Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-12-07


for the cage in the country where the
daffydowndillys sing in the treetops
and buttercups chirp loud from bough
| to bought"
ooh, joint" she exclaimed, faint
with delight; "do you really mean
you've bought home in the country?
How perfectly lovely! You dear, dear
old joint And that's what you've
been doing with all your money, just
to surprise me! Bless your dear good
heart! oh! I'm so glad and so de-
lighted. Won't it be simply grand?'
l could feel the cold, spectral form
Of Sapphire leaning over my left
shoulder, urging me on
What is it like? How many rooms?
| Where is it?" she inquired, all in one
breath.
Where was the blamed thing? What
did 1T look like? How did / know?
She could search me. 1 could feel my
ears getting red. Presently l braced
and mumbled, mo more details till
the castle is completed, then I'll coax
you out there and let you revel."
How soon will that be?" she asked
Tomorrow? Yes, John, tomorrow"
mo" I whispered croupily, "in--in
about a week"
1 wanted time to arrange my earth
ly affairs.
ooh, Iovely!" she said, and kissing
me rushed away to break the news
to mother
I felt like a rain check after the
sun comes out
Suddenly hope tugged at my heart
strings and 1 remembered that I had
week in which to beat the ponies to
pulp and win out enough coin to buy
six Swiss cheese cottages in the coun-
try.
Day after day waded in among the
jelly fish at the track, but the best /
ever got was an So win.
Eight dollars wouldn't buy dog
| house.
was desperate. Every evening
had to sit around and listen while
| Clara ]. told Tacks or Uncle Peter or
Aunt Martha or Mother what she in
tended doing when we moved to the
country
|
Peter and Aunt Martha were coming
to live with us and Tacks would be
there to let us live with him.
Uncle Peter intended starting
garden truck farm in the back yard
and Tacks figured on building a chick
en- coop somewhere between the front
gate and the parlor
Aunt Martha and Clara J. almost
came to blows over the question of
milking the COW. Aunt Martha in
sisted that COWS are MIXED by ma,
chinery, and Clara J. was equally posi-.
tive that moral suasion is the only
means by which a COW can be brought
to show down.
In the meantime was dying every
half hour
Finally the day preceding the long
talked of country excursion arrived
and I began to figure on the safest
and least expensive methods of sui
eide.
l went to the track in the afternoon
and threw out enough gold dust to
! paint our country home from cellar to
attic-but never a sardine showed.
Frost-bitten and suffocatetd by the
odor of burning money, l crept into
| a seat in the car and began to plan
my finale.
Presently an elbow poked me in
the ribs and l looked into the smiling
face of Bunch Jefferson.
Still piking, eh?" he chuckled;
'you wouldn't trail along after your
Uncle Bunch and get next to the can
6y man, would you? Only $400 to the
good today. Am I the picker from
Picklesburg, son of the old man Pick
wick?-well, guess yes!"
Then in that desperate moment
broke down and confessed all to
! Bunch.
Then Bunch began to laugh-a long,
loud, discordant laugh which ended
in, John, I'll help you make good!"
and then 1 began to sit up and notice
things
I'm away ahead of this pitty-pat
| game at the merry go-round," Bunch
went on, land it so happens that re-
Gently I peeled the wrapper off my
roll and snapped it for a country
home for my sister and her daughter.
She's a young widow, my sister is,
and one of the loveliest little ladies
that ever came over the hill. And she
has a daughter that's regular plate
of peaches and cream"
I sat in darkness, and he went
on:
Now, my sister won't move out
there for day or two, SO tomorrow,
promptly on schedule time, you lead
your domestic fleet over the sandbars
to that house and point with pride to
| its various beauties-are you wise?
"But, Great Scott, man, it's not
mine!" l gasped.
Roll small pill and get together"
admonished Bunch, with seraphic
smile. Cant you figure the trick to
win? All you have to do is to coax