The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-11-07
3copyright, 1902. BY Harry Daniel

every day, and since the weather has
begun to turn warm we are especially
reminded of your delightful home out
there under the breezy naples. We
hope that sometime you will find OPP
portunity to bring your family and
make us a visit. We have not yet de-
cided where we shall spend u sum-
mer vacation. Do you expect to be at
home along about haying time?
Yours, Cousin William"
And the next week there m a re-
ply, written on legal cap paper. with
| a pencil that has hard lead and an in
| grown point:
"Dear Ostensible Cousin William:-
| Your letter reached us in due time, and
we are all glad to learn that you are
going to bring your large and in
quisitive family out here again during
haying time to let the COWS into the
oats, feed new wheat and collie to the
colts and play ~hide-and-seek in the
tomatoes. We will look for you and
as many Of your family as a get on
one train, and we will try to accom-
modate as many of you as possible.
Last summer while your family con-
vened here I slept in the milk house
and the hired man slept in the buggy
shed. This will not be necessary if all
of you come here this summer, how
ever, as we. can arrange it so that the
hired man can sleep in the milk house
while I will sleep in the buggy shed. -
.tAre you going to bring the boy
who, while he was here last summer,
tied himself to one end, of a rope and
a two-year-old colt to the other end?
I hope he has not yet succeeded in as
pertaining the death for which he
i seemed to yearn so ardently that day.
I shall never forget it. He had just
said to me that he wanted to Sest his
strength, and I tried to induce him to
try some other method. While | was
speaking to him about it, the colt sud
J denly decided to go over to the Other
, side of the pasture. The boy Informed
the colt that he was not quite ready
to go yet, and then yanked on the rope
) to give emphasis to his remarks. Bu'
the colt did not seem to grasp his
! meaning and started to run. 50 dle
E the boy. Both ran in the same direc
ton, and the boy soon found that i
was only necessary for him to take one
step to the acre in order to keep VI
/, with the colt. Aslight misunderstood
ing arose between them, however, Il
regard to going around a tree: y
q seemsEtha the boyshould have gon'
5 on5the same side Of the tree that Wai
y selected by the colt, butshe neglecfes
a to do this and more or less confusion
t, followed. I remember 7 expected tina
It the colt would be dashed t oSdeath 9
Il MANNED for life, butt YVES surprise
y, to that he stood it almost as wei
i as the boy, who retnrnedto conscious
u ness spnnetime9the following week.
it j presume you viii remember til
occurrence, and perhaps, the boy will
& too. if you remind himsof it.
T. aE.sI snppose the members OF your IAN
still wear the same sized appetite
which they had last year. 4 remen
Der one day last summer took Pc
Ia and ink and wrote down what ones
is your boys ate during the day, and
proved TO be: Dne-han apple pie. on,
it half pintgreen gooseberries with plcl
III ers, four slabs fried ham, one-half ea
seedeorn. onedozen green apples wit
~ sfaaas, two feetand sixiuehes smoke
sausage, one bite Indian tuInip,.for
eggs, one attempt green waterInelol
ii acre NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. cen