Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-09-10
TALK wirH rHx " OLD skrrLEE."


"no, weather H.,nr No Good Time to HAS
sol Bars"
Nd Mott ia New York sun.
"The way tho katydids In turnin' up,
Squire" said the Old Settler, by and by,
n'twon't be great vile fore the oil ten
kittle II be abilin' here, an we'll be aiookin'
round fur u leetle lemon an sugar, su'
ieetle oil stingo from Sandy Mipgo, to kinder
dilute a swalier or two o. hot water with,
wunt we?"
.Natur'ly,p replied the squire "Else
watts the use o. havin' the weather git cool ~
"No use, p'ticlar," said tho old settler,
"ceptin' th't pleasanter fur ye II ye sh'd
happen to tumble inter rassel with bar.
Ho, weather be burned fur tacklin' brutn,
say, an nobody knows IL better'n do Jis'
look at tho time had one July, over on
Blinky's Knoll twenty year or 80 ago ia
ben out u huckleberryin' an hadn't per
yided fur inte- win no bar so, ez got TO
the foot o. tho u side o. the knoll on my
way hum, an b. ne squar' ngin an OF teaser
ALI ready fur fight an wantin' II, jis' con
cluded int tho tn monitor were leetle too
genial fur tarklip' him with Duthin' but
iackknife, an so ! took my back track up the
knoll an went down the west side OF peace
able ez "A spring lamb. hut wat looms up
afore me wen got to the bottom, but tho
bar, still a coaxin' tusseL
"frhat yarmint hss cut around an met
me- ! says, an wants to rile me, but won
be Iiled this hot day. / says an 80 edged
away from him, catty.cornered like up the
knoll, and went down the north side can't
say but what begun to get leetie mad, In
spite o. myself, when l 500 the durp bar a
waitin' fur mo thar, wen got to the bottom,
an had hall notion 10 sail in an wipe him
out: but then | says to myself, WAITS the
use o. beatin' yer blood an fetchin ON sun.
stroke, mebby,' | says, IAN mebby spillin'
yer berries, is' 10 hammer the life outer one
oil bar says, an that un all out o. fur, an
the meat not much better, yit, thin groun''
hogp SO 1 turned on my heel agin, an w
the knoll moised an struck fur hum by
the south side. Wall, wen / got down on
that side an found the bar layin' fur me
thar, kin tell We, b'gosh, INT my dandeT
riz right up, an ! couldn't git 1t down,
an IN spite o. the weather ! buckled
inter the pesky critter, an in less time III n
nd take mo 30 stick pig laid Mr.. Bruin
out stif!er'n an OK yoke Course, II II "a
'aben cool weather i wouldn't a turned q
bair, but es 1t were, the rascal het me up con
sidable, an wen I'm het up I'm tetchy o.
psttles. SO; wen l turned To pick up my
pail % berries, an see another big bar max
f,irgot all about sunstrokes an thmom
ters, an pitched in In twisted the wizzen o
tother bar, so ca ye Couldn't a toll IL from
awire rope struck by lightnin'.
'rrhen sot down To cool oil leetle, IN
ez were wipin' the prespyration often my
forrid. clumpy- -te.clump marched another
big bar from round one side o. the knoll, an
slosh shy-ts.slosh tore another un through thu
brush from round tother corner.
saw, now, see here, | says, kinder reas
onin like, to the b'ars Gosh tlmightyN
says, 'this is astin' too much OF a teller
says. wy, the dingnation can't ye wait til
snow flies, an yer fur Ia good; an yer mea
Is tit to chaw, 1 says, AN | kin hev hol
with ye without gii,in' mad, an kin lay y
"But them b ars would hev II, an so haC