Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-10-26

dreadfully worked up about it. Fol-
a time it looked as if these two ole
men, who have been friends now, boy
and man; going on sixty-two years
were never going to speak to each
again. 1t all came of a division fence
between their farms.
Uncle DanPs grandboy Sam, the one
that is sparkling Lizzie North, the
orphan girl down at Tim Bottoms
new house-Sam had been for some
time eOaxing his gran'pa to spruce
up the old place, and among other
things has said that if Uncle DanI
didn't build a new fence between the
Goodspeed and the Bibbs meadows,
why, ne would do it himself. OF
course Sam could not build a fence.
He viii own the whole farm some day,
but just now ne could not raise
money enough to pay for digging the
pOsthOles; and you may be sure he
would not dig them himself, for he
has hardly done a lick of work
since he got to training with
the North girl. But the way
he talked and talked about
that old meadow fence, saying it
was a shame and a disgrace, running
right up to the baseIine road as it
did, and within sight, too, of thenew
fence lately built by Jabez Watson,
whose boy is sort of purring around
Lizzie North, trying to cut Sam out
AL this talk of Sans set Uncle
Danl to thinking that may be he
ought to build the new fence. So
he went over to Deacon Bibbs's house
and said:
"TOm, you amt got no objection
to my putin up a new fence along
atween our medders, have you?'
The deacon sort of smiled like and
said: ''Waal, Danil, what on earth
put thatnotion in your head?"
"Oh, nothin' petickiler, said Uncle
Dan1, "only the old fence is about
past patchin' up, and I thought,
bein's how I've got my hay and bar
ley in, I'd jest"
'Waal, ain't this kind O. sudden?
You. amt never said nOthin' about it
before"
'NO," Uncle Danl admitted, 'ebut
I've been a-thinkin' about it torso
time"
LOOKING AT THE FENCE.
The two old men walked along to-
gether down the road to look at the
fence and talk the matter all over.
On the way the deacon laid his hand
on Uncle DanPs arm and, stopping
him, said: "Danil, look at that
there tree right from here. What
does it mind you OPP
''NOthin' petickler, Tom"
"DOn't you mind that old tree
down by the crick back o. your pas
Orchud-the one that"
"Guess 1 do" said Uncle Dan'I;
''the one where we had the fight that
time"
Eyes, a. Aunt Tilda come down
an pulled me off7n you
can spanked you, too"
eyes, so she did : vas gettin' a
leetle the best OfyOu when she come,
I guess, Dan1."
81 Dunno" said Uncle DanI; 81
guess if I'd a-had my boots on when
] kicked you in the stOmick that time
I'd a-winded you"
''But 1 was atop when Aunt Tidy
come, you know"
'"Ihat's so; but there amt no tell
In what ID a-happened if she hadn't
a-cOme. was u pretty husky boy,
Tom"
$50 you was, Dan1, but I had you
down"
eyes, but I want a-whimperin'
about it, was I?'
''NO, you WANT. I don't guess Ell
ther Of us was much o. the whimper-
in sort. -
''Waal, not very much that folks
knOwed OF, said Uncle DaRl, proud
~,
When they reached the meadow
fence Deacon Bibbs said:
'"That's so; it is gettin' pretty rick
ETY.. But, Danl," he added alter
awhile, cts a-gOing to cost some
thing to build a new one. 1 should
think
81 know it, Tom, I knOwit; but I've
calkelated on all that. Sammy, he's
gittin' along now, you know, an it
sort o. makes him ashamed, an
bein's he's gOin' to have the farm
bime-by, anyhow, jest thought if
you didn't have no objections I'd run
up a new one now"
''Waal, I'll tell you, Danil; I'm a
leetle pinched for money jest now,
but
''What o. that?" said Uncle DanI.
e'Tain't goin' to cost you nothin'.
I'm gOin' to build it myself"
DISPUTE OVER THE COST.