The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-10-20
THE editor sat in his sanctum,
His brow all furrowed with care;
His mind AT the bottom of business.
His feet on the top of the chair

'Ihe editor sat IN MS Sanctum,
His brow all furrowed with care;
His mind at the bottom of business.
His feet on the top of the chair
When the plnny portals Of the sane
tun, which ON gllded hinges hung,
creaked and opened, and IN llew
Judge Ba tterton.
Want to go hunting Charle?"
"Want to go hunting? OF course
we do, but perish the thought! The
paper is behind and it must be out
on time; but where are YOU going?"
80 Roy Lake, where d few of us
have a bungalow. and there'e as
fine d bunch of fellows going
as ever killed a dutchmaD
Now, you just get on your buds and
relieve yourself OF the illusion that
the world will stop wagglng when
you die. They'll get the paper out
just as we'll if you never come back.
What you want TO do is to enjoy life
in the present tense. for you'll be
damuably mouldy IA hundred years
hence; so get your gun and come"
The upshot Of it was that inside OF
an hour Batterton and | were i'm the
boat wagon, in which. besides the
hunting boat, was tent, camp out
fit aud ammunition, and were "hitting
the trail" towards Roy Lake. the rest
of the party having preceded us.
The day was an ideal one, one OF
those hazy Indian summer days,
more like midsummer day than late
in the fail IN South Dakota. The
air was filled with droning insects
and the tNitter of inuumerable
tlocks of black birds. Leaving Sisse-
ton we Immediately began the ascent
Of the Coteau DIES Prairie Hills
which rise distinctly to view and run
from southeast to northwest These
hills, according to biologists, were
the terminal moraines of the ancient
Minnesota and Dakota GLACIERS that
came from the north years ago and
combed and rasped the earth
leveling down the hills and filling
the Valleys, grinding and pulverlzing
the soil with the rocks contained in
the great ice sheet. pushing the land
before tin great ridges like the Co
teau hills, and as this ice field began
to melt hundreds of tons of earth
were dumped forming the small r-
regular hills which dot the prairles.
These hills were sometimes leveled
off by The action of the waves of old
Lake AgasslZ, and the fertile prairie
was the result.
Up the hills we go until when
about five miles from SSSeton We
are AT what appears to be the apex
of the hills and about 500 feet above
the city of Slsseton which, nesting
IN the valley, appears to be scarcely
a mile away. To the southeast about
fourteen miles. the village Of Peeyer
is distinctly visible. Nor is this all
The day being right, we were able tC
get view Of Lake Traverse over 20
miles 10 the northeast. This long
narrow body of water forms the
boundary line between Roberts coun.
ty, South Dakota, and Minnesota
and is about thirty miles long.
See that dark line over to the
| Northeast?o said Battlefront, "Well
that is grove on the other side o.
| Vernon IN North Dakota and IS about
81 miles" AS you look you begir
to realize that this is indeed coun-
try of magnificent distances Most
people who read of South Dakota
associate this country with Level
prairies stretching away as far as the
eye can see but while we do have the
level prairie here we also have thu
rolling and hllly country. Our hill.
are not as the eastern hills where il