Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-08-01
MY OK.
A Frank Statement of the Reasons
Why He Is for Sale.

have an OK for sale. I will sell
him reasonable" I don't expect to
make any money on him. am not
going to deceive about this matter at
all, and own frankly that the animal
is not to be sold because the owner is
going to Europe. am not going to
Europe. 1 wish l was, for then 1
might look forward to having my
mind diverted from dwelling on some
of the Incidents of this season. For
instance, if I should be able to go
through the gallery of the Louvre I
might see picture, or a pretty woman
looking at a picture, and one or the
other might enable me to forget that
old @Leftant Shaw" down at the Four
Corners here, has called me on three
several occasions the ''gauldist-durnd-
est fool that ever come out inter the
country to make a cuss of hisself.
Such remarks as the above are cal
culated to sting, even though they are
made by an ancient cobbler who was
''leftant'' in the militia in the earlier
part of the century, and who, within
the knowledge of this generation, has
never been known to have a whole
pair of trousers to his legs.
Though his social position is not
great, nearly all the men at the Four
Corners gather in his shop in the even
ings, and shuttle their feet on the leath-
or chips there, and spit and talk over
every thing. They talked me over be-
fore had been at my friend Malden's
house twenty-four hours, and when it
was known about the OK, as it was di-
rectly, Leftant Shaw said I looked ex-
actly like that kind of an idjit.
This brings me back to my subject.
He is good OK, at least, the man who
sold him has been heard to say that he
was good OK, and that there want
nothin' in the world so kind as Juba
was.
Juba is the musical name given to
the steer when very young. can
earnestly say that, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, Juba is kind.
When l first knew him it was a pleas
ure to look into his big mild eyes as he
gently chewed his cud.
I bought him that I might ride
horseback. am we'll aware that it is
not customary when one wishes to ride
horseback to buy an OK. But l had
reasons for this course which seemed
very cogent at the time, but which
soon after the purchase was effected
lost their cogency.
It was in May that came out here,
with all my belongings, to stay until
fall with my old college chum Maiden,
who is the 'orthodox'' minister at the
Four Corners. This is one of the
towns where the Congregational
Church is always mentioned as
the orthodox" leading stranger
to believe that it holds within it ev-
cry thing orthodox that is in the
place, as perhaps it does.
was sent into the country because /
had headaches and could not sleep, and
because nervous exhaustion wss a
threatening of the future.
''Now,'' said Maiden, on the second
day, "what you need is horseback ex-
ercise. You could ride my mare just
as well as not, if I only had something
to work my little farm. OF course you
can't buy horse for yourself"
OF course I couldn't, being lawyer
who was living on his minute capital,
and who had not yet had a brief.
said I should have to go on shank's
mare, and the subject dropped for that
day. But the next day at dinner NAL
den cried out that he had It, and that
it was an OK. On being explained, this
remark meant that If I could raise
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