The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02
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he knocked down the rail fence and left
Jason without his natural means of
support. But he knowed this wouldn't
do, with old Deacon Thorp's cows
ranging about seeking wot they might
devour, so he put up wire fence
not barbed wire, cause it wasn't in
vented yet, but old-fashioned smooth
fence wire. Strung up five wires from
post to post down long the side of
! the pertater patch and 'crost the holler
| where Jason was 'customed to roost.
There says Hod, 1 reckon that will
| fetch him. Leastways he'll have to lay
down on the sudgy ground now and get
the chilIs, and I'll get rid of him, any
| how But did it fetch him? Not much;
| Jason just put his coat on the top
wire, clumb up, sot down, hooked his
heels on the second wire and went
| plumb to sleep as soon as the wilder
wasn't looking. In fact, | think he
slep' better, cause he swayed a little
in the breeze and it sort o rocked him
and made him dream he was a child
again in his mothers cradle.
| AT fust Hold was dead beat. He's
too many for me- says Hod. The wild
der might just as well put a spring bed
out there and let him regularly turn
in and sleep till meal time But Hold
got a-thinking, and one day hit on an
other plan.
at was about the middle of a warm
afternoon, and Jason was a-sieeping
| quietly on his wire at the bottom of
the holler. This holler, you know, is
mebby 40 feet below the tops of the
little knobs each side of it. Well. Hold
went down along the fence and pulled
the staples out of the posts that held
the two top wires all the way acrost
the hol.er, leaving them fast on the
/ furder side. Then he hooked the wild
der's team on the ends up by the barn
and drawed them two top wires up
tight, and fastened 'em solid to the
| posts by the barn. OF course Jason
went up with the wires, and when Hold
got through there Jason was swing
ing gently in the summer breeze 30
feet from the ground, his face buried
in his hands and his hoe balanced
acrost his lap.
well, it being near the road, the I'M
yoosial sight 'tracted 'tention, and soon
passed. of us was awaiting below to
see wot Jason would do when he woke
up, we reckoning he would be some
tiabbergasted when he seen where he
was After quite a spell, there being
no sign of his waking up, Hold went to
the house and got the dinner horn and
come out and footed it furious. When
this welcome sound struck his ears
Jason sort O. tossed up his head and
opened his eyes. Then he looked off
and seen the bloc sky, and the white
clouds, and felt hisseif floating in the
air. There he says. sort o s'lil'quiz-
ing to hisself, that there foot was old
Gabriels trump, just as | s'pected. and
I'm an angel. like | ought to be. Poor
old Hod, | s'pose he's down in t'other
| placen Then he sort o. worked his
head around and caught sight o. the
ground and parity sensed the sityoowa-
ton. Hello says he, pears 'sif come
by telegraph. Always lowed if |
didn't stop working so like a house
afire that I'd get catched by something
fast Then he studied the lay of
things little more, and says he: See
here, Hod; if I'm going to labor and
slave and do my own work and half O