Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1890-04-05

on over her head and the breast plats o,
over her tail, aud then Jeremiah be cam.
70 the rescue and so. her agoing nigh.
end foremost,
Our hired man, Jonas Bangs, h,
hitched up the oxen and went down ,e
our ,tother farm after load Of medde,
hay, and as soon as Gustavus see hin
getting ready he Was bent to GO.
1t will be SO s~eetly pastoral TO ride
on the new mown hay, sed he. feeling
OF the spot where he expected his mus
tache would be sometime in the vast AID
onsartin future-"qui like poem.
Il dunno's you i better risk it, sei
! jeremiah them all cattle is kinder orn
| erv critters, and they hain't been used
| for quite spell-and Jonas hain't over
and above keerfulr'
! BIT De We're and Lizy Ann they
wouldn't hear to nothing and they
mounted into the cart and went of. He
held her perrysol over her head with one
hand aud clung for dear life to the rail
of the y. with tother And Jonas he
| jabbed the brad in the end of his goao
into the oxen and sot 'em off III a canter
was busy frying doughnuts, and after
| that team had been gone about long
enough to get back l heerd an awful
rumble, and | forgot all about my billing
| door with lump of dough III my hand,
! and good gracious. there was them oxen
tearing down the hill at the back of oul
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 eve
glasses bobbed out behind him, and his
long hair streamed back like banner IL
the breeze.
Rite down the hill went them oxen
rite through a board fence that was
round the cabbage patch, straight into
into swamp that lays a-tween oul
farm and Deacon Bridges. There the
cart stuck fast and come to such "a sud
den standstill that it upset and De We're
and LiZy Ann upset with it. | see EN-
bounce up into the air like two I'M,
rubber balls, and jest that mint | heerd
an awful swish and sizzle from tbs
kitchen, and | rushed back to find nv
doughnut fat all afre and the room SC
full of smoke that you couldn't see acro-l
il, ! ketched the tongs and throweu
came in from the barn with two horst
blankets and buffalo and we made o,r
to save the house
Jonas had got round and tishel Lizy
Ann and her admirer out of the water
and the neighbors come manfuly to th.
spot and helped git out the oxen
NV soul aud body YOU'D ought t,
have seen De Vere He was spectacle
and no mistake, We washed his heac
out in the watering trough, and put hiu
into some overalls OF JereIniah's ana
gin him i rum sweat - keep the coil
from striking To his throat, bnt tho POI
crltter was 50 far gone that he couldn
eat-noth.ng tor supper
A toI Lizy Anu, She took her bed auo
STAYED there till De Iere had gone houIe
aud / don t mucn think he'll ever show
himself here again and / hope h- heye
will Jeremiah say, he hahn no mann.
Of doubt but what Jonas fetched up them
oxen with the whip when they got to the
top OF the hlll a purpose 10 SET EN- ruu-
ming, for Jonas is a sly feller, and fot
Of fun. We had good sound talk with
Lizy Ann and ID trying to l'arn her t,
make bread and pies, and be somebody
t,4t | dunno's | shall make out
OIL see, She got Ger brains cramlneJ
So fail uf l~m- and ologies that theIt
Aaint much room TO put IN any common
sense Too much eddcation has nigt
about been the ruinatiol of her -.4rko.
sac Iract}er
The Editors Reproof.