The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-02-25

so centsa barrier less II sou can ana
pay 5 cents q buSA1e1 mor6%fOrE9GF6tnsa
and then make idenit See
how Tn injuring@gthese peop1A here
came here to farm, bntIm going q
see fair play among my ne~ighbors.I
rather think I shall keep right on
that is, if you stii continue
prices, and the people want Ito take
advantage of my bargains. I'm not I'M
this to make money.
A right, subj" The words came out
with q metallic snap. We'll see what
happens. Well see. But let me tell
yeu n thing you'd better gs5Ssiow-
into trouble. You remember that. If
you ont want the biggest heap OF
trouble you aver had in your life. you'll
mind your own business and let other
people mind theirs. Remember that.
I've given you fair warning.
"Ummmm!, He took several DELHI
crate pufTs at his pipe, then calmly
knocked out the ashes. "So hear
But 4 shall go right on as I have done.
and ] sort of reckon there went be
squire. since I wore anyhcSly's collar
and Chain on my neck, and / reckon
I'm tee old now to learn. I felght in.
the war against slavery. and III fight:
again fore I'll see slaves around me-
I don't W Q 1 cent. Mr.. Harts-4
wick. I my farm clear, and you
can't intirnidate or boss nle. IL YOU
a fair prices for things, Ill quit the
business n be glad to. Whatever Il
do I'll be fair and square and above
board, and I slan't iniure nobody
that's honest. ! reckon that's ala the
| speech ! need to make inst now. BY
Jimminy,' turning his back on the
squire and changing his tone com
pietely, I'm glad to hear that dinner
bell. / could eat a burnt boot, III
big farm bell on the kitchen rsDf was
changing merrily.
All right, sub. The sauire's Jaw
sprung lige a rat trap. We under
what / told yeh. Bon't yss forget il,
sub. You've tackled a hard | to
beat--a man, sub" He Mheeled and
strede stormily oward his horse and.
buggy.
squire?" called out , anxfously.
mo. don't want no simmer" He
sprang into his buggy and a moment
later was driving furiously aown the
read.
The filed into he long
Kitchen in silence. They seemed awed
and frightened. Only Farthing and his
boys We're self possessed, and they
speedily became the life and ssul OF
the dinner hour. joking chatting
and telling stories till IA other Joined
in perforce.
The mood of the company. hswever,
did not delay the meal. The Brown
turkeys disappeared In a twinkling:
the stewed chicken ebbed low in the
milk pam; and the potatoes and yege-
tables We're shoveled into hungry
mouths as fast as iron knives could
be made TO work with safety. Great
slices of bread were spread thick with
apple butter, and slowed away like
coal into a stoke hole. There were five
spreads on the table, headed by the
"Pennsylvania salve." without which
no meal is complete; there was a gal
lon of cold slaw and a peck of krout.
Then came the cider, great glasses OF
pure juice made late In October and
fit for a king. In 20 miAutes it was
all over, and the women were alone
with the wreck.
There was but one thenae for con-
~versaticn pm the honleward ride that
evening. Al Fartaing had defied the
squire. Men and women discussed it
in aWed voices. Not oGe Of all those
at the hutchering thought Intaeh of any
either topic, ave, perhaps, young Jim
Farthing, whs had seen q pair of black
eyes.
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