The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-12-30
THE COLLEGE BOY HARVESTER.
And His Adventure with the Hardy,
free-Handed Milkmaid.

And His Adventure with the Hardy,
Free-Handed Milkmaid.
One Of the college boys who went to
the western Kansas harvest fields
writes to friend an account Of his
experiences, saying:
well, this isn't what it is cracked
up to be, and Harold would have con-
fessed himself all In and come home
to mamma inside Of two days after
starting if he hadn't been worse afraid
of the joshing Of you devils than Of
h1istered paws. Speaking Of blistered
paws, it's no joke. Before night the
first day had puffs all over my hands,
and that night the fat dame OF this
household stuck needles into 'em and
tapped me until 1 ran water Ike
hydrant. But the old boy was good
to me, and for two days be kept me at
choring around, hauling water, helping
the fat dame cook and playing the
baby generally. Then l tackled the
header boxes again for ten Straight
days and really got to liking it. But
say, Willie, don't you believe that
story about a shortage in the worlds
bread crop. know better, for l
pitched enough of the blamed stuff to
make two crops of worlds breadstuff.
And, Willie, there is 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 roly-
poly girl here who doesn't wear cor
sets and who don't care how much
sock she displays when she kicks at
the cat. I kissed her the other night.
I won't do it any more. If want ex-
ercise of rapid kind will go out and
ground an electric light wire through
nv handsome person. She whacked
ME on the side of the head with fist
like a ham, and don't you doubt II,
Willie, she meant every word OF it.
81 get So day and found Found
means that the old man comes to your
downy couch at 8 o'clock in the morn
ing and finding you asleep, Whoops
you out to feed the horses. BY the
time the horses are fed we are called
to breakfast. Did you ever eat pie at
breakfast? Well, we have pie for
breakfast every other morning. II
seems to be the idea out here if you
have pie you can't complain at any
ether indignity. And every pie we
have had so far Is made out Of raisins.
Now, don't get it into your 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
window to tell US that dinner is ready.
Then we eat and 60 out and cut more
wheat, and the old boy keeps US at it
until it gets too dark to see. But,
Willie, the way you can sleep after
you have had a day like that! You go
dead-that's all about it.
"I figure that I will get home with
about $50 to the clear. The old boy
says ne will give me S25 month to
stay and plough, and thresher man
offers S1.50 day and found if I will
work for him. But $50 is capital
enough for Harold. I am not grasping
or sordid.
"P. 81 had heart-to-heart talk
with the roly-poly girl last evening.
She said ought to be ashamed Of my
self for kissing her in the house
where the fat dame might see. It 1T
wasn't for school taking up believe
I'd tackle that job of ploughing.
Kansas City Journal.