Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-07-20
MANDY JANE PENSTOCk. i
Tale Of Love and Love Charms In the
Pennsylvania Hemlock Belt.

z:4 MANDY JANE PENSTOCk. -. ~
Tale of Love and Love Charms I'm the
Pennsylvania Hemlock Belt.
One time when was up in the Pennsyl-
sania hemlock belt was going from Over
mans Hook to the Barley Run Cross Forks:
when l heard some one whistle off to one
side of the road. Looking in that direction
saw man peering cautiously from be-
hind a big hemlock tree. He motioned for
me to stop, and did.
I'VE hain't color blind. be ye?'
wasn't.
q green sunbonnet wouldn't be liable to
look to you like one in a yaller dress an a
blue sunbonnet, would sne?''
She wouldn't.
''Tha hain't no raisin o. dust nowheres
that looks as if it mowt be riz by woman
in a red calliker dress an a green sunbon-
net comm this way pooty fast, is tha?'
The road was entirely free from ANYTHING
of that sort.
"Ye hain't noways nighsighted, be YEP
Quite the contrary
'"Then II tina was raisin o. dust setch as
that not more'n 100 yards down the road,
ye wouldn't be liable to take it for hay
stack miled away, would ye?''
Entirely out of the question.
"'Cause We see Pm leetle anxious. - he
said, FER if ye'd a~seen a woman with a
red calhker dress an a green sunbonnet
comm or raisin o. dust that looked as if it
mowt be riz by a woman with red calliker
dress an a green sunbonnet that'd a-ben
MANDY Jane Penstock, an I'd a-had to
to take to the woods"
Whats the matter with MANDY Jane?''
I asked.
The man mopped his face with his sleeve
and famed himself with his hat and said:
did ye ever have hankerin fer ga!
that didn't seem to keer to banker fer YEP"
didn't know that ever had.
"Jis' keep yer eye on the road, cap," said
the man, IAN if ye see any of them signs of
MANDY Jane, jis' whistle, will YEP"
/ said I would.
''Then IN tell ye sumpin. If everye take
a shine to gal an she won't banker, take
boot OWLS gizzard, dry it an grind it inter
| powder. Then, unbeknownst to the gal,
git some of it in her lemonade or sumpin
! fore she drinks it, an ye've jist as good as
made four shillin for the squire, fer she
can't never say NO ag'in when ye asst her
if she'll be your'n. Tina hain't no red an
green loomin up yit twixt you an the hori-
zon, nor no shakin of dust that mowt have
red an green inside of it, is thar"
mot yet"
IF ye'd ever know'd Sallie Magompers,
over to the Hook, ye'd a-hankered. I'll bet
ye! took to hankerin for Sallie more'n a
year ago, but tina didn't seem to be no use.
Sallie's jest tuSpin 20, now, and mebbe she
hain't caution for pootiness! Pictur's
hain't nowheres 'longsideo o. her. But some
| hon c1o CHI - c.
myself: All right, my ladyl If it's got to
be left to boot OWLS I says, 'hoot owls it'll
be- and went a-gunnin for boot owls.
here woods, and gunned and gunned for
pooty nigh year fore draw'd bead on
one, an you bet was more'n tickled when
I tumbled him often his roostl
"'Gals that kin banker an won't banker
must be made to banker! says, an hung
the boot OWLS gizzard up to dry.
| Zone o. these days, when I hear that
MANDY Jane Penstock has passed over
Jurdan, I'm goi1, back to the Hook al Jest
as like as not thump the life outen Sam
! Brace. Sam an me worked on the same
loggin job, an after bagged the owl saws
to him one day:
"'Sam,' says, me an you won't bunk
in together much longer says.
Elbows that2' says Sam.
"'Im gointer marry Sallie Magompers
next week, I says.
"'Nep says Sam. 'Sallie's give in, has
she?'
Mot yit,' says, but she's gointer. I've
powdered a boot OWLS gizzard,' says. Jis'
shoot yer eye down the road agin. cap If
tha's anything mussin of it up that mowt
put We in mind O the inklin I've give ye o.
MANDY Jane, gimme the wink, an I'll
scoot.'
The road was still clear.
''Sam looked s'prised little when told
him bout havin the OWLS gizzard love
powder, an pooty soon he says:
"'Well, he says, Pm gointer take Sallie
to the picnic tomorrow, an s'pose that'll
he the last time l kin gallavant her any
where's, 'cordin to that he says.
That's what it will, Sammy says.
MANDY Jane Penstock mowt a-bin q
sumner when she was gal, fer all know,
but / don't jis' recommended when that
was. She'll hef to think back good ways
if she recomembers it herself But, leavin
out bone an sinner an pooty sharp nose,
MANDY Jane don't cut much of a figger
nowadays She's consid' able sot in her
ways, though, an when she has sumpin on
her mind that she's gointer to do she's
gointer do it, OF things will rumble.
''Sam Brazee he took Sallie to the picnic
an was there with my boot OWLS gizzard
all ready. Sallie kittened consid'able to
Sam, an it made me squirm to see her,
tell ye, but says to myself, All right, my
lady, I says. But wait till the boot owl
sings to ye,' Says. Bimeby says to Sam
an Sallie:
"'Come over an I'll treat ye,' I says
Come git some lemonade,' says.
IAN they come along, an bought the
lemonade, an when Sallie wasn't lookin
tumbled the OWLS gizzard love powder into,
her glass.
"'Oh,' she says. 'Yonder's Mandy Jane
Penstock,' she says. MANDY must have
treat, too,' she says.
$50 she calls MANDY Jane over, an or
ders glass fer her. Now see what Sallie
done. She hands the glass that had the
OWLS gizzard ip it over to MANDY Jane an
took t'other one herself, all fore l could
stop her MANDY Jane had gulped it down
love powder an all! You're sure ye hain'1
color blind, cap?"