The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1908-12-18


itor of the News: Did YOU ever 20
skating with fore Omaha girls? | did,
but | wont emmy more. The ice has
been fine over to Uanscum park and
I've bin skating several times,
The luther mite the lady i'm blue that
tends the cigar stand asst me how
was skating over to the park and | sed
fine, and she sod and sed she wisht
she cud go, she hadent bin skating
this year and Uncle Oscar hurd her
and he sed he hadcnt bin either and
If she card to go he'd get sum skates
and we'd all 20 after supper she SEES
sure, and | SEES there was a girl up
on Harvey street that tended the
same business college as me that wud
go If | went for her and Uncle Oscar
sed we'd meet at surtain RESTRAINT
at ate o'clock and have n hot cup of
chockoate before we started and all
go together. The lady in blue sed
that wud be just the chee2e and
sed 1t wud suit me to n checker.
You know Uncle Oscars bin getting
fat sins he quit farming and cum to
live in a hotel and his big toes bin
hurting him dreadful and the doctor
sed he had a touch of the govt and
proskribed more outdoor exercise.
That's why Uncle Oscar was so
ticllled to go skating.
SO | went up on Harvey to where
the girl lived and when | got there
they was anuthcr girl there ahed of
me with her skates and they was
about to start together SO of course
/ | had to take 'em both. And just as
we was leeving, the telefone rung and
anuther too girls that livd down the
street little ways asst them to stop
for them, and this girl | cum after Sod
she'd like TO but Mr.. Bumper was
! going to take 'em and he mite object
to having so menny girls. OF course
there was nothing for me to do but
butt in and say it wud be all rite with
me, and so we stopt down to their
hous and that's how | cum to take fore
girls skating.
| sed we'd have to take a car down
town cause | promist to meet Uncle
Oscar at the RESTRAINT and have a cup
of hot Chocolate, and the girls sed
that was just the stuff for cold mite
and we got on the street car and road
down town and it cost me a quarter.
Uncle Oscar lOOkt kind of agast when
we all filed into the RESTRAINT for
seven times ten was seventy cents
but he had the lady in blue with him
and he shelled out butifully.
We borded a park car and Uncle
Oscar pade the fair, and he sed it
seemd like old times TO be going skat-
ing agen. He sed he ulster be con.
sidered the champyun skater of In.
jianna, that Onct when he lived on
the old home farm his little sister
got sick in the mite and it was twelve
miles down the river to where the
doctor livd and the rodes was blockt
with snow and he put on his skates
and skated them twelve miles in forty
minnits, and the river was open in
places in the middle and he had tC
jump sum of these open places that
was lloll ult " zen leeI WluG ana II
was mite too. And the doctor sed he
cudent get thru with a team so Uncle
Oscar bOrryed hand-sled and hauld
the doctor home in an our and five
minnits, and got him there in time
to save his little sisters life. The
girls all SEES, oh! wasent that fine.
But one of them asst how he got across
the open places with the sled. Uncle
Oscar sed he'd forgot to eXplane how
that was but it was very simple u
was such a cold mite that the oper
places was all froze over solid wher
he cum back and he just skated rite
along. The girls all SEES Oh, agen, anC
the LAZY in blue SEES it must indeed
have been cold.
Uncle Oscar sed it had been menny
a day sins he had skates on and /
mite bother him at first but he blieveC
after he got limbered up he cud show
his heels to emmy of the young fellers
(and he sure didD He sed he wascn
ulster these new tangled lever skates
that when he skated he had skates
that he scrude into his heels ant
strapped onto his soul so they neye
cud cum off.
When we got to the pond | had t.
strap all them ate skates onto then
fore girls feet besides my own an,