Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-04
MSS ELLA ON the raRm.

How Wound School Teacher Really Dt
spend Her Vacation Among Unapprecia
tive Changers.
Bsrdeis IN BrooGsyn BagSe.
Mr.. Thistlepod sends the following card
Editor Of the Eagle:
Eoticin' in you columns quite recent
paragraph to the folIowin':
miss Ella Witchazel, charming young
school teacher Of Yllisca. Ia, finding tao
close confinement and srduous duties Of the
schoolToom iDjuIing her health, tried the
outdoor cure. Instead OF spending her
winter salary and summer vacation in q
crowded hotel at the seashore she went on
q farm cut twenty five acres of prairie hay,
harvested forty acres of wheat, gained
~ enty pounds in weight, q coat Of tan Tor
hr hands and face, and rugged health that
Cannot be equalled anywhere off farm. "
lh'res the girl you are looking for, young
man,
Now, what / want to say: | am well &C
| GRANTED with this young school marin.
tacTis, 1t was my farm she spent the sum
mer 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
psE ers bout these young woman that taught
school in the winter an fsrmed in the SUM-
mer, bat / never had and experiences of EN-
before.
Well, she farmed First day, nothin'd do
but she must drive the boss rake. Well,
every man an woman that comes from town
wants to drive the boss rake, an they call
that gittin' in the hay. Ny little Janey, ii
year old next May, usually drives the rake
for US, but she amt ben ieelin' overly peart
this summer, an kinder kept her out of the
sun. So Miss Ella gifts herself boosted up
on the boss rake-my boy Joe, he boosted
her-sn' then she screamed an fell off
Then she got on sgin, hit the boss a crack
an away she went on the dead jump out o
the field into the road, boss goin', dust
flynn an Miss Ella screechin. Some OF
the men headed her uf an stopped the boss
Then she tried it again. This time she
struck right straight through the standin'
grass where it was tsllest an thickest and
tapgledest; boss bslkiu' and tuggin' away
by turns, grass holdin' on or comm away
by turns, grass holdin' on or comm up by |
the roots, rake teeth snsppin. We got |
her out of that, and lost whole day on the
rake, getlin' it meuded.
Then she tried drivin' load into the big
barn. Had to send to the house for lad |
der, an then all the men had to 70 clear
out of the field while she climbed up on the
load. Drivin' in she got the wagon caught
in hedge gap as wide as the Missouri river,
run over two stand of bees, upset the load,
and buried herself under 800 pounds OF hay.
1t was the safest place for her under the ex-
citin' circumstances; 80 we Jest left her Their
Ontil bees got CANNED down an we got
some work done. Neyt load she went in
on, and then turned all of the men out OF the
barn while she climed up into the NOW, an
then she wandered around ontil she stepped
into chute and shot down about twenty
light feet into The COW barn an lit right on
lie back Of Jersey calf that was worth
$3.50 of any mans money an hour before
Mis- Fla wasn't killed, but she was that
ahmed up that she lay in bed two days, an
nut for that providence We d hev ben workin'
IT that hay yet An anybody tina; wants q
calf can have one at his own
;ggers
Well. come wheat harvest. she must drive
be self binder. That was leetle to risky,
'ut she had her own way. Butshe couldn't
,e trusted up above the knifes, 80 somebody
led to set up there an hold her OIL told
Zoe she was maxim q fool of him-an if she
idn't make him drive around every poppy
N every blossomin weed she see in that
led 20 save it. Never mind the wheat, but
ave the blamed weeds There was only
ne stump on that 32O acres Of prairie land,
lst one stump-an' may go to seed before
hanksgivin' if that girl didn't run into it an
reak the reaper. Lost all the rest nf tI>'s''''ii
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