The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-28

JOHNNY BUMPER TELLS OF
TROUBLES ON THE HAY FIELD
- *A** $500

happened If they'd got there, going
forty miles an our with that sweep
lode but the sweep teeth struck in II
little nOll and run In the ground and
turned flip.flop. Did YOU ever see a
hay sweep run away and turn over,
never did before but I'd heard they
most always do II when the teen runs
away. You see, Pap was way out on
the end of the sect bord and when II
cum over It throwed him just like n
shooting trap will throw clay pig
I'M Talk about your running broad
Jumps of twenty feet Why after II
was all over we measured from where
the teeth run in the ground to where
Pap lit and 1t was exactly fortytwo
feet and ate inches.
II was mighty lucky for Pap the
sweep arms broke out when the sweep
flopt over or he mite have been drug
to deth. But the mules went racing
away leaving the sweep upside down
just back of Pap.
He was stund for minnit or too
by the fall, but he soon cum too for
he happened to lite on an ant hill that
was soft lifting and III just bet there
amt ennything on erth'll bring fell
Ter to his senses quickern a million
ants and few humble bees to boot.
Pap got up and went running over to
a little sloo of water, a swareing and
Hopping his arms around at every
jump. He waded into the water and
the higher the water cum the higher
the ants cadyled until finally he just
had his he'd out and the ants was SO
thick on It you'd a thot he had hare.
But before got Pap out of the sloo
must tell you what else was happen
ing. Old Jack and Jerry went by the
stack so fast you cudnt see emmy
thing but thare ears and hoofs. When
saw Pap take his hedder left my
stacker TEEN and started to run to
help him and when old Jack when by
my TEEN he sort of startled them /
guess and maybee he outrun sum
bees and they stopped to get even
with the nearest things they cud see
that looked like a mule. herd sum
boldly holler and when | lookt round
my TEEN was running too. There was
lode of hay on the stacker and you
never in your life saw hay go up as
fast as that lode did. When 1t came
to the end of the guy rope, that busted
and the hay shot clean over the stack
and nockt off the hired man who was
looking the other way at Jack and
InrrV rlnninU and hrnlyn biC COLLAR
bone. | saw there wasn't emmy use
crying over split hay and broken
stackers so | ran on to help Pap, who
was in the sloo ducking his he'd to get
the ants off. He'd seen the stacker
teen running and as soon as | got
neer enuf he yelled, "Why 'n'ell'd we
let them 'osses run away for ye yung
idut! S quicks | en- git outer this
mud III discharge vel"
I'd bin just waiting for a chance to
quit so | seys, dig up that five fifty
you'll owe me tonite, Pap, and III
save you the trouble of dscharging
me-"
That made Pap think that good
stacker BOYS like me was hard to get,
SO he COOleu Oh anu sea II u nelp MIN
out of that blasted mud he'd hire me
over agen.
We got him out of the mud all right
but I've quit the job and am going
somewhere where | can get sum-
thing besides syrup and corn bred
to eat.
Pap is in a bushel of trubble. He
can't neether stand nor sit down nor
lie down. He might stand on his he'd,
only that's wus bit up than emmy luther
place. The doctors bin here to set
the hired mans collier bone and the
hired man told Pap he'd have to pay
the doctor bill and bord him while he
was sick or he'd sue him for too thous-
and dollars under the new employers
liability law. Papt is scarf and says
he'll pay all expenses and bOrd and
give him a Winters job.
1t is ten o'clock as | finish this and
Jack and Jerry haven't cum home yet.
perhaps they're still running
! Yours,
Johnny Bumper.