fellow in his
Joe 90 noted Ebuckwhacking rusticity of breed
nactel that his Hane has passed into proverb and
nv, SIDE him Immortal. Joe Bunker's character is
az thsv re9Eded by all the old crOnies and gossips
made him North East corner of Massachusetts, as
low regsoau ideal of q genuine unsophisticated
n the tkee clodhopper.
\. . His fame fer ten miles round the country ran,
And all the cid ladies called him queer man.
He was the first man in these parts that ever
picked his teeth with wooden shoe. Various
other fashions introduced BY him are in the re-
membrance Of many, but it is not our purpose
now to specify them. The story Of his courtship
and the bag of beans is nat so cOmmoni it runs
thus:
4. twas sometime in the month Of April or May,
or ct any rate, just at the time of planting of
beans, of all the days in the year of Sunday,
that Joe being at meeting, spied Colonel Shute's
daughter Hannah. 1t was in prayer time, (they
make terrible long prayers in that part Of the
country and Joe was hanging over the pew door
in about the shape of figure, tired to death
and vriggling himself about in Is awkward and
slouching fashion as could well be imagined.
Joe looked at Hannah, and Hannah looked at
Joe. It is pretty certain that the little hedge.
hog Cupid shot OF pair of his quilts ct the
same instant, for Hannah was struck with very
queer sensation, and As for Joe, he felt some
thing which he could not exactly describe ex-
eept by saying that it was kind of an all-over-
ness ike.
This Is all We happen to know Of the first
item in this chapter Of accidents. The next
morning Joe lay in bed 90 long that his father
began to grumbIe, and presently his mother
came up stairs.
"a Cone. !" said she, ;" get up and 80 70
planting your beans"
"Ican't," said Joe, "Pm sick"
"siek! What's the matter with youl What
ais you'll"
"why donFknow what ais me; nor don't
want to tell"
"Don't want to tell! 6ddlestick; let us know
what it is"
Joe hid his face under the blanket for some
umeg Onu ~ aAot DtuoOcICo Ooet NeAs W g
and see the Colonel's Hannah"
Dova goes the old woman and reports pro
ceeding 10 her husband.
"WhAt," said old Bunker, " he 60 10 see the
ColoneI's Hannah tell him to come instantly
and plant his beans" The old woman runs back
and tells this 70 Joe.
But Joe was hard to work upon. He was
granite; he was adamant; there was no soften
ing him, ne moving him. You might as easil,
have shouldered 0ldtown Hill from its founda-
ton as have made him start peg.
81 won't 60 to planting beams win 60 and
see the Colonel's Hannah"
- This was all she could get out of him, and 50
she padded Of again to her husband.
"Rsslg, Mr.. Bunker, there's no getting Joe
to mind; be says he won't go to planting beans
nor touch them; and he win 60 and see the Co
Ioasl's Hannah. Nov do let the poor boy have
his way for once; remember you was once q
young man yourself"
This was bringing the matter home, and old
Bunker, though he was no logician, nor imagin-
ed how the thing could be proved in BsrsliptOE
or Ferits, yet he thought the reasoning 50 pat to
the purpose that he fairly yielded