Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-01-11

SHAKESPEARE DIS WINTER.
PRESIDENT, II am told dat you contem-
plate seadin' Shakespeare dis winterY
Yes, sah.''
II am told dat de objeck am to i'm
prove your mind?'
Yes. saL.''
DO you owe any back rent?"
1.-Two months, reckon
"Have you got in your coal for de
winter?"
& fN-no, sah."
~ Have you got shoes and warm
. clothes fur your chil'en?"
> mot yet sah"
Hare got an extra bushel of
taters down cellar?"
Not jest yet
"Brudder Pullback, lemme give you
tip Shakespeare was a good man.
He as smart man. He used up q
heap of ink and paper in writin'. Oar
:. hain't no question but what if you or
any odderSe Guild man would sot down
i Ind read his books for six months you
THfwould improve your mind.
Ssh But you hain't got time, Brudder
w, Pullback. You has got to hustle fur
mo bacon and taters and clothes and shoes
\ and back rent. You has got to be
A right on de hump. You may git time
ng to pick up somethin' by Laura Jean
Libbey or Old Sleuth, but you won't go
Fa beyond dat.
l til Il shall keep an eye on you de COM
in winter, and if l hear dat your
chil'en can't go to school fur de want
of shoes or dat you have put a mort
N gage on your cook stove l shall pur-
coed to improve your mind in a way
:. dat will make your heart ache fur six
o months to come
You may now sot down, and if Ed
er Penstock am wild us tonight he
will please stand up
!, The elder was there During the last
. three months he had been debating
with himself whether the earth or the
sun moved, and he was figuring on a
piece of paper when the voice of the
president reached him
'.Brudder Penstock, you has been q
member of dis club fur a good many
years, and up to a few weeks ago
counted you among de level headed.
What you been gettin' in your head
about de sun MOVING"
I'VE am told dat de airth moves
around de sun, hain't we?" queried the
elder
.,N rs heard some sich talk"
But don't believe dey kin prove it.
Al rs been watchin' things, and rs al
u n smost believin' dat it's de sun dat does
MY de movin'."
IA "Brudder Penstock, s'pose you should
cSind out dat de airth moved around de
NIL DUN for suah-what would happen"
ssaaa "Why-why-I dunno, sah."
xAne "S'pose you should find out de odder
I ID BSay-what would happen?"
h'Can't say, sah."
aS5al l'No, / reckon you can't but I'll tell
gmsl what'll happen if you don't drap
n ~ sun business and go to work.
.gA open to know dat you am head ober
5EE,l rs in debt and libin' mostly on dried
ofes, and unless you make change
ma all get de bounce from dis Lime.
znt \ club in way to take de curl
M ( your hair. It's muffin to you or
pr to any odder Guild man who
&tt 10 work fur libin', whedder de
de world movss. What we want
A,taHbe on de move ourselves. We
Ito be movin' coal and Goldfish
slr cabins, and we want to see
Zen movin' right along to school
m ne, az.
ssss aIonos our days work am done, II
fs am fule huff to go out and
fence to see whedder de moor
Auus ce moves, OATS all right, but
~ gwine to waste none of de
zf iavokll Brudder Penstock, and
eneR word to say to Waydowr
nerS Beebe," said the president
4 HE of de charter members
T. skiln club. You was one
Isz q eLof us who met II, n stabl,