The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-10-03

share the joys Of a trip with me, and if
I conduct myself the rest of the summer
as have SO far she is going to take me
to Europe next year with her egg money.
(She is quite an agriculturist, and I had
all could do to keep her from planting
the whole farm last year to hominy. I
wanted to plant it to fish balls and hops,
so that when we didn't care to attend
ball we could have hop.)
But once she went away for day,
and the train was so late that she wired
me she could not come home, but would
remain in the hands Of her friends. She
telegraphed me where the key to the
storeroom was concealed, but the tele-
graph operator did not get it clearly,
and so took the children down into the
watermelon patch for tea.
We had just wiped off our chins and
started for the house when a carriage
drove up to the door with outriders, a
coachman feet high and footman. Sew
eral people alighted and were shown in.
They were people whom I met in Hell
delberg when was there accomplishing
myself 25 years ago. They were people
of title and great wealth, and in their
own country thought nothing of going
to mill with a tallyho. They also left a
little wine in their glasses at dinner,
which I had been taught to regard in
Laramie as a great sin when there are
so many poor people in the world who
can only have wine every 30 days.
These wealthy friends had gathered
from what I said while at Heidelberg
that l had money to burn, as the Ger
mans have it, and as many people on
the continent think that the American
keeps corncrib full of gold and hay
loft full of currency for rainy day. I
made good impression, though, as
heaven is my judge, little VOTED that
they would ever accept my invitation
to visit me and then come when the
storeroom key was concealed and the
cook gone to attend reunion of her
children at Asheville.
I got the baron to look at the CYCLIC
pedia while Invent out and got heart
disease chasing the swift footed rooster
The ladies I told to enjoy the view
awhile and to make themselves perfect
ly free with our delightful climate.
also brought out some drawn work,
which I was doing at odd times, and
permitted them to revel in it while
excused myself and left one of the little
boys to amuse them with his innocent
ways, though he secretly, and, in fact,
openly, wanted ''to go and help paw
overtake that old clay bank rooster. -
l hate rooster that shows no speed
whatever till everybody has left the place
and empty guests arrive from Heidel-
berg Oh, how hot the weather seemed,
even here where mean temperature is
very unusual!
Just as the golden sun babe goodby
to the grim front of Pisgah chased old
Maud S, the first white settler on Hoo
per's creek, into joint of stovepipe and
wrung his neck with a wild, wild joy.
wrang it long after his guilty soul had
crossed the county line and gone tc
Salisbury, where there is weeping and
wailing and crashing of teeth.
His blood was on my white flannel
pantlets, though had them rolled up.
In my ungovernable rage overstepped
myself and cut off his bill, which gave
him whimsical look, like that Of 9
member of the legislature whose claim
/, for mileage has been overlooked as wei
as his pass.
had told my guests that ! would
| have to lie excused q moment for yes
pers, and don't know what they
| thought If they heard some of my state
ments as stood there red handed in thu
| presence of death.
just then old Maud 8 revived at thu
sight Of blood and bounded eight fee
into the air with kind Of hoarse croal
| and shot the contents Of his carotid ar
| terry over my pretty new blazer.
| | had to GO up stairs the back wa.
. and change every stitch Of my raiment
and had just returned to the parlor in |
! nice hot cardigan jacket and low Gu
lecturing vest when the cock returnet