Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13

presented by the almsgiyer at the next
confession and duly credited to him ii.
the good gracess Of Mother Church
dawdled about the roads and visited
the regular succession of houses
London Telegraph
The Largest known swell. s85Sl3
sStreaks q vet weather; mos allus
fetches bad luck said the Old Settler
Of Pike County, Pa, ..bat never SEQ q
season sech ez$this snn's ben bnt i
think 1.-THE bully luck that Billy Criippss
tumbled into il the fall $50. Uncle
Jonas Billduck had alarm downin Jer-
sey. DurnedM 1sdon't b'lieye the ,Ap-
Piles they raised on that farm Of q sea
son would 9 bought the hull.o' Lacxa-
wack. Billy wanted to marry Jonas
darter Jeminae, but the ole man didn''t
seem to like the notion, though he
hadn't nothin' agin' Billy 'cept that lie
wa'n'trollin' very much5in wealth.
"ygall, in SO the apple crop was I'M
mense. Uncle Jonas he'd more'n his
sheer, like the rest ON EN-. One day .
smart nelghbor q his'n.got an idea. He
come to Jonas and argied that mos
likely the chances were, B'gosh, that
mex year the apple crop'd be o dead
failur' and that naturally there'd bo q
big call for dried apples.
"sNow, Uncle Jonas, says he, we'll
jist kind o. 60 partners like, an peel
an dry 9 snortin' DE pile o. apples this
fall, lay 'em over, an ketch the market
heavy when it gets q hankerin' fur sla0h
goods mex fall
ssThe idee struck Uncle Jonas, an he
sot the hull family to peelin apples, an
'twa'n't long fore theyihad 4OOOr 500
bushels o dried appleson hand. Uncle
Jonas's house want very large IN,
and it stood bout fifty foot fromsthe
line Ga pastur' lot blongin' to Hoppy
Dusenberry. Not MORN 100 foot from
one side o. the house, whar they was
only one winder, an that was up-
stairs, they was quite = steep knoll, an
at the footo' this Jonas he'd built d hieh
wall. The groun' twixt that an the
house was stony, an want used fur
anything, SO Jonas concluded to spread
his dried apples ON boards 'twixt the
house and the wall. He built . roof
over 'em, an' thar he had 'ems slowed
away snug enough.
Wall, that fall Billy Crippswas pes
term the old man more'n ever TO lett up
an give him Jemime. One day Jonas
got mad. sSl,
.sSee yer, Billy. says he, I'm .
gittin' durn tired O. this. They amt no
s You'm jist 3ez likelyto pit Jemima
ez / am!to be . liyin' o~vertharin Horny
Duzenberry's pastur! Now, the fus,
line mornin' you come long this way
an find me . liyin' over thar, list Wall
in. tell me, an then you kin walk OF
with Jemime.'
ttEz mad eli he were, Jonas had "a
laugh to think o. the joke o. the thing.
Billy he toddled off an made nh ria
mind that he and Jemime could never
hitch. s
'sThe season had beenwet all through
the summer, an was keepin'it mp. One
night, jist arter Jonas had given Billy
Crpps his last walkin' papers, there.
come mp an ole tearer Of q rain-one q
them warm fellers that soaks right il.
There was . rippin' wind come long
with il. [ recommended 'twere on
Saturday night, fur Uncle Jo~nas,family
alluz took q rest Sunday mornin,ss not
oittin; mn ,fore' haIf-nast s.. ~ 800 aos
That Sunday morn;n,' tho,,ch se M.
come 4 ran * the door Sore s;s a,c ioie
Jonas cot "a an, dressed h;sself -;
vent dawn Thar wss R;lIr &C.,. -
asMornin,. Uncle Jonas; ssu 1.R KS 81
UasMornin,., aayss ITnois sH.n.s IN sush.4
In the nsme OF the grizzly king be, you
by, : q SEEM YOU'D moved soyer Inter
Hoppy Duzenberry's pastur5 lot. i thort
I'd drop in an walk off with .Jaminne
list ez YOU tole me TO. SAWS he.
s.Sure ez guns, thar were Jonas,
house standin' plumb over the lineinter
Hoppy's pastur lot. You sea the high
wind o. the night afore he'd lifted tie
roof Off Jonas dried-apple shed. The
warm rain he'd belted IN on en- and
soaked inter 'em through an throuph.
Wall, you know dried apples. T6eyi
begun to. swell an swell. They