New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-04-18
DEBORA'S IDEA.

"a wonan's idee air sometimes
wurth considerir, - began Fisherman
Joe, fitting his chair back and giving
incessant pufs at the stem of his old
clay pipe II hey found thet out for
sure. Now, for more years AN can re-
member, we lived down on Their Pint,
Debora an me.
eve fished, raised chickens, ducks an
geese, an between 'em all, with Their
eggs, we made purity tolerabul fair
Twin an he'd little mite over. But
ther mite over went mostly for house
rent, so mighty little was left to go
down in ther sock for rainy day. How
sumever, ther 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
ther place was ours We fixed it up
some, givin it tuch when we could,
an fust thing we mowed we he'd a
mighty fine place. All it lacked was
ther house, an we lowed to hev thet 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.
I'VE wouldn't count what we he'd
not for months, cause we wanted it to
cumilate unbeknownst to us, but last
spring we got so Gurus about it we
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 thet idee flat. Times got
worse an worser. I 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
From then on for about seven months
me an Debora didn't make as much as
2 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 a
| 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 Their 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
it. We, Debora an me, howed it.
eve 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 ther ha'nted house, so it didn't
do for Us to air all we knowed about it.
But this is ther way the ha 'nts got in it:
Their carpenters was two young
men, considered we'll behaved an gem
teel Tom was Their best lookin-he was
most purity. Ed was ugly as sin. How
sumever, they was both well 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 no little children, but had
. grown daughter, Jessie, an every day
when Their 10 o'clock whistles would
blow Jessie Biscom would come down
with Their young mems dinner. They'd
spread it out on pile of lumber, an
while they'd be eatin Jessie would be
laughin an talhn to 'em. An then when
Their turnout whistles would blow she'd
gather up ther dishes an go on home,
an Their boys back to work. Jessie was
purity girl-plump as any partridge You
ever seen an as rosy as apple.
"Ther boys he'd only been to Miss
Biscom's two days when they said no
money could make 'em leave ther, not
long as Jessie staid with her ma Their
ikin foc der was plain as daylight. They
would watch for her at noon an watch
her clear out Of sight when she went
back home. An in Their evenin's the'd
hurry up Their 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 tibet 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
ther was trouble ahe'd for them very
same young people
Every Sunday ther three went out
waIkin together, Jessie IN ther middle,
Ed on one side, Tom ON ther other.
bet al u n.