Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1888-06-28
The Good Old Times.

rnscihle man. and he used to wear n
rcd comforter around his neck and red
flannel eorlappers on his plug hat when
Ilo went to meeting in winter. He was
always ready TO argue that these mod
crn tines were awIully bad. amt that
the good old times Of II hundred years
ago were just right. He would dccry
invention and Improvement and say
that the world would be better without
them He took Il newspaper on pur-
pose TO count the murders recorded in
it and tell how bid the world had
grown. He would stand for hours on
corner in the village and retail his
deductions on the present and his re.
grots for the past.
One day he had whipped the minis
ter in argument, and US hD had his
dinner and the minister had gone away
mad and the women were ut work in
the Kitchen. he tipped back his chair.
drew rcd silk handkerchief over his
head 10 keep of the Il os and went to
sleep. lie had not siopt over five min
utcs before In. soo John cam, in and
saId:
Come, father, we must got at that
piece OF wheat ana cuL It,
Biewtb got up and yawncd and fol
lowed + \ son to the BARNARD. where
his two sons su. on II log filing It couple
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