Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-11
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN
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Your cakes this morning was boiled sap
OF tle sweet maple said Grandma.
"tlow DO they catch irE"
~ eA work lively for il runs fast
like little boys. They cut a cash in the
trees and tastcn on pail and when that
Is tuiI they hang ON another: then they
nave ure anu bon 1t until it Is thi6il as
you ate Il this morning.
This white blanket that was so pro-
tecting for grass and flowers and roots.
was cold and hard on the ton and shoue
like glass. The old people did NOT dare
step upou II tor fear of falling. bur tEa
young folks, didn't they have n good
time sliding and slipping around, The
men went 10 work and built a mouStrons
sled Of logs and put it ON runnors like
your sled, only IL was So very biz. If was
called the Sung ana it was used to
carry wood from the forests to the house
after the trees were cut down and the
branches cut OF
When the snow blanket was about worn
out ana used up. they took out their plo,ys
To get the fields ready ta plant. The
horses were used to make deep ridges
IN the soil quite close together for plant
ing corn After It was ready ii was left
awhile to air and sun before they put
in the corn. They took the seed corn in
baskets aud went up and down. up and
down the field, taking handfulS of the
corn and scattering it along in the ridges
until all the seed corn was planted. then
they took hoes ana covered Il mp.
Farmers always get up early in the
morning; these farmers sung merry
songs as they worked. aud even the boys
would rattle on 81 gce"
Il wish | knew what they sung" said
Jerome. Grandma remembered only one
verse:
a farmers ne is the life for me.
own | love it dearly.
And every season fun of glee
/ take its mhors chccrily
To pillow and to SOW.
10 reap and 10 now
Aud tn the barn to- thrash sir
ANS one TO me. | plaiuly see
Twill bring the health and cash. sir
This song must he sung very loud and
with n ringing sound about 1 o'clock ia
the morning. You might try aah see
how your father likes it at that time,
ii is an easy one Ia learn Goodness
me. If y0u could have heard the crows
! cav, The trees were more than full
all watching the white folk MaSsasoit
must have had Sncks of them iE his
woods. Mr. Newman the miu~tvr
looked and said There win not be- corn
grown On that land if yen DO not put
up ScarccroWS
The children became FESTIVE ut this
point in Grandma'S talk; they had often
heard of huEahous, and hteu scared,
but here now was a new scare, SO they
asked Grandma. WHAT are scare
croWSt'
''Oh, Only poles and oll clothes said
Grandma The clothes Hop In the wind
aud the crows think they are men say
lug Shoe, shoe, crow, Don't you pull
up my corn. After few days they
took Mr.. Ncwmau'S advice and put up
poles IA the shape of CruSsts aud had
the arms of the crosses 90 through the
sleeves of the coats, and pat hat on
the top of the cross. They looked like
men standing up with arms stretched
out, and they put mp II good many $50 as
To b. sure and scare the crows,
The Indians watched the scare
crows for several days and as nothing
seemed to happen to them, aad they did
not know why they were put up they
went into the field aud took them all
down and carried the clothes into their
camp through the path ia the woods
down in the valley, Massasnit looked AZ
the clothes and made up his mind thAi
the Indians should not have taken them
down. even if they did think they were
hung up for them. aud he sent Susamcn
60 inquire of the white folks, why they
were hung in the field.
After il wIs explained 10 Susamcu,
they told him that if tive Indians wanted
those clothes, and would fix up the
poles with some of their old clothes that
they did not want they might have the
old ones they had taken So Susamcn
went back 10 camp and told Maesasoit
all about H. Mas~asoit listened 10 all
that was told linn ana said to the In
dams, You must ~ and tN up the poles
with straw aud rags, If you Keep the
white mans coat. because If hc come he
no come, but If he "a" come he c5ssllc.
The Indians understood what MusSHSuit