The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-11-29
Worried Wocinr.

'Aew, when !, in the natural course
p tuman eFeEiS, - q tie time an
aona my corL,n eye"ylh n WAS pro
pilions and pleasant like with Que ex-
ception. said BIZ prirps. "No one
ser ously ob ected to me from the old
folks down To the rather fast dious
house dog.
Every body was friendly an willin'
aprmentl,, that | should undertake
the Keeping OF one of the daughters.
an to some extent the rest o tie lam
l!N but ths one heavy. pulvtrzin'
cross | had 10 bear was the old man :
talk. lie was on hand every night o
my would-be courtin', ready primed,
an from the time the door closed after
my amiable arrival till it formed a
background to my departin', disgrunt-
led footsteps he never one moment OF
apprec able or standard time let up In
his conversation. was a MARTYR to
them conversational abilities I've still
got tic whole of the incidents of his
journey from Pennsylvania to the West
lndellbly imprinted upon my memory.
together with every !oOt o the scenery
along the road, from that Aonr winter OF
traordinary long nights uarrat'ons.
'Ah, me, he'd commence, them was
times that tried men s souls, an espc-
c.ally their WIND an constitution. Com
in from Iennsylvany pye went actually
four days thout any milk in my coffee.
an the tOu9 hest kind % steak, an no
maple sirup for our hot cakes, an only
what fresh fish we could eat, an pain
fully luz along with us. Young
fcller, YOU don't know nOfhin'
spec ally bout what us pioneers suf-
Tered. Them times showed what a
mans made out'n, very yisbly. some
times. At times, when we d come to a
BIC, deep, dark, rapid-ro' lin river, we d
lave 10 hoIler ourselves hoarse, and
p'raps wake the baby, attractin' the
ferry man attention on tother side
An maybe croSsin small streams we Il
be pestered terrible with mosquitoes,
an more n once I've been that dizzy on
account o the IA i'll current Once
i shall never forget it; often yit | dream
Of it an holler out dreadful-when we d
Teen out on tie road about week an
twas near the close of day, an we was
still pressin on hard. tryin' to CIT to
some spring that hadn sulphur enough
III it to spoil the whisky punch. The
sha3der5 Of night was eatherin' very
fast an also the gnats an mos 4uitoes,
an the trees an things seemed dipped
in tar, SO black they was an gloomy,
when al! OF student 1 was sprung
upon from bcbnt an raised a most out
o my saddle by the violence an pain
Of the stab | received from one o them
tarnal BIG black antsn
Then, may be, for rest an a
change for himself, he'd 90 OF onto
the DRY o. his very grcat-grandfather,
who reyol toni ed some war, or ware /
in some revolution, or somcthin'. lie
most generally commenced about a
cannon he ella med the old fellow HAD
lie ped to Captiyate. / dozcd o / one
night when he'd sprung the cannon
story, an when | finally woke, saw By
the clock I'd ! cen slcepin' one hour
an forty minutes, an there LIE was still
onto that gun.
- hadn't been married two weeks
afore the old mn asked me for a loan
o. seven dollars, an beiu' refused he
withheld his Conversations powers
from me for three months, even to pass
N the time o day As we passed by
--CtRctgnuG Commercial gazette.