Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-12-30

I'd jine his party, ez he called it, the
next year.
Then | went home ter Tidy nd told
her all he'd sed, er tried to; but either
failed err she was mighty hard 10
convince, fer she jest called me an old
fool nd then went cryen ter bed.
Wall, stranger, eff ye'd bleave IL, Tidy
nd me quarreled more that next six
months than we'd done in the hull
thirty-four years we'd lived tergether
She was that cross md peevish!
1t soon come TO be ginerly known
that the old kellar sixty wuz fer sale,
though Tidy sed ez she wouldn't sign
no papers; nd the boys writ mum ez
we'd better hold on till Id been ter
Kansas.
The agint was on hand arly in the
spring, talken big ez ever bout the
sunny land, ez he called it, md tellen
how all the crops were in out there
while we hadn't begun plowen yit
He sed ez he'd be ready to start short
ly, but nd let us know in time; some
business was keepen him. Course we
found out afterwards that all the bus
/ mess wuz ter wait till the fields out
in Kansas were all green with grower
grain. A place shows OFF better them
When he did git ready it was right in
the bizziest time fer Illnoy farmers,
hut we, 'leven Of us from different
parts of the country, went tight long.
! Wall, he did treat us handsum; putten
up ter the best tavern when we got
thar md hiren karriges ter take us
round. Three er four o. his brothers
were on hand nd we divided up inter
parties o. two nd three nd one O. EN-
went along with each. The agint him
! self took two of us out ter see what
| he called some chico pieces. One
wuz on the highlans nd he
! claimed twas a great bargain. | sed
! ez I'd ruther have bottom land, but
! he sed nobody who knowed what they
wuz doin bought bottom land The
piece did look fine. 1t had been wet
| spring nd | never see sech crops ia
| Illnoy.
He sed ez he he'd paid 81 500 fer il
| the fall before, he could not sell it fer
! less ner $4,000 nd wouldn't name them
/ figgers ter anybody he had MT a
/ friendly intTust in. He would take
down whatever | got fer my sixty, nd
fix the rest in easy payments. | sed
/ though es | couldn't pay SIGH price
/ nd he finally sed seen it wuz me he'd
make it $4,000, nd that night we
closed the bargin Some o. the fellars
I bought md some didn't, and them ez
| didn't, the ag.uts sed wuz 1eadheats,
/ they'd Jest taken that plan ter git ter
see the kentry without it costen 'em
any,. lid sort o look that way
ter me then, LIT Silas Kellar's cut his
eye teeth sence. sort o dreaded ter
/ git home nd tell Tidy I'd bargined fer
sure, fer the last word she'd sed wuz
Don't do nuthen rash, Silas.' nd |
knew that meant not ter buy till Ia
thought over t.
When | told her, l s'posad she'd
1 make a fuss nd say some purity cutten
things: but she just turned that
white | thought she WIZ goin ter faint,
nd went inter the bedroom nd shet
the door. That wuz about noon ma
she didn't come out till twas most
supper time, nd then she looked ez II
she'd he'd fit O. sickness, bat never
cross word outen her lips On the
Isuhiect from that day ter this, though
when it come ter signen the papers
her hand shook so she could hardly
make letter nd Tildy's a great
schollard, too, she is.
do my best, l could only git $1,000