Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-08-29


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came upon the scene only to Be a.
cused OF having stolen q sroose that
Ihe knew had not besnSln his coop.
No honest fishefman; he said. would
stand being dipped like that, and IL
was perfectly plain that Colebv Had
stolen the goose somewhere and took
that Ingenious way Of throwing the
guilt on some one else. q
In fact goose happened to DO
missing from the flock of another
neighbor and never. was heard OF
latter, 70 far 40 7 know. Thus the
| Joke was on Door Coleby.
So we lay there In the shade that
summer AFTERNOON, and with q per
lssistency that never flaRred, we sang
| in srhythmic munotono: 81
Coleby, Coleby, bring back that
goose! Coleby, Coleby, bring back
that gpose!'' 's2 is
The anvil rang louder than ever and
the sparks few madly as Coleby's
hammer beat down with fury. He Be.
came angrier each minute until at
last, in blind rage, he ran to the
edge Of the pond, sbrandishing in his
hands pair Of tongs. 81
He swung them around his head
and hurled them at us with the ut
most strength Of his brawny arm.
Take that goose vunce!" he cried.
and the tongs went straddling
through the air and fell ker-chug
right in the middle of the pond.
We boys really knew more about
the history of that goose than any,
one suspected or we cared to tell.
ALI Waters had caught her in a
fence corner and had imprisoned her
in his fathers unused stable, and all
to hear what fuss Coleby would
make, for nothing enraged him SO
much as q depreciation committed
on his geese.
Three nights after having taken the
goose, ALT tired of his sport. and
taking her under his arm he carried
her to Coleby's.coop. Coleby's coop
was locked. What could ALT do? He
had no intention of keeping the
goose, for he was one of the best fel-
lows that ever lived.
"Now," thought ALT, 81, will put
poor goosey where she will be COM
Portable for the night, and in the
morning she will go home herself"
The first place ALT thought of was
the upturned boat the fisherman used
for coop, and in five minutes the
goose was comfortably settled on the
ground with the two ducks and drake,
while the three chickens slept on the
roost above.
There! ALT had done his duty, and
it was just in time, for scarcely half
an hour afterward Coleby and the
fisherman met at the coop door, and
each thought the other thief.
| The summer days were filed with
the round of boyish pleasures, and, al
though 1 say it with regret, we boys
frequently requested Ccleby, in our
most musical tones, to bring back
that goose. And Coleby himself be-
came SO angry at us that we would
scarcely dare 10 go near MS shoP.
But there cam an end to our teas
ing and his ang and this was how
1T happened:
Coleby's pond IS made BY dam
built across Fall creek just half mile
above its union with the Ohio. The
dam had been built q long time, and
the mill that stood by 1T was out OF
repair. We boys used it for general
amusement purposes and the nsher-
man sept his boats there.
Below the dam on the side next the
old mill was a deep pool, in which we
boys delighted to swim, and into
which we used to dive from long
beam that stuck out over it. This
beam lay on the floor OF the mill, from
one side and end of which the wealth
erboarding had been torn by destruc-
tive hands. From the beams end
dangled a rope which secured one o.
the fishcrman's boats as it lay on the
water below.
One afternoon ALI and went down
to the old mill to see the boys dive
We met Coleby's geese as we went