The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1899-07-13

\ A SinnemahOning Boy
nIIOW many boys do you s'pose
Il har Il

there are nowadays, Macknaw,'
said the man from over Sinnemahoning
way, who would go out when they
were only IL years old. get lost in the
snow in the depths of the highest and
widest hills that frown down on the
Sinnemahone headwaters, lie there for
a week or more, and then turn up at
their own home freside again, fetching
with them 80 wolves and four bears, two
of the bears live, at that? How many
12-year-old-boy are there nowadays,
Mackinaw, who could and would do
thatw
"Jest as many nowadays, Sinnema-
hone. as there ever was any time" said
the man in the red, blue, purple, yellow,
green and pink Mackinaw jacket.
"Jest eAac'ly as many, and that amt a
consarned one!"
But don't you gather from my re-
marks. Mackinaw," said the man from
over Sinnemahoning way, that there
must have been at least one boy of that
kind, some time?"
II gether from your remarks that
you're gon' to say there was settha boy
some time," replied the man in the
variegated jacket, land you mowt geth-
er from my remarks that that amt
goin' to be no reason why / should
change EN-"
Meaning" said the Sinnemahoning
citizen, that you have doubt of my
veracity"
"Websters dictionary couldn't a sot
the meanin' down higher to the proper
notch, Sinnemahone," replied the man
of the many-hued garment, positively
and emphatically.
"'Then it will undoubtedly grieve you
to know, Mackinaw," said the man
from over SinnemahOning way, re-
proachfully, that in anticipating what
/ am going to say you are not rejecting
on my veracity at ALL You are casting
doubt not on the word of me, Mackinaw,
but on that of my late remarkable IA
ther, Reuben Pettibone! 1t will un-
doubtedly grieve you to know that,
Mackinaw!"
"Not durn bit!" calculated the man
in the red, blue, purple, yellow, green
and pink Mackinaw jacket, reducing
tUe Size VI HIS pug VI tobaSSo py q NoA'
modious and vicious bite.
"Then l will melt yor by an example
of juvenile endurance, combined with
filial regard and unselfishness, without
a parallel" said the Sinnemahoning
narrator. "Or, if | cannot melt you,
will shame you. If cannot touch you,
/ will make you feel that you must go
out behind the barn and kick yourself
for having had it in your heart to cast
a shadow on the word of Reuben Petit
bone, to dab splotch on the luster OF
his memory-a memory that, wherever
the waters of his own beloved Slime
malone rush or murmur, shines as
bright as a new milk pan in the MONDAY
sun! And what L am going to tell you.
on the word of that remarkable man,
occurred when Reuben Pettibone was
vet three months shy of IL years old.
Mark it well, Mackinaw, and prepare to
commune with yourself in self-accusing
words of bitterness.
"There was shadow on the house of
Pettibone at that interesting period of
nv remarkable fathers career. 1t took
the form offa mortgage on Grandfather
Shadrack Pettibone's clearing to the
amount of $500. The mortgage was on
the eve of falling due, and, as GRANDPA
ther Pettibone hadn't the money to pay
1t, the prospects were that the ancestral
acres would soon pass to alien hands;
hence the shadow on the house of Petit
bone, throwing Grandfather Shadrack
Pettibone into the depths of gloom. and.
as nv remarkable father sententiously
expressed it, into the all-pervading
depths The gloom and the dumps
were so oppressive that Reuben Petit
bone, child of nature that he was, spent
most of his time in the woods to keep
his spirits up. One day in the winter
time he shouldered his gun and sought
the hills, the widest and the highest
hills that lifted their tops here and
there about the clearings of Pettibone
and others, that lay along the headwa-
ters. Reuben Petitioners intention and
expectation was to strike the trail or