Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-05
To the Country
For a jolly Good Time.

ARTIE SAYS Mt!

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Every breeze that came in at the open
windows was as soft as velvet. me
warm sunshine had tempered IL unui
the las, sting Of winter was gone.
Miller AID Artie had removed their
colts and uubotlOned their vests. 1hey
worked l.s-lessly. and occasionally one
Of them you'd lean back and gaze sleep
ilv out al the walls and roofs end the
distant ribbon Of lake. now dotted mere
and there with moving specks.
"A man ought 10 be pinched for work
in a day like this Artie finally OBJ
served.
Isn't it delightful" said Miller.
'eThis is the time of year when a man
feels Ike getting out into the country.
'-Th9. ANT no lie, either. You ooa t
see very many J0l8ny-jump-ups grow
in along Dearborn street, 90 yOU?'
do you expect TO get away from
town often this sumner
"Gee. can't 90 very FAR. Since I've
started plauia' my stuff in the bank
and piuakin' in few cases every
month on the buildin' and loan game,
-ot 10 P-0' P"t - -.
ID zen you '.0s' vs. -, -
AXE little run over TO ST. Joe or up 10
Milwaukee on the boat. When they let
YOU r.ue all day on The boat for dollar
G Hlrow. why. that's where | cut in
freely. Ru, hey don't gel my game at
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spose .ae country al I-7i' ~ d iii'''l
ilat llFeu tleie, ouL you TAKE sOHle
wise boy lhal Vas Drought up III to"I
and YOU throw aim ouJ on Iarm ana
he's the worst ever You We seen Jhein
BOYS around the union station comm
II with their red-t0ppad boots and h!g1
hats and paper grips-|ell. when you
see them tGilu' into coai-holes and be-
in snaked out by fake hotel runners,
You think they're purity new, don't YOU?
Well. say. there ain one of them that's
hair the horrible mark that some Chi
clg0 dub is when ne goes up against
that farm game II he don't look like
a yellow clarinet in jWenty-fOur hours
YOU can mark me down for a sucker.
They can't spring none o. that happy
ch.ldhood-days-d 0Wl-on-the-farm bus
mess on me. I've been next. III tell
IT didn't know that YOU were ever on
a farm. said Miller. laughing.
81 was there once all right. an l got
1t thrOWed into me so nard I was good
and sore. too. Four years ago this
summer that was before my father
died-my uncle Matt lats gOJ 4 farm
q little ways from C9'5S5urC. wrote fol-
IRE 70 come down and yisi, en-. The
cid gentleman asked f. vented to go
and / said: sure thing IL a minute.
Ia been readin' them con story 91nks
about pickin' flowers and g0in' tishin'
and dublin around Jne woods out in
the country. an / thinks to myself:
This Is cinch. I'LL go down there and
dazzle them JAYS. So l went down
there. an a cousin O mine, Spencer
Blanchard. met me at the train with
busy and drove me out. / got there
i'm time for supper and they all give me