Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1890-03-28
LAPoRTE, PA, FRIDAY, MARCH 2s, 1890.

over her tail, and then Jeremiah he came
to the rescue and sot her agoing right
end foremost.
Our hired man, Jonas Bangs, he
hitched up the oxen and went down to
our 'tother farm after load of medder
hay, and as soon as Gustavus see him
getting ready he was bent to go.
''It will be so sweetly pastoral to ride
on the new mown hay" sed he, feeling
of the spot where he expected his NUS
tache would be sometime in the vast and,
onsartin' future quite like poem"
sI dunno's you'd better risk it," sed
Jcremieh, "them air cattle is kinder orn-
cry critters, and they hain't been used
for quite spell-snd Jonas hain't over
and above keerfuli"
Bat De We're and Lily Ann they
wouldn't hear to nothing, and they
mounted into the cart and went off. He
held her perrysol over her head with one,
hand and clung for dear life to the rail-
of the cart with 'tother. And Jonas he
iabbed the brad in the end of his goad'
into the oxen and sot 'em off in a canter.
was busy frying doughnuts, and after
that team had been gone about long
enough to get back heerd an awful
rumble, and forgot all about my billing!
hot fat on the stove, and rushed to the
door with a lump of dough in my hand,
and good graciousl there was them oxen
tearing down the hill at the back of our
barn on the dead run, and Mr.. De We're
and Lily Ann bouncing about on the top
of the load of hay and yelling like wild
critters. His hat was gone, his eye
glasses bobbed out behind him, and his
long hair streamed back like banner in
the breeze.
Rite down the hill went them oxen
rite through board fence that was
round the cabbage patch, straight into
into a swamp that lays a-tween our
farm and Deacon Bridges. There the
cart stuck fast and come to such sud-
den standstill that it upset, and De We're
and Lily Ann upset with it. l see 'em
bounce up into the air like two injy
rubber balls, and jest that mint l heerdl
an awful swish and sizzle from the
kitchen, and I rushed back to find my
doughnut fat all afire and the room SO
full of smoke that you couldn't see acrost
it. / ketched the tongs and throwed
the klttle out doors, and jeremiah he
came in from the barn with two horse
blankets and a buffalo, and we made out
to save the house.
Jonas had got round and fishd Lily
Ann and her admirer out of the water,
and the neighbors come manfully to the
spot and helped git out the oxen.
My soul and body! You'd ought to
have seen De We're! He was a spectacle,
and no mistake! We washed his head
out in the watering trough, and put him
into some overalls of Jeremiah's, and /
gin him rum sweat to keep the cold
from striking to his throat, but the pore
critter was so far gone that he couldn't
eat nothing for supper.
As for Lily Ann, she took her bed and
stayed there till De We're had gone home,
and don't much think he'll ever show
himself here again, and hope he never
will. jeremiah says he hain't no manner
OF doubt but what Jonas fetched up them
oxen with the whip when they got to the
top of the hill a. purpose to set 'em a-run-
ming, for Jonas is sly feller, aad fond
of fun. I've had good sound talk with
Lily Ann, and I'm trying to Parn her to
make bread and pies, and be somebody,
but 1 dunno's shall make out.
You see, she's got her brains crammed
so full of isms and ologies that there
hain't much room to put in any common
sense. Too much eddication has nigh
about been the ruination of her. .-Arkan-
sav 7raceler.