The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-10-19
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$50 you're from plstonrod. stranger
Well, want & know. / was born an,
brought up there, but hain't seen tn
place In twenty year. Is ole Younke
liyin' yltY
mo, but his darter is, and might,
fine woman to. She's got the bigges
and best stocked farm In tho count,
and plenty o money In the bank"
want Z know. Is she marrledf"
"No; she haln't no use fer maj
except to make money out OF him
Can't any of 'em git the better Of he
in trade"
Want { know. How did she git he
start? When l lived in pistonrod oil,
Younkers farm wasn't more'n sevent,
acres, fifty cleared, and the stock wa
one spawned horse and cow"
THAT seventy acres he's growed :,
thous0nd now, all cleared, two bI,
barns full O grain and stock. Salrey
Younkers turned out to be heap goot
manager"
"Dew tell? How'd she do itT'
"Waal, she got her start when sh,
was bout twenty years old and purity
rs q bran new mowln' machine. 'Bou
that time most o. the young men II
the nelghborhood wanted to marry
her. Far back as l kin remember
hearn all the wimmin folks and mos
o. the men talkin 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 sout which was the
best man Sairey set EN- job. The ole
man he'd just died, the ole woman
wasn't no good. and there wasn't nc
one to do anything except Sarey, and
she didn't hev nothin' to do II with
except her good looks, and good looks
In a gal don't count except to git a
husband that's worth suthin' But
there wasn't no sich In Boulder coun.
~, so 1t was a cold time for Salrey.
"Howsomedever she said that since
her ole pop had died and left her and
her mother In a bad way she'd got "a
hey n man as could build up the farm
Ef she got lazy galoot to set roun'
and whittle 1t I'D 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 d.
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-
Their was willin' to refuse on account
o. t'other. Sairey had to borrow two
horses fer 'em and one plow. She
started 'em one fine April mornin'.
was there, with lot o. neighbors, to
see 'em start. and all the time they
was plowin' people was comm and
goin' watehin EN-, while Sairey was
a-smilln' on both OF em and bringin
'em out things to eat and drink.
"Waal, 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 EN- 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 1t put her in fix. She couldn't
marry neither of 'em nohow. So they
asked her to let 'em try agin. 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
that they got through fust, and there
they was agin.
"Sairey was put out with bein' pes
tered by 'em and wouldn't hev nothin'
more to do with neither of EN-. But
Tong bout harvest time she relented
and agreed to give '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 gittin' to the end O. the
Job they both TUX sick, and Sairey had
to finish 1t 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 1t. 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 payin' 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
nbouts wants to marry her, and be-
iieve she could git up plowin' or a
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
swered: what would do with him?
He'd only be in my way"
"But, say, neighbor, what makes you
look so sorrowfulp
"You was tellin' bout Zeb Mower
md Jake Marks, wasn't your?