New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-03-04

how It WIZ Payln "a q book that told
about babies, Leander didn't begredge
that FIVE dollars 50 very much after all
81 eander,'' seq Hattie one forenoon,
s1that 3 cyclopeedy aint no account
There amt nothin' in it about babies sx-
lcept See Maternity Z .
Waa1, I'll be gosh burned z SEE lie:
lander That Ssuz all he said, and hi
conldn't do nothin' at ali, II that book
agenr, Lemuel Higgins, had the deao
wood on him, the mean, sneakin' crit
ter!
So the years passed on, one OF them
Icyclopeedies shown up now nd then,
sometimes every two years nlsometimes
every four, but allus at time when Lee
| ander found it pesky har6 to give up a
/ flyer. it warn't no use cnssin' Higgins
Higgins just LATED when Leander al
lowed that the cyclopeedy Wuz no good
md that he Wuz bein' robbed. Mean
time Leander's family wuz increasin' and
CROWN. Little Sarey had the hoopil'
cough dreadful one winter, but the cy-
clopeedy didn't help out at all, cause
all it said Wuz: ssHoopin' Cough-see
Whoopin' Cough and Nv course, there
wacn't no Whoopin' Cough to see, bein'
~ 9 2 . 70 ! 8 "
as how the w hadn't come yet!
Oncet when Hiram wanted to dreen
the home pasture, he went to the CYCLIC
peedy to find out about it, but all he dis
kivered wuz: ssDrain--See Tile" This
WIZ in 1859, and the cyclopeedy had on
" got down to G..
The COW wuz sick with lung fever one
spell and Leander laid her dyin' to that
cussid cyclopeedy, cause when he went
to readin' bout cows it told him to s'See
Zoology"
But what's the use Nv harrowin' up
ones feelin's talkin' md thinkin' about
these things? Leander got so after a
while that the cyclopeedy didn't worry
him at all; he grew to look at it ez one
Nv the crosses that human critters has to
bear without complainin' through this
vale Nv tears. The only thing that both
cred him Wuz the fear that nlubbe he
wouldn't live to see the last volume, .
to tell the truth, this kind Nv got to be
his hobby, and I've heern him talk bout
it many time settin' round the stove at
the tavern md squirtin' tobacco juice at
the saw-dust box. His wife, Hattie,
passed away with the ,yallel janders the
winter w come, and all that seemed to
reconcile Leander to survivin' her wuz
the prospect Nv seem the last volyume
Nv that cyclopeedy. Lemuel Higgins.
the book agent, had gone to his overcast
in punishment; but his son, Hiram, had
succeeded to his fathers business md
continued to visit the folks his old man
had roped in. By this time Leander's
children had growed up; all on 'em wuz
marr'd, and there wuz numeris grand
children to amuse the OF gentleman.
But Leander wuzn't to be satisfied with
the common things NV airth; he didn't
seem to take no pleasure in his grand
children like most men do; his mind
wuz alters sot on somethin' else.--for
hours md hours, yes, all day long, he'd
set out on the front stoop lookin' visit
fully up the road for that book agent to
come along with cyclopeedy. He
didn't want to die till he'd got all the
cyclopeedies his contract called for; he
wanted to have everything Strengthened
out before he passed away.
When--oh, how well recollect it
when Y come along he wuz so overcome
that he fell over in fit Nv paralysis, md
the old gentleman never got OVERT. For
the next three years he dropped nd
pinned, and seemed like he couldn't hold
out much longer. Finally he had to take
to his bed,-he was so old md feeble,
but he made 'em move the bed up aginsi
the winder so he could watch for that
last volyame of the cyclopeedy.
The enu come one balmy day in the
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spring Nv '87. His life wuz a-ebbin'
powerful fast; the minister wuz there,
nd me, md DockeWilson, md Jedge Ba-
ker, md most NV the family. Lovin
hands smoothed the wrinkled forehead
md breshed back the long, scant, white
hair, but the eyes of the dyin' man wus
sot upon that piece Nv road down which
the cyclopeedy man allus come
AL to oncet a bright md joyful lool
come into them eyes, nd OF Leander ri;
| up IN bed nd seq. its come!!''
..Whatis it, Fathpr?' asked his daugh
ter Sarey, sobbin' like. .
sHesh,' seq tie minister, solemnly
che sees the shinin' gates Nv the No,