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

"A woman's idee air sometimes
wurth considerin, began Fisherman
Joe, fitting his chair back and giving
incessant puffs at the stem or his old
clay pipe. II hev found tibet ont fol
sure. Now, for more years AN I can re
member, we lived down ON ther Pint,
Debora an me
I'VE fished, raised chickens, ducks an
geese, an between 'em all, with the'1
eggs, we made a purity tolerabul fair
Twin an he'd q little mite over. But
Their mite over went mostly for house
rent, so a mighty little was left to go
down in Their sock for rainy day. How.
sumever, ther little in ther sock cumi-
lated fust straight, am we made ther
fust payment ON this place. An by ther
time we'd saved up nigh ON to er life
time we paid Their last cent ON 1t, an
Their place was ours. We fixed it M
some, gi~in it a tuch when we could,
an fust thing we knowed we he'd q
mighty tine place. All it lacked was
Their house, an we lowed to hev tibet If
we lived long enough. An thinkin of
tibet We belt up our heads proudlike an
worked IN, every now an then haulin
ont Their sock an droppin somethin tibet
chinked into it.
"We wouldn't count what we he'd
not for months, cause we wanted 1t to
cumilate unbeknownst to NJ, but last
spring we got SO Gurus about 1t we
looked to see how much was Their an
found most enough to start ON our
house. An just then hard times set in
an smashed thet idee fiat. Times got
worse an worser. / couldn't sell my 6sh
or nuthin. People said times wa 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.
From then on for about seven months
me an Debora didn't make a much MS
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 d
word. We knowed how hard we'd
worked for il am what IL was for, so
we'd inst use it slow an hide our feel
ms best way we could. Now, not far
from where we lived ther was d purity
fair lookin house. 1t was built after we
moved to Their Pint an was standin ther
just like 1t was when Their carpenters
finished it Nobody he'd eYer lived in it,
cause it was ha'nted. Everybody said
50, an it was, too, an no mistake about
it. We, Debora nm me, knowed ii.
1--WE lived closer to it an anybody
else IN he'd seen an heard 'nough to
know tibet house was as full Of ha' nts "a
one generally gifts, but ther house we
lived in belonged to ther man who
owned Their ha'nted house, 30 it didn't
do for Is to air all we knowed about it,
But this is ther way the ants got in it:
"Ther carpenters was two young
men, considered well behaved an gem
teel. Tom was Their best lookin-he was
most purity. Ed was ugly IS sin. How
sumeyer, they was both well liked by
everybody. They boarded up at Miss
Biscom's, but it was SO far from Their
house tibet to keep from losin time Miss
Biscom would send their dinner. She
didn't have no little children, hut had
a grown daughter, Jessie, an every day
when Their IL o'clock whistles would
blow Jessie Biscom would come down
with Their young mems dinner. They'd
spread it out ON q pile of lumber, an
while they'd be eatin Jessie would be
laughin an talkin to 'em- An then when
Their turnout whistles would blow she'd
gather up Their dishes an go on home,
an Their boys back to work. Jessie was a
purity girl-plump n any partridge you
ever seen an as rosy as q apple.
"Ther boys he'd only been to Miss
Biscom's two days when they said no
money could make EN- leave ther, NOT
long AZ Jessie staid with her ma. Their
hkin for her was plain as daylight They
would watch for her at noon an watch
her clear ont 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 tibet purity face of Jessie Bis
com come between 'em. Debora an me
could zee tibet before they could see III
themselves. We lived SO close we could
tell by their looks, first at her, then at
themselves, an more'n once Debora said
ther was trouble ahe'd for them very
same young people.
Every Sunday ther three went ont
walkin together, Jessie In Their middle,
Ed IN d side, Tom on ther other.
Thet was all right, but when q 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 so with him. IN Of
course she'd say yes to the irst one thee
asked her. 30 things went on. Ill by
the time ther house was done things
wa gettin seri'us with ther boys. spe-
cialIy with Ed They was up to their
ears In lore with Jessie, an abe lied
Tom Their best Thet made Ed mad
'nougA oeat mp everybody Twin ON ther
Pint
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