The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-04-03
HITS AND MRS.
BY 2. n. PIERCE

Poison Carrots and the hired man
began cleaning seed wheat last Mon
day morning in earnest The hired
man turned the crank Of the red fam
ming mill while Poison shoveled In the
wheat. The hired man turned slow
and Poison soon had tie mill over
loaded and leaned on his shovel to
rest, wheeling like an old horse pIow-
| ing corn. Poison has the asthma
which he has been trying to cure all
| winter with no pronounced or other
/ kind of success. He mas answered
every patent medicine ad, bearing on
his trouble, which has appeared in his
or his neighbor's papers and taken
medicine enough to run the constitu-
ton OF pop factory. Bottle after
bottle of throat oil and liquid sand
paper has he paid for and then sat
UP all night in a hard-bottomed chair
! to keep from blowing out cylinder
head. He has also inhaled and ex-
| hailed and swallowed smoke that
smelled like the remarks of bushel
OF old shoes burning In the spring
time back Of the pic pen, and still
his asthma stuck to him like Salt
| lake mud to pair or corduroy pants
In duck hunting time, which isn't this
spring according TO law. 1t suddenly
occurred to the hired man that he
ought to be sorry for Poison and when
. he Strengthened up from his work a
large wet tear, about the size Of an
editors bank account left his left eye,
and bounding and coursing over his
/ he re
airy with a loud spat. What's that"
said Poison i'm a startled tone Of voice.
1T is a token of sympathy" said the
hired man as ne watched care worn
hen pick the tender portions out OF
the tear for lame rooster which
| stood by her side. Such feeling on the
part of the hired man. who had often
made light of Poisons affliction, NOV
ed the sufferer greatly, and he extend
ed his right hand, ano. the hired man
who had nothing else to do at the
time shook it feelingiy. They ex-
| changed the grip of the Sons Of the
Pasture Fence, a frasernal order of
| which both were behind with their
dues, but which they regularly at
tended when the candidates money
was blown in on a feed Thus they
stood gazing into each others soft
blue eyes instead of cleaning wheat,
when Poison's mother in law, with an
apron over her head and hard wood
rolling pin in her hand opened the
door. Poison sprang for the shovel
and the hired man started the mill,
but 1t was too late, the forenoon's
work was before her, about two pecks
of wheat less what the chickens had
ate, and she opened up, the rolling pin
taking an active TART in the exercises.
When the mothers meeting was over,
two men, with the air of hen thieves
skulked out to the barn and took the
arnica bottle away from a sick horse.
About two years after Columbus
discovered America a man by the
name of Alonzo de Ojeda made up his
mind to open real estate office on
the main land and settle up the coun-
try without any further delay Lonzo
had made. two voyages of discovery
by which he mad acquired considera-
BILE reputation, but no ready money,
and he thought 1t about time for him
to lay up something for his old age
1 which was just before him. He adj
vertised for a business partner with
money and man by the name of ID.