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

Farmer BICwitt was little, dried up,
rnsciEle man. and he used to wear n
rcd comforter around his neck and red
flannel enrlappers on his plug hat when
Lo went to meeting in winter. He was
always ready TO argue that these mod
crn mes were awlully bad. and that
the good old times of hundred years
rgo were just right. He would decry
Invention and Improvement and say
that the wOrlI would he better without
them. He took newspaper on pur-
pose to count the murders recorded in
il and tell how bid the world had
grown. He would stand for hours on
II corner in the village and retail his
deductions on tho present and his re.
grctS for the past.
One day he had whipped the minis
ter in argument, and rs ho had his
dinner and the minister had gone away
mad and the women were at work in
the Kitchen. he tipped back his chair,
drew rcd silk handkerchief over his
head TO keep of the fl o5 and went to
sleep. lie had not siopt over five min
utcs before hIs son John came in and
HaId:
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Blew It got up and yawncd and fol.
lowed h = son to the BARNARD, where
his two SONS 81! on II log filing Il couple
Of sIr;i,s.
.WlIYi in the nation are Won Ioipu
with those old sickir.?" sand BIewIt,
One Of the bows looked as,onishol
and ~a;d: 'Uon'? VIII We are get
ing ready 10 cut the whoat"
HIowi,t Stared a moment and tncp
said; .Nyhy in thunder JGn't Won L'tcn
On 10 tie reauer and sron foGtin' with
them sirklc4?"
The Loys looked nj each othor IN
surprise. but said noth.nr. RI.witi
an to the shed. bul There WI. no
rcapcr there. He came Locl; Tina
BOYS Ind rot over IN. tnuc. and wnra
ON their Knees rcaninp Tia wLa,t nnI
carr,iag + N gaveI.,
"En,S - s,iT HIa,vitt ",pho, do ,o,,
mean by This tool sbua,sp Whnrr il
Lhat reapor?"
CharlGy, Inc second nov looked ,t
his father pityinCly and then tanned
his forehead ami inHkcd over IN .inhn
who NODDED and looked sad,
"Why. darn it," said Hewitt "vou
can never ram those bundIrs ibrnuoh -
lhrcahn machine
.Thrcshiu' machine ~ said Char,av.
"vlIy, Won know a. wrIl nv do ,hoI'
will have ia ll,jl ,his what on, MON.
ines nud NIGHTS whijo mnim,, tn enHnnl
his winter, What uiIs Won f,ihor9n
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aud now he inst honnr1 nm and dawn
and said.
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