The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-07-25
FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
Weighing Sugar and Butter.

| Old Farmer Ray came home one day
| With groceries from the Center;
| And jumping from his queer old shay,
| He called out, like "A Stentor-
| ''Ho, there Bring out the steelyards, Ruth:
| Pm some mistrustful am,
Friend Bartons scales don't tell the truth
And I'm a-going TO try 'em
| So then his wife the steelyards brought,
And Farmer Ray proceeded
| To weigh each article he'd bought,
| To see if aught was needed
| To make il of the proper weight.
| And, 10! the trial ended,
| The sugar lacked just one pound, eight,
OF what had been pretended.
Into his shay jumped Farmer Ray,
And whirled round in a iiffy;
| Then out the gate, and down the way
He started off, as il he
| We're riding for his life. "Hn teach
The rascal TO cheat me, sir!''
He muttered. ''Tn make him a speech,
! As sure as my name amt Ciesar!'
Arrived before the Center store,
He roughly shouted, whoa. sirl"
| To Dobbin; then turned towards the door.
| To seek the guilty grocer.
| There, at his desk, friend Barton stood,
| So smiling, fat, and ruddy,
| One felt at once, he was too good
To injure anybody.
| "Oho! Back, are We. Farmer Ray?"
Pleasantly quoth friend Barton
Left suthin that you bought here, hey?
Wall, now, ! felt right sartin"-
| But here the farmer cut him short
Yes, sirl" he cried, you We hit it!
I did leave somethin' that bought
| And I've come back to git it
| ''Td ike TO know" continued he,
Though well-nigh choked with choler,
| "How much white sugar, usually,
You sell folks for dollar?
Ten pounds, eh? Wall, you ies weigh this:
Two dollars with complete, IL
| Purtends to be; but II 1t is
Then / II agree to-eat 1t ~
| With this he threw the sugar down
Before him, and awaited
His answer, with threatening frown.
The grocer, thus berated,
Looked up, amazed. apparently;
Although his mouth was working
| Oddly enough and in his eye
A humorous CLEAN seemed lurking.
what, neighbor Ray, dye mean to say
There $ less than twenty pounds there
Wall now that's funny, anyway
Why, neighbor, III be bound there
Was twenty when | tied the string.
III tell you how | know 1t:
You'll grant that this, If anything,
Is evidence to show 1t.
"You brought some butter in, to-day,
All into balls made nicely;
Just twenty of 'em, said TO weigh
A pound apiece, precisely.
Wall. when | took 'em from the pail,
(Jes SOS to save the bother,
| put all twenty in one scale,
An weighed your sugar in tOthcr.
can so you see it must be right,
An you have made an utter
Mistake. However, T you Amt quite
Convinced, I'll cit that butter
"Oh, don't do that, beg you "on't!'
Quickly exclaimed the farmer,
al assure you there amt no need ont!
Whew! Amt it growing warmer"
With his immense bandanna-
very different person. now,
In look and tone and manner.
sickly smile replaced his frown;
And twas no voice of thunder
In which with eyes that would drop DOWN
He owned he'd made a blunder.
You're right! you're right! IT'S plain as da
was MISTAKEN said he.
oval, wall must be on my way!
I've stayed too long, already"
So saying, he humbly took once more,
From where he'd lately thrown it,
The sugar, and went out the door
AS if he had not shown it.
Wall" said the grocer, watching this
Retreat with quiet laughter
Il guess them butter balls O. his
Will weigh pound hereafter"
"Wall" said the farmer. in his shay,
Pondering the case, 1.-THE fact is
I've had lesson in weighin' today
IT I'm going to put i'll practice