Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1902-12-20

NEI "But didn't make bit OF -v-r,u-
v difference what kind of tackle st2ez1S-=sz
ised salle wouldn't take a shine s5ss -
@ IN IL | staid out o the woods EgsHsss 5as.
-' whole winter tryin' to land her III
-na' paid that Gravenhurst liyerykeep- Egss ESEa
or MS much as four and five dollars Eg5lAyFWb8Nt
.rr-.uI n week for sleghs 4 takln het -
4 in AN the church sociables with her; =
nts Claus at tie Christmas tree cause she
o sent clear down to Toronto to get her
finest valentine thcy had in that town, just
blg that was a goin to buy it that it didn't
. . . ! ! . ! !. !. !. !. !. !. " !. " !. !. ! .
difference about price, an it cost morn $780, u
postage Iut it didn't work, for when val n
hi asked her to marry me, an it was about MEA
mlredth time | had asked her, she just hltSt8E
bat for Es5f3sa
IA whole winter of that kinder diseour. Ef##FV
when the next one come around | went off Sl#|I
pas You know that clearn' up there at 4 E@fM
end Of Crane lake? Well, helped make that \ Bs5j
kr Stayed up there from September til the SIT
| Christmas an a pilin' up logs to make Ta8
| time. WYE
i about four o'clock the day before Christmas VI
Scott came a moseyn' into camp lie coined "
luhurst an' when he seed me he over -
&lle told him to tell me if he seed me that
4 Christmas present for me if | got around
monn to claim it. If | didn't she a
eW it to another feer.
|Gt know Just what that Christmas present
IN to be, but l wasn't gon' to take chance
|her ieler gittiu it, whatever it was, an I
GrHeuurst right away You know faint A~~s.rauuz-u-
day picnic up in these here woods in De- TrrsH"a"H1
Pa they aint lit up by electric lights at followed the
ugh the was a shinin. That didn't ne tentSs ntSssatgg @
|@t o difference to me, an in a half hour
IGr o snoWshoes a maxim long tracks to-
aenhurst In the timber the snow was pled up
nb an ON the lakes the ice a reachin down oo'
dher way with good pile o snow top O that, Ct
ere the wind had blowed it of Wasn't just the best walk
there was fish a bitin that line Of mine down TO
was gon down there to reel it in fore 1t got away
@Sat it was btin, an l wasn't takin no chances on
H nigh onto three hours to git across old Crane that
mighty bad an the old thermometer was clear iroze
bown thought it would beat the cutters all out
oHn the trees all down. Gttin through the woods wa
IL glttn cross the lake, an twas nigh onto eight c'
ei iealey at the end of the portage Gittin cross
great shakes cause the wind comm straight from III
bowed most all the off. followed the channe
10 kah-peekog, but twasnt the same sort o cnahhci
cause the oggers hadn't built no dam in the creek an
rush From the end of the channel struck sralght u.
ores cabin standn now, but twasnt there then, an
nne through the timber for Foote's bay say you iel'
Oeh Paradise Say you ought to been IN that lno
you might changed your minds little Twas the coueA
ever heard about an that not being enough the Woes
to you out of YOUR boots But there that NJ
stan kept powin right through an trusth TO iro
somethin else to keep the wolves off my track tn =
& did any of you ever hear the wolves hoWlln wen
you don need to cry over what you missed Better 90
e yon missed it. I'll bet the tinle OF OLD santa va,
St more peasn to the ear an especially when you're
woods al night
was about four in the morning when struck Lake
tre on twas better sailin cause the wind had oo"
VII the ice same it had Heaey Twas onfy W n''
fetched up at Graveuhurst an begin reelin IN on
=" say, what do you suppose was on the other eaH -
Il was the Christmas present had come ai'er,
woods Sae begun to get lonesome, an she kept gltt
nen Bill Scott started for the woods she eoulah So"
e Just sent along that message about the Chf's''"
would fetch me- an it did. Sallie and the klds IS "
ere on Lake Joseph for you 1ellers to gt through
80 back home to en- an it's the same Salie got Tor
y Ten years ago this coming Christmas