Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-06-06

only on Jne SlnneIuduOuc Spicd1l.
They're always up to date. There are
40 back mum bers among the Sinpe-
mahoning bears. Nay. nayl
SIS there anybody here who knows
Toby Groo-Toby Groo, of Lonesome
Hollow? 1t doesn't matter Only if any
one wants to buy a nice, snug little
place the Toby Groo place is for sale.
Easy terms, too. 1t was put on the
g market sudden. because Toby Groo
went away sudden. All on account O
bears Sinnemahoning bears. I met
Toby when he was going away.
Toby said I, whats up?
It's all up said he. All up with
mel"
Meaning Betsey?' said I.
""The same said he.
"'What did it?' said /. .t'2
Education said he.
"'Education" said |.
"There's nothing better to have in
district said he, than education,
provided you keep it in bounds. It's
all right and proper among the rising
generation of human folks, but when
you come to spreading it among bears
you're carrying it too far. That's my
opinion said Toby Groo. Education
is what does me up with Betsey. Edu-
cation among bearsv said Tobey.
"And away he went from the SHINE
malone; and when fellow has the
heart to leave the Sinnemahone coun-
try, you can make up your mind that
he's done up bad. And the Toby Groo
place is for sale. And what led up to
it was this:
1.-THE Bricktons are great people over
Oh the Sinnemahone, you know. Great
people. Been there for generations.
The greatest of the present generation
is Betsey, although she isn't very big
and isn't twenty years old yet.
'''Tal1in' her from the ground up as
siderin' of her fer generl scrumptious-
ness, Sinnemahone can't turn out the
ekal O Betsey Brickton.'
II want to give you pointer on
Betsey, though, so that if any of you
should happen to buy the Toby Groo
place and go over on the Sinnamahone
and be somebody, you'll know how to
act and keep out O. trouble. Betsey
has got red head. An amazing red
head. Now rather like that red head
of Betsey and a good many other folks
do, but Betsey thinks it's drawback.
ssShe is sensitive aboutit to a degree. In
the soft Sinnamahone tongue, she's as
tetchy as nettles about it. And Betsey
is SO full O. snap and fire that it isn't
safe to mention torchlights, or bricks,
or any thing of that sort around where
Betsey is, for she takes it as a personal
slur on her toplsnot, and the way she
fares up and gives it to you is some
thing to remember.
- It's cortion to peppersass! Jabez
says.
Everybody knows this, and is care
ful not to get Betsy's red head between
them and her if they want to keep on
the right side of her. Betsey Brickton
is popular, though. So popular that
there amt a young chap on the SHINE
malone that wouldn't be happier than
a bear in bee tree if he could shine
up to her and know that Betsey liked
it. Toby Groo, as far as money went,
was the best catch for a girl of all the
young fellows on the Sinnemahone
spread. Not bad looking, and not much
over twenty-five. But he wasn't over
popular, because he was what Uncle
Jabez calls "a leetle nigh in his deal
ms and rather inclined to get the
best end of dicker, even If he had to
stretch point. For all that, old Billy
Briclzton. Betsey's father, got it into
his head some time ago that Toby
Groo's money would be a good thing to
have in the Brickton family, and SO he
did his best to help Toby get on the
right side O. Betsey, Toby being not
only willing but more than eager. He
was crazy after Betsey.
'All the same Betsey didn't care for
Toby not a little bit, nor for any