The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-07

over his paper after a quarter OF an
hours work. Late in the afternoon
of the fourth day after the commence
ment of this literary enterprise, Dick
was standing by the b~lack-gum logi
with the axe in his hand, wondering II
it would be better to take another
rail from the forlorn fence around the
little yard-for what difference could
it make when there were S } many open
places already?-Or to split UP a soil
tary post, which, having nothing at
tached to it, was clearly useless, when
he saw upon the high-road a figure aR
preaching him.
1t wore a tall white hat with a broad
band of rusty Grape around it; it had
on q high, stiff s~hirt-collar, and a long
black coat; in one hand it carried an
umbrella with a rough horn handle,
and in the other a little hair trunk tied
up with a rope; it had a bright and
flashing eye and q determined step. /
1t did not go on to the house, but,
turning from the public road, came
through a gap in thefence, and walked
straight up to the astom;shcd Dick.
Look a-heah, yuh Dick" said I'm
Gle Enoch, putting down his little
trunk; "who done tole yuh all dat
foolishness about gwineto Washin'ton
to wait on de Congressman, an gittin'
sebenteen hundred dollars a yeah?"
at was q man at de crossroads
said Dick, ovid a red beard. He done
brung some HOSES oberfrom the Cou't
House. dunno his name"
'Is he bigger nur yuh is?" asked his
father.
ooh. yes" said Dick; "more'n twice
as big"
"Well den, yuh huff him alone" said
Uncle Enoch, with great decision and
energy; "yuh luf him alone. hopes,
boy" the old man continued, wiping
his face with his great blue and yellow
handkerchief, "dat yuh's gwine ter
learn a lesson from dis yere bis'ness.
1t make me tink oh two n%o-'count
beasts dat was once loafn in q little
clearin's dat had bin buhned fur a seed
patch. Dey wus stannin' III de sun to
warm deyse'fs, bein' too pow'rful lazy
to cut some wood and make a fire.
One wus a gy-raffe, and de udder wus
a kangaroo. De gy-raffe he look at
de kangaroo, an he begun to laugh. :
"' It's mighty GURUS ses he, to see
a poor ~critter ike @&uh, wild some legs
short and some legs long. Eff l was
yuh I'd gotode wood-pile, an Idchop
dem hind legs off de same ZENITH as de
fob ones, SO yuh'd go about like COM
mon folks, an not be larfed at
"Dese remarks dey make de har riz
on de kangerroo's back, he SO mad
angry. !,
&" Yuh suh'tinely is a gay boy SEES
he to the gy-raffe, to stan up dere and
preach dat, wild yer hine legs short as
plough-hannels an yer foh legs too
long fur butter-bean poles, SO dat yuhr
back slopes down. like de roof of a ice
house. IF | was yuh Pdgo to de wood
pile, ar I'd chop off dat ar long neck
close to de head, I'd be so 'shamed.' !,
"Now, boy" Continued Uncle Enoch,f
"dere's lots OF stories about one eber1
lastin' fool, but dat's de only story I
knows bout two NV 'em. An now,
jes' yuh 60 inter de house and tell de-
folks Use gwine to put a new cracker
on de ox-whip an eff any of dem ses
Washin'ton to me, I'll make 'em
dance Jerusaleml" {:
Dick walked into the house to de-
liver this message, and as he went, he
said TO himself, III reckin de plantation
mouse done gin up he vineyard"