Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-07-17
HARRY DANIELS
MINOR
OBSERVATIONS
Copyright, 1902, oy Harry Daniel

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meaning and started to run. SO dld
the bow. Both ran i'll the same dlrec-
ton, and the boy soon found that 1t
was only necessary for him to take one
step to the acre in order to keep up
with the colt. A slight misunderstand-
ing arose between them, however, IN
regard to going around tree. 1t
seems that the boy should have gone
on the same side of the tree that was
selected by the colt, but he neglected
to do this and more or less confusion
followed. / remember expected that
the colt would be dashed to death or
manned for life, but / was surprised
to see that he stood it almost as well
as the boy, who returned to conscious
ness sometime the following week.
II presume you will remember the
occurrence, and1 perhaps, the boy will,
too, if you remind him of it.
'I suppose the members of your fam
ily still wear the same sized appetites
which they had last year. / remem-
Der one day last summer took pen
and ink and wrote down what one OF
your boys ate during the day, and it
proved to be: One-half apple pie, one
half pint green gooseberries with puck.
ers, four slabs fried ham, one-half ear
seedcorn, one dozen green apples with
stems, two feet and six inches smoked
sausage, one bite Indian turnip, four
eggs, one attempt green watermelon,
one acre mothers bread, 25 cents
worth buttermilk. After you had re-
turned home, I figured it all up in
bushels, barrels and quarter-sections.
''Well, must close, as it is getting
late and I want to get through the
chores before dark because I cannot
be out in the night air much since
have taken the rheumatism. The doc
tor saws that I must have taken it some
time while sleeping on cold, damp
surface like a milkhouse floor or some
thing Of that sort. Please assemble
your family and give them our regards.
Your Cousin in the Summer Time,
Henry"
There are a great many people who
do not think much of the farm as
summer resort. They prefer the noun
tain or the seaside or the lake where
there is more dyspepsia and other So
cial advantages. They want to go
where there is more intensity of inter-
est and less homemade biscuits and
dialect. They prefer to take their sea-
son of rest some place where it is cas-
Ter to become poverty-stricken and
harder to find time to sleep. In short,
they do not regard the farm as sue
cessful summer resort because they do
not think it affords enough excitement.
In this latter respect we believe they
do the farm an injustice. We remem-
Der that the first day we ever visited
a farm in the capacity of tourist we
found almost more excitement than
we could consume. 1t was some years
ago and we opened the exercises in the
morning by attempting to slide off
the top of corn crib on narrow and
fckle-minded board which succeeded
in evading us just as we had begun to
slide. At 10 a. m. we climbed to the top
of a three-story apple tree, became
fast and were BILE to return to earth
until I p. m. At p. m. we obligingly
let down the pasture bars and allowed
about $3.50 worth of live stock to wan
der at will through poetical field of
golden, waving grain. At 4p. m. we fell
out of hay NOW onto the back of
sorrel and sad-hearted horse who
seemed at a loss to understand why we
did so. At 7:30 p. m. we were induced
to try to hold a robust calf by the tail
out in the barnyard. We did not think
that we could do SO and were greatly
surprised, therefore, when we found
ourselves able to hold the calf not only
in the barnyard, but down the lane
and out into the road and up through
the gooseberry orchard and over the
corncrib and out across the cucumber
vineyard into the purple twilight.
There is always plenty of excitement
around a farm, nd there are no life
preservers or surf ropes to go with it,
either.