The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-04-22
The House of the Black
- .... Ring e..ze.s. 9,.s
CHAPTER vn-continued.

CHAPTER vH-Continued.
er county zone dimlnercratic! Say, is
that you, Ulie? Well. let me ask you
one; ever try a mess o'genuwine Yam
kee bake beans? Now I don't mean
your scairt. white-livered. hard shell
beans that's been stzzled twenty min
utes In a tin pan. but real. gen-u-wine
Yankee beans. such as my mother used
to bake in q bean pot up to Connecticut.
Course o never did: there ave was
q bean baked right this side Of the
Susquehanny. Then take brown bread
and Injun puddin'-Lord. now what
docs n Dutchman known about Injun
.puddin'?-al kinder brown and curdly,
with q skin like satin velvet plush,
and a rich juice that III max you
shout 'Hally-iey-yer!' like a man on
tho mourners' benches, spite of all you
q do. Then, take q billed dish-my
stars, 1t makes my mouth water so I
can't talk; honest. 1t does! Look here.
of um there'd be q ynrler streak this
minute up in tho northeast, which
would be you maxim a line fer the state
o. Connecticut"
There. now. hear that wunst. will
vel" Tile Strengthened up in we'll
StcASN b6CA \ uhiS4AAb AOWll IA
cODkin' u wimmen does and. chin
miny gracious. I won't stan for that
still! Nosuh! I won't stan for havin'
the wimmin run down. nosuh; that
allus makes me mad. Yessuh!" He
stole a side glance over at the widow
now amt II wunst? It's just like 'em.
II I was in the desert of saharey still
I'D know q Yankee wunst. I'd know
hin by his brag. Yar-r-r-r- e-e-e-e-e!
Oh, my! Heigh. Nina"
Unconsciously ulie was voicing a
large area OF his native state. The old
a~ntipathies and resentments described
by Washington Irving as existing
among the early Knickerbockers. and
springing up again farther south
among the Germans during the era
when northern Pennsylvania was a
part OF Connecticut, are still to be
found In the Teutonic portions OF the
state, where they cling even yet like
persimmons.
Look here. Ulle. what are you stand
ing VI for the wlmmen 30 for all to
once?" Amos tipped q sly wink at the
other n of the table.
"Oh, Ulie's gone soft on the whole
female sect volunteered a youth.
Say. why don't you brace up. Ulie.
and get one OF EN- fore it's too late?"
broke in another. cts comm on
springs work. n you need q woman
OTGIIuILy. hf
Don't you-uns worry about me-" he
snapped. II know what I'm about still.
.Yessuh!"
Nov. 3ulie, look here" Amos leaned
far over and addressed him in a ia
tllerly tone, I'm your friend IL you've
got n In the world: vol know
that. Now you be- sensible. If
yon walt to get a handsum young
woman. then your weddin' won't come
off nlore'n q Dutchman's hat at q flu
neral. You let me tell you something"
He lowered his voice c~onlidentially.
You jest edge UP to the wilder Kuhn.
bat does a June bug, and she'll make
yea good wife. You en- get a lot of
work out OF them children Of hern. You
go'n see her, lille. She'll take right to
We like a yeller dog, and I don't believe
you'd hev to DO the askin'. She's kind
o. hard up and discouraged: her first
man. old Ezra. was awful shifless, and
she havin' hard times. You take my
advice. Tile. and shine up to the wilder
Kuhn"
"Humph!" grunted Ulie.
Jim Farthing heard very little of the
running chatter. He sat facing the
stove and the summer kitchen. where
the women were at work, and where
Rose was fitting about from point to
point, the life and center OF all the
workers. Rose was a h~ousekeeper of
vi ~ NGARGkACAS ulAN WllSkSNcI SIG
was present at a dinner like this she
was soon at the head Of things. She
was cool n resourceful, and she for
got nothing. At critical moments when
generalship was needed: when a dish
came out wrong at the moment when
signs of giving out in the very midst
OF h meal. or when the mex course
was not ready and the men we're wait
ing-at such tragic moments the wo-
men ignored h hostess and crowded
about Rose, 1t was worth while to see
her then, with her cool headed orders,
her def, swift precision Of movement,
n her complete mastery Of the situa-
tion.
Young Jim was not the only man at
the table who was furtively watching
her. She was everywhere. She circled
about them with the water pitcher and
filled the glasses. Then she gathered
w the empty dishes and poured an
other helping OF coffee. Every one had
. merry word as she came near.
Say, Rose, won't We smile into my
coffee wunst n save me gettin' the
sugar."
OF water and save me drawing more
vinegar"
Rose 2" :.
""Oh, I'm too old for Ulie."
.Yar-r-r-r! hear that. Ulie?"
Yes, I hev to drew the line. I cam
take nobody ver IS still. Yar-r-r-r-r!
e%-e-e-e-e! oh. my!" Ulie's laugh was
shrill and penetrating. and It dominat-
ed everything while 1t lasted.
"Oh, shame on yes Ulie! Rose is IL
Already"
rs She? BY George. she don't look
IT.
Flow old be We. Rose? Bet We dom
dast ter tell wunst."
ODDS I look-a woman's as old as
she looks" and she disappeared into
the. Kitchen ma swirl OF laughter.
Thus the chaff and banter and home
~ country wit followed her in merr,
stream wherever she went. The other
women seemed to be merely solutions
and menials: she was the presiding
goddess, he life and SOU OF the whole
dinner.
Thus indeed it seemed to Jim FIR.
thing. So absorbed did he become in
watching her that lie scarce realized
what he ate or whether he ate at all
The conversation ratified about him like
the monotone OF summer ricketts,
Once he heard a voice at his elbow ad-
dressing him and he turned with q
start.
Say. don't you think Dams doin
wrong to have his ditt.n on a Saturda,
wunst? It's a dretful bad sign. A Sat
urday fit makes a short Sit"
HeSmade no answer for ha had ooor