The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-02-27

and finally he went of. But no sooner Woult
one swarm go than another would come; ant
before the weeh was out the house was chocl
/ full; YOU couldn't turn round without hittln
against a SEWN machine, or piano, or sun
thin.
And the fellers comm and goin at al
lhours For a spell, at first, Josiah woult
come in and talk to cm but after while h,
rot tired out, and when he would see one
Il comm. he would start on a run tor the barn
and hide and would have to stand the BLUM
of il alone. One Teller see JOSIAH runnin' fol
the barn, and he iollCred him in, and Josiah
dove under the barn, as found out after
ward. | happened TO see him crawlin' OF
after the Teller drove of. Josiah come in d
shakin himself, for he was all covered with
straw and feathers, and says he,
| L will buy gun the Srst hard work do
Says |, Il would be ashamed of myself, 10.
sIah Allen, guess it hain't no harder for
you than it is for me-
We'll, | was calCulatin' to make it easier
for you. What do you suppose l was goiA' to
shootin' EN- for, ltwould helpyou as much
as it would me to thin EN- oil Il little
Says |, Josiah, to say no,hln' of the wick,
edness of it, it wouldn't do no good. Don't
you remember the fox in the brambles? Let
the old swarm remain, for ifyou drive 'em of,
a hungrier set would come, and then | should
be utterly devourcd'
Wall this took place about noon. | had u
awful headache and told Josiah, says |.
How | am goin' to tussle with them agents
this afternoon, don't know, enjoyin' such
poor health as | do today
When felt well could get along with 'em
better, but 1t didn't seem to me as L could ar.
que with EN- all the afternoon, teelln as |
did, and Josiah had got to go into the woods
to work
Says Josiah, IN fix EN-. I'll set trap
just outside the gate and catch EN- IN it,
Says |, That won't do no good, Josiah, for
if you should disable em | should have them
to take care of, and if you should ketch one
in it the rest could get over the fence
Says Josiah, Can't fix the clothes line so
it would trip 'em up"
Not in the daytime, says depressedly.
Take that old pOp.gun OF Thomas Jetfer-
son S and load itwth bcet,juiCc, and shoot 'em
with it, and make 'em think you've drawed
blood
There amt no beetjuice, says |, in gloo-
my tone And il there was, how could
take ann with my head as il is to.dayY
Wall Says Josiah, Il have got to 20 any.
way. You lock up the house and go to bed,
and mebbe you can keep 'em out And SO |
did rs soon as Josiah started off | let down
the Curtins, locked the doors, and laid down
heard u knOckin' at the door good many
times and a considerable moving and stamp
ing around the house, but | never stirred IN.
til it was time for Josiah TO come home, and
then | reused up to hang on the tea-kettle.
Wall ! just histed up a little corner of the
window curtin and could just see pair of
shinn' boots in front of the parlor door |
went to the other window and there l could
see the hull on hint was the everlastn'
piano man. | went to the kitchen just as still
as could, and heard talkin' on the piazza,
Peckin' through Il hole in the curtin | saw
two Of 'em one sewing machine man, anc
the other an organ; so they was friendly to
each other, and sat together.
AS | stood there the organ man spoke up.
They must be to home pretty soon, and l
guess that piano Teller will find that can
stick it out as long as he can says he,
Yes says the other Teller, 'and guess that
tother Teller will find that he can't tucker me
out if he should stay here all night
Thinks mebby can slip out of the back
door and fill the tea kettle but III be hanged
f one didn't sit there on the back stoop, look
ng down the road that led to Jonesvllc, rs
close as a cat would watch a rathoe
went back to my room again, W orn out
lIu NCIItSSCNi, anu L hAohNN llIil D'SIuli
would come | pecked out of the winder
owards the barn, to see if could see him.
md happening to cast my eye down towards |
he ground, | see one Of his boots stick out
title way from under the barn; then | see
hat he had got rs fur as the barn before he |
zee 'em, and then he hid. | knew there
would be no getting him INTO the house till |
he enemy had dispersed, but yet 1t was
abstraction to know that my companion was !,
% near me-
Wall they never went away 50 Josiah could |
,ome ont OF his hiding place and could get
upper, Till sundown and had to get supper
md Josiah had to milk after dark And SAYS
Josiah, as we were eating supper after bed
inc.
Samantha, as for standin' it 50 much long.
r, i can't and won't It's a runnin yoI !
own, and I'm spilin' my clothes a crawlin'
ndcr the barn so much, to say nothin' of
Him my hair and mouth with dirt straw
nd feathers He helped himself again to
he cherry pie, and says, with gloomy ex.
ression onto his face, there has got to be Il
hangc'
How is there going to be changer
avs l.
III tell YOU says he In whisper for fear {
ONE one Of 'em was rfOwlin' around the
ouse yet. We will get up before light to. Il
morrow mOrnin' and go to Joncsville and
uy an organ right out i
| fell in with the idee and we started for
onesville the next mornin. We got there ,
est after break of day, and bought it of the &
nan at the breakfast table. Says Josiah to
ne a'terwarc, as we was goin' down into the I.
illagc, Ii
Let's keep dark about buying one, and see
Nv many of these crCcters will bc n bnsrItin, 4,
n us to-day y
Says ], You must love to W. haunted by '
IN better than do d
Says he, Il love to fool EN- a
Says |, 1T is jest about such fcr,ln' as the /
tile boy that let his father whip hi,a through
mistake, just to fool his father But secin'
~ companion locked disappointed, told
i'm, it wasn't my way TO tell evcryahing | j
new. | shouldn't say nothin aboi havin' c
ought one
So we kept still, and there was hall dozen a
'llers follerin' us round all the time amost.
ito stores and groceries and the manly max.
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