The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-09-18
COLLEGE BOY HARVESTER.
Ulisters His Paws and Receives q
Biz from BiE-Handed
Milkmaid.

One of the college boys who went to
the western Kansas harvest fields writes
to a friend an account of his experiences.
says the Kansas City Journal.
well, it isn't what it is cracked up
to be, and Harold would have confessed
himself all in and come home to man.
ma inside of two days after starting if
he hadn't been worse afraid Of the JOSH
ing of you fellows than of the blistered
paws. Speaking of blistered paws, It's
no joke. Before night the first day l
had puffs all v my hands, and that
night the fat dame of the household
stuck needles into 'em, and tapped me
until l ran water like a hydrant. But
the old boy was good to me, and for
two days he kept me choring around,
hauling water. helping the fat dame
cook and playing the baby generally.
Then I tackled the header boxes again
for ten days straight and l really got to
liking 1t. But say. Willie, don't you be-
lieve that story about a shortage in the
worlds bread crop. / know better,
for I pitched enough of the blamed stuff
to make two crops of worlds bread
stuff.
"And, Willie. there's another thing
you can disabuse your fostering intel
lect Of. You can't spoon with these
country girls with the joyous freedom
that you read about. We have a roly-
poly girl here who doesn't wear corsets
and who don't care how much sock she
displays when she kicks at the cat. l
kissed her the other night. I won't do
1t any more. If l want exercise of a rap
Id kind I will go out and ground an
electric light wire through my handsome
person. She whacked me on the side
of the head with a fist like q ham, and
don't you doubt 1t, Willie, she meant
every word of it.
Il get 81 a day and found Found
means that the old man comes to your
|. downy couch at three o'clock in the
morning and. finding you asleep, whoops
you out to feed the horses. BY the time
the horses are fed we are called to
breakfast. Didyou ever eat pie at break
last? Well. we have pie for breakfast
every other morning. 1t SENS to be the
Idea out heresif you have pie you can't
complain at any other indignity. And
every pie we have had so far is made
out of raisins. Now don't get it into
-FOUR head that raisins won't make good
pie. They do.
After breakfast we HE US away to
the field and cut wheat until the fat
dame waves a tablecloth out of the win
dow to tell us that dinner is ready.
Then we eat and go out and cut more
wheat, and the old boy keeps us at II
until it gets too dark to see. But, Will
lie, the way you can sleep after Won
have nad a day like that! You can %
~dead--that's all about It.
4 figure that I will get home with
about $50 to the clear. The old bow savs
that he will give me $25 a month to stav
n ploN', and a thrasher man offers
$l.bo a day and found IL I will work
for him. But $50 is capital enough fol-
Harold. am not grasping or sordid.
s(P. 81 had a heart-to-heart tall
with the r~oly-poly girl last evening
she said I ought to be ashamed Of nv.
sell for kissing her in the house where
the TAT dame might see. If it wasn't. IA,
school taking up l believe I'd tackle that
job of plowing.)"