New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-05-30
DEBORA'S IDEA.

"a woman's.: idee air sometimes
wurth cunsiderir,' began Fisherman
Joe, Sitting his chair back and giving
inoessant puffs at the stem of his old
clay pipe II hev found thet out for
sure. Now, for more years an I can IT,
member, we lived down on rher Pint,
Debora an me-
''We fished, raised chickens, ducks an
geese, an between 'ems all, with Their
eggs we made a purity tolerabul fair
1ivin ans:hed sgaslaittle mite over. But
Their mite over went. mostly for house
rent, SO mighty little was left to 20
down in Their sock for rainy day. How!
sumever, Their little in ther sock cumi-
lated fust straight, an we made ther
fust payment on this place. An by ther
time we'd saved up nigh on to er life!
time we paid ther last cent on it, an
Their place was ours. We fixed it up
some, givin it tuch when we could,
an fust thing we howed we he'd q
mighty fine place. All it lacked was
Their house, an we lowed to hev tibet if
we lived long enough. An thinkin. of
tibet we helt up our heads proudlike an
worked on, every now an then haulin
out ther sock an droppin somethin tibet
chinked into it.
| "We wouldn't count what we he'd
not for months, cause we wanted it to
cumilate unbeknownst to us, but last
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looked to see how much was ther an
found most enough to start on our
house. An just then hard times set in
an smashed tibet idee fiat. Times got
worse an worser. couldn't sell my fish
or nuthin. People said times was too
hard to buy such things as ducks, spring
chickens an eggs, so ther warn't no use
for me to fetch 'em round. But kept
goin an kept not sellin too t.
"From then on for about seven months
me an Debora didn't make as much as
Q bits An all the time rent he'd to be
paid, an we he'd to have somethin to
eat. So down in tibet sock we he'd to go
every month. At them times we
wouldn't look at one mother nor say
word We nowed how hard we'd
worked for it an what it was for, so
we'd just use it slow an hide our feel
ms best way we could. Now, not far
from where we lived ther was a purity
fair lookin house. It was built after we
moved to ther Pint an was standin ther
just like it was when ther carpenters
finished it. Nobody he'd ever lived in it,
cause it was ha'nted Everybody said
so, an it was, too, an no mistake about
1t. We, Debora an me, knoWed it.
! "We lived closer to it AN anybody
else an he'd seen an heard 'nough to
know tibet house was as full Of ha 'nts as
one generally gifts, but ther house we
lived in belonged to ther man who
owned Their ha'nted house, so it didn't
do for us to air all we knowed about it.
But this is Their way the ha 'nts got in it:
ether carpenters was two young
men, considered well behaved an gen
teel. Tom was ther best lcol1in--ae was
most purity. Ed was ugly as sin. How
sunlever, they was both we'll liked by
everybody. They boarded up 1T Miss
Biscom's, but it was SO far from ther
house tibet to keep from losin time Miss
Biscom would send their dinner She
didn't have 10 little children, but had
q sroWn daughter, Jessie, az every day
when ther IL O'Clock whist IS would
blow Jessie Biscom would come down
with ther young mems dinner. They'd
spread it out on a pile Of lumber, an
while they'd be eatin Jessie would be
laughiu al talkin to 'e1n. An then when
ther turnout whistles would blow she'd
gather up Their dishes an go o. home,
an ther boys back to work Jessie was a
purity girl-plump as any partridge you
ever seen al as rosy as a apple
Ether boys he'd only been to Miss
Biscom's two days when they said no
money could make 'em leave Their, not
long as Jessie staid with her ma. Their
likin foc der was plain as daylight. They
wciud watch for her at noon an watch
her clear out Of sight when she went
back home. An in ther evenin's the'd
hurry up ther as fast as they could go,
just to be with Jessie. The boys was
good friends when they fust come to ther
Pint, but thet purity face of Jessie Bis
com come between 'em. Debora an me
could see thet before they could see it
themselves We lived SO close we could
tell by their looks, first at her, then at
themselves, an more'n once Debora said
Their was trouble ahe'd for them very
same young people.
Every Sunday Their three went out
walkin together, Jessie in ther middle,
Ed on one side, Tom on ther other.
Thet was all right, but when a dance
come erlong one was sure to get left, an
tibet was generally Ed Tom kept his
ears open for everything come along an
would ask Jessie to go with him, an Of
course she'd say yes to the first one thet
asked her So things went on, an by
the time ther house was done things
was gettin seri ms with ther boys, spe-
cially with Ed. They was up to their
ears in love with Jessie, an she liked
Tom Their best. Thet made Ed mad
'nough to eat upeverybody Twin on ther
pint.
.One night Their boys didn't hurry up
! home 70 Miss Biscom 8 Is they he'd been