Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-07-20


had was plenty good enough for ANY,
body and she did not want us to go to
any trouble. / said it would be no trou-
BILE, but she said it was all right AS it
was and they could fix up afterwards.
She said very few knew they were going
TO be married
Who said this?
Emma Sisley Then follows inmate
rial conversation about supper Witness
then said | just got through supper as
Lew came in. He said he had got stuck
among the trees out at the south | lit
lantern and we went over to where he
had left his team. Saws /. Lew, am
glad you are married. He asked why.
| said, Because we can get to work
Monday morning before dinner" l
continued. Lew, YOU have got a mighty
good woman" He answered. Il think
So l said. II hope you will always
be kind to her. You have married into
good family and when folks see you
are trying to help yourself they will try
and help you some He said yes, Mr..
Bickford gave Emma COW. just then
we came to the team and that ended our
w
home and put the horses into the stable
and went into the house. We had a
straw bed for Lewis bed out in wagon.
and we then got it up stairs through
the west window, as we could not get it
up through the stairs, and my wife and
Mrs. Stout went up stairs to fix it. Baby
was sick and called my wife down to
take care of it as did not know what
to do, and she came after she had helped
Mrs Stout take out some of the straw
| sat talking with Lew quite little
while; maybe twenty minutes. | said.
The boys are going to charivari you"
he said, ''All right; if they come and
behave themselves | will give them
something. | said then, " So will |. |
will help give something He said he
did not want them to break up his wag-
on or cut his harness. | said they would
not do that, and if they did would pay
him for it. Then | got ready and went
to bed and that is all | knew from that
time till the next morning. | heard
them occasionally down stairs laughing
kind Of walked me up a little. My
wife was doing some baking and they
had fire nearly all night.
The testimony from this date up to
Tuesday evening contains nothing of
interest except the facts that Hamilton
went to town that day with load of
wood and at Sisley' request bought him
a box of cartridges at Devendorf's old
stand in Platteville, tried to get shorts
but the storekeeper was out and took in
stead fifty long cartridges. When wit
ness got home he found Lew lying down
and Mrs. Stout said he had headache.
Witness at request of George Stout
took Lewis gun and few of the cart
ridges and went out a short distance
hunting, fired number of shots and
then worked around by the spring where
Lew had been building spring house
After horses Were done eating turned in
and hauled ties for the spring house.
After finishing work for that de, wit
ness went up to the house and got ready
for supper. here he continues: They
had been laughing and talking. | had
told Lew the boys were coming to char
ivari them and told his wife down at
the spring, when she was idown there
and she said she was going to help.
Q-Where was this?
Alt the house in the evening.
Q-You had told her at the spring
Ayes sir. Lew said we would have
| a good time. told him yes we would
have lots of fun. He wanted to know
when they was coming told him that
Cassie and Johnnie Weller were com
ing, that they said they would come.
We were standing there by the door,
was on the doorstep, Lew was next to
the door and his wife was next to him.
Lew says to me Twill you let me take
your revolver" | said Eyes and will
use your wife. He . xed where my
revolver was and went and told him |
would 90 and get it in minute was
wiping them. So | got him the revol-
yer and went out doors and put charge
in it. They were standing in the door
and | was standing on the lower step.
Q-Who was standing in the door?
A-Lew and his wife side by side |
fired the revolver right out south over
the trees, and Emma, his wife says, that
makes quito little noise for little
think" and Lew says ''let me have IT,
| handed it to him and he asked if there
were any more cartridges in 1t and |
told him there WIS not and he asked me
where the cartridges were and told
him and he told George to get them for
him. He poured four out into Lew 5
hand and started to put the box back
when Lew says, Hold on, that is not
enough. there are only four and it takes
seven SO Georgia took the box back
and Lew took out three and loaded the
revolver, in the doorway. Then he laid
it ir the drawer where the cartridges
were, the right hand drawer as YOU 90
to the cupboard. He said, Now don t
none of you folks 90 ramming in that
drawer for there is loaded revolver in
there. We then set down and eat sup
per and were all laughing and Joking
about the charivari Lew and Emma
both spoke in one voice and asked En-
ma will you let us have your dish pan?n
Said it to my wife. They had been
talking about getting pans and one
thing another. My wife answered Eyes
what do you want of it?'' And Emma
Sisley says 'we want it to 90 ont and
help the chariyari with My wife saws.
''you are perfectly welcome to the dish
pan only don't want you to pound a
hole in it," We had just finished sup
per when Simon Sisley came in and
Mrs. Stout introduced Emma to him as
his new sister, and he wished her a
"long life and happy Joy, and said
Yes and big bouncing boy" We
sat there quite a little bit laughing and
talking and Simon says Il thought there
was going to be charivari here to-
night?" kind Of laughed and said no
guess not and Simon said that if there
was not going TO be amy chariYari he
was going over to John Fanks We
started and went out BY the corner of
/ the house. He said there had some Of
! the charivari BOYS come over with him.
! asked him who they were and he told
me Mat Lamb, Tom Welch and James
7 Foy. He asked me who else was com
/ ing first we went up to where the boys
were north Of the house on the road.
When he.asked me who else was COM
/ ing | told him names Of those who said
/ thev would come and said they ought 10
be here now, and | said some OF the bows
across the creek said they would come.
We was sitting there and heard gun
I shct down bv the creek thought ii was
I the boys Mat Lamb sa,s Lets 90
and meet them We mt up pretty
near to the town road Simon Sisley
blew his horn and James Fov shot off
his pistol and NC blew re horn trying
TO see who COZ | blow me loug AZ one
breath. We waited quite ,ghiir Fin
ally he said for some of US t. 90 down
and see if they was not coming | went
down to Frank Pegs and askel Frank
( if he was not coming up. toll him
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