The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-08-03
seem to have any success In getting
hold of II. hid Won frvv

ing to dig prairie dog out Of his hole
with peanut hull. That pancake re-
ceipt must be jookalorum the way
they hold on to it.
I'm most ready to give it up. says
Jackson, so discouraged in his pro-
nunciations that felt sorry for him.
But did want to know how to make
them pancakes to eat on my lonely
ranch says he. I lie awake Of nights
thinking how good they are
"sYou keep on trying for It. I tells
him, and I'll do the same One OF Us
is bound to get rope over its horns
before long. Well. so long, Jacksy.'
"You see, by this time we was on the
peacefullest of terms. When | saw
that be wasn't after Miss Willella i
had more endurable contemplations of
that sandy haired snoozer In order
to help out the ambitions Of his appe-
tite kept on trying to get that receipt
from Miss Willella, but every time
would say pancakes she would get
sort of remote and fdgety about the
eye and try to change the subject. If
| / held her to it she would slide out
and round up Uncle Emsley with his
| pitcher of water and hip pocket how
| itzer.
"One day galloped over to the store
with a fine bunch of blue verbenas
that ! cut out of herd of wild flow
ers over on Poisoned Dog prairie.
| Uncle Emsiey looked at 'em with one
eye shut and says:
Haven't We heard the newsY
"'Cattle up? / asked.
Willella and Jackson Bird was
married in Palestine yesterday says
| he. Just got letter this morning
/ 81 dropped them flowers In cracker
| barrel and let the news trickie in my
ears and down toward my upper left
hand shirt pocket until it got to my
/ feet.
"'Would you naind saying that over
/ again once more, Uncle Emsley?' says
/. Maybe my hearing has got wrong,
and you only said that prime heifers
was $3.50 on the hoof or something
! like that
Married yesterday says Uncle
Emsley, and gone to Waco and Niaga-
ra Falls on a wedding tour. Why,
didn't you see none Of the signs all
along? Jackson Bird has been court
ing Willella ever since that day he
took her out riding
Then says / in a kind Of yell,
what was all this zdzzaparooia he
| gives me about pancakes? Tell me
that
when said pancakes Uncle Ems
ley sort of lodged and stepped back.
Somebody's been dealing me pan
cakes from the bottom Of the deck
says, and g'll find out. believe you
know. Talk up says I. or we'll mix
painful of batter right here
81 slid over the counter after Uncle
! E1nsley. He grabbed at his gun, but
it was in a drawer. and he missed ii
i two inches. l got him by the front OF
his shirt and showed him in corner.
+Talk pancakes says |, or be made
into one. Does Miss Wiliella make
| 'em?
"-She never made one in her life.
and never saw one says Uncle Ems
! ley. soothing Calm down. now. Jud,
calm down You've got excited, and
that wound ia your head is contain
mating your sense of intelligence. Try
not TO think about pancakes
Uncle Emsley.' says /, I'm not
wounded in the head except so far as
i my natural cogitative instincts run to
runts. Jackson Bird told me he was
calling on Miss Willella for the pur-
pose of finding out her system of pro-
| ducing pancakes. and he asked me to
help him get the bill Of lading Of the
ingredients. done SO. with the re-
suits as you see. Have been sodded
down with Johnson grass by a pink
| eyed snoozer or what?
| "'Slack up your grip on my dress
shirt says Uncle Emsley. and I'll tell
| you. Yes. it looks like Jackson Bird
| has gone and humbugged you some.
The day after he went riding with
/ Willella he came back and told me
| and her to watch out for you whenever
| you got to talking about pancakes. He
said you was in camp once where they
was cooking fapjacks and one of the
fellows cut you over the head with a
frying pan. Jackson said that when
ever you got overhot or excited that
wound hurt you and made you kind
of crazy and you went raving about
| pancakes. He told us to just get you
worked Off the subject and soothed
down and you wouldn't be danger
Gus. Some and Willella done the best
by you we knew how. Well, well,
says Uncle Emsley, that Jackson Bird
| is sure a seldom kind of snoozer.'
During the progress Of Jud's story he
had been slowly but deity combining
certain portions OF. the contents Of his
sacks and cans. Toward the close of 1t
| he set before me the finished product
a pair Of redhot, rich hued pancakes on
a tin plate. From some secret hoard
| ing place he also brought lump Of
excellent butter and bottle Of golden
strip.
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