Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-04-18

don Know D0k Wndx q lsattWltu DER W 4
you. IL we can only agree upon the price
Make me an offer."
at Amt your COW that ! want. its |
your daughter said Hiram, coming di-
rectly 20 the point.
NV daughter? What. Magcieg-
"Yes, Maggie. I love her and want |
hsr TO be my wife Can have herr
az can't spare Maggie, Hiram. She |
b kesrful. b kesrfal, yo0're Stopping /
IN the vines-she helps me 70 take care |
of tee squash. She hslps me- cover II up |
cold niqpss 80 that the fross won's nip 1t |
and helps me 20 keep an eye o7t daytime |
TO sse that no cattle don't break IN add
eat it up"
" Bot vou're going 10 take II TO the fair
In q couple Of weeks, and. when that IL
over, you viii, of course, pat 1t in the /.
cellar. You won't nsed Maggie TO take
care Of IL then. Can have her them
II shall need her through the winter
TO make squash pies" -
"well, can have har In the spring.
II shall need her in the spring to help
me plant squash seeds That squash
will have the wh0ppingest seeds you ever
set syes on, and from them next season
am going 10 raise a squash as much
whoppiner than this 10 whoppiner than
Deacon Sykes.
"Can have her year from noxF
IL shall need her IN year from now
Just a. much ~ do now"
"When can have herr"
"Some time, Hiram, some time. But
don't be in a hurry. There is plenty OF
time. cannot spare Maggie yet
awhile
Hiram felt that il would be useless 10
- A~..s - IA. x,.a frn
make immediate tracks for home. He
bade the old man good night, and, re-
| flushing an invitation to re-enter the house,
took his departure.
"Confound the old fellow" he solilo-
quized a. he piodded along the muddy
road, nd like to ring his old neck. He
thinks more of that old squash than he
does Of his daughter, l should think
she would get tired Of hearing him talk
40 much about it, II were in her place
l would buy some of that poison he WIS
reading about tonight and swesten his
| coffee with til vow | would. Didn't
she look lovely tonight though! All, you
may bet she did! And must l wait
million years for her Just to please her
old donkey Of father. No, sir. She
shall DO mine this very fall. But h0w
AN going to get her? That's the ques-
ton. mzst study up some plan"
| He fell 10 thinking. Presently he
clappsd his hands together and cried
joytully,
II have it! That'll bring him to terms
| il anything will! l will do IL this very
night. Hox lucky il is that it's 50 dark
and rainy
| Early the next morning Hiram vert
over to Squire Hapgood's to borrow
hoe, ignoring the fac. that he had no less
than half . dozen of his own. He
found the squire in high state of ex-
citement. Ills big squash had been
stolen!
Who had perpetrated the base deed?
The old man Was confident that it was
Deacon Sykes.
He has stolen it 80 that his squash
can take the premium at the fair" he
explained.
well, perhaps you are right, SQUIRE"
said Hiram, land then again perhaps
you're wrong. IL may be hs, and it may
DO somebody else. It's hard telling
IL shall never see that squash again,"
moanod the old man.
III it was my squash that was stolen,
think | should see il again. have
never had anything stolen yet, but what
l succeeded in recovering il. think il
should set myself about it l could find
your squash"
| Squire Hapgooi Rrasped the young
man oonvulsively by the hand.
"Set yourself about it, Hiram; set
yourself about !tr' he cried. Find
that squash and I'll give you"
u lie paused to consider what reward ~
offer for the recovery of his treasure.
Find that squash and I'll give you
that COW you wanted to buy of me last
night" he said, after a moments re-
|, Fiction.
al don't want your COW, squire, bu.
III lind your squash II you will give me
Maggie"
"l'll do It, Hiram.''
"When will you give her to me?"
"Some--"
THAT won't DO, squire. l must have
Find my squash and YOU shall have
, her within a MONTH"
Honor bright, Squireg"
"Honor bright, Hiram"
The young man took his departure il
! high state of citation.
On the evening Of the same day Hi
, ram drove up 70 Squire Hap2ood's door
with the missing vegetable safe in his
I wagon.
Oh. what q scene was there, nv conn.
trymen. Tho squire embraced the
} squash. and Hiram embraced Maggie
IL would be difficult to Aay which Of the
two felt the most eostntic.
, Where did You lind il, HiramY' the
old man asked. when his transport bad
begun to subside a little.
Don't ask me. squire. / can't tell
you. have promised to hold my tongue
about it,
i "You'll tell me where you found it,
! won't your" asked Maggie, coaxinQly,
J when she found herself alone with her
lover.
father"
II win never breathe word Of il to
, him"
well. then. found il in one corner
OF my barn floor, covered with straw"
"Oh, you wicked"
II What moro Maggie was going TO saw
am unable 10 inform the reader, for nj
that precise moment Hiram stopped her
mouth with kiss.
Two weeks later Squire Hapcood's
squash was awarded the first premium
at the town fair, and n few DAYS subse-
quent 20 toat event Maggie Hapgood
became Maggie Hardy.
---~------s~<>e--
Republican City, Nsb.. March 81,
lNU.-I tried your kendall's SPAWN
Cure, and IL had the desired effect. It
CURED the SPAWN which other treatments
failed TO do. ! did not use quite one
bottle Of your linimout. After the
SPAWN wns removed drove the horse
and his mate over 800 miles, from Linn
county, Iowa. TO Harlin county. Neb..
With a load of 400 pounds, aud made
the trip In four weeks. Please send me
your " Treatise on the Horse
| Yours truly,
JAMES YxrIESrc.
! L
Ycaler says that Piper's milk bread
keeps him IN good health. Piper says
tlas Ycalcr - the most caadsed msn Ia
sown. dl5tf
Why suffer such unspeakable tortures.
Rheumatism has been conquered. Ken
dsil's SPAWN Cure II the victor. See
advertisement.