Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-09-26
PLEASED WITH THE CHmLs.
Too Lazy to Entertain a Hope and Not
at All DESTROYS of Trying any New
Tangled Disease.


leading roll. What, then, is the principal
actor? Chills. There are men in those
bottoms who were born with chill and
who have never shaken it off.
Some time ago. while riding through
the Muscadine neighborhood, came upon
man sitting on log near the roadside.
He was sallow and lean, with sharp knob
cheek bones and with hair that looked
like soiled cotton. The dav was intensely
hot, but he was sitting in the sun, although
near him tangled grapevine cast a most
inviting shade
Good morning, said l, refining up my
horse.
Hi.
You live here, suppose.
Jest about.
"Why don t you sit over there III the
shade?''
"Will when the time comes.
''What do you mean by when the time
comes p
when the fever comes on.
Having chills are yOu!'
''Sorter.
How long have you had them?"
''FOrty-odd year.
How old are your"
''Forty-odd year. -
Been shaking all your life, eh?''
''Only half my life; fever was on the
other half -
why don t you move away from here?"
''Becaze We lived here so long that I'm
afeerd l might not have good health
nowhar else
Gracious alive, do you mean to say
that having chills all the time is good
health p
''WalI, health mout be wuss. Old Nat
Sarver moved up in the hills some time
ago, was tuck down putty soon with some
new sort Of disease and didn't live more'n
a week. Don't b'lieve in swappin' off
sunthin' that I'm used to for sunthin'
that know nothin' about. Old-fashioned,
everyday chills air good enough for me-
Some folks, when they git little up in the
world, mount want to put on airs with
dyspepsia and bronkichus and CHAMBERS
and catarrh, but as, | lowed to my wife
the other night, old chills and fever war
high enough for us yit awhile. A chill
may have its drawbacks, but it has its en-
joyments, too.
Il don't see how anything.about chill
can be enjoyable.
Jest OWN to how you air raised, as
the Teller says. When | have a chill it
does me power of good to stretch, and ]
tell you that fust-rate stretch when
feller's In the humor ain to be sneezed at.
I'd leave wotermilion most any time to
have a coed stretch. High-o-6oor' He
gaped. threw out his legs. threw back his
arms and stretched himself across the log.
cts sorter like the itch," he went on.
''The itch has its drawbacks, but what
power of good it does a man to scratch.
Had uncle who cotch the itch In the
army and he lay thar and scratched and
smiled and scratched agin. In order to
keep up with the demand of the occasion he
sprinkled a lot of sand in his bed and tuck
off all his clothes, so that every time he
turned he be scratched all over He KEEP
this up till the itch killed him, but he died
a-scratchin' and a-smilin and reckon he
was about as happy dead man as ever
lived. Wall, my fever is comm on now
an | reckon I'll git up thar under the
shade.
He moved into the shade and stretched
himself again
'How long will your fever Iast?" l
''Wall, I don't know exactly; three
hours, mebby.''
''Then what?'
''Wall III funter around awhile, chap
up little wood to git bite to eat with,
swap boss with some Teller, mebby, and
then fix myself for another chill .
''Haye you much of family?''
''Wife and grown son. He's about the
ablest chiller in the country; wy when he's
got rale good chill on he can take hold
of tree and sake off green persimmons.
Wy he wins all the money the niggers
have got, shakin dice. Wall, have you
got to go?"
Eyes"
''Wait till my fever cools down little,
and Iii beat you outen that nag you're
ridin. -
mo, I don't care to walk
''Goodby then. When you git tired
Twin up thar among them new-fangled
diseases, come down here whar everything
is old-fashioned and honest.