West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-05-17
CHAPTER Xxx.

C''' Wy ~ INV LIoctty man dS ne stopped
ut the door of the grocery dressed in a
blue wainus, his brooches tucked in his
boots and an old hat on his head with q
hole that let out his hair through the
top. lie had got ont of Democrat
wagon end was holding the lines hitchcd
TO horse about 40 years old that leaned
against the hitching post to rest. Only
shilling apiece"
"Oh, 20 way" slil the gro cry man.
II only pay cents apiece" And then
he looked at the boy and said: Hello.
Hcuuery, is tlW you; have missed
you all this week. and now you come on
TO me sudden. disguised as a granger.
What doeg this all mean?"
1t means that have been tho victim
of rs vile "a conspiracy as ever was known
since Caesar was stabbed and Marc An
tony grated over lis PROSTATE corpse in
the Roman forum to an audience Of
supes and scene shifters," and the boy
dropped the lines on the sidewalk. sail.
Nv hoa, sol darn yoU" TO the horse that
was asleep, wiped his boots on the grass
Ii front of the store and cane in and
seated himself on the old half bushel.
"There this seems like home again"
w hats the row--who has been play
ing it on your" And the grocery man
smelled II sharp trade in cabbages as
VOL as other smells peculiar to the farm.
1--WE ell, I'll tell you. Lately our folks
have been constantly talking of the in
dependent life of the farmer and how
easy it is. and how they would like il if
| would learn to be a farmer. They said
fhnpa tt-a- .
the neighbors joined i'm and said had
the natural ability to be one of the most
successful farmers in the state. They
all drew pictures of the fun il was to
work on u farm, where you could gct
your work done and take your fishpole
and so off and catch fish. or gun and
go ont and kill game, and how you could
ride horses and pitch hay and smell the
sweet perfume and 20 TO husking bees and
dances and everything, and they got me
all worked up so wanted to go to work
on farm.
Then an old deacon that belongs to
our church, who runs farm alIut eight
miles out Of town, he came on the scene
and said he wanted hoy AMI if would
50 ont and work for him he would be
easy on me because he knew my folks
ana we Oeioh geo 10 the same church. !
can see u now. IL was al n put mp job
On me- Just Ike they play three card
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