Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-11-10

service for some of his ancestors.
His eyes were bright and snap
ping with fun, his chin was clean
shaVen. and his urstarched linen i'm
maculately white.
Good morning. Uncle David" ex-
claimed Doctor Terry. Going on
trip"
yes, sir," chucklsd Uncle David.
I'm going out to Chicago to see Phil
Armour. l guess he's low spirited or
bilious. He sent for me yesterday to
come out and cheer him up"
$50 you know Mr. Armour, do your
asked DR.. Terry.
Know Phil Armour" exc aimed
Uncle David. why, we grew up as
boys together, and l tell YOU, doctor,
when | go to see Phil-and he sends
for me every once in awhile-he
treats me like an old friend. He puts
me in a bedroom that's got carpet
as soft as young grass. | guess there
must be half a dozen bathrooms on
that floor and he gives me one all
to myself. We have the tbest of
times together, talking of the old
days. l kind of expect that Phil has
sent for me to tell him the story once
again Of how we snapped Horasch
Seymour over fence, or through it,
one time when We were playing snap
the-whip. Ny, you ought to see Phil
laugh when I tell him that story"
Tell it to me, Uncle David" DR..
Terry asked.
We'll, i will, and I'll tell it to you
just as | am going to tell it to Phil to-
morrow. You see, when we were Young
sters together Phil and | used to play
snap-the-whip a whole lot of the time.
and we got so We could snap any boy
we wanter to off the end of the line
twitch him wherever we wanted him
to go, We got real skittish at it.
Well, one day Horasch Seymour
came down to visit a friend, and"
When you say Horasch Seymour"
interrupted DR.. Terry, do you mean
the Horatio Seymour who was twice
governor of New York and Democratic
| candidate for president against Gen.
GraEt?"
That's the chap" cried Uncle Da-
vid, with his e. es all asparkle. There
never was but one Horasch Seymour,
and he was cocky little fellow. Well,
Phil said: Let's play snap-the-whip
and put Horasch at the end of the
lash Horasch was willing, but
cracky! he didn't know what was COM
ing to him. So we just started In,
and pretty soon we got mighty snap
to the whip, and the next thing Hor-
asch knew he was breaking through a
fence and all sprawled out on the
grass. It's funny, amt it? We boys
never thought in that snap-the-whip
there was one boy who was going to
be governor and another who was
going to be a great beef packer.
We'll, now, tomorrow night, about
half past eight, GU can think of me,
washed up and just had a good dinner,
with Phil in his little room, and he will
be asking me to tell him how we snap
ped Horasch Seymour off the end of
the whip. And when / tell him, why.
if you'll listen hard, you can almost
hear him taught"
Uncle David Gray chuckled reminis-
Gently. Phil says that story always
fills him with glee and takes his trou-
bIes away" he explained. 81 suppose
if l was as rich a man as Phil
might get the blues myself some day"
And few minutes later the quaint,
old humor-loving farmer-philosophe
was on his way to cheer up the man
who taught the world how to utilize
everything of the hog except its squeal,
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