The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-02-25
ONLY BAcHELo Rs WANTED.

"Do yoh happen to know Of 4 n,;ot
Comforts ble; asszy little place IL 1s IN
country whefe! man with Il family c .s0
obtain fresh butter and new-laid eg oa,a
and cream and green grass i for f 7So y
children to run upon and and ali. that
ort of thing, at price that would come 4;
too far from tho city 5
"How fan DID you say the income was
from the cityp" inquired the writer.
somewhat confused q
~ want to live in the coun try, = con- ..53i
tinued the first spea ker !, wliere nv chill
aren can get fresh mir from tho hills.
where they car climb rocks and fenars
Land trees and tear their clothes and 90 +
to bed Mt night robustly tired, and get
1up in the morning robustly refreshed. 81
where they can gather the flowers that I
bloom in the spring, an .a q.
"Bother the flowers that bloom III thu
Fpring! Do you happen to know what
month it is Pr 4.
january, the latter part Of j anluarv.
and the man. who expects to luxuriata
in a quiet comfortable 10, coy little place
in the country during the coming summer
has got to begin to look about him OF tie:
pastoral paradisss 9iil III he gobbled
up. We !,
Let me talk to you i minute, 2 said
the writer. Lastl ear we--.1ny wife 8
md y thought wi would 90 into the
country for the sl Mmer. X Nv wife. nv
foolish, ignorant wife, said ii. would 81
so nice for the children ana as there
we're four OF them and only one Of nv
e 81 s. shs s sa'sa ea s
had looked up "a place iii the city IN the;
tall, and ny blood still boiled at the \
recollectio Of the sli ghts and humilia. /
lions heaped nHgn mo during that week
landlady discovereH that three children
filled out the list, of ncumbranc the
Jenkins household besides my wife,
Awife was bad enoug in the estimation
of most of them. What d city board
g-house keeper wants. issia bachelor
who needs ID whole floor and! will pay :
for it the price of the rooms and board
for six people and is never E;o5me to-.
lunch and goes away every Sunday, and
then she will stop up two burners Of I.
the three armed chandelier in his room.
But this is a dispersion There were
only three childreni in the fall, and there
\ were fourth the spring, and ] was glad
the looking-up process was to be con
4 Quoted In the suburbs. I took d list Of
| allthe eligible (p) places within aradius
OF twenty miles from town and began.
j tried the farmhouse racket first.
Il Those ads read we'll: Wide, cool
4 porches, plenty Of shade, fresh eggs,
fchickens, cream, etc. Such places, I
4 thought, will please other than tho
children among tile Jinkinse But I
never could find them the place, 1
j mean. They must have moved the LIST
Of May. did find one that bore out to
q limited extent the rosy visions: engen-
dered by the newspaper notice.. but the
farmer had q very cross dog, q great
\ big ugly-looking bull and Inastiff mon
} grel, and when Z told hiinI Twas afraid
\ Of that dog with the children he smiled
} rather peculiarly II thought, and after
J ward said he couldn' Il chain him I'm be-
!, cause he had never found chain strong
enough to hold him. So I decided NOT
!, to 20 there. h II Il. !:
Then II skipped farm-houses and
: tackled villas and found 4; them rs
weak alot as the ingerbread gable rail
{ thug was wear about then but Mi y6a
! prices, and those were firm enouglG
! Some were .genteel, Z in edition to their
weakness, and when II struck one Of
those, I quoted from the litany;G:s. & God
Lord deliver nal, md tossed 7 n, strset
az spent 4 fortnioht poin > Z ha, III ar
and on. and pnt ,ureitv trad e Il ,,,,t ~
last I came across q yery rleasant In Inn r.
ING place in 4 nrettv III hos M, aiana,,
miles inf. ~ fla c;tv Ths ~ n 49,
the attractive nartsa real co,nt ~ rs I'd
with Old shade trees and Sciaan. ssr :. %
and the scent Is /. tbe anna iii sso se,,
coming in IN everv hraa =. frn,, ,,s sti,a
orchard ;havond M Gl;taJ q hss.l1 ~. -.
althomoh ,tie rooms Waro law ny ,aoe
tty. and TIA mistress ~ ia @ ~ ;.,st
tie onnosita fall and s a ltnnt LII IsS
Eoyerlnnl.ed n,un, for 1+,,at y,
Ech;]dren ~ Iss;t rLa, ~, i, VIC
my m s Sn .eii.;9s.l Ilell
in pola,. $40 t,,s stins'lieu NY
.s.IInw : !, az. 3 go 8. so si.s
!. .Fonr s;nnj;oI ~ |, I, B.
!. she jumped back little, and t liz She
~. She had occasion a q Hi II, ono hnt
four. she couldn,t thinL, u mart; nniarl Nv
with two Of ,em hoys. tlcS Il, ign e, ia trans
mud, and s4, Z. N y 80 Y -
-. yes. II sho,,ted IL & >, !, Mn 2 IA
Y and trample tbe gr.,ss .1' and 81 ,s g tha
4 chickens and trv FL = III III M nan and ND
probably pet k;sLe III. n a;r S AIN. Ss
whistle md shout and liter I tbs i ho .Ils
l,Iwlt VIZ sangleworms, for bait and cat bread
ana apntter three times q dny, to say
Il nOChlng OF between meal 4. md that Zig