Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-02-10

Then sends his partner once a year
Tb finish up the work for him.
ALI hail the saint both kind and dear. ~. . .
And may his luster neer grow dim! : |
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox. In N. Y. Sun.
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try on my bicycle.
Z had Just passed through the pretty.
village of b, and here on the out
skirts I found a great, beautiful! house,
with wide driveway leading between
big stone posts and up to the p;llared.
portico. 1t was such beautiful place,
up there in the sunlight, that wanted
to lock longer at it, SO / dismounted,'
and, leaning on the stone wall, was
adm;ring its fine proportions when l
heard the rattle of alarm wagon and in
moment the ia tile stoppedjust behind
me, and then voice which announced a
story in connection with the mansion.
4 good-natured looking old gentle
MAN was sitting in long farm wagon,
such as is used to bring the potatoes
trom the field or the apples from the or
so fat he could hardly move, and GER
tain}y if I had been in any hurry l
should have kept to my wheel, but then
time with me was Of no consequence,
and did like stories. and there would
be a., unusual charm about this, for the
old man had the peculiar pronunciation
and queer nasal twanS Of that part Of
the country. SO loaded the wheel in.
behind and climbed in myself with the
driver.
Coin fur, be YEP"
"Well, friend, don't just know how
far. I'm out for fun, taking my vaca
ton on my wheel, partly because 1
wan. to be out of doors and partly be-
cause haven't the money to lay out in
Car fare
'|Sho, meow. Wal, We ken ride weth
me Sur's I 60, an thet'll save yer whee!
some"
Pm sure you are very kind to help
and right there I had such a spell of
coughing that the sentence never was
finished. It seemed SO funny that he
never thought of.the wear and tear on
his eGuipage, sbut:inz his generous heart
only sought to save me and my wheel.
<Consumptiye, be yep" and he looked
at NE anxiou&y.
FASTENED to say that it was the dust
or the neat that made me cough so.
WAL, I'm 'tarnal glad ter heart. I've
heard said consumption, the kind the
hev meow, wuz ketchin'. bet II
wouldn't hev lived ont half my days eff
hedn't er ben lleerful te: steer clear er
them diseases't knew wuz ketchin'.
amt but so, but bet eff scarlet fev'r
er diptheree should git holt er me I'd
neverd git overt. Youth don't count
Ger nothin' weth them things"
looked at him to see if he was iok-
ing, but not a smile on his face as he
spoke Of his youth and the uncertainty
Of his recovery from either of those dis
eases. Did he really think himself
young man? could not tell.
Haven't you had any of the diseases
common to children?''
''Wal, I should say't I he'd. When
James baby he'd Their chick pox went
&down't Mollie's ter live in the village,
I an I'll be pizencd eff them blamed pox
&didn't ketch me Their. I tell We the bis
tiers wuz suthin ter see, an amt never
got overt yit an I never shell. It
ketches me somewheres every little
while. Jane says it's rhumatiz, but ]
low young folks don't hey rhumatiz;