The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-19
LIFEIN THE COUNTRY.
Noises That Keep Bill Nye
Awake of Nights.
WALT WtiiTMAN'S
POETRY.
Extracts From n Letter Written by Poet
Riley. Containing an Obituary No
tice of the Buffalo Oyercoat.
rcnnrricht. lsaa. by Edgar " Hra,


Buck SHOALS \. c., June 13.-fSpecial
Correspondence. IA night in the country
is one OF the most restful things know of
for tired mind. | came here with that
idea. needed rest. ! had been troubled
with insomnia.
In the early spring / overthought nv
self. had one great big, robust thought,
bat could not seem to clothe it. Cloth
ing thought properly so that it will
please the public is gift. Quite a num-
Der Of the most remarkable children of my
brain are still weeping in the great bath
room of the past because they are not
suitably clothed.
Some of them / sent to the Browning
club. at Boston, where they are being
fitted up. | had intended at first to try
New York, but Anthony Comstock never
took his clothes off for ten nights, but sat
up at the Pennsylvania depot watching
every train and ready to hop on the first
bare thought ] dared to send in for suita-
bic drapery.
So was nervous and especially wake
full. | came here into the pinery forest
where a metropolitan sound would be a
wonder | retired early. for was tired of
travel and gorged with mans adulation.
Oh, rock me to sleep, mother,
Rock me to sleepl
Reclaimed.
Pretty soon q whippoorwiil started up
right close To the house. If | had not
been nervous | would not have noticed il.
but as 1t was / got sort Of irritated, for he
went into it so much harder than ANYBODY
wanted him to. II he had gone steadily
on oil night | could have slept but he did
not lie had an impeachment in his re-
marks, and sometimes he would quit right
In the middle of the word and | could al
most grow mad waiting Tor him to finish
it.
Then the clock in the library struck. 1t
does not strike right and | wondered how
far off il was, 50 / got UP like tall, white,
reetiied spirit and began TO reach for a
match. ] have two match holders in nv
room, so that when one is empty | can
always fall back on the other
fell back on the other almost the first
thing did. | stepped in a iiaxseed poul-
tice and tracked il around over the room
while feeling for the match safe with
outstretched hands, between which
generally had the edge of door. The
first safe | found after good deal of de-
lay and annoyance, but it only had the
other end of two matches-not the bad
end After | hao tried both of them in
the usual manner, forgetting that the
trousers on which had generally ignited
my matches were on chair in another
part of the room, | began once more to
feel around the room for the match safe,
ever and anon crossing my old daxseed
poutice trail.
BY and by / Judged that had struck
the locality for | was in the neighborhood
of the fireplace. | could smell the old
embers. / began to grope, and succeeded
in getting both arms up the tue quite a
long distance before | knew by the soft,
nice feeling of the SCOT where | was.
Then | went back and tried 1t over again,
falling over chair that had pillow shams
on it. In the morning | could see where
fell over the pillow shams and saved my
self with nv grimy hands.
now tried the wall, cropping along with
some care and an occasional dab OF SCOT
till ! knocked down q picture on rich
and costly Sevres vase which / kept cal
anus root in / will have to keep my
calamus root in something else hereafter.
BY and by | found some more things,
but not the match safe. | got sort of wild,
and everything about the house seemed so
still. Isn't 1t terrible when man has
that horrible feeling in his own house, as
though he might be robbing it?
How glad am that | never perfected
myself as burglar, as l had intended TO
do at one time just after | gave up my lit
tie paper in the West. For what a life 1t
Is; all night work, all among strangers
who have no sympathy for one, often
coarse people. too, who sleep with their
mouths open and their rooms shut. 1t Is
just as we'll. | presume, that | gave 1t up.
Tor il one cannot find n match box IN his
own room how could he succeed in find
ing the concealed purse of total stran
ger2
The other match box is over the wash
stand, and when | found 1t did so TOO
earnestly. When you discover anything
you should not do il 100 hard. | knocked
down the match safe as | discovered 1t,
and the matches all fell in the water
pitcher. tried TO get them out quick, be-
fore they got vet, and SO pulled the pitcher
over on the floor. AS the water ran down
through the floor upon Il friend who Is
visiting rs and paving his board, he rose
and followed up the stream. When he got
TO where | was he told me what O'Clock 1t
was ana then went TO bed again.
So did l.
The whirp0orwill once more opened up
and played his tune over and over again
TIL put on an old palr of ear mufts ana
stuck my head into the bedding as Tar as
coud. but | could not get the noise OUT.
Then ut O'Clock m old rooster at the
barn seemed 10 have something on ms
mind and began to crow till he was black
N the face. / was not very hungry loI
breakfast. but managed 10 eat the second
joint of that rooster. wanted 1t raw
with the feathers on, but the fanny
thought II would be better lrled ilttle on
the outside
Alter the rooster an early bird began