Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-26
lSas, by Edgar w. Nye.I

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 THE WATER COLOR GIRL
 grown peanut tree by which I made above amount. bet my stock against his is why I refer to it as a deal in stocks. I sold the beef on the hoOf for two hundred dollars and some cents. So he will remain at home, and will tell him about the fair, which is sue cess.
 bought excursion tickets on the rail road at scandalous low price and got here fresh and comfortable with several doughnuts over and above what We need ed. l have ct doughnuts soaked in coffee now for most a week, and 1 shall never care for them again. Mother cooked pillcrcase full before we started, and be- gin to yearn for vegetables, to tell the plain truth with the natural finish on it.
 suppose you are having good time at New Roshell, and 1 send you what I can spare, but hope you will not tell your artist friends how 1 made the raise l was bluffel into it by a man that came to our ncighhorhood and begun to farm it with a high hand and tell about in telligent farming" He called on me when he first come to borrow some sweet potato seed. and l was not at home at the time, being away pricing a bull that 1 heard was for sale down the river. so he left his card.
 I've got il vet. What should do with it, Henry? l have no place to keep it and hate to send it back to him, for it was done in :; friendly way. and he did not mean to Ic anything but social, I take il.
 Aftcrward he sent over for me to come and sec him at once if could. He want cd to have me >it up with him over night, as he was confined to his bed. he said, and suffering intensely with some terrible eruption" l made what's called an ex- animation and found he had been chawed upwith what We call "jiggers." Jiggers, you rickolect, is red bug about the size of a grain of rcd pepper and can hardly be seen with the nakil eye. But the place he soon makes on the surface of an intelligent farmer" can be seen across the fair ground easy.
 This man-his name was Bertram Whaugleathers-had digger terraces all over him and wclts of hectic fiushes and nice red gopher holes and perara dog villages till the COWS come home. Inever saw such sight since I was born. His back looked like the Notifications around NickSburE.
 He would talk with me in a lucid way for q few minutes, and then he would leapout of bed and back up ag aginst a wall of what he calls ''lncruster walter" and agitatc himself with a look of deleerious joy.
 You know digger that even hears a rumor that m intelligent farmer" is in the county will travel night and day to find him, and then there is an erie of good feeling and a barbecue right after ward. Bvrtram said he had been paint ing d picture of a heifcr all the day be fore, and 1 found that while he was doing II he bad been setting on an old dead log. Oil dead logs is where jiggers ill gcol standing holds their conclaves.
 \ water crlNr girl from Brooklyn, E. D.. painted a If made bull of mine last year, aiming tn exhibit the painting at one of th llnuu- in New ' ork. she said. and sh" ~ct cn 2 nice messy log too. told her that a messy log was Plzen for rscrk>. luI. no. she allowed that she couldn't see any. and. in fact, she couldn't sce anything smaller than a trcstle, for she had been mcdowell some by age.
 There w:A, sounds of revelry by night after that for several moons, and your mother says that since you had the hives she has not saw anything like it. She was slender girl-so slender that jig ger bite on the shin made her seem to be going the other way.
 Oh. how she murmured.
 l see no i'll feeling or resentment south toward the northern man unless the northern man sits down on a dead log to read Lorna Doone.' Then there is something steals up his trousers legs which arouses the old party spirit.
 auctioned off some extra furniture the other day. especially yours, as I do not look for you to come home much more. Mother says you have mostly outgrown the home nest and will soon catch on to some other birding and make a nest of your own.
 You are old enough now to breathe words of love of evenings and wait for some celestial restaurant to come and take your order for meals. I shall al- ways take an interest in you, Henry you know that-but while there is no confidence shown in the stringency of the times wish you would borrow most ly of people you are visiting at New Ro- shell.
 Among other things I sold at the auc- ton and fire sale was the heavy mahog- any bedstid, which I thought that some lover of the anteek would run up to a fabuliss price. One woman spending the summer near us said all it wanted was some nice heavy brass castors sos that it could be jerked around easy and swep under. So l got big set at Brightly s place for $2.5O and put them in that night, boring holes in the bedstid to sock them into. You know old wood like that is pretty middling hard, and our auger was injured Is years ago by my son when he bored into the pasture eleven or nine times for kerosene oil.
 Iput in the biggest part of the night boring four holes, your mother trying to hold the old quail trap stiddy whilst I worked, and in the morning it was auc- toned off for $1.5O. This is a fact and shows how stringencyi is here on the farm.
 reserved the castors while the bed stid was in transit and drove some nails in the auger holes to teach future gener- ations that an old man like me cannot be ground under the iron heel of capital and then fed to the hogs. It may not be Christian spirit, but there is about as n