The Democratic advocate., 1905-11-25

come into the house to put on a clean shirt.
Jeremiah amt no dandy, and he ain t
over particular about his clothes but he $
great on clean shirts. If he was going
to be hung, lie want on a clean shirt.
While he was in the house, that Jack Of
sister Sally he got to entertaining Eve
lima. Jack is a regular limb of the Evil
One, and what he cant think of in the
way of deviltry ain worth thinking of.
Don't you want to have little ride
on a load of hay?' says he to Evelina.
''All the city folks likes to ride on hay
It's jest as easy as setting in a rocking
chair. And if you've noticed, all the
fellows that write poetry has something
about haying."
Yes, says Eyeliua, rolling up her
eyes. Maud Muller, on a summers
day, raked the meadows sweet with hay
Jack, who is great at rhyming and is
studying, so his mother says, to be poet.
says he ;
"Oh, when the fervid sunshine falls
You'll sweat clean through your overalls,
In hayiug time, | vow.
Aud thunder showers will come each day,
Aud spile that pesky, half dry hay,
When grass is lying low.
"Oh, say. EvClina, really that's
quite pretty. l do so admire poetry, and
should like to ride on the hay, if could
only get up there
'Oh, that's dead easy says jack
Il git the step-ladder and give YOU a
boost, and I'll drive YOU round the yard
once or twice while Uncle Jed : Citing on
his shirt
So he got the step-ladder, and Evelina
climbed on to the load Then Jack he
picked up the OK goad that had brad in
the end Of it, and he gave the off OK jab
in the ribs. The eritter jumped, and
turned right round quicker scat. and
when he turned he drive the horns of the
nigh OK right through the open place in
that step, ladder, and off them tive steers
capered down the road, with that step,
ladder on the horns of one If them, and
hitting the tother one a bump every time
it Topped
whoa hish there yelled jeremiah
rushing out into the yard, with his clean
shirt in one hand and his gallerses flying
Whoa there Whoa there, Spark
Whoa hish, Star But Spark and Star
had got under good headway, aud they
didn't stop for no swearing. And I'm
sorry to say that Jeremiah let of enough
profanity 10 set a dozen sWearerS up hand
- I III -. H.
to be ashamed Of himself
Eyelina went of a-yelling, and waving
her arms, and shouting for help and the
oxen sei in on a dead run down the hill.
Two ulen on bicycles was coming up the
bill and they was 50 took back that they
didn jes; know whether to turn out or
not While they was a-wobbling from one
side Of the road TO the other them oxen
was upon them, and the OK that didn'
have no step ladder on his horns run his
head clean through one Of them bicrsle
wheels. and isied the rider up in the air,
aud away that pair Of steers went--one
with step-ladder on his head, the tother
with bicycle
Poor EyelinA was nigh about dead with
fright, She stopped yelling and had fell
down in the has as lump as a bacterial dish
cloth
The seooui bicycle fellow was hero
one Of them yoa read Of but don't often
come acrus,. He So that his companion
was picking himself out Of the gutter, so
of course he warn dead, and he Jest run
right back a. fas, a. his legs would carry
kim, and grabbed rail out Of the fence,
and when them oxen oOme tearing on, he
let them have il night between the eyes.
That baekened them SO : they d geed out
against the wall aud stopped.
Then he held up his arms to Evehna
and she tumblel into them and swooned
He brought her back to the house, and We
brung her round but she didn't have no
appetite for turkey,
After things were straitsned out, JeTe-
tliah he took that Jack Of sally out be
hind the barn and gave him an awful
trvuncing. and Sally she got 50 mad about
it that she took her whole brood and went
of home without her Thanksgiving dinner.
I've JEST got a letter FROM Widder Bax
ter which says lha, Eyelina IS going to be
married to the bicycle fellow that saved
her life, aud that If | can make it eonYe-
nient To leave home, they will lie glad to
see me at the wedding.
Good land who ever thought that
Jack Of sally ; would ever have been the
means Of making a match for anybody?