Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-10-23
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EZRA SPRlGGlNS' SUMMER
EOARDER.

them painter chaps calls a vistay is
sumwhat knocked into a cooked hat
by the stump fence an the co'ncrib.
an tibet har'l o leech lye in The cor
ner-thet 10 lookin' at the vistay frum
the stoop. Still, there is allus sum
thin to distarb the eye when pusson
squints at natur'
For instance. them scooped -out.in-
front summary gals; them polxed-out-
behind summary galivantresses with
hose that are loud 'nuf to can the
COWS flum the pastur'; them low-cut
cossetless sinners thet palptate like
| grain dancin in the hopper o the
! grist mill. Yes, thurs allus sumthin
| to distarb man when he's peelin'
bout fur shy at natur'-an' sees
sumthin' to sorter shunt his vision off
on the peek-a-boo track. But we'll
/ jest show the pore, weak college stu.
dent who says he's willin' to take mp
with back chamber If he can on'y
have front pew at the festal board.
Oh! he'll git front pew an Wen
soak him fifteen per week, Ell, Han
nay?'
owe will do our best, Ezra. We
will take him to our buzzom, an feed
him till he busts-if he'll take the
back chamber and fork over his little
fifteen per week. When's he comm p
"ln the mornin' Tn goin' to town
arter him bright and airly Want
any-thin' from town.
Guess we'd better git two or three
pound o. cut loaf sugar an sum o.
tibet innocent coffee an hall dozen
o lemons an a few bananas. Them
city folks expect sumthin' a leetle
extra ;an'-oh, yes, don't furgit a
cocoanut-"
"Dummit! Then nuts comes high,
pesky high! Have to buy EN- by the
piece. Don't mean filberts or pecans
or sum last Christmas mixed nuts thet
can be got cheap, do you, Hannay?'
Il mean cocoanut. It'1l be on the
shelf, like as If | was thinkin' bout
al
His mouth will water arter a cocoanut
cake he'll never git"
you suttinly wuz born fur a seat
in the senate Hannay; you air the
greatest pfomiser tween here and
Spikeville. He'll on'y banker arter
what he'll never git Tibet back
chamber will jest please him It'll do
up for the vistay he'll miss when he
sits in the goamin' on the stoop,
reumfnatin' and takin' shy at natur'
an plunkin' skeeters, Ell? Feed him,
Hannay. Feed him to the muzzle I'll
soak him fifteen per week sure's my
names Ezra Spriggins, dern me-
The summer boarder who came
back from town with Ezra Spriggins
was very companionable young man
with pale face and thin legs, Study
had well night cut him down to the
bone and made a physical wreck of
once fine specimen of manhood-so
he said as he fell to at dinner fine
and scooped four eggs, three slices of
salt pork swimming in fat, half a
dried apple pie most of the cheese,
quarter loaf of bread, two helpings of
butter, and four cups OF innocent cot.
fee. Then he sighed and said he
would go mp to that sweet, quiet little
chamber overlooking the hillside and
work on that poem Of his. The pub
fishers were simply bounding the life
out of him for fear the poem would
not be ready for the autumn issue OF
the great magazine of thought aud
mental culture. After he went up the
old bent stairway to his back chamber
Ezra leaned over the table ana said
softly to his beaming wife:
"Hannay, we've corked prize"
Ezra, tibet pore creetur' is a pu1iet."
AN such a fine ap'tite."
which I'll 'pease-yes. TN bet III
'pease thet ap'tite; Jest you leave mo
lone fur tibet. Goodnessi Did he find
fault when you tole him it wuz fifteen
per week."
"On'y looked at me as II he wuz
| tired. He shuck his ratt1ers bout in
! his pockets an said easily, arter |
| axed him If it wuz too steep: 'Flnan-
cial affairs Of the sort I never triGe
with Feed him, Hannay! Feed him
good an stiff Keep him agoin' at
/ the festal board, an maybe we can
keep him goin' fur four months. Thet
! means nigh on to. or little over
countin' an odd week, two hundred
an forty dollars. Gosh, I'll lift tibet
end Of the COW stable up whar it be.