Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-01-22

The other day i went up garret to SCrt
out stOvepipe for our sittingroom stove.
was once allowed the benign privilege of
applying the first person singular when l
wished to mention any of my chaItels. /
look back on that period of my life as q
dream rudely disturbed by gushing wiles,
soOthing-syrup bottles. Easter bonnetS and
sister-in-law. The prOyerbal mother-in-
law las been my s;eadfast friend through
out all the trying Or,lea!s of my married
life. such as settling for last winters coal,
paying the cook who kicked when | drew
the line at canyaSS-backed ducks for her
cousin; the eagle-eyed policemen who
WEEDS the club and is frequent visitor of
my little side door. les. l can safely say
that my nIother-in-law mas been NV fIrin
friend. My sisters-n-law lave Impoverished
ne quite. Their fellows spark in my front
parlOr; they hatten the chair springs, wear
out the carpet, rub the paint oil the door
step, and cause my gate TO assume the post
ure of chronic debility.
However, that is neither here nor there
though they're mostly here, so 10 SPEAK. AS
said before, l went up garret Ia sort out
StOve-pipe for our s!ttns-room stove To
the man OF average patience, of stability
aud human endurance this might seem 10
be one of the pieasanttst tasks thrown in
the way of male Victim of domestic cX
pericnce. The devil is blacktr than he's
painted, and Solomon in all his glory is a
chrome rival 10 the tiger lily 10y the bull
frog pond--but the sorting out of sitting
loom section of stove pipe surpaSSetlI the
comprehension of mankind, unless you W.
been there. Tho neighborS for miles
around must have stored their stove pipo
in my garrett 1 never saw such stupend.
Gus cOng,omeratiOn OF Russ and sheet
ironcd either with rusty trimmings in ali
my life.
Outside the yellow leaf, fast turning to
ruSSet, was rafting against the dry limbs
OF the naples The lOrdly rooster petche,l
upon the rail fence and claTiOnetrd his
challenge TO the weather Vane nn The horse
barn. The drowSy bee was asleep. for tho
latent sun wasn't so latent as wonst it vast.
The cowboy didn't throw stones at the pud-
die frog: The puddle frog has crawled into
his hole and pulled the hole In after him.
In United States honest lnjun, the auspici-
ous winter Is in the near future, and IFS
! time tO erect the tivedoliaT alton denOlislIeT.
! That's why am up in the garret sorting
out s;oyepipe, my dear. l took a survey OF
the field and my heart went way down
stairs, skunk into the cellar and tried To hide
among the cobweb-coyered botte Phys
| icdily. il would have taken fTty-hOrsa
| derrick to lift my heart back to its wontc,l
| pedestal of pristine courage. Mentally-I
"'" SNO"S vi VIC "Chsai' SNCh IL uO WAL
! q thirty-two-inch chest tape when l get
measured for vvst-I commenced my
vigorous onslaught upon that pile OF pipe.
! The section wanted, that is, the first sec
on. was upon the top OF the pile, lying up
among the rIfters. tried 10 reach it,
| could not ] thought | would step upon
the lowest bit Of pipe. and, from the Gle
waited position. coald readily reach the de.
sired p pc. did; that is, l stepped uron
the pipe, but didn't reach f,r enough ia
grasp in tangible manner the reached fol
"biect. Perhaps, il l had had al arm
about fifteen feet long and sufficient cour-
| age to back Ii might lave graspel the
| pipe rs lay upon my back at the foot D,
the gaIrct ladder. Bet heavily OF your 10
tai ball club, go in full swipes on star