Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-08-16


made to be catched. Often i'm Deutsch.
land, ven l vas leedle boy, want to 60
teeshin' so bad l gan feel it yet, unit mein
water zay, Heinrich Kropff! you bleib
by your work. Ivas not 20 Cruel. Ven
hat my way, l wish efferybody feesh 20
much he got desire for alretty. Jacob
vii put your horse in the barn. Jacob,
my boy! Come here"
A stout, sullen looking young man,
chewing a straw and with his hands in
his pantaloons pockets, lounged out of the
barn and toward the porch upon which
his father and two visitors were stand.
ing.
"Take the zhentlemen's horse, Jacob,
unit bring him by the barn, und feed
him."
While Jacob was stolidly obeying Or
ders one of the strangers replied:
I'm sure we are infinitely obliged to
you, sir, for your courtesy. The fact is
that so many landowners play dog-in-
the-manger now it is not easy to find
places where one can take a few trout
without liability of arrest for trespass.
What flies are most killing at present up
here?"
"Vell, mister He hesitated, looked
at card in his hand and continued
mister Cute, or Mister Sharp, vor mine
selluf l think the worst been them mos
quitoes, but We don't got many here
There vas leedle Wy nit a green head
vat bite like schmall Satan, but maybe
you don't see one of him in a week."
VI do not mean the most annoying in
sects," replied Mr.. Cute, smilingly, "but
those most tempting to the trout; those
they bite best at"
"Ah! 70! Veil, for that, Mr.. Cute,
or Mr.. Sharp, should always say the
worms"
Mr.. Cute and Mr.. Sharp laughed, and
tackle in hand strolled away toward the
trout brook among the hills. Herr
Kropff looked after them, and as he re-
took his place in the big rocking chair
on the porch soliloquized sympathet-
ically:
"Pore young vellers! How thin unit
dried up they look. They got hard
time vorkin in some office in New York,
suppose; by the gaslights all the time,
maybe. Ach! Lieber Himmel! That
vas not place that a man he shall live,
in the city; we're is Wild birds, unit flow
ers, unit trees not ever to be seen, nor
even leedle bumblebee that shall make
a man think how the free nature is
lovely. 10 | did feel ven l was gone
journeyman forty years ago, unit say,
No, | will not shtay i'm Germany unit
been cabinet maker; will go by Amer
lea unit been farmer | would not live
today, maybe, if did shtay in the city
unit work at the bench, unit | know
should not want to. Here | been
strong unit content unit happy-unt mein
Lieschen! Sure she would not so pretty
be in the CITY,"
That final supposition was probably
erroneous, for the old mans daughter
was really SO good looking that her pref
tiness would most likely have resisted
the adverse influences of urban sur
roundings quite as well as the charms
of many more girls who somehow sue
ceed in being very lovely even in the
cities. But such delicious picture as
she presented just now she certainly
never would have made as town dwell
er. Just her head and bust were shown
above and beyond clump of snowdrop
bushes, in which the waxen fruit lay
among the foliage like pearls set in green
enamel. Over her spread an apple trees
boughs, thickly studded with blossoms,
and through a rift among the branches
ray of sunshine seemed refracted into
an aureole about her golden curls Her
red lips were parted in smile and the
light of happiness sparkled in her bright
blue eyes. One plump white hand was
raised to level with her face, its palm
turned outward, in the gesture of watt
ing kiss.
George Stirling, driving by through
the lane, was quite right in thinking, as
he responded to that gesture, that
Lieschen, his betrothed wife, was one OF
She prettiest girls in the country-or per-
haps anywhere.
"That is fine young chap that George
Stirling" the old man reflected, "unt
guess he think pretty much of Lieschen
like Lieschen think of him. Veil, that
is all right. I wish that fool unlucky
boy Jacob was shpry like him."
water! Vaterl That dominic hen vas
settin' again." broke in shrill female
voice upon his meditations, and an
elderly woman, his wife Anna, appeared
coming around a corner of the house,
carrying the recalcitrant and vociferous
hen by the legs. 81 yoost catch her sit
tin on an old door knob and schmall
bottle. You got to fix her nose"
"That door knob vas hopeless, but a
bolitical party haf been hatched out
from a bottle by sdrict attention to
business. Gif me that hem"
Pulling long feather from one of the
fowls wings ho thrust it through her
nostrils, so that it protruded ON eaci
side at right angles with the line of her
beak, an arrangement which seemed 10
infict no pain, but to fascinate her be-
wildered mind and engross her attention.
Her eyes came out and stood on her
cheeks in an effort to see both ends Of
the feather, and she went off toward
the barnyard slowly, stopping occasion
ally to utter whoop of surprise and to
claw vainly at the strange thing.
"That breaks her all up on that settin'
notion" commented the farmer. at
beats all how much hen vas like a
woman. Either Of them only gan of one
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