The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1879-08-14
JACK.

morning like this, with the sun
min, and the birds a singn, and
'osies a blossoming in those beds
there seem to chirk one up might
\ isaid Mrs. Zib, flirting her dust rag
Pusly. "It's pity you ain't able
y up and get peak at it. It'd do
Knore good than medicine 'co:ding to
Notion. There's lots of folks gone by
lily, the kind that has little to do.
II if | ever!" and Mrs. Zib's poke
1t and the edge of her sharp nose
ed in imminent danger of going
Ngh the shutter, she was so inquisi
eager in her inspection of some
r by. .a
T. that Hol<e. boy" she said pres
withdrawing her head and proceed
10 set in order the vials on the stand.
;,clarc he is a shaver to be driving
Lwn pony, black one with a pail
and a-what do you call it--dog
| don't see why there's any need of
NJ a decent wagon such an outland
Ename! He amt more than eight
4 Old I'm sure, and is abou as sassy
hey make 'cm, but ten some folks
bible to make all sorts of o}-de-rols
,hcir children, and others arc put to
, wits end to git bread for theirs,
you can't help tcelin that lots is va
Es. Some do seem to git all the
ms in tie pudding, and Others can't
| git a Whit at the crust. It's queer,
| suppose it's right 81
ne gave me an intcrrogatlve glance as
spoke, then spying some uneasiness
ne little week-o morscl of humanity
! was cuddled in my arms, she took
away and sat down with him in the
rocker. "You folks make an awful
over him." she said meditatively,
t that he is anything out of the ordi-
= run either, as l can see, but some
', you seem to think he is wonderful.
Dsing now you had felt bad about his
ling, not knowing how 'e could be
or clothed, and s'posing nobody kissed
,uddleA HIM, and wondered ~hether
looked like you or his father or his
ndmother or all the rest Of 'em2'
Mrs. Zlb, please hanl me that baby
1t a vay. l want to kiss him"
| amt going to do any such thing"
| nurse peremp.oriIy. ''lIe's just
n fooled with enough this morning
them big girls in the family had to
e their foolishness over him before
y went to school, and hain't count
how many times you've kissed him,
IL take it easy enough on my lap
llle. Yeller, amt he? Well, that's
iaunder's; it makes 'em sleepy too.
nee saw baby just as likely for his
as this one; but laws, he was blink
and winkin' Away III miserable
of shanty, and nobody seemed to
at him in the world very much; he
! one of them kind that never gifts a
m at the pudding. He belonged to
Briggs. Dan'l ODD M~l;;--,I- .....aa -: ~
ongIng to them want much of a
ssing, for they We're two of the shift
!, SLACK, al aays behind hand sort of
'ple who never seem to know how to
e care of themselves rightly. Their
Ks had been iust so too, a woTkin' a
lie ON other folks land, doing an odd
now and then, keepin' III vittcls and
ihby clothes somehow, the women get
eo,d ylttles when they washed for
farmers wivC aHd some of the Old
'thes it want no use to make over.
= however. was the very cream of the
Il IL. Il
ut !2Ziness was concerned. 1t want
trouble for him to do no.hin', and
Ter troubled his conscience neither
'esh perhaps he didn't have one te
n"'e- Sometimes he got a job in harv
or piantin' time, but gellerally folk:
re shy about hiring him; nobody like:
pay a man for seftin' drummin' hi:
els a9sin the fence er stop IN To talk Il
Try hstly who happens to go by. Th'