The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-11

the moon didn't make any more differ
ence with string beans than it did with
carpet rags, but he stuck right to 1t.
planted beans under all kinds Of moons.
and one planting turned out as good as
another but he wouldn't give up. Every
week, winter and summer, for thirty
years, that string-bean question has
come uD, and made a quarrel This
/ fast dishes, Nathan come in from the
+ barn and begun to bang things around
and mutter to himself.
80 For what is it noW2' I asks
80 String beans says he. They've got
to be planted in the full Of the moon
4" 7 deny it
( sense enough to know it you'd better
go.
1T didn't take me half an hour to
pack ND, continued Aunt Sarah. and
here I am My walking out took Ma
+ than by surprise, and he's kicking him
self all around the farm by this time.
but IN give him lesson He'll be af
ter me before night to come back but
I'll give him string-beans by the bushel
+ before I'll do it. I've done my duty as a
+ wife, Abe, and I guess everybody knows
it, but that bean question has worn me
out at last You amt blaming me,
well. not so much"
I'm glad o. that What's your ex-
perience with string-beans2"
They'll grow any time, moon or no
moon"
They certainly will and if you meet
Nathan as you go back you tell him so.
Tell him that string beans and fools
grow on the same vines. and that he'll
have to quarrel with the old one-horned
COW now for change"
I had heard that Uncle George Davis
was going to marry the Widow White,
and when I drove up to the house and
found him at the gateI asked him when
the happy day was to be named.
Never, b'goshi" he bluntly re-
. Piled
Anything gone wrong2"
I've found out that the wilder is as
] obstinate as a mule. and I wouldn't
marry her if she was the last woman in
> the state. It was a close shave for me,
] Abe. [ caught on jest in time
What was it. Uncle Jerry2
Wall I was down TO see the wilder
about two weeks age, and we was talk
ing away. when I happened to speak OF
} DanI in the lions den.
So You mean Joseph says she.
[ " No, I mean Danl'
But it was Joseph who was thrown
into the lions den.
Tt was Dan1, and I'll bet on it,
'' It was Joseph or I'm no woman
. Il walked three miles to borrow a
s Bible and prove it to her. but she
! wouldn't be convinced. She said it was
q misDrint or that 1 read crOSS-eyed
She Jest set her jaws and wouldn't give
: in FOR nobody. I got a tin peddler and
] Il windmill man to stop there and tel
2 her it was Dan1. but she turned 'en
{ both out of doors, and kicked the peddlel
? in the ribs to boot
Z And so the marriage is OFF, asked
s Way off, Abe. I'm wanting a wife
ard I'm willing she should call turnips
4 apples If she wants to, but when il
e comes to denying the Bible and sticking
: to it, I'm not taking chances YOt
: might stop and tell her that I'm the
g sort Of a man who buys mosquito bars
{ for every window in the house in sum.
v mer. and that the kitchen stove is KEEP
r red hot all winter long, and that she.
n lost the best husband in America. l.
e you do stop make her feel as bad as vol
e can. but as for marrying her III never
! found the position Of things reversed
is when 1 got along to the Widow Skin
o ner's. It was the gossip that she wa'
3 going to marry Squire Hastings. bu
e when I handed her her mail and CAV
IS her my best wishes she replied:
{ Don't waste your breath. Abe
a told the Squire last week that I'd SCI
II him up a tree before I'd marry him"
q shoo4 What's the row.
Wen. he begun too soon. He said 20
tato peelngs ought 10 be cooked with tn
+ en- He made it pretty plain that he'd ex
IS pect me to cook the peelings when 1 be
n came his wife, and told him to jog along
st m not eating. peelings for any man alive
q He did. He limited around that it wa
T., my last chance TO get married, and that
I. needn't eat quite half the Feelings. but
= bowed him out and he won't come again
t. Ny last chancei Saw Abe I've had thre
r. went home and there's a patent churn ma
= T coming here tomorrow who'll law hi
churn and his heart at my feet before \
has been in the house an hour Go Of
with you You men don't know bean
j. when the bags untiedIf-( Copyright. 190.
TO by o. g. Warner)
q Chance Of Another Rise
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