Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-17
What Sam Did

The men in the store watched the
young farmer assist his wife into the
respectable-looking buggy outside, ar
range the packages, spread the laprooe
generously and carefully over the
young womans knees and then, him
self uncovered, drive away.
"CIayton's goln' to take good care o
that there wife o. his" commented the
storekeeper.
"Foollsh Of him." declared Washing
ton Hancock.
Hell get tired o. washin' up that
buggy o. his'n after a while n con-
clude the ole wagons good enough TO
come to town to trade ill.," said Sol
Baker, sagely.
@Course he WILL" agreed Hancock.
Hell have her out to the wood pile
splIttin' stove wood. like as not I've
knowed that to happen, too"
Baker had the grace to look embar-
raised when the storekeeper snickered.
.SThere's wuss things than splittin' a
leetle mite o. wood now an chen for
women" he said. Anyway, Slayts
wIfeTl take all the care he kin give
her an then need more. If he aln't
washin' the dishes for her afore long
7 miss nv guess She don't Ike no
kind o. work none too well. She didn't
as a gal"
"AIn't a great hand to cook, they tell
mo- said the storekeeper. Most any
one o. the other gals could beat her out
when It come to fixin' up meal. Seems
like Clayt 'ud have took 'Lisbeth or
Birdie II he wus set an bound to mar
rv into the family. This un's mighty
slack-mouthed, by all accounts. /
could ha' told him suthin' on thet score
If he'd cum to me an asst me-"
"why didn't you tell him, anyway"
asked Marvin Parsons.
Its pity she's slack-mouthed." OBJ
served Hancock. ITS them kind o.
wimmen that gifts TO talkin' about their
neighbors after while. An it's fun
nv thing that it's allus the wimmen
that does that. You might set in this
store when Rufe an Sol here was shoot
I'm of their mouths year in an year out
an you'd never hear them say word
agin' anybody-not II you was stone
def But when man sees Teller
I'm danger o. blightln' his life by takin'
M with a gal that's ornery an no-ac-
count he amt doin' no more than
what's his dooty to give him the right
kind o. warnin'. If feller's got good
sense he'll erpheshiate a word in sea-
son O. that sort an won't git mad
about 1t. Anybody's apt TO be mite
keerless an unthinkin' in the matter o.
choosin' a gal when he's young. l bet
there haln't married man here but
whatll say that's so.'
The storekeeper NODDED involuntarily
and Hancock grinned.
as fur's takin' word o. good adj
vice klndly's concerned. reckon
there's the many man would tell you
that IL somebody'd come to him In time
an let him know what he had right
to expect from the gal be wus thinkin'
o. marrying he'd never have married
the gal he did" resumed Hancock.
There's some what does git warned in
time. | rlckerleck right well when
cousin o. mine, Sam Hancock. thought
O. hitchin' up with gal he'd met up
with when ne wus a young buck. he
seen the gal an tuck her buggy ridin'
once or twice an he lggered to him.
self that she wus Jest about the finest
young woman that ever set foot on
this green airth. He couldn't make out
that she'd got fault or a hlemish-
She'd allus acted that away whilst he
wus around. so how wus be TO know
any dlffrunt?
''There wus one thing. though. an
that wus that Sam had a mighty level
haid on him for as young as he wus
He'd slip up on a trade wunst In q
while. but he never slipped up twlcet
the same way an he'd made a-many
trades by the time he wus 20 years old
No. Sem wasn't nobuddy's fool
"welI there wus Teller lived neigh
Dor to the gals folks, name o Ben
Crittenden. an he knowed Sam en- he
knowed the gal. He aggered thst Sam
wus a likely boy an that it wusn't
right for him to stand back an keep
his mouth shet when he cd DO good by
openln' II. So he goes to Sam one day
an he takes him out behind the barn
for a conf denshal talk.
SAM he says. I allow You know
that I'm friend o. yours an that !
hain't q troublemaker or stir-strife.
i've cot suthin' to say 10 you an II !