Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-10-29
$ MEXICO. MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER %, 1885.
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BURDETTE'S LATEST. 80
he Story Of the Girl Whs EARNED one
Summer-A Rather Lsashabls
Sketch. "a
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A CARD FROM MR.. THIsTLEPoD. "
Noticin' in your columns quite re- =
emily a paragraph to the followin's b
Miss Ella Witchazel, q charming q
'oung chool teacher of Villisca, Iowa, u
the close confinement and 8
lrduous duties of the schoolroom in y
uring her health. tried the out door q
cure, Instead of spending her win Z
ser's salary and summer vacation In .
\ crowded hotel at the seashore, she
went on a farm, cut. Is acres Of pari- =
rie hay, harvested 40 acres Of wheat,
gained 20 pounds in weight, . coat
of tan for her hands and face end af
rugged health that cannot be equaied I
any where off q farm. There's the
girl you are looking for, young
man."
Now, what 1 want a say: I am
we'll acquainted with this young
school marin. Fact is it wa myfarm
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 Tread
in the papers bout these young wo-
men that taught school in the winter
an farmed in the summer, but I
never had any experience OF EN- be-
fore.
Well, sir, she farmed. First day
nothin'd do but she must drive the
boss rake. Well, ever man an wo-
man that comes from town wants to
drive the boss rake, and they call that
gittin' in the hay. My little Janey,
IL years old next May, usually drives
D the rake for US, but she hasn't been
overly peart this summer, an l kind.
er kept her out of the sun. So Miss
e Ella gifts herself boosted on the boss
. rake-my boy, Joe, he boosted bel
lam then she screamed an fell off
Then she got on agin, hit the boss
d crack an away she went on the deae
y lump out O. the field into the road
hoss a goin', dust a flynn an Mis-
e Ella screechin'. Some of the me
b. headed her off an stopped the hos'
Then she tried it again. This tim
lie she struck right straight through th
st standin' grass where it was tallet
Ie, an thickest and tangledest; boss
ag balkin' and tuggin' away by turn
r. grass holdin' of or comm up by tt
r.n roots, rake teeth a snappin'. We g
,se her out Of that, and lost a whole ds
aIon the rake, gettin' it mended.
la- Then she tried drivin' a.load in
the big barn. Had to send to Il
49, house for a ladder, an; then all Il
men had to 60 clear out OF the tie
I'M, while she climbed up on the ioa
RS, Drivin' in she got the wagon eaue
Of in a hedge gap as wide as the M
all souri, river, ran over two stands
Ibees, upset the load and buried b
nth self under 800 pounds OF hay.
he q was the safest place for her une
to the excitin' circumstances; so We j
,ich left her Their ontil the bees got ca
not med down and we got some vi
g 2" done. Next load she went in
Use! and then turned all the men out
de- the barn while she climbed up !
un- the NOW an then she wande
re a around ontil she stepped into a Oh
and, and shot down about twenty-ei
odd feet into the COW barn an lit right
the back Of q Jersey calf that
d in worth $3.50 of any mans money
d of hour before. Miss Ella want xii
par but she was that jammed up that
corn lay in bed two days, an but Tor
him providence we'd hev ben workin
;ould that hay yet. An anybody that W
from a broken back calf q have on
h he his own fggers.
or of Well, come wheat harvest,
must drive the self binder. That
Gen. ieetle too risky, but she had
cared own way. But she couldn't be t
,st in ed up above tie knives, so some'
so he had to set up there an hold be
a full My boy Joe, he held her on
home. Joe she was MAXIM a fool Of b
And and if she didn't make him
led to around every poppy and every
,thing somin' weed she see in that hei
and save it. Never mind the wheat
, inst save the blamed weeds. There
N Ho- only one stump on that 800 acr
illiant prairie land, just one stump
q that hope l may 60 to seed before II
ghter, giv.n' if that girl didn't run il
awnier and break the binder. Lost a.
behind rest of that day q mendin' OF it
group Next day she was that proud
W she iconfdent she could drive alone
ION for tied her into the seat so's't she
not fall OH ana sue s'a,'e'
Mans rod from the starr d Dig o'"'A
stuck up its head-and you
., how slick them knives
!. h,,s;- tate a snake? Miss Ella she g
vhe,ber faint little speak and faints
,ont .Iaway. My boy Joe-he's
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