The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-05-10

tho captain upset all day. you ought
TO be happy-hear him kickin' now
Yes says Bill, but he's gettin' about
$40 minute for kickin'.'
IF we ever had long stuck-up Job,
Bill got so cantankerous there was
hardly any livin' with him. One after
noon the captain was gone and We
was workin' along as peaceful, and
suddenly Bin stopped his work ana
fairly roared at me: What does he
know about trouble? He never had
any,
II didn't know what he was thinkin'
about in particular, but 1t wouldn't
have made any difference IL ! had,
cos Bill had on sort of blanket
grouch-it covered everything. So
says TO him: You don't know what
you're talllin' about. heard the cap
tain tellin' man this morning what
an awful time he had playin golf yes
terday. He said he got in a highly
critical place-them are his words
and he couldn't tell for the life OF him
what golf stick 10 use. lie could re-
ought TO be made, but he couldn't re-
member what to do It with. First he
thought twas the driver-then he
thought 'twasn't. II kind Of seemed
like twas the brassie, and then al
lowed twas the mid-iron; then he felt
positive twas the putter. ! didn't hap
pen 70 hear what the right one was,
but judgin' from some of the language
heard him use after he specified, he
didn't get It,
"'Now, BILL I says, that's trouble
and it's just as bad trouble as you
have when you can't tell what tool TO
use, and after you've tried everything
out you've foozled the door jamb.
Them woes are alike / says, and you
ought 10 be more considerable But
Pill was a little short on good com
mon sense at times.
There was something about Dill
you couldn't help likin', but If anybody
else d had his notions ! would o. been
all put out with them. or course,
didn't like EN- in Bill but somehow
always felt he wasn't so bad-iust
young and little misguided.
Once he como in where was. just
rs forlorn. didn't stop work. Just
said Well?'
"'What chance have I got with
them college fellovs?' he demanded.
"'Oh, shucks,' says I. because he did
try my patience lot at times. IL you
want somebody else's chance, pick on
a chap your own size
1T seems he drove q nail more than
he'd intended TO; he'd made up his
mind to do JUS so much that day. and
he got to thinkin' about his wrongs
and forgot and went right on workin'
He said If you went TO college they
taught you 10 concentrate, and II he
could have concentrated on not dom
the work as he'd figured, It would o
been all right.
well. / was sick for spell and
Bill kind Of drifted away from me.
he fell in love with a girl who was
pretty ambitious and she liked him,
too. but she saw his faults. He was
ratin' around one day about capital
and plutocrats and tellin' what ought
TO happen TO them, and I tell you
Sodom and Gomorrah got II light com.
pared TO what Bill was goin' to hand
out Hit il easy, Bill she says. as
smart man as you ought to be a
plutocrat himself some day; maybe
you're only plannin' suicide
That made Bill awful mad. but
guess on due elaboration he seen
things n little different. He never let
on, though. for. long time. She went
out west and got the second prize in
land drawin'. He tried 10 hate her
because she wasn't poor and down
trodden any more, but she just laugh
cd at him.
They got married and vent cut to
live on the ranch. Out o. doors seem.
cd TO do Bill 4 lot Of good and things
Kept comm their way right along
he made a lot Of money on sheep, and
guess by this time he's rich. The
last heard about him he was goin' at
p pretty rapid clip and lookin' over
airship catalogues.
"tlf Simmons stoTred to see hin,
when he was out west. Re says Bill
sent me n special invitation 10 come
an visit him. All says l ought 10 go;
says he's just as sociahle as can be
and amt changed q bit toward the old
crowd. He says. though. that Fill has
acquired n ravenous appetite for a LOT
OF things he used to think was poison
His last fad was fancy hens. and
Nj said when he was a-goin' through
tho henhouse he saw n dull mahogany
frame with dozen solid pearl push
buttons in it: that every time q her
lays an egg she has to press n button
so Bill'll be advised right up 10 date
"Alf told me how nice he was livin':
told me all about his house, mahogany
trimmins all through, and everything
nice. OF course l know he was Just
havin' little fun with me about then
hens. but would like TO know II Bill
really got Tiff'ny windows in hi:
garage"
Judge Hoar's Retort.
On innumerahla occasions when