The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-09-10

| Bovine, whom he had sent OUT OF Ghe
mill a dozen times in as many years
for looking down the hopper, and for
gathering tour-dust to play baking
with.
He had never once rebuked Ike for
anything, and he felt delicate about
beginning that now-they were so hap
Ply together!
The trouble grew.
Something's got to be done quick
about this" he said, 'and 1t will be
done tool" And in his resolute zeal,
he boxed the side of his own head
imagining it was Ike's head.
But the boy came home so happy,
whistling so cheerily! Heset down his
! coffee and molasses andsalt 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 nowI'
What NONSENSE" asked Ike, indie
pendently.
"Why, keep clear OF folks-people-
girls" he added, compromisingly;
girls that you kncT nothing about"
He continued
There's Ruth Bovine now-she-
she"-
what about her."
"Well, not her, but her mother
"Why, Mrs. Bowne's q mother to
everybody! She's the best woman in
the world"
mo, it was her grandmother I
meant"
"Old Mrs. Bowne?"
"No, the other one"
"There wasn't any othergrandmoth-
er you couldknowl Mrs. Bowne's own
mother died when she was a year old"
"Well, l guess on the whole, it was
Ruth's greataunt | meant"
"What allied herr" asked Ike.
"Why -she-she-was -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, andupthe gang plank" towards
the road.
Miller the miller was greatly eXer
cised after this, and fanCied he saw
Ike'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 a 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 OF 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 a chair vas Ike, who exclaimed
swell, this is a treat, to see uncle
out visiting! Here's a welcome for
you'll"
The bravery of this took the spirit
all out of Miller the miller. He laugh
ed reluctantly, sat down after being
introduced to the deacon's cousins, a
stalwart man and a pretty little wom-
an by the 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 outl We must go
home now"
On their way home the miller re-
Marked
very 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 &C.
tually said, 'That Craig wasn't such a
fool as most men are-hed didn't marry
until he found a oma worth having
did he? Where do you suppose he
found this one, Ike?"
found herr Why, / suppose he
found her at homel"
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.
"0h, yesl Well, / was thinking, Ike,
that all the years I've lived in the
mill I've had any one here to q
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, injovial surprise.
"But who would make tho cake and
the fol-de-rols they always have fol
company" he added.
I'D ride over to Beaver Pond, and