The sun., 1908-05-03
HRICKINESS OF BUSBEE SKIES
4 PAINFUL DISCOVERY OIER
TOWARD POCHUCK.
Uncle David Beckendarter Amazed on
Finding Out the source Of the Butter Tie
NclEhbOr Was selling when Ills Own
Cows suddenly shut Down Their supply

Finding Out the source OF the Butter t!s
NelghbOr Was SELLING when Ills Own
Cows suddenly shut Down Their supply
CHESTER, N. Y, May "A neighbor
that amt honest is somethin' painful to
find out" said the man who doesn't seem to
| be able to break himself Of the habit OF as
serting that he comes from over toward
Pochuck: IAN though Busbeo Skies want
guilty o what Uncle David Beckendarter s
folks s'pected him o bein', he done some
thin triokier yit. an he won't never stand
high In society in Pochuck as long as he
| lives Neither will his wife Samanthy.
How any man could "a done It can't
see. Uncle David Beckendarter, though
he had spected Busbee in way, wouldn't
never had It in his mind that mortal man
| could be so shameful tricky as what he
dskvered Busbee actu'ly TO be, an he
never would "a believed 1t II he hadn't
seen II with his own eyes,
"The carp. in the pond in the back pastur'
lot had growed so big that il you ketched
one that want as big as a siX-months-old
baby you'd chuck II back, Fact is though,
! folks didn't seem TO care to ketch any OF
em any more. 'cept TO feed the hogs now
an then, an so them carp want bothered
( much Of any.
"Busbee Skies lived two miles back on
| the hill an he fished good deal, an there
bein' some folks yit that considered carp
fair to middlin eatin', he peddled quite a
few Of EN- here an there round the country.
Then by an by he took to fetchin' in from
six to ten pound O butter TO sell most
every day, an Il was setch prime butter
that he got tip top prices fer II, an folks
said that Busbee's wife must be the best
kind Of a butter maker.
1T beats all, says Aunt Sally Becken-
darter. L never knowed before that
Samanthy Skies was wuth shucks fer butter
maxim She was a Simmerton-one o the
Peppercotton Simmertons-a there never
! was a PepperoottOn SimmertOn yit, that
ever heered on, that knowed butter from
| beeswaH-not one!
Samanthy must a. been takin' lessons
| somehow from somebody. member
wunst-David says Aunt Sally, seein'
Uncle David comm from the barn, did
| them COWS come in scant from the pastur
lot ag'in9' says she, the cows havin' been
comm home nights amazin' light o milk
fer quite a spell back.
Yes, says Uncle David. Soanter'n
ever, says he. What in thumpnation iS
ailin' Of EN-? The pastur' Is prime. says
he, lest simply prime!
Cant be black snakes, kin it' says
Aunt Sally.
1T mowt be II there was any black
snakes snoopin about that pastur' lot, but
there amt says Uncle David There
amt even a garter snake, says he, The
consarned critters, p'tic'ly the brindle, an
she's always been good fer twelve quarts
at a milkin'. says he, jest seems to run shy
O. milk fer nothin but ding COW contrari-
ness, says he.
Aunt Sally she shuck her head an sorty
took to thinkin. By an by she says, goin'
back 10 the Sikeses agin:
Don't it beat all the butter that Busbee
Skies is sellin an Samanthy is makin'F
says she,
Never see the likes says Uncle David
Aunt Sally she thunk another spell, an
then says:
Samanthy never knowed nothin about
butter or butter maxim, az fur as i ever
heerd on, says she It's queer how she
! has took il up so good an 80 suddent But
that amt the queerest part OF IT,, says
Aunt Sally.
Uncle David he scratched his head an
look ed sorty puzzled at Aunt Sally. Then
he says:
-'No2' says he. Amt it, says he.
We'll. says Aunt Sally. first place
there's got to he milk fore you kin have
! butter. haint there2' says she.
uncle David he laughs an says Of course
there's got to be milk. he says.
An you've got TO have cows, hain't
you. fore you have milk says Aunt Sally.
Uncle David he laughs agin an says
yes; maturity you got to have COWS, says
he; got to have EN-,
Well, says Aunt Sally. how many
COWS has Busbee Skies an Samanthy got,
I'd like 70 know says she; an then Uncle
David woke up.
why, hoppin' lIenry!' he says. They
hain't got nonel says he They haint got
a single critterl Not even a suokin' calf!'
SAYS he, with his eyes a-starin'.
NOW, David Beckendarter!' says Aunt
Sally, shakin' her finger at Uncle David like
a warnin'. Don't you go an say that say
that the reason our cows is comm in scant o
milk every night from the pastur' lot is
cause they'm bein MIXED by somebody
that's sellin butter, though they never
knowed how to make butter before! says
she. Don't YOU go an say it, David Beck
endarterl' says she. But II you don't he
in that pastur' lot tomorrow AFTERNOON an
neck Busbee Skies when he comes in to do
il az in, me an you'll have words! says she,
an she went in an put the teakittle on,
Uncle David he gazed up an down the
lane while in a dazed sort O. way an then
he says: :,
81 never would a thunk II OF neighbor!'
says he. But circumstances is pintin
that way strong enough TO hang mani
says he.
afternoon me an Uncle David went 10 the
pastur' lot to ketch Busbee Skies in the
onneiRhborly act that he was s'pected Of so
strong. We hid in the bushes 80 as we
could see what was goin' on an ylt not be
seen il any one came
along late in tho AFTERNOON the cows
trailed TO the pond an stood there in the
water most up to their bellies, ohawin their
cuds with their eyes shet, contenteder
than niger baby with stick OF candy
am swishn' the flies with their tails. By
am by along come Busbee. sure enough,
driyin' up an tyin' his old hoss an lumber
box wagon 10 the fence 'longside the road.
an over the fence he jumps with his long
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