Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-03-05

when I'm gone. II I'd listened to you
oftener, especially that time when yon
was talkin' to me so sensible by the
milk-house, things would have been
different That thousand dollars I
wouldn't give to Preston has brought all
OF our bad luck. 1t will kill me to see
the Old place sold under the hammer an
Preston, my boy, came on here to ask
you to forgive me the wrongs did you.
l suppose you haint nothin' saved
ahead, but know you'll look out for
mother better than the others, for they
haint got nothin' an mother would feel
more like llven' on you, since she helped
you, you know, in goin' to school, when
was so mean an wouldn't. If you
hadn't fooled away all of your time
goin' to school, may be you'd
have somethin' now to live on in
stead OF boardin' around. Whose place is
this, ennyway, Pres?" he suddenly in
quired, for the first time observing the
rolling meadows and waving grain in
the fields back Of the large house. As
ignored the question, he perhaps thought
l had not heard him. and continued:
II yum, l believe could live on sech
a farm as this, but faint for sech as I
am. Say, Pres, what kind of man
owns this farm, ennyway, so near the
city, yet right out in the country on the
other side of the house."
''Oh, he is man about your size," I
replied.
''Is he-that is-did he-say, did he
ever 60 to college?"
II believe he did fool away some of
his time at University" replied,
smiling at the look that swept over his
face, while the only remark to this he
could make was his familiar II YUM"
In this one expression, all the con-
victions OF years seemed swept away,
but it needed one more test to Danish
them all. I had whispered something
to my mother that had driven all care
from her dear face, but I was not yet
ready to divulge to my father what was
said. Neither had laid away their
wraps, but sat holding them in their
hands as if expecting soon to leave. At
last father said:
'Well, Pres, since you have stopped
here till I've told our story, may be we
better be goin' up to your boardin'
house. The family here don't seem to
be comm home, an may be you can run
in agin if you were waitin' to see them.
I'm 'fraid mother is pretty tired after
her long ride on them tarnel cars, an
we better get on.''
''Oh, no." I replied smiling. 1.-THE
family are not away. The farmer is at
home. Lay off your things and come
out to supper"
'Why, what don't understand" he
replied, looking helplessly at mother;
then seeing her smiling face, he was
more astonished than ever, until, to
ease his anxiety and bewilderment, I
explained:
'"This place, nv dear father, b..
longed to me; but when I heard, through
one of the neighbors, how things were
going out at the old home, I had the
deed changed, and it is now made out to
Mrs. Phebe Astery. Thinking you might
not like to live with mother if she
owned all the property in the family, I
have also purchased the old home-farm,
and here is the deed made out to Joseph
Astery. so you can, in the future, live on
just whichever place you please, only
if you stay an this one, I may board with
you for few years, while fool away
some time inventing machinery" His
only answer was:
II vum."-Floyd &. Royce, in House
keeper.