The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1894-03-08

had sceu 3r.sp hy cattle. Ar,r lss'eaiu'
10 f,leure iors lous time. Old Msu Whit
Strengthened up took IN uev etAs atc
clt afed bis thtod Tor acton. 10 no
meat. every body wss latetios IN 40 st.
teutlve msnuet, sitt ougb slgnidcSut ~inI'
and nods passed troubd The circle.
Tslko about big loads rmlnds me,
drswled White, speaking through his no' {
With the genuine down east tsang. Year
aso las hayiu hsulied 10 the ssul ding
dest load Of bay With them sir steers whut
/ sold jed Blsisdel | bsinI sln to work
10 on suudsy, IS ev'fy body knows, II hSTi
pened bed slstb,rs Of bay 10 the coct q,
40 saw 40 Sll dred bis shower q comin
up. Thar wasn't one Of the men srouad
the place. as they d all gone ofI hshin, bot
jest boIers to my wife TO come aout an
elve me a haBd, 40 then yoked the steers
an kited rishtSout lnter the htli.
ADybo3y as knows sny thing sbaon. me
kposs I'm purity good man at pitehin
on, So told the old womsnto Jest git
up ttr the rack 81 tread sn take keer !
didn Z bury her She done i, an will
say SD : jest sbaout the best msn at bnildt
10 load ever saw, by .uu! Ibe way
tossed them cccks up iater that rack 40
braided them sir steers arsound that there
field wuss caution to cats
We'll, kept pilin sn buldln sn Nam
cy kept q treadln. Putty soon the load
; OF so high had to tcs, the cocks up. 40
jest kept tie air fnll q EN- TIL Nancy
she yelled whoa Then she said the load d
never ride 10 the barn 'tbout goiug to
pi 'ces. bnt lowed could hI that got
a biudln pole an hitched It f)irud aud aft,
though didn't hev very good rope to
make it fast at the back To * this, |
est told Nancy to put her weight onter 1t
,ud bear down iu oil she WAS with,
BY this time, it had begun ter ram, an
lust braided them steers uIl they went
er ther bsrD skitIn, When ther front
Wheel struck the sill at tie door the back
ope a hodin the bindln pol9 brnck. The
I'D woman was squsttln on that end, an
yben the pole flip ed up it Jest sent her
ight up over the roof Of the barn. That
ir load was 30 blamed heavy that them
teers, bein new shod he'd to Plt down an
crstch, 40 they ripped up every plank of
be barn floor jest as fast as they passed
yer it, by gum
The old man stopped, aud somebody
entured to enquire:
Wus your wife hurt? sh' I'D thought
d killed her " en she struck,
She struck on the load Of hay, said
White.
Why, the hsi wus 10 the barnl
Not much Them steers got ter goib so
st they couldn't stop. sn they took the
sd clean through an out the iIont dc Cors.
ucky they did, fer jest then the old
oman came sal ID over the barn like a
.lloon and struck right on the load u ont
uchin another thing. Never hurt htr
sir. by juxl
here were several moments Of profound !,
ence, broken by the same iDquitiDg lDi =
vidual who had spoken before.
But you said the shoes OF the steers rip
d up the plsnks OF the floor right along.
SOW q they haul the load through.
Old Man wtite brided up in an in
mt.
Hsul 1t through, you gaul d'rn cbus' Il
ad he snorted. WHY, they Just yanked
along so blamed fast the load didn't hev III
ne to drop through the f1or Haow
thunder'd you think they hauled 1t =
roueb An if they hadn't hauled IT
ough my wife'd be dead now She's u
in that's proof they hauled it through. ~ ~
sry Critter thinks it amt proof, let him 81
30 ter me night now
And nobody said word. sc