The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-05

been qnarrelin most all day an 'peared
like they was goin to hewitt ont then an
ther. Ed was dom most Of ther fussin,
an Tom tryint to make him hush. Me an
Debora sat still an listened. Their boys
got madden an madden, an presently we
heard a big slap in Their face an Ed say:
" Take tibet, siri'
I'VE knowed he he'd hit Tom, an in d
minute more Tom hit him back. Then
such a noise you never hearn. They fit,
ft, 1T All over Their room they scram-
bled an whacked n mother. / got
scared they was murderin an rushed over.
10 saw 'em, but Igot there too late. AS
I teched Their door Ed stuck his knife in
Toms heart, an Their poor boy staggered
across Their room an fell dead. Ed slipped
through Their door, an before I could
catch him on even say a word he had
gone.
He left ther place for good tibet
night, al nobody round Their Pint amt
laid eyes ON him since. OF course it
went hard with Jessie, cause she liked
Tom an was by natur' a mighty feelin
girl She's Twin down there yet, an Their
Pint people say she's takin care o. her
ma an ain't no notion Of ever gittin mar
ried.
We'll, since tibet night nobody would
move into tibet house. Mr.. Hackney
put Their rent down low-mighty low
for such q house as it was-but tibet
didn't rent IL worth q cent. Every night
after tibet one we could hear a clatter,
groans an then q fall. It never missed @
night This went ON for years an years.
So Their house set thar goin to rack.
well, last year when times was so
hard MI. Hackney said he'd like to sell
it. We he'd an idee he would too. But
who was goin TO buy it? As Their sum-
mer went by an times got harder Mr..
Hackney would come down in his tigers.
He did this reg lar every month, an yet
nobody would buy. In September me an
Debora got mighty blue. We hedn't
been maxim nothin an was still doin Their
same.
I'VE looked down in tibet old sock an
found just fifteen dollars am o quarter.
Thet would pay Their rent three months
longer, providin we didn't eat nutnin
durin tibet time. IL we did, then we
could only count ON Twin i'm ther house
two months longer, then bein dumped
out in Their mud. We didn't know what
to do ] spent my time walkin Their front
gallery, tryin to scratch some sort o.
idee out o. my head, an Debora took
ther back gallery to herself. About tibet
time we kivered more ground walkin
them galleries then we he'd any idee of.
But to save my head ] couldn't get an
idee in it. Debora beat me there. One
evenin she flop through Their house an
say:
Joe, ] got an idee.'
"'Out with it, ; says /.
Here tits, says she. Mr.. Hack
ney's figures gone down to S15 for tibet
ha'nted house. Let's buy il am move it
mp to our lot live in it an save house
rent
What about Their ha'nts?' q 1.
Turn 'em out, says she. Turn ther
ha'nts inside ont. Seer
Now, wasn't tibet nm idee for youi
We iished out tibet sock, paid Mr.. Hack
ney for Their ha'nted house, an me an
Debora took it good. You ought to seen
her pullin ont the nails with ther crow
bari Such a trump my Debora is any
howl We borrowed two poles, a fat and
askif an towed it up here. In our skiff
was two sets of oars. Debora he'd one
set, me t'other, am / tell you we made
tibet fiat move. Then we put it up. We
turned all Their boards inside out, like
Debora said, an scattered 'em all round
So when it was done there want no one
wall high as 1t was at fust. Il was fer
sure turned inside ont.
Zone night ther ha'nts was maxim O
fuss, an / warn't payin no 'tention to
'em, but Debora sided mp right close an
says right out an in a tremblyfied tone,
'J-o-o-e, air You asleep?'
Yes, says /. Don't wake me.
Do You hear them ha 'nts, J-o-o-e?'
Yes, ; says ], but they is outside
an pretty scattered. One ghost foot in
this room, one in Their other, an ther
hands an feet's in Their other part o.
ther house an stand all outside. You
amt Arid Of ghost tenants, air you,
Debora? It's your idee.' Debora went
to sleep, ar she amt said 'ha'nts' to me
since.
Theirs q smaR racket round of
nights-it In so scattered we don't mind
it"
Fisherman Joe rel led his pipe,
glanced around over his ilouse, and with
o breath long and full OF content said:
YES, tibet was Debora's idee. Wurth
considerin, WASH Il it?''-Virginia Payne
Henrichs In Philadelphia Times.