Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-05-04

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time to ketch log that was rushin' by.
and away he went down stream ag'in.
ridin' the los.
Il was ketchin' drift below there
about mile when seen Pete and the
log comm, and Irgot my pike pole into
the log and begun to row ashore with
it to git Pete safe. AS was tuggin'
away managed to boiler to Pete:
This is the wust food says I,
that has ever spread it's waters over
Lackawack sence the days O. Noah
says. ..l,-, $3.50 -,
pete bit off chaw from his plug
as he rid along on the log l was tow
In him in on, and chawin' OF it
awhile, he says:
'Dan'l,' says he, 4 mowt think so
if I didn't know that this one amt
| the circumstance, even of a millrace,
/ t' the one that spluttered through here
| in the fall O. ST. r.
Il didn't turn and tow old Con-
trsiry Swayback ont into the wust of
il agin and send him tumblin' along
on his log to fetch up wherever the
flood mowt pitch and toss him, but
| seems to me ought to done it. And
everybody said SO, too.
THAT winter snow piled down
onto us that was jest more than dis
couragin'. 1t come in blindin' sheets.
and the wind that was along with it
tore by at more than hundred miles
an hour, it seemed to ME. The snow
banks was like young mountains, and
the country was sight.
lone night, when the gale was
howlin' it's wust, and was full O. flynn
snow, me and Joe Robson and Lille
Poison was fightin' our way home
along the turnpike, we havin' been
to the tavern to find cut how bad the
storm really was when We seen some
thin queer stickin' up cut of snow
drift jest ahead of us. iuvestigatin'
we found it was somebody's hand and
part O his arm.
I'VE dug down into the drift and
found a man at the other end of the
arm. We drug him out, and then see
that it was Pete Swayback. He was
stiff as saplin' and white as the
snow. He had been ketched in the
storm and kerflummixed.
I'VE was all sorry, of course, for this
havin' befell poor old Pete, and we
took him up and started with him
back to the tavern, thinkin' maybe
that we mowt fetch him to. He was
quite load, and as we stopped to sort
o. rest little, in the shelter of high
bank on one side of the road, says
to Joe and Life:
"'I guess Peter would agree with
us tonight, all right, that this was
little the toughest and all pervadin'est
scatterin' of snow that ever kivered
the land this side O. the north pole,
if he only had the chance!' says I.
Before either of 'em could say any.
thing, we seen Peters. eyes come open
kind O. tired like, and we stopped
down quick to pick him up and hurry
on to the tavern with him. AS we
stopped down we see that he was say
in somethin', so we listened close
This was what we heerd:
"W-h-y, boys says Pete, and We
couldn't hardly hear him, he was &C
nigh gone, and he had to drawl 1t so;
this ONE h-a-i-n-'t no m-o-r-e'n
b-b-b-l-o-s-s-o-m b-l-o-w-i-n' JUNE
zephyr l-o-n-g-s-i-d-e the One o
Feb 'u-a-r-y, eighteen HUN
d-r-e-d n f-o-r-t-y-f-i-v-e!' says he.
I'VE gethered him up, and even II
we'd a-hurried with him as we'd in
tended to it wouldn't a-helped him any
for he must a-passed away jest aftel
satisfyin' hisself with that last con
trairyness. But his memory fingers
back O. Lackawack yit; so when SET
Uncle Jase's recollectin' works gittin
ready to buzz t'other day, and they
had already begun, I cut in on hin
and shet him right off by sayin':
owe amt settin' here, Uncle Jase,
I says. to listen to no Contrary Sway
backin'! l says.
Uncle Jase he sot and ponderat
awhile, and then he says to me:
"'Danl,' he says, I shouldn't Won
der but what you're right says he
and bein's as I amt seen you fer thu
last 'coon's age or two says he, I'm
goin' to ask you to j'ine me in snifte1
O. Solomon's CIDER says he Conn
along. It's uncommon proper cider.
says he. 'Dinged If it amt most a!
good as that squeezin' O. juice O. mine
back in 1857 says he.
Uncle Jase was Contrary Sway
backin' on me ag'in, but under the sar
cumstances let it pass, and j1net
him in the sutherland I'm bound tt
say that If Uncle Jase's squeezin' o
Juice back in Sc was anyway nigl
as good as that snifter o Solomon!
was. don't blame him fer Swayback
in'!"-N. Y. Sun,
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