Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-12-16

4come, on, yan," he says. s.I wan:
the walk" -
mot much..' says Van. 'Walking's
almost as bad as running. I'll be here
when you get back"
1t may be that Hartley did want
| that walk, same as he said, but he
| didn't seem to get much fun out of it.
Went pounding along, his cigar tipped
up to-the visor of his cap, and his
eyes staring at, the ground fall the
time. And he never spoke two words
till we got to the fair grounds.
There was a dickens lof crowd,
/ five or six hundred folks,sI should
think, and more coming all5the time.
! Everybody that could come had bor-
rowed the horses and carryalls of
them that couldn't and had brought
! their wives and mothers-in-law and
| their children's children unto the third
and fourth generation There was con-
siderable many summer folks-not so
| many as there is at the cattle show in
August-but good many, just, the
same. L counted five automobiles, and
| l see the, Barry; folks from 4Trumet
riding round in their four,horse coach
| and. putting on airs. enough, to make
! 'em lop=sided, -..,....
Hartley gave one look around at the
gang and his nose turned up to u
o'clock. ''''
"Gad!" says he, "this, or something
| like it, is what Pve been trying to get
away FROM. Come on, Sol. Let's go
4 back to the boat" :i.. :,
But hadn't seen so many shows as
he had and 1 wanted to stay. r.,
H. You. wait a. spell, Mr.. Hartley"
says i. Let's cruise round a little
| first"
So we went Showing along through
the crowd, getting our toes tramIped
on and lodging pedd1ers and such. like
| every other minute. There was the
'testlyour strength" machine and the
merry go-rotnd and the "ossified man.
in astent: Walk right up, gents, and
cast your eyes on the greatest marvel
of the age all alive and solid stone
only two nickels, a dime ten CENTS -
and all the rest of it. Pretty soon
we come to where the Teller. was sell
! ing the E Pluribus Unum candy-red,
white and blue, and slab as big as a
brick for dime. p
Hartley stopped and stares at it.
For heavens sake!'' says he.
What do they do with that?'' !-+
DO with it?' says T. Eat it, of
course" 80 a1 7 -. 'l
'No?" he says. mot really2' ?
b, ''Humph!" I says. You just wait
a shake.p ~ ssij @9n. .ah..3 -
There was little. red-headed ,young,
ster scooting in and out, among the
folks knees and l caught him by the
shoulder. eli, Andrew Jackson! .
says I. want some candy?"
He looked up at me as pert and
sassy as a. blackbird on a scarecrow S
shoulder. = a3f. 1,si So =;
81 Bet your natural" says he. /
jumped. iliiI1 p. - - +. ST ..,oa
H. Lord" says i; 'I5caRlate he knows
you" It sesl e.i.l
Hartley smiled. How do they sell
thatT7that Portland, cementi?" says, he.
Give, me, some,"',- he says, holding a
half dollar to the Teller behind the oil.
cloth counter The man chfsefed of
enough for fair-sized tombstone and
handed it out. Hartley passed it to
the boy He bit off a hunk that made
him look like .,he had the mumps all
on one side, and commenced = to
, crunch it,. .-.- ,..--- 80,
|, %There!" says /. That's proof
enough, amt it?''
But he want satisfied. 'Wait a
minute" says he. 81 want to see what
it does to him" - 80
+ Well, it didn't do nothing, apparent.
| ly, except to make the little shaver's
| jaws sound like a rock crusller, so we
went on, By and by we come to the
! fence alongside of the, place where
they had the races. The sack race
was on, half dozen fellers hopping
around tied up in meal bags, and we
see that. Then Hartley was for going
home again, but managed to hold
him. The creased pig was the next
number on the dance order and /
wanted to see it, t't'e, sGiF'f
/. Maj, Philander. Phinney. he's chair
man, of the Eastwich selectmen and
pretty, nigh half as big, as he thinks
he, is; he stood On tip-toe on the
| judges stand and beIlered that the
creased pig contest was open to boys
under Is, and that the one that caught
the pig and hung on it would get
j five dollars In less than three shakes
of behring's hind leg there:was, boys
enough on that field to start a reform
school. They ranged allIthe way from
| little chaps who ought ito, have been
| home cutting their milk teeth to
boys" that had yellow fuzz on their
chins and a plug Of chewing tobacco
in their, pants pocket. They fetched
in the pig,shut up in box with laths
\ over the top. He was little and black
and all shining with grease, Then
they stretched a rope across one end
I of the race field and lined UP the pig