Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-02-08

*9& ~ through the coun-
~ try on my bicycle.
had just passed through the pretty
village of D., and here on the out
skirts I found a great, beautiful house,
with a wide driveway leading between
big stone posts and up to the pjllared
s,ortico. 1t was such beautiful place,
s,p there in the sunlight, that I wanted
30 look longer at it, so dismounted,
and, leaning on the stone wall, / was
admiring it's fine proportions when /
heard the rattle of a farm wagon and in
Z. moment the rattle stopped just behind
me, and then voice which announced a
story in connection with the mansion.
Il good-natured looking old gentle
man was sitting in long farm wagon,
such as is used to bring the potatoes
from the field or the apples from the Or
s.hard. The horse was daprled gray,
SO tat he could hardly move, and GER
sainly if had been in any hurry l
should have kept to my wheel, but then
slime with me was Of no consequence,
and did like stories, and there would
be an unusual charm about this, for the
and queer nasal twang of that part Of
she country. So loaded the wheel in
behind and climbed in myself with the
driver.
Coin fur, be YEP"
<tWell, friend, don't just know how
far. I'm out for fun, taking my vaca-
tion on my wheel, partly because l
want to be out Of doors and partly be-
cause I haven't the money to lay out in
car fare"
"sho, meow. Wal. We ken ride weth
me fur's I go, an thet'll save yer whee!
some"
I'm sure you are very kind to help"
and right there I had such spell of
coughing that the sentence never was
finished. 1t seemed so funny that he
never thought of the wear and tear on
his equipage, but in his generous heart
only sought to save me and my wheel.
''Consumptive, be yep and he looked
at me anxiously.
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'. I bet l
wouldn't hev lived out half my days eff
I hedn't er ben keerful ter steer clear er
them diseasest knew wuz ketchin'.
I amt but 80, but bet eff scarlet fev'r
or diptheree should git holt er me I'd
never'd git overt. Youth don't count
fer nothin' weth them things"
looked at him to see if he was jok-
ing, but not smile on his face as he
spoke of his youth and the uncertainty
of his recovery from either of those dis
cases. Did he really think himself
young man? could not tell.
Haven't you had any of the diseases
common to children?"
"'Wal, should say't I he'd. When
James baby he'd Their chick pox I went
~sIown't Mollie's ter live in the village,
an III be pizened eff them blamed pox
didn't ketch me Their. tell We the bis
tiers wuz suthin' ter see, an ain t never
got overt yit an I never. she'll. It
ketche me somewheres& every little
while: Jane says it's rhumatiz> but 1
low young folks don't hev rhumatiz;
my granther wuz over er bundled an
he never he'd it an say it's the re-
mains @er them pox." +
thought it time to bring his mind
TO the story he was to tell, so cas-
'ual!y asked if he was personally ac-
-quainted with the inmates of the great
house. "lT s. = &. E.z. 1:&II... ~
wal. should say't Iwuz. ] Invent ter
}Sskeool weth the old man, but I amt
seen i'm fer years. He ashets himself
!. up an don't go nowhere. Ibet he amt
nigh ser smart's Ibe, an he n'tser old
by two year; no sir, he amt. z Bib Ea > Ut
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