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

Newport Neb.. Aug. 22.--To the
Editor Of The News: Am going to
town tomorrow with the hired man
to buy new hayswecp for the old
man I've been wurking for and to get
a new job for myself, SO I'll write
tonite and tell YOU what u stem.
winder of time we had in the hay
field today.
Everybody calls the man I've bin
wurking for Pap" Pap does the
stackin himself You see hay is so
cheep away from the railroad that
most people here don't stack II at all.
They just pile 1t up and tromp 1t
down and let II go at that. But Pap
says that what is wurth doing well
lis wurth doing at all, even II II is
worth only dollar ton in the stack,
so he puts up the best looking hay.
stacks I've seen round here. Pap has
two men hired to sweep and me to-
drive stacker TEEN and pick up the hay
what falls of, and he has his own kid
doing the raking and his too girls
ride the mowers, and Mrs. Pap does
the cooking.
Now before | go further want to
say that If there's emmy young fellers
round Norfolk what has a good job
where they don't get up till six or
seven in the morning and quits wurk
at six at mite, you'd better stick at it
even If you don't get as much pay,
for where I'm wurking we get up at
half past fore in fine weather and we
wurk till after ate at mite, and when its
out of our pay and it amt like the
pumpkin pies that ma ulster bake
eether.
This afternoon the kid raked up a
windrow The bees stung the horses
sum but they was quiet old team
and didn't run far.
Pap had team of colts on one
sweep and span of big mules on the
luther, and both the hired men sed
they'd be blamed if they'd go monkey
ing round that bumble-bee nest with
the teens they had.
Pap sed the colts might make sum
trubble, but old Jack and Jerry wud
go thru fire and lightning and never
kick the dash bord. He sed that onct
when he was to town there cum a big
prairie fire along and he drove them
mules rite thru the hottest part of it
and got home in time to save his
house and buildings. And he sed that
anuther time he was cot out in
thunder storm and the lightning
struck tree and stund him and
knockt both mules down and they got
up agen and trotted home with him
lying uconshus in the Wagon, and
his woman resussitated him with
pale of water.
The hired man who was driving
Jack and Jerry sed he ulster drive
mules in Missoury and when it cum to
getting sweep lode of bumble-bees
sumbody'd have to show him
Pap seen he's in for it so he told
few little bees he Guild climb on the
stack and he'd go and get that wind
row. He sed he'd put up hay on that
quarter section for 90 years and he'd
never yet let a little batch of humble
bees stop him. So he got on the
sweep sect and sed git-ap to Jack and
Jerry and away he went after that
windrow full of bumble-bees.
When the sweep run under the hay
it kind of curled over and the humble
bee nest came up on top rite in front
of where Pap was sitting and the bees
all piled out of the nest and divided
into three lunches, one going after
Pap and the luther too after Jack and
Jerry And then things began to
move so fast I can't begin to tell you
all that happened.
The next thing | saw was them two
big mules coming a tareing down the
field snorting and kicking at every
jump and the hay and the bees a
flying in a cloud and Pap a pulling on
the strings with one hand and a yell
ling whoa and Tapping bees with the
other. The mules came strate for the
stacker and | don't know what wod