Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1885-10-03
BURDETTE'S LATEST.
The STORY OF THE GIRL WHO FARMED
One SUMMER-A RATHER LAUGH-
ABLE SKETCH


One SUMMER-A RATHER LAUGH-
ABLE SKETCH.
A CARD FROM MIR. THIsTLEPoD.
Noticin' IN your collums quite recently
\ paragraph to the folowin'
"Miss Ella WItchazel,a charming young
school teacher OF Villisca. Iowa, finding
of the schooroom injuring her health,
trieG the out door cure Instead of
spending her winters salary and sum-
mers vacation in crowded hotel at the
seashore, she went on farm, cut 25
acres of prairie hny, harvested 40 acres of
wheat. gained 20 pounds in weight, a
coat of tan for her hands and face and
a rugged health that canot be equaled
any where ff q farm. There's the girl you
are looking for, young man."
Now, what want to say: / am we'll
acquainted with this young school marm.
Fact is it was my farm she spent the
summer on. Nice girl, Ella IS, as ever
run wild in the sun. We was glad, wife
an me, to have her come, sn' she did
bout as she pleased on the farm. I'D
often read in the papers bout these young
women that taught school in the winter
an farmed in the summer, but | never
had any experience with 'em before.
Well, sir, she farmed. First day not~
hind do but she must drive the boss
rake. Well, every man an woman that
comes from town wants to drive the hoss
rake, and they call that getting In the
bay. My little Jeney, II years old next
May, usually drives the rake for us, out
she hasn' t been overly peart this sumner,
an kinder kept her out OF the esuI, So
Miss Ella gifts herself boosted on the hoss
rake-my boy, Joe, he boosted her-an
then she screamed an Tell of. Then she
got on ngin, hit the hoss crack an away
she went on dead jump out % the field
into the road, hoss a goin' dust Ayin'
an Miss Ella screechin'. So ne OF the
men headed her eff an stopped the hoss.
Then she tried it agin. This time she
struck right straight through the standin'
grass where it was tallest an thickest and
tanglest; hoss balkin' and tuggin' away
by turns. grass holdin' of or comming
up by the roots, rake teeth snappin'
We got her out oi that, and lost whole
day on the rake getting it mended.
Then she tried driving a load into the
big barn. Had to send to the house tor a
ladder, an then all the men had to go
clear out of the field while she climbed
up on the load, Driving in she got the
wagon caught in hedge gap as wide as
the Missouri river, ran over two
stands of bees. upset the load and
buried herself under 800 pounds
OF hay. 1t was the safest place for her
under the exctin' circumstances; SC We
jest left her ther' oniil the bees got cams
med down an We got some work done.
Next load she went in on, and then turn
cd all of the men cut of the barn while she
climed up in the NOW an then sLe wan>
d rel around ontil she stepped into chute
and sh OF down about twenty eight feet
into the COW barn and lit right on the
back of a jersey calf that was worth
$3.50 Of any mans money An b our before
Miss Ella WANT killed, but she was so
jammed up that she lay in bed two days.
an but for that providence we'd hev beer
working at that hay yet. AN anybody
that wants broken back calf can have
one at his own iggers.
Well, cone wheat harvest, she must
drive the self-nnder, That was a leetle
100 risky, but she had her own wav. But
she couldn't he trusted up above the
knives, so somebody had to set up there
an hold her on. My boy Joe, he held her
on--I told Joe she was maxim tool OF
hiln-an' IT she didn't make him drive
around every poppy an every blossomin'
weed she see in that field to save it.
Never mind the wheat, but save the
blamed weeds. There was only one
stump on that $50 acres of prairie land.
just one stump, an hope I may go to
seed before Thanksgivin' ii that girl
: didn't run into it an break the reaper
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