The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-15
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80 youre from pistonrod. stranger. |
Wen, want G know. | vas born and |
brought NJ there. but hain't seen The |
place in twenty year. is ole Nounkcr |
lisin yitT
mo. but his darter is. and mighty |
fine woman 70. She's got the biggest
and best stocked farm in the county |
aid plenty q money IN the bank"
"Want Z know Is she niarricdf"
no; she hoinl no use fer man
except TO make money out OF hm
cant any of 'cm git the better OF her
IN a tradc.7,
want { know How did she git her
start? When lived in plstonrod ole
Xounkcrs farm wasn't more'n seventy
acres. nfty cleared. and the stock was
ono spawned horse and COW"
"That seventy acres he's growed to
a thousand now. all cleared, two big
barns full o grain aud stock. Saircy
Younkera turned ont to be heap good
manager"
"Dcw tell? How'd she do ll?'
"waal, she got her start when she
was bout twenty years old and purity
az bran new mowin' machine. Bout
that time most O tic young men Ia
the neighborhood wanted 10 marry
her Far back as I kin remember /
hearn all the wimmin folks and most
o. the men talkin' bout two young fci
iers that was both bound to git her
They said Saircy he'd agreed to take
the best maI o the two. AS the way
they was 10 find out which was the
best man Sairey set 'em job The ole
man he'd Just died. the ole woman
wasn't no good. and there wasn't no
one to do anything except sarey, and
she didn't hev nothln' to do it with
except her good looks, and good looks
IN n gGl don't count except TO git a
husband that's worth suthin'. But
there wasn't no sicli in Boulder coun-
ty, so 1t was cold time for Sairey.
"Howsomedever she said that since
her ole pop had died and left her and
her mother in n bad way she'd got to
hev man as could build up the farm
Ef she got lazy galoot 20 set roun'
and whlttle It 'ud be mighty hard on
her. 1t happened TO be plowin' time.
She tole Zeb Mower and Jake Marks
that whichever could plow ten acres
fust she'd marry. Jist as you said.
there Want but 1fty acres cleared. aud
twenty O. this needed plowin'. She di.
vided 'cm into two equal parts, one for
Zeb and tothcr fer Jake. Both on en-
was awful bent on gittiu her. and
their pride was tcched Besides, nei-
ther was willin' TO refuse on account
o. t'other. Sairey bad TO borrow two
horses Ter 'eni and one plow. She
started 'cm Que due April mornin'. !
was there. with Il lot o ncighbors. 70
see 'em start and all the time tllcy
was piowtn' people was COMM aud
goin' watchin 'em. while Seircy was
a.smilin' on both of 'em and bringin'
'cin out things TO eat aud drink
"Waal, when they come TO the end o
the match it. was tie. Both got
through at the same time. and both
fell down exhausted. Saircy give EN-
both drink and toe EN- they was the
fiEest tellers she ever seen. She seem
ed awful sorry. though, that one Of
'em hadn't come out ahead. for she
esid 1t put her In a tx. She cotlldni
marry neither of 'cm nohow. SO they
asked her te let 'em Try As'in. ShC
said she'd give 'em au easy job ncsi
time. She give each Oh 'em twenty-five
scres to plant They was glad enough
10 git or so easy. but when they was
gittin' to the end o the job Saircy tul
sick with neurology aud wasn't ther'
10 see the finish. Both of 'em claimed
that they got through fust, and thert
they was ag'in.
'Sairey was put out with beln' pes
tered by en- and wouldn't hev nothin
more to do with neither OF 'em. Bu
long bout harvest time she relente,
ana agreed 10 give 'em another trial
She said whichever got half the croI
into the barn fust was the man shl
wanted. and she kinder hinted tha
there WAS one on 'em she did wan
mighty bad. but Il wouldn't be fair 70
her TO tell which. So they went L
work on a third trial This tine jus
as they vas gittln' 10 the end o tn
job they both tuk sick. and Sairey hal
10 finish II herself, Nobody kuowcd nov
they come to sicken both at once, ant
some was mean enough to hint tina
Salrey had given 'em some rum wit
pizeu in 1t. They want sick long, bu
when they got well the job was tinisl
ed without 'em So Sue didn't TAX
neither Of 'em nohow
That's the way Salrey got her start
she growed Il fne crop as didn't cos
her nothin aud put the money all iut
the farm. They say she got the bal
ance Of her land cleared in some sic
fashion, but don't know nothin' 'bou
that Leastaways she not ouly pu
ber farm In payiu condition, but be
gun 20 buy iinin lapd. She's fort
year old now aud good lookin' yit A
the widerers aud old bachelors ther'
nbouts wants TO marry her and J b'
lleve she could git up plowiu' or
mowin' match among 'om today
she wanted 20; but. laws. she hahn
got no use for 'em. FAXED her ons
why she didn't take a husband Sh
looked at me snrprised-like aud al
Swered: What would I do with him