The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-08-19
HITS AND MRS

had often wanted to get married, but
had never been able to spare the
time before. He felt that now the
time had come, and he had arranged
with a young woman, whose foot he
had once stepped on at a one-fiddle
dance, to join him in the undertak
ing. Poison had agreed to rent him
pair of black pants, with a slight
limp in one leg, which had originally
been built for wedding purposes, also
cheerful white vest with a five
dollar bill in the right hand pocket
fer the preacher. The coat, which
was to join in the work Of lending
dignity to the hired man during the
ceremony and at the rattle Of the
red cow, which was to follow, was an
intelligent looking garment, built
to conceal much larger man than
the hired man. The girl, which he
had selected, after several refusals,
was to bring her work and stay at
the farm, as an understudy to Poi
sons mother-in-law. Besides being
able to make bread faster than a
threshing crew could eat it, she had
had a blue ribbon tied on her at a
cow milking function. She could al
So drive a binder and break colts,
mo fn L. inc hIlff ffnr
creamery with two carloads of ma
chinery never saw first base. Poi
son said he felt as though the work
Oh the farm was done year in ad-
vance, and, in his excitement, he told
the hired man that he could have a
horse and buggy, and take a wedd-
ing trip ten miles in any direction,
providing he could get back in time
to do the chores. After an unsuccess-
full attempt to borrow four dollars,
the advance agents of matrimony,
withdrew in anger
Last summer, as the hunting sea-
son was slowly approaching one day
al time, it occurred to me that 1
was short on dogs, and l wrote to
my brother to feel of the dog mar
ket around Northfield, and let me
know If he found anything in the
dog l.,:e that was fitted for North
Dakota. In few days, he wired me
to meet two we'll broken chicken
dogs at the Union depot in St. Paul,
and l Immediately dropped a large
amount of pleasure / was enjoying
in entertaining a piece of job work
and fastened to the meeting point.
was several hours ahead of the
dogs, and put in my time interview
ing a colored gentleman-who SEEM
ed to be captain of a bundle carry
ing enterprise from the depot to the
departing trains-regarding the care
OF dogs at Union depots. He had
his piece we'll learned, and recited it
with pleasure. When the dogs arriv-
ed, he would take all the response
bility and care off of my mind, and
remove it with the dogs to the base
ment of the depot, where in company
with a large number of intelligent
looking trunks, they would be water
ed and cared for and have all the
comforts of home until the North
Dakota train was ready to retire
them from the state of Minnesota.
The dogs arrived an hour late by the
depot clock, and the highly uniform
ed dog-tender, with round piece
of North Dakota money in his pock-
ct, had parted with his days labor,
and gone to West St. Paul or some
other point foreign to the place as
signed to him as the head member
of the dog reception committee. But
a companion piece was on hand, and
he commenced operations by making
another haul on n. D. money. He
explained that he had no connection
with the day shift and collects price
and-a-half for night work; at the
elevator, one Of the dogs offered to
bite him for supper, and he dropped
the chains and made his escape. An
other man caught them, and made
modest charge. He delivered them
t. the head janitor of the basement,
who explained that he was a past
master of taking care of hungry,
travel-worn dogs. After tying them
to a large trunk containing hard
ware, divided between them, a sir
loin of OK, which had been bitten in
to by guest of a nearby hotel, and
then informed me that they had been
fed. Another man, who was route
agent for a trunk truck, led them
to the train. He drew his pay hur-
riedly, and left me to boost the
dogs into the baggage car. They got
In just In time to get sat on by a
crate of strawberries, and the howl
they let out, caused the baggage man
to revise his price list. They were
on the train in the morning, and one
of them is still in North Dakota,