The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-10-30
FARMER DAIE'S MISTAKE


q WAS on wheeling tour and stop
ped for supper aud all night at
rn.looking farmhouse. | was
surprised to see no woman about, all
tie work being done BY the owner Of
the place, Ezra Dale After supper |
lighted pipe and sat on the porch
smoking Dale came and SAT- beside
me.
You have finished your evening
chores early" 1 said When my wife
Is without a servant, she never gets
the dishes washed before 8 O'clock
WAL, ye see, | don't do 1t that
away. wash dishes oncet a week.
Then | put EN- all on ter the wagon,
drive em inter the creek. take mop,
an' when | get through they shine like
pewter"
Don't you think a wife would be
handy? She could do your mending."
Don't need no wife. | got needles
an thread an buttons. There's my
kit" And he handed me a case con
tanning the articles mentioned and no
more
Where's your thimble7p l asked
Don't need no thlmble. | tried one
oncet an couldn't use 1t It's handler
to git the head of the needle ag'in the
wall and drive 1t through that Away.
did you never have 4 love affair."
yes, oncet 1t was when l was
young feller-yery young an very
green. | used to look on a gal as a
hea then would look on a sacred i'm
age There was a little one llyin'
across the creek. Farmer Owens
daughter Daisy. Purity? Ye bet, an
gentle as a kitten. She took a shine to
me / was a fair-lookin' young Teller
then. straight an slim an light on my
feet. One eyenin' l was a-passin'
Farmer Owens, and Daisy come Yun-
MIN out with her finger a-bleedln' an
asked me ter tie 1t up fur her. | had
ter git her arm under mine somehow,
an hold on ter her hand an wrap the
linen strip an wind the string an lot
of things all at the same time. While
was a-doln' of 1t her hair got ag'in
my cheek, an'-waal, l lost my head
an. turnln'. put an arm around her an
kissed her.
DO We know, stranger, I've since
made up my mind she done 1t all a-pur-
pose. l b'lleve she cut her finger on
tentionally. l tell ye. women folks Is
tricky"
4 think that was very nice femi-
nine way of catching your attention"
l remarked. "Go on"
'',That's jist what did do. l went on
from day ter day, week ter week. till it
seemed ter me If anything happened be-
tween me an that gal I'd collapse.
Somethin' did happen. Farmer Owens
TUX a farm han fur the haydn, an
what did Daisy do but take him out IN
her buggy that her father bought fur
her at Christmas an drive right by that
house a-purpose ter show him off ter
me. | tell We, stranger, she had the
wickcdest eye in her We ever see"
Another feminine trait" observed.
Miss Daisy was evidently woman"
"she was a woman. stranger an the
worst kind of a one" Dale went on
lugubriously. She broke me all up.
jist rented this farm an went away.
didn't come back fur ten years Then
| made up my mind that women folks
wasn't with worryln' about, an | TUX
my farm ag'ln an began ter work It.
The fust time went by Farmer Owens
Daisy come out-she had grown ter be
a hne-lookin. young woman of 2e-an'
what do ye suppose she did,"
Il can't imagine"
ASKED NE II | wonln't tie up cut
finger. She had the same wicked look
In her eye she had when she drove that
lopslded farm han by my house ten
years afore. Women is the persistenest
critters l ever see. l list squared off an
said: 'Ye don't git me that away ag'in
Ye done It oncet, an that's enough
But, do We know, stranger, she was so
slick about 1t that In five minutes had
my arm about her an she was a.restln'
her head on my shoulder. She was
a-cryin'. too-cryn' crockerdile tears,
no doubt.
"Waal, we was engaged, but It didn't
+ las long The question come up as ter
whether we'd be married by Justice
or a parson l don't like parsons N.Y.
self. an / wanted n Justice. Daisy
wanted parson, an she was so blame
set about ii that | reckoned II she was
as obstinate about small matter like
that she'd be wantln' ter run the farm.
so ! called the thing off. an I've been
Twin alone her ever since"
''Alr. Dale" l said. "you have mis-
taken natural feminine traits for gen
eral cussedness."
THAT'S what they is tell ye stran-
ger. Ye don't understand"
you have declined to give up that
which to a woman is a great deal, while
to you it Is nothing. Miss Owens was
right to lnsht on being married by a
parson, and you were ungenerous to re-
Y fuse her. Now. let me give you bit
of advice Miss Owens is still single ?
Yes Well, go to her and tell her that
i when you first met her you were a
biunderIng idiot and that later you