The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-20

NudG1S IL, OuaEl0y --WudG are you
digging for now? Is It mice?"
NIGEL Wud he go for mice wild a
rake? An it's not mice, begorra," said
Pat McCue.
"No, il isn't nice; but, if you boys
want some fun, you can climb over and
take hold"
Were coming I'll call Grip. What
on earth is it, Charley?"
mo, sir! [ don't want Grip. Not
this time. I don't care to have any
small dogs in my town."
"Your town."
Hal Pinner had reached the top rail
of the garden fence, and he paused for
a moment to look down on the puzzle.
"Town!" echoed Pat McCue. I'D
like to know what wud town be wild
no dogs?"
CharleT Brayton had not stopped
work foran instant. He was plying
long-hapdled garden rake upon patch
of soft earth near the fence, and his
younger brother stood in the path,
few feet away, watching him very seri-
oIsiy.
"Well, I'll tell you, boys, it's just this
way. Ny Uncle Frank is visiting at
our house. He lives away out West.
None Of our folks have seen him before
for years and years. didn't know him
at first They had to tell me who he
was.
"Well, you see, boys, Uncle Franks
been building a new town, and they let
me sit up till II o'clock last night, hear
ing him tell all about it"
"Eliin o'clock" muttered Pat.
"And it was all bare prairie when
he began. Not house, nor fence, nor
so much as field of corn on it"
"That's it., said Pat; "it's aisy to do
anything at all, at there's nothing at all
in the way"
"And Uncle Frank went at it, and
now it's young city, with two railroads
and river, and all sorts of things, and
the people that live there buy town-lots
of him and pay him rent for their
houses and buy sugar and coffee and
things at his. store, and he has big
farm outside" Hv35
But what's all that got to do wild
your rakin' for mice in the garden to-
day." :.
was full of radishes till they got ripe.
Then We pulled 'em up and ate them.
Uncle Frank says they have radishes
three times as large out West. And I
asked father if Knight have the bed for
town"
Hal Primer was on the ground now,
and both he and Pat McCue began to
see the fun in Charley Brayton's "quare
noshin."
The rake had nearly done its part in
the work of making that town, and the
patch of earth, about six feet wide by
twice as many long, was as smooth and
level as table
A hoe, shovel, lot of half-bricks
and a pile of shingles were lying in the
path, and little Bub Brayton was doing
his be on building of his own with
some Of the bricks.
That's our prairie" said Charley.
swell want river next"
what for?" asked Hal Primer.
What for?" said Pat McCue. did
ye never see a river? It's to put
bridges over. What wud We do wild
yer bridges av ye didn't provide a
river?'
And TO run steamboats, on" said
Charley. @ @ ua I
I'll put in, this end of yer river wild
the spe4de," said Pat. asA
What shall [ do?" asked Hal.
Pick out good big brick for cor
ner grocery store, and another for a
college, and another for hotel. Then
you go and cut some sods for City
Hall square, That's got to be green,
till the people kill the grass by walking
on it. Uncle Frank says they've killed
all his grass, except some that grows
wild in the streets" eH
The new river was rapidly dug out,
but no water made its appearance.
We'll do without watller for a
while, said Pat, "but we'll build twice
as many bridges, so they'll know it's a
river Whin they COON to it." "
The sods were cut and brought,
and Charley went to the house
for long pole, and, with that laid fiat
on the ground, he began to mark out
the patch of ground into little squares
OF about twelve inches each.
"What are We dom now?" asked Pat.
Laying out the streets. Uncle
Frank did that, first thing. Only he
says the cows can't find some of them
yet, and there's two he wishes he'd lost
before he let 'em be built up the way
they are. This is the main street"
Make it wider" said Pat. Think
forall the professions there1l. be on
that street Make it wide enough for
any kind of Fourth of July to walk
In"
u say, Charley" said Hal, "here's o