Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-01

it showed, it hailed and blew so cold i
froze. The next morning the whole
earth was covered with coat OF ice
and slippery, oh my!
That night was lyceum night. Mr.
Van Doren and one of my uncles lived
in the Arcadia House: one lived in the
Itson house by the red bank. We lived
up in the orchard in the old SHARP
house. That afternoon my uncle-tha1
married Miss Van Doren-and his wife
came over to the Itson house to spend
the afternoon and take supper with his
brother, who had gone to st. Louis on
horseback. just before supper my
uncle came up to see father on some
business, and as it was supper time at
our house, uncle said to me, eff you
| will go down and wait upon your aunts
to the lyceum, will walk over with
your father
When / got to the house l found my
uncle had got home from ST. Louis, and
l also found the two younger girls
there. When we all started out to go
to the lyceum, my uncle said, II will
take care of the old ladies and you take
care of the young ladies'"
That just suited me. You remember
all out doors was covered with ice and
as slick as grease. As soon as we were
out of doors I said, Young ladies
you had better take my arms" and
don't you think they stuck up their
noses and said, .'No, thank you, sir,
we can take care of ourselves"
The old ladies looked back and said,
'Girls, take his arms" and all the
time they were slipping this way and
that way.
Both of the girls said, 1--WE can take
care of ourselves; we amt going to take
no mans arms.''
When we got down to where my fish
pond is, one of them came in an ace of
falling. One of the old ladies looked
back and said, '.Why don't you take
his arm.''
Because we can take care of our"
And down she came, kerwhop on the
ice. Did l run and help her up? No,
not much I didn't; just walked right
along. When she got up she came and
said, "May take your arm?"
eff you want to, you CAM
And she caught hold. Ijust thought
would ask the other one once more,
to take the other; as l did so she
snapped out, ..No, l amt going to
And the first she knew her heels were |
higher than her head. Oh my! such a |
sight! Lordy, Lordy; just wanted to
yell and whoop I felt so good. When
she got up-which did not take more
than half an hour-she came and said,
'May take your arm?"
Eyes, if you want to very bad"
Well, sir, there was not word
spoken between us all the way to the
school house, but / could feel their
arms jerking me all the way. did
not say anything 1 was SO full of laugh !
inside; it was all I could do to keep
rom giving regular war whoop and
/ tiger; [ Just wanted to lie down
IN the ground and yell.
When we got to the school house
door those girls went in in a hurry,
md 1 never gotto see their faces all
hat evening. They sat with their
aces turned so I could not see them.
As their own folks were there, / did
lot bother them any more that night.
Now any person would naturally sup
bose, after such an experience, that
hey would not be quite SO short in {
heir words and actions, but sometimes
t takes several doses of medicine to |
.ure some diseases.
The next summer we had been hav- {
ng very serious drouth, and Stout's {
,reek had stopped running at the ford l
where the railroadbridge crosses the
;reek. /
One day all of the girls of the neigh
,orhood were invited to a quilting at $
ny old tutors, at the Emerson place
about noon a heavy bank of clouds [e
anne up over Shepherds mountain, and
he way it did thunder and lightning, !
nd the rain came down in torrents. 1
About four o'clock the storm had pass
d and the sun had come outsclear and
right, but the rain had raised the !,
reek, SO that the water was up to the t
addle girth on horse. /
As we knew there was no way for
he girls to cross the creek, all of US :
oys got each a horse, and rode over to r
ring the girls across. / was riding a
ne mare we had brought to this coun- 6
~. She had never been ridden much, i
ut did not object unless two undertook +
D ride her. When we came to the creek =
was up and running very swift, and =
n the other side all of the girls-about a
en- or twelve-stood on log lying be- 4
ide the road. As l rode up to that d
anne girl that fell on the ice, she +