Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-10-16
That Western Girl.

DEM.
That Western Girl.
WHAT MR. THIsTLEPoD THINKS OF HER.
Noticin' in your colums quite re-
Gently a paragraph to the followin':
Miss Ella Witchazel, a charming
school teacher of Nilliska, Iowa finding
the ccosc confinement and arduous duties
OF the schooroom injuling her health
tried the out door cure. Instead OF
spending her winters salary and summer
vacation in a crowded hotel at the sea
shore, she went on 4 fam, cut % acres
OF prairie hay, harvested 40 acres of
wheat. gained 20 pounds in weight.
a coat of tan for her hands and tace and
4 rugged health that cannot be equaled
anywhere off farm. There's 4 girl you
are looking for, young man."
Now what l want to say: I am
we'll acquainted with this young
school marin. 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, an she did bout as
she pleased on the farm. I'd often
read in the papers bout these young
women that toght school in the win
ter an farmed in the summer, but l
never had any experience before.
Well, sir, she farmed. First day
no,hin'd do but she must drive the
boss rake. Well, every inan an wo-
MN that comes from town wants
to drive the boss rake, an
they ell that gettin' in the lay.
My htiie Jnney, IL years old mex.
May, usua ly drives the rake for US, ,
but she hasn't been overly peart this
summer, an kinder kept her out
OF the sun. So Miss Ella gets her
self boosted on the boss rake-my
boy, Joe, he boosted her-an, then
she screamed and fell off. Then she
got on agin, hit the boss crack an
away she went on the dead jump out
O. the field into the road boss asoin' =,
dust fyin', an Miss Ella screamin'.
Some of the men headed her off an
stopped the boss. Then she tried
it again. This time she struck right
straight through the standin' grass
where it was tallest an thickest an
tangledest; hoss ballin' an tuggin
away at turns. grass holdin' of or
comm up by the roots, rake teeth u
snappin'. We got her out OF that,
an lost a whole day on The rake,
gettin' it mended.
Then she tried drivin' load into
the big barn. Had to send to the
house for ladder, an then all the
men had to go out of the field while
she climbed upon the load. Driven
in she got the wagon caught in q
hedge gap as wide as the Missouri
river, ran over two stands of bees,
upset the load and buried herself
under 300 pounds of hay. 1t was
the safest place for her under the ex-
citing circumstances; so we jest left
left her there ontil the bees got some
work done. Next load she went in
on an then she turned all the men
out OF the barn while she climbed
up into the NOV, an then she wan
dered around ontil she stepped into
a chute and shot down about twenty
eight feet into COW barn an lit right
on the back of Jersy calf that
was worth $3.50 dollars of any man 8
money an hour before. Miss Ella
wan'nt killed but she was that
jammed up that she lay in bed two
days, an but for that providence
we'd hev been workin' at that hay
yet. An anybody that wants bro
ken back calf can hav one at his
own figures.
Well, come wheat harvest, she
must drive the selt-binder. Tha,
was !eetle too risky. bat she had
her own way. Bat she couldn't be
trusted up above tho knives, so
somebody had to set up there an'
hold her on. Ny boy joe, he held
her on I told Joe sue was a maxim
a fool Of him-an' if she didu't make
him drive around every poppy an
weed she seen in the field to save it.
Nev.r mini the wheat, but save the
blamed weeds. There Was only one
stump on that 800 acres of prairie
land, just on, stump, an I hope 1
may 80 to seed before Thauksgivin
if that girl didn't run into it and
break the reaper. Ltss all the
rest of that day q mendin' OF it.
Next day, she Was that proud an
confiding she could drive alone.
Well, we tied her into the seat 50 st
she couldn't fall off an she started.
Two rod from the start big, black
snake stuck up his head-an' you
know how slick them knives ampu-
tate q snake a.? Miss Ella she gives a
faint little squeak an faints dead
away. My boy Joe-he's always
hangin' around-he jumped for the