The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-04-22
vII-continued.

one; ver try q mess o'genuwine yam
kee bake beans? Now I don't mean
your scairt, white-livered, hard shell
! beans that's been sizzled 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 you never did; there was
a bean baked right this side OF the
Susquehanny. Then take brown bread
and Injun puddin'-Lord, now what
does q Dutchman known about In1un
puddin' ?--all kinder crown and curdly,
with a skin like satin velvet plush,
and q rich juice that IL make you
shout 'Hally-ley-yer!' like a man on
the mourners' benches, spite OF all you
can do. Then, take a billed dish--my
stars, it makes my mouth water 30 1
can't talk; honest, IL doesl Look here,
IL you'd ever ct a mouthful of AIRY one
of um there'd be a yarler streak this
minute up in the northeast, which
would be you maxim q line fer the state
o. Connecticut" .. -
"There, now, hear that wunst, will
yel'' Ulie Strengthened up In we'll
feigned anger. Hes runninS DOWN tine
cookin' our wimmen does and, Chin
miny gracious, L won't stan for that
still! Nosuh! / won't stan for hayin'
the wimmin run down. nosuh; that
allus makes me mad. YessuhV' he
stole a side glance ove at the widow
Krumrine. That's Jest ! a Yankee,
now amt IL wunst? It's just like 'em.
I'd know a Yankee wunst. I'D know
him by his brag. Yar-r-r-r- e-e-e-e-e!
Oh, my! Heigh, Mif7"
Unconsciously lille was voicing q
large area Of his native state. The old
antipathies and resentments described
by washington Irving as existing
among the early Knickerbockers, and
- $50 a.nt~ FnRfhne AnIlth
among the Germans during the era
when northern Pennsylvania was q
part of Connecticut. are still to be
found in the Teutonic portions OF the
state, where they cling even yet like
persimmons. .
Look here, Ulie. what are you stand
Ing up for the wimmen so for all to
once7" Amos tipped q sly wink at the
other end OF the table.
N"Oh, Ulie's gone soft on the whole
female sect" volunteered a youth.
Say, why don't you brace up, Uhe,
and get one of EN- fore it's too later
broke in another. Its comm on
springs work. and you need q woman
dretfully." #-.
"Don't you-uns worry about me-" he
snapped. IL know what I'm about still.
Yessuh!" :
Now, Ulie, look here" Amos leaned
far over and addressed him In a Ia
therly tone, I'm your friend IL you've
got one in the world: you know
that. Now you be sensible. If
you wait to get a handsum young
off more'n a Dutchman's hat at q fu-
neral. You let me tell o something"
He lowered his voice confidentially.
you Jest edge UP to h wilder Kuhn.
She'll take ye with q jump quick's a
bat Toes a June bug, and she'll make
We a good wife. You en- get a lot OF
work out Of them children OF hern. You
go'n see her, Ulie. She'll take right to
we like q yeller dog, and / 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 a my
advice, Ulie, 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 housekeeper OF
skill and experience, and wherever she
was present at a dinner like this she
was soon at the head OF things. She
was cool and resourceful, and she for
got nothing. At critical moments when
g~eneralship was needed: when a dish
came out wrong at the moment when
It must be served, or when 1t showed
signs Of giving out In the very midst
of the meal, or when the next courst
was not ready and h men were wait
ing-at such tragic moments the wo-
men ignored the hostess and crowded
about Rose. 1t was worth while to see
her then, with her cool headed orders
her deft, swift precision OF movement
and her complete mastery Of the situa.
ton. ..-
Young Jim was not the only man al
the table who was furtively watching
her. She was everywhere. She circlec
about them with the water pitcher and
filled the glasses. Then she gatherec
up the empty dishes and poured an.
other helping OF coffee. Every one haC
a merry word as she came al
Say, Rose, won't We smile into my
coffee wunst and save me gettin' thu
sugar."
yves, If you'll smile into this glass
Of water and save me drawing more
vinegar"
"Uiie beer round to see ye yet
Rose?" 49,. :.
"Oh, I'm too old for Ulie."
'Yar-r-r-r! near that, Ulie?" .
Yes, / hev to drew the line. I cam
take nobody over % still. Yar-r-r-r-r
e-e-e-e-e! oh, my!" Ulie's laugh wa
| dAN pVAhONA III oAAN ~ w
ed everything while 1t lasted.
"oh, shame on yer Ulie! Rose is i
Already" r.
rs she? BY George, she don't lool
IT,"
How old be we. Rose? Bet We dom
dast ter tell wunst."
odds / look-a woman's as old a
she looks" and she disappeared int
the kitchen in a swirl OF laughter.
Thus the chaff Inc banter and home
ly country wit followed her in merr.
stream wherever she vent. The othe
women seemed to be merely scullion
and menials; she was the presidinl
goddess. the life and soul OF the Who'll
dinner.
Thus indeed it seemed to Jim Far
thing. So absorbed did he become Il
watching her that he scarce realize,
what he ate or whether he ate at al
The conversation ratified about him Xix
III monotone of summer crickets
once he heard a voice at his elbow ad
dressing him and he turned with
start.
3 Say, don't you think Dams doir
wrong to have his fifth on a Saturda
vu,,p0to Tee a dratF.,l haa Siop Ca4