The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-08-05

These opan-lot scar2crows are masterpieces
OF art, and on y the most experienced scare.
crow scuIp;ors dare set their figures out
where every body can look at them. MOI
on do they dress well. but their members
are skiifully articulated, SO that they can
toss and fling their arms about in the wild
wind from the mountains. Many person.
travelling OH the railroads past n group Of
nrticulated scarecr rws when the wind wa.
high have been de!u led into supposing that
1t was a gathering of .ocal Vermont poll
ticians
The Vermont scarecrow Is the best dressed
in tn, world. After he gets through with a
suit of clothes, the farmer takes them for
himself Usually he wears a plug hat, and
IN my of them carry umbrella to keep oil
the rain and san. HI, also is the harpiesl
still-life figure in the world. He never looks
for company. When the farmer Ia not with
him looking out for his conf ,rt, introducing
o little more straw into his bowels, splinter.
ing his arms so that thsy will thrash the air
I'm mors spirited and arts tic style, or driv-
ing his spinal column a little more deeply
and firmly into the soil, the crows always
come down from the hills to cher him up
They perch them 'eivss OH his plug hat, crane
their heads under tho brim into his earnest,
thoughtful face. and then look at each other
IL
.carecrows ths life Of q Vermont crow would
lie dull and dismal. As it is. they have a
CAV, rollicking time with the scarecrows all
summer, but when the November storms
have knocked the scarecrow into his cooked
hat an flung him about the field, they sail
silently aud disconsolateiy away to the
south.
A crow evinces q good deal Of EN- otion
when his scarecrow friend fiops down on the
ground As an artisan in the scarecrow-
making business of White River Junction
sad few days ago: Grows can't seem to
let make out what the dumb things be, an
KNOWN q crow as well as i do. and what
Gurus inquisitive Gus es they be, it's my
opinion that they'll hang around the state
o'.Vermont till they find ont or course /
make a good many scarecrows each year,
an some OF 'em Is corkers fur style am GIN
rral max up, Tut don't mind tellin' you
that in my opinion Vermont will be chock
full o crows jlst so long as we continner ter
Irvine q string o scarecrows round Their hull
state ca h spring ter tract 'em. don't say
rm opposed ter scarecrowS 'Twouldn't do
I'm the state of Vermaount faint popular.
You might as well kick agin tho ConSrega.
toni church in Massachu >etts-but do say
damacrow." There are many scarecrows
that look very er.ous and very much in
earnest AMI some there are also that frown
ut you, but it does not seem to be positive
malevolence that ails them, but the unhy-
gienic way in which they are set up A
scarecrow cannot smile AMI look joyous
with ten-inch rip in his abdomen, or with
his head dangling by rope down his back
into the top of his rubber boot. All prop
erly constituted and normally healthy Yer
mont scarecrows have a not repulsive look;
. h tail. L.
and corpulent, have 70 ,itively jaunty and
social air. Vermont scarecrows are rather
noted for their good nature, even when they
look their worst-New York Sun