New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-08
he boxed the side OF his own head

But the boy came home so happy,
whistling SO cheerily! Heset down his
coffee and molasses and salt and sugar
with such an innocent air that his
| uncle could not speak harshly.
But at last he did manage to say
.'Ike, do you keep clear OF nonsense,
mind that now"
ssWhat nonsense?" asked Ike, indie
pendently.
why, keep clear Of folks people
girls, !" he added, compromisingly;
1'girls that you know nothing about"
He continued
There's Ruth Bovine now-she-
she''
"What about her?''
stWell, not her. but her mother''--
why, Mrs. Bowne's a mother to
everybody! She's the best woman in
the world!'
mo, it was her grandmother
| meant"
"Old Mrs. Bowne?'
''No, the other one."
There wasn't any other grandmoth-
| er you could Mrs. Bowne's own
mother died when she was a year old"
"Well, l guess on the whole, it was
Ruth greataunt l meant
"What allied her?" asked Ike.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. -she-had-
the-rheumatism, and"-
When he recovered himself, Miller
the miller said, "You keep your neck
| out Of the moose; and remember, Ike,
I've got this mill to give away to
somebody"
"There's good luck ahead for him
that gets it," said Ike, as he passed
out, and up the "gang plank" towards
the road.
Miller the miller was greatly exer-
clsed after this, and fancieu he saw
lke's heart stolen from him, and his
home made desolate by some flower
| OF a girl who would turn into a. scold-
ing woman.
Alas, alas, for Miller the miller! This
| hour was coming on, and fate was
even at his very heels.
One night, thinking singing school
must have been out long time, he
concluded to drop in at Deacon
Bowne's to ask what made his horses
crupper gall his neck.
The horse didn't know it did! The
miller thought by so doing he would
surprise Ike there; and then he would
he would he didn't know what he
would or wouldn't do!
When he went in, there was COM
pany, and that was more than he had
imagined.
The first one to jump up and offer
him chair was Ike, who Exclaimed
"Well, this is treat, to see uncle
out visiting! Here's a welcome for
you!"
The bravery of this took the spirit
all out of Miller the miller. He laugh
Led reluctantly, sat down after being
introduced to the deacon's cousins, a
stalwart man and a pretty little wom-
an by tie name OF Craig, from Pine
Falls, some twenty miles away.
The miller actually stayed and ate
apples and nuts, and talked and
laughed with the rest OF the company.
He didn't 90 home till Ike said
"Come, uncle, this is pretty late for
you and me to be out! We must go
home now.'
On their. way home the miller re-
marked,
every nice folks those Craigs are"
eyes, uncle, agree with you"
So they were agreed.
Next morning at breakfast the visit
was alluded to, and Miller the miller ac-
tually said, "That Craig wasn't such a
fool as most men are-he didn't marry
until he found a woman worth having
did he? Where do you suppose he
found this one, Ike?"
"Found her? Why, suppose he
found her at home''
A few days after this the miller ask
ed Ike how long "Mr. Craig and his
wife, were going to stay at the Bow
nes'.
:His wife's at home. Miss Craig is
his sister," said Ike.
ooh, yes! Well, l was thinking, Ike,
that all the.years I've lived il the
mill I've never had any one here to a
meal, excepting beggars and tramps.
The Bownes are good neighbors, and
I've half a mind to ask them over to
tea while they're here"
"Whew!" cried Ike. in jovial surprise.
"But who would make the cake and
the fol de-rols they always, have for
company" he added
I'D ride over to Beaver Pond, and
buy up lot of stuff of the baker, and
some peaches and pineapples and
such things in cans, and other knick-
knacks. IT'S only nine miles, you know.
I'd have the table all set before they
came. Have we dishes. enough for
six?"
"Who are your Skip asked Ike.
"Why, Mr. and Mrs. Bovine, MIR.
and Mrs, Craig, and"-
"Miss Craig" interrupted Ike, with
a quizzical look.
eyes, and YOU and me-isn't that
six?"
Miller had indeed bought "a lot OF
stuff" enough to feast a dozen fami-
lies. He had bread and biscuit and
rolls, and crackers Of every shape and
name. He hadfruit- cake and frosted
cake, sponge cake and brides cake,
nut-cake, currant-cake, doughnuts,
sugar cookies, molasses cookies, and
hearts and rounds. All these were
ri1o1 ~, ~, os M any 10 rOo hive.