Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-06-17
AND THEN HE KEPT ON PAINTING.
A Sian Who Has Painted Fence Tells
OF the Pleasing Interruptions.

OF the Pleasing Interruptions.
He was painting "a fence, and the fence
was directly beside the highway When
he commenced he had said To his ncighbor
ut will be- jest like some darn fools &c
come and stick themselves into his paint, =
and the neighbor agreeabiy said that hs
didn't wonder. one mite !"
The painter swabbed steadily for an hour
and a section Of the fence looked first rate
The artist Strengthened with Sigh, stepped
back, eyed with critical admiration the
vista of cleaning fence stats, touched q
dull place here and there that bad been
skipped In the first round and was about
TO resume. just then an admiring friend
walked up.
Good job you're doing there' said he
Hasn't dried bit. has IL - he wisely que
ried. swahbing finger across picket
The painter agreed with very vicious
"No." as he ran his brush over the finger
trail
The next man who came along WAS en-
tirely oblivious To the fact that IA scienrifi,
job OF painting was in progress lie wanted
to talk about the weather aud 10 rest whilt
he was doing so. Therefore he crossed his
feet and with huge sigh planted his broad
back against the freshest area of paint
DdlnNlUA
this fence'" sulphuriously inquired the
artist.
The other said nothing until he had
twisted himself into freak. trying to get
q squnt at his own back Then look at
the fence showed to him hat he had taken
of a full dose from four piekcts
He was 50 per cent maddcr than the
painter. "Yer done II purpose, yer know
yer didl That's cunning joke, that war.
to coax friend up against n old fence aud
slush white paint all over him I'm good
mind to culf yer head up to pick-that'
what am, dad quizzle yer
The next man had dog, and while the
owner stopped To assert, Painting your
fence, see" the dog stood up with his
forepaws against the fence and peered
through the pickets at cat The cat
moved along and so did the dog, dancing
along on his hind legs and literally bespat
teripg each picket In his course with sill.
houette dog paws The paint brush didn I
hit the canine, but Il did spoil "A picket.
Painting operations were barely In prog
ress once more when woman and small
boy came along The boy Jagged behind
and furtively touched his finger TO u picket
Then he swabbed his hand across two
The result pleased him He picked up a
stick and adorned the palings with several
grotesque personages provided with round
heads and spike legs. His mother got out
OF sight, but he didn't care He was just
finishing up a cat with body like sau
sage and "A head like ten cent piece when
the painter spied his volunteer frescoer
He tiptoed along and inspected the work
Then something happened There was
the flirting of childish garments. the swirl
ing OF a childish form aud the smothered
squawk Of a childish voice. At a distance
1t looked as though a red faced man was
mopping of a fence with big bundle OF
rags. Recommended where the inquisitive
man had tntruded his finger, went carefully
over the dog paw art work and ruthessly
scrubbed ont the etchings made by The
young volunteer.
Five minutes later when n smell of paint
and a sound Of squalls had died away in
the distance. painter was lighting his
pipe and grinning grimly at the scrubbed
surface OF a row Of pickets; and, strange n
say, as he repainted the fence he smiled
with such intense satisfaction that owe
might suppose that he was putting the
finishing touches To $1,000 painting =
Holman + Day in Lewiston journal