The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-03-14

oxen when they hawed out of the trail
as you come along?" inquired the stock
tender. "You don't need to tell me be-
cause you wasn't more'n three miles
off, an could hear YOU"
II amt givin' you this on my own
say-so. l got it from man with side
whiskers that comes out from Iowa to
renovate his lungs, which was wore
some. He called me his friend the first
clatter out of the box, an he told me
that cussin' was vishus an didn't do no
good, and that there wuz law agin it
in Iowa, besides it bsin' wrong on gen.
eral princerples. l guess he must ha'
known what he was talkin' about. You
can't never tell what some of these leg.
islatures in the states are likely to
spring on free people. studied over
it heap, an conclood that q man
can jest as we'll as not talk United
States without trimmin's II be oncet
gets into the habit of it. reckon he
could quit before it got too strong for
him il he found it was injurin' his
health"
"nJ oon you uy H. 'neh' s"
Ne STOCK 'ehoer. $40 t.l l5s
thougnt yon had some giimmerin 8
Of horse sense,' answered the old bull
whacker. II hain't freightin' with To-
connective along standard-gauge
track; I'm directin bulls, an l have to
give EN- thelr instructions IN language
they can understand along stretches
OF gumoo. II didnt have no regard
ior the feein's OF DUMB beasts might
make hair Time oy sockln the PUCK
SKIN 10 EN- every Jump IN the road,
ou. am 'hat kind OF man an a
1n,ai =, heeus MS niue 10 keep tne mes
on
~ wasn't Tor tnat you'd quit,
pose, salo the STOCK tender.
MePDe ! would an then again
meDoe l wouion T. rephed the old
ouii whacker. d. ,,g ,s.,.,
III did oncet an / didn't enjoy it.
That was when was ranchin' down
= on Box Elder, an my sisters son
Dick come out to stay with me. /
was onto the fac that there was a
pre-joodice aginst the use of vigorcs
talk BACK in the east before l met
tne man WIN tneside whiskers' al
snougn ! nao sorter !orgot IL. my
sister REMINDED me OF IL wneh sne
wrote an said that she would worry
about the KID, because she knew that
we nduiged IN coarseness out west
an she'o nate right smart to see
DICK get coarse. wrote back TO heI
an give myself good character. an
II seemed IKE she took considerao Die
stock In 1t an impressed It on the
Kid.
After awhile Dick come along an
lhterdooced himseh. he wuz NICE
iookin' KID about ~, an ne mad De
studyin tooth Dutcher,n' at Sain'
Looey. He asst me about wha,
church privileges we had right on
an ! was grieved to inform him that
we wuz short an ne wuz grieved te
hear 1t. he wuz quiet Kid an didn'
say much. Sometimes ! used &c
think he had suthin' on his mind tht
way he acted. We didn't get very
sosherble, he not havin' much to say
an me bein' the same way"
The stock tender snorted.
swell, when I had anythin' to say
/ most ginerally went away dowI
the, gulch apiece an said it. ! wor'
trail there sure did. y IT wuzn
convenient 10 leave the snack whel
things was go,n wrong KEEP m.
mouth smut an ieit uncomfortaoie
an things Went along that.s-way To-
about MONTH an the na ssemes
to be gettin more uneasy all TN
time' an ! ofdn,t press MN nard u
stay when ne TAXED ABOUT cuttin
his visit short.
"Finerly one evenin at supPel
time he upset some hot coffee In hi
lap, an after squirmn around
speh an remark now ~ hur' mn
ne got up an wen. ou.doors an
seen MN streak'n ler tne Darn. n
wuz gone ABOUT nse "in's' an "ne'
nc .,,.. 9ame "s oasN M Sns S;Sn.. 90 a,h,u, nc W.
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