The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1893-01-31

water in every kind Of a vessel that
was conveniently at hand, and as there
were not enough vessels to gu around some
Of the youngsters who were eager and
anxious to see the grounding make his
appearance, used their hats ~ vessels ia
carry the water from the pool to the
grounding hole. We worked along vigor.
ously for couple of hours, and began to
doubt whether there was any bottom to the
hole, when one Of the boys, who had given
up, half frozen from carrying the cold
water in his hat, and who had ran rapidly
to the bottom OF the hill for the purpose OF
increasing the blood circulation, and
thereby warming up, suddenly let forth a
mighty yell Of derision, and burst forth in
to loud OUTLAW Of laughter.
"Upon our inquiring the cause of his
merriment, he pointed to small clump
OF bushes, and exclaimed, why, you
blamed set Of idiots, you have been pour
ing water into hole up on the side OF
the hill, and it has been running
out OF a hole at the bottom OF the hill, for
the last hour. Come and see for your
selves" At this, we all descended to where
he stood, and there sure enough, was q hole
and the water was still trickling through
it. But the next question to agitate us,
was, what had become OF the grounding
So we beat about the bushes for another
hour or more, and at length were rewarded
by seeing the grounding skimming along
the edge Of fence, fully ten rods from US,
but going at such 4 pace as to deter the
6eetest footed boy in the crowd from any
desire to give chase, and would you be-
lieve it? From that day on, until the
Fourth of July, we had glorious weather.
Oh the grounding knows
George Harmed Of Cooper county, also a
delegate to the Road convention. and ex-
Mayor Bell OF Boonville, also put great
faith in the weather that followed the adj
vent Of the grounding.
But it remained for the Hon. n. ID.
Thurmond, of Galloway county, to cast the
cold water of his disapproval upon the
subject when he said the grounding idea
was all bosh and fudge. And this too,
when Senator's Tunnel and Yeater, were
Just on the eve OF expressing themselves,
and Representative Marsh was about to re-
lieve himself Of Il pent up grounding
story. For it is always a greater pleasure
to draw tear from the hearers eve, than
for the author Of a story to suffer untold
agonies by stifiiing it, after il has ONE.
come to the surface.
We turned away with sigh, and sought
the outer air for relief. Happening upon
genial William ID. Steele, We at once sprung
the question upon him, and were greatful
for the response. He said:
AFTER the surrender at Appomattox. he
had never known the grounding to fail,
but prior to that time, he had ONLY tradi-
ton As his guide
Mr.. II. J. Sharp said that il the people
would only let the ground hog alone, that
it would bring Us fine weather sooner or
later.
ID. II. Smith said the ground hog was
alright, and Joe II. Kelly said he was Just
as certain IS giant powder.
Mr.. Johns and Mr. Sturges both agreed
that the ground hog was a great turnover,
while Adam Fisher said that some people
preferred the ground hog to a squirrel.
And John Henry Summers said he did
not want anything to do with them, as he
once had them in his boots.