Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-12-09
! KICKING IN SINNEMAHONB.
NOTHING LIKE THAT FEVER ETHER
BEFORE OR SINCE.

NOTHING LIKE THAT FEVER EITHER II
2 BEFORE OR SINCE. 8
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WONDER if any of you on this side
the mountain remember the
strange ailment that visited us folks on
the other side when I was a young
man?' said the man from over Sinne-
mahoning way. "A strange ailment it
was indeed. Sort Of an uncontrollab bic
arrangement of the muscular tissues
Of the leg, the doctors called it, but it
was known as the kicking fever of the
-,iSiauemahone. I wonder it any of you
9emeeiHA.. sss4. it2" - i -. :; :*
"Nafqr1y. 1t amt likely that any.
body aQet," said the man in the red,
blue Efeen, pink, yellow and purpls
A..ackinaw jacket, "but any fever that
ever got mixed up with folks on the:
Sinnemahone an didn't Kick must a
been Of setch mild an forgivin' a dis
poNien as to make it a shams to feed
qpfnine 70 it."
"Tsanks, Mackinaw," said the man
from oyer Sinnema honing way. SO, Your.
gentle hnmor goes fartoward dissipat-
thg a'certain sadness and tendency to
. abstraction. and a fit Of the blues that
alYaEe assail me Wbep:I think OF that
Kicking fever of the Sinnemahone, and
I thank you'll When Il. see the fertile
acres Of the Jepheniah~ Biffkins estate
spreading along the sinnemahonfng's
classic bottom and think how they
wapld NOW all Be mine but for that
kicking fever I am prone to sadness.
But you've knocked 'em silly this time,
Na4naw. . . ~,''> & . , = =. .''s..'
"Yes. yes. Those rich Jepheniah
Biffkias acres would now be mine but
for that kicking fever that came to the
Sinnemahone country. These acres
then belonged to Deacon Judd Peeler,
and the deacon's daughter Nancy had
promised to be my wife, and Nancy was
heir to all the wide Peeler estate. So
when think-but let that pass. 1t is
all over now.
+ wherever that most singular all
ment Gould have come from no one ever
knew, but it certainly cut wide swath
aIong the Sinnemahoue. Twas off down
{hs Eiyer Xhep It began It's attack, and
conseQ d9ntly I didn't know anything
about 1t until I got back home a couple
ef&esks later; The frst person it struck
gas Uncle Billy Tope. Uncle Billy was
mild and easy-going citizen that no
one would have thought had any life
IN him at all, and he was a strict tee
totaaer. Consequently you may imagine
the establishment of Squire Bunker,
who owned the sawmill where Uncle
Billy worked, to see the old man com.
ing up the road one day, giving a ire
mendous kick every two or three steps
he took ,sometices to the right and some.
times to the left, as If he might have
started out to kick all creation into the
middle Of next week. Squire Bunker
was scared, and he edged off to one side
of the road as Uncle Billy came along
kicking and scuffing and looking a.
wild as an Indian. The squire ventured
to say az the old man was cavorting by:
What's up, William9' '
"Uncle Billy only shook his head, ant
giving@a kick that didn't miss tn,
squires jaw by more than half an inch
went on his way toward home, kicking
a. he went. ..~., -. 49,. = ~ ,.' -
Astounding!' exclaimed the squire
Il never thought I'd live long enough
to see Uncle Billy Tope turn out to be
drinker!' ~s~..s 81: '-'. 49, ?.
Then the squire started for home
He hadn't gone a hundred yards befor
he began to feel little mulish himself
and the first thing he knew he wa
kicking away as unreasonably as Uncl
Billy. 4 He couldn't stop It any NOR
than he could have stopped his mill rae
with : three-iuch plug. The SPUR
didn't have for to go, and before b
# could reach out and open his door b
had kicked it open with a bang, and hi
wife came running out of the kitchen /
see what was the matter.
"'Clear the way, mother!' the SPUR
hollered. Give me room! Don't get 4
my way or I'll make widower OF my
Aelf at one swoopl' . ".
THE squire's wife, scared almost t
death, locked he.self up IN : closet. an