The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1908-11-12
IOW SHE
GOT A START.

brought up there. but l ha1nt seen the
place in twenty year. Is ole Younker
hyin' yit:''
mo, but his darter is, and mighty
fine woman to. She's got the biggest
and best stocked farm in the county
and plenty o money in the bank"
Want t. know. Is she married."
mo; she hain't no use fer a man
except to make money out Of him.
Can't any Of 'em git the better Of her
in trade
want t. know. How did she git her
start? When l lived in Pistonrod ole
YOunker's farm wasn't more'n seventy
acres. fifty cleared and the stock was
one spa vined horse and cow"
THAT seventy acres he's growed to
a thousand now. all cleared two big
barns full o grain and stock. Sairey
Younkers turned out to be heap good
manager"
Dew tell? How'd she do it%'
WAL. she got her start when she
was bout twenty years old and purity
as a bran new mowin' machine. Bout
that time most O. the young men in
the neighborhood wanted to marry
her. Far back as | kin remember
hearn all the wimmin folks and most
O the men talkfn' bout two young fel-
lers that was both bound to git her
They said Sairey he'd agreed to take
the best man O the two. AS the way
they was to find out which was the
best man Sairey set 'em a 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 nothin' to do it with
except her good looks. and good looks
in gal don't count except to git a
husband that's worth suthin. But
there wasn't no SIGH in Boulder coun-
ty, so it was cold time for Sairey.
''Howsomedever, she said that since
her ole pop had died and left her and
her mother in bad way she'd got to
hev man as could build up the farm.
Ell she got lazy galoot to set roun'
and white 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 fifty acres cleared, and
twenty O. this needed plowin' She di-
vided 'em into two equal parts. one for
Zeb and t'other fer Jake Both on 'em
was awful bent on gittin' her. and
their pride was teched. Besides, nei-
fhA~s I{r,s
O. t'other. Sairey had to borrow two
horses fer 'em and one plow She
started 'em one fine April mornin'. l
was there. with lot O. neighbors. to
see 'em start, and all the time they
was plOwin' people was comm and
goin' watchin' 'em. while Sairey was
a-smilin' on both Of 'em and bringin'
'em out things to eat and drink
WAL, when they come to the end O.
the match it was a tie Both got
through at the same time and both
fell down exhausted. Sairey give 'em
both drink and tole 'em they was the
finest fellers she ever seen. She SEEM
ed awful sorry. though. that one on
'em hadn't come out ahead. for she
said it put her In fix. She couldn't
marry neither of EN- nohOw So they
asked her to let em try ag'in. She
said she'd give 'em an easy job next
time. She give each on 'em twenty-five
acres to plant. They was glad enough
to git off so easy. but when they was
gittin' to the end o the job Sairey TUX
sick with neurology and wasn't there
to see the finish. Both OF 'em claimed
they was ag'in.
"Sairey was put out with bein' pes
tered by 'em and wouldn't hey nothin'
more to do with neither Of EN- But
long bout harvest time she relented
and agreed to giye em another trial.
She said whichever got half the crop
into the barn fust was the man she
wanted, and she kinder limited that
there was one on 'em she did want
mighty bad. but it wouldn't be fair for
her to tell which. So they went to
work on a third trial. This time just
as they was gittiD' to the end O the
job they both TUX sick. and Sairey had
to finish it herself. Nobody knowed how
they come to sicken both at once, and
some was mean enough to hint that
Sairey had given 'em some rum with
pizen in it. They want sick long, but
when they got well the job was finish
ed without EN- So she didn't take
neither Of 'em nohow.
THAT'S the way Sairey got her start.
She growed fine crop as didn't cost
her nothin' and put the money all into
the farm. They say she got the bal
ance of her land cleared In some SIGH
fashion, but don't know nothin' bout
that. Leastaways she not only put
her farm in payfn' condition, but be-
gun to buy jinin' land. She's forty
year old now and good lookin' yit. All
the widerers and old bachelors there
abouts wants to marry her, and | be-
lieve she could git up a plowin' or
mowin' match among 'em today If
she wanted to: but. laws, she hain't
got no use for 'em. | axed her onct
why she didn't take husband. She
looked at me surprised-like and an