Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1891-05-22
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lam far"-A Lawn Tenm,. mole VIII
used to think / was 'asiasal
marked Uncle William ~ 'afmer" re-
XII i've chickens for d,nn. :" started h
my relatives and my wife, r.,. Out since
.he'f relatives and our manv NATIVES s.i and
10 comm here to spend ,ba 'ia'enastOok
vacations begin to think ai,',, sumner
any more dunno. Koas''., aiarmer
reS'runt' and house OF refuge e., an motel and
asylum. and insanitariun, s n,s ana orphan
IN but IT didn't use to be 10y oe farm.
Early last month nv WIFI.
her husband and his hra,l SISTER and
oro'ners wife and the Children ana ~ his
FAMILIES come down from tia 10 y both
about two cords of trunks ana wy with
ute Tor garden sass that mo aas az appe.
and the hired man ain, ho' 'u mother
more n half satisfy. Then ~. ~ aole TO
her husband who is sufferin' fro e.ef and
eral depiilty or suthin' and ,bs;r sen'
dren and nurse dropped in ON j., chi.
commenced tellin what ners i, " and
lightfui farm we was runn; ..'iy de-
Lucy's Teller and couple Of d"a. Then
used TO tend college with Tbomas s' .ilat
IN on us Then cousin ~ n,4 p.ed
orother-ln-law and an old Teller NV. "ies
ne was friend of my fathar,s 'a' sad
and few days ago chap came ss 0, m
that SAID he had patent dnr's lung
ketchin potato bugs by machinsrS ~, .a
ned like to trade off for board Il. N'a'
the summer | said guessed IA '' .
EN- by hand this season and ~. Ae.ch
tel and restrunt was just abou, choo. 10
at the present time. oAup
In fact, don't know how
crowd IN any more Jest now WI. Ou'a
and mother went to the cit, "en Tue
they put us up -four flights Of s,.;s. "me,
ieit kindly sorry we couldn't he ;u.. u
perllte when they come To 500 a - as
our house amt but two stories biah ~. ~,
we didn't have time to raise tho o., anu
we done the best we could so,na " y
EN- we chicked in the spare room .oo -
on EN- in the side room some on ~. A.'
the hail. and some on EN- in tbe oaa m u
Lncy's Teller has had to sleen on ~.
pianer, the college dudes sleep in ~
woodshed. and me and the hired NAV NV
sleep IN the granery Cyrus and Tbom..
and Henry take their lodgin' in tbs
straw stack, and mother and I,ucv lodns
with LENS folks never knew what;t
was before to run summer resort !,
beats conference and camp meetin's al
holler
They all said they was just dyin, IN
see us. and reckoned they was the wav
they took hold of the provisions. Mean1
the hired man and the BOYS spend an
hour every morning digging potatoes
Smelling green peas and pickin chicken,
for the crowd, while mother pieces ON,
the table every day or two to make room
for extras
THE visitors is all the time complain.
in about their appetites, but | notice
that our potatoes, and our green peas
and our chickens, and our garden sass h
in purity steady demand all the time
and that our milk amt sent to the fac
tory any more The college dudes and
Lucy's Teller and the children constitoOt
the milk factory
There is some amusin things takes
place on the farm when the visitors is
here think | must tell you jest one
Lucy's Teller and the college dudes was
playin what they call lawn tennis outin
the COW pastur one day when Bill Green.
fields big red critter, Nose, strolled along
that way and commenced gain at EN-
earnestly through the cracks in stone
fence. Me and the hired man was watch.
in of him from the potato field and We
could see he felt hurt about suthin.
"The boys was waltzin around the pas.
tur with their white coats and panties
on and when at the height of their en-
ioyment Nose backed up and started.
never saw lawn tennis when it looked
more thrillin' Me and the hired man
Jest stood there and watched three
streaks of white and streak of bright
red railroad il across the farm, the red
gradually approachin' the white and
danger signals all along the line, Lucy
Teller had the longest legs and com
menced to look fer butternuts in the tOE
of a tall tree, but the college bow
couldn't trot so fast, and was assisted ol
Nose to reserve seat in the black
berry patch When it comes to red AM
white colors in race of this kind yol
want to put your money on the red mos
generally =,
"Runnin a summer resort is powerlu
5 expensive. but there's some things Klnoe
excitin and interestin' about 1t once III
) while and guess we'll stand 1t throus'
4 the season b H. Colegrove in James
town IN " Sun,