The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-09-10

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sgled merrily with the jingling OF the
cksinsattachedto the plow harness.
Jake's blue shirt was soiled with
perspiration and dust. A portion OF
the crown Of his hat was gone, max
ing an aperture through which peeped
his ] wish I could say blonde hair
but it was sandy, very sandy. His
hands and face were sunburned and
rough, while his feet hanging at the
sides Of the old mare we're bare and
dirty, but all this did not interfere
in the least with his peace OF mind,
until, upon turning fork in the road,
he found himself by the side OF Farm
er Apderson's daughter, who was
walking home from Squire Ford's,
where she had been invited to tea
She reioiced in the name OF Rosa, this
girl Of seventeen, with pink cheeks and
sky-blue eyes. Very pretty and inno-
cent she looked in her white dress and
floating ribbons.
.How-da-do, Jake, !" she said, with
q careless toss OF her head. Jake's
greeting was inaudible because of a
choking sensation in his throat. Some
how Of late he had very peculiar feel
ings whenever he was with Miss Rosa
such q queer commingling of pain
and Joy. He could not have told for
his life which predominated or whic h
he preferred. His pain was SO exquis-
lite, and the Joy so excruciating.
He slipped down from the mare and
started the team ahead. He had a
vague impression that his feet ould
be less conspicuous on the ground
than dangling in the air in close prox-
unity to Rosa's nose. He wished, in
&c infused and dazed sort OF way, for
he had lost all controi OF his thinking
powers, that they were not so large
or so dirty. He would have bartered
his hopes OF eternal life Just then for a
pair OF shoes. The odor from his
eweat-soaked clothes had suddenly
become offensive to him. She appear
cd SO dainty and pure in contrast.
Heavensl how the blood surged to his
heart as hestumbled awkwardly along
by her side, trying to think of some.
thing to say.
"Of course you're going to the fair,
Rosa2' he finally asked, timidly, at
the same time breaking of the top OF
tall weed that he might have it to
carry-his hands seemed to have swol-
len in size and SO much in the way.
aOh, yes" she answered, .severy-
body is going, guess" She did not
manifest any interest as to whether he
would be there. He wished she
would.
Harry Ford will enter his brown
colt-the one he rides, you know. /
hope it will take the premium, don't
You. Then, without waiting for an
answer she launched into a lengthy
description Of what q perfectly lovely
time she had been having at the Ford g
that evening, and wound up by ask
ing, Don't you think they are such q
nice family?"
An entirely new feeling crept into
Jake's heart. He and Harry Ford
I had always been good friends, but all
at once be found himself believing that
an opportunity to throttle Harry
would afford him supreme delight. A.,
they were now at the gate that led in
to his fathers barnyard, Jake did not
feel obliged to answer Rosa's question,
but hastily bidding her goodbye, fol-
lowed his horses to the watering
trough. Rosa kept on down the road
toward her home. How awful Jake
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to herself You don't catch Harry
Ford in such plight" Harry,
knowing that they had company
invited, came in early from work.
Slipping up the back stairs to his
room, he arrayed himself in his Sun
day clothes, and came down looking
like gentleman. Jake thinks lots
Of me" She fingered tenderly over
the thought for g moment "But
mercy! Icould never marry q man
who went barefooted and wore such q
horrid dirty shirt. Now Harry--she
then went off into q pleasant little
reyerie, in which Harry was the CEN
trail figure. Thus a little incident will
sometimes shape q whole after life. If
Rosa had not happened to see Jake
with bare feet and dressed in his work
clothes would probably have q diff
ferent story to tell. But she could
not help having somewhat .fastidious
tastes, and Jake as he appeared that
evening was notsan object calculated
to exicte admiration.
Jake, back at the barn, was unhar-
Messing his team and growing more ir-
fitable every minute. cts TOO con-
founded bad it had to happen SO, he
muttered, as he jerked the astonished
horses around. t.If / could only a.
known she was on the roadl' He
dashed tho oats into the feed -tronghs,
giving the old gray a blow
I on the nose for nipping him.
Within the last halt hour he
4 had become very much dissatisfied
with himself. He vowed for one thing
he would quit going barefoot. He
could not help contrasting the name
Of Harry with that of Jake. He felt
indignant at his parents for selecting
such q name for him. Why couldn't
they just as well have called him
7 Harry, or Charley, or anything but
Jake. He leaned up against the gate
post Sulkily, loath to 90 in the house
y to meet the father and mother who
had treated hlm go shabbily by be-
slowing upon him such an appella-
tion. e
Jaky, come to supper" screamed
H his little sister. When he worked in
\ the corner field they did not have sup
l.sr until night. Jake ground his
teeth mirage at the sound Of his hated
ame, bnt went in. Helooked straight
at his plate during the eyenlng meal,
answering the questions addressed to
him briefly and grufiy When he got
/ m t.cm the tab he went immediately
ondsr what's the matter with
qnszisd his father. as he pre-.