Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1913-07-31
A YOUNG MANS
SCHEME
By NJ. QUAD
Copyright. 1918 By Associated Lit
ctaFE Press.


and muttcr;
"And I'll make her love me before
Pm through with her, She may think
/ don't amount to shuckS. but all |
want IL n chance to prove that J do.
Durn farm work. Durn Widdcrs! Durn
love! Durn cverythingt"
He Kicked the fence 10 how his dis
gust and YEARLY resumed work. Ebe-
neZcr Schcrmorhoru hired man, was
in love with the Widow Tompkins,
whose farm ndjOincd ihai Of his boss
on the west Gbcnrl"r was twenty
four years old. plain of face and un
calmly of form and Without Il hundred
dollars worth of propcr!N
One evening rs he Dropped in TO see
the widow about borrowing some farm
Implement next day h" found her rend-
ing n love story. She read few chap.
tiers to him and aftcrward ackhowl-
edged that she had always been 70.
mantle ana That If she ever mnlTicd
again II would be to n hero
The farmers hired man didn't rush
right off that night and try 10 be II hero.
Dui sill WV " ill'l Nlt SttJlf THINNING,
Three or four days after tbcnezcr's
thinking bee II tramp came along the
rond and. seeing HE young man hocing
corn Just over the fence halted for n
word or two. ordinarily EbcncZcr
would have IcHprd the fence and run
the wayfnrcr half mile. but on this
occasion he invited him over to the
Il, - /,
fidcntial conversation J he result Of
that conversation was that at y
O'Clock TINT evening the tramp appear
ed before the Widow Tnmplins ana
made threats Of what he would do if
she didn't set out victuaa hunt UP old
clothes and come down with dollar
in cash.
EbcncZcr was not far away just tnl
enough to come running UP md knock
the tramp hend over heels ana rescue
the widow But ms he started 10 come
running he fell down and got tangled
up with the bushes, and before he
could get away the widow had broom
stickcd the tramp into flight She
didn't say she was glad TINT the would
be hero was SO near at hand. What
she did say was that she wasn't afraid
of any tramp walking the roads
Ebenczcr's first try was failure,
but within fortnight he was rcndy
for another Two or three farmhouscs
in the township had been robbed, aud
this fact became the basis for his sec
ond plan. One night At midnight he
left his bed, descended to earth by
way of.n window, and. armed with
club, he became II guard for the wild
ow'S house IIc circlcd around It and
patrolcd tho garden and the orchard.
md he felt that he would give II year
Of his HE If II rohbcr would appear 4
He would first fell him and then arouse
the house, and when the widow came
to know that he had been guarding her /
for love her heart would melt toward |
him.
But no robber came instead of that
his footsteps awoke IT," widow, and, ,
peering ont, she saw som" one walking !
about, ana she got II shotgun and raised
n window and blazed away The gun /
was loaded with bird shot to shoot
hawks that might come sWunping down
ON chickens, but In this case they IN
swcred just as wen for man Eban
eHcr received about twenty of them
ana ran two miles to "A doctor to have
them picked out He also had n vn
cation from work for n week under
the excuse that he had spraincd his
back turning over in bed
Ninety-ninc out OF every hundred
would be heroes would have given up
right here, but EbencZcr WAS n man
to hang on 1t was while he was limp.
ing around on his vacation ana doing
lot of standing mp and wandering
over the fields that he came upon the
widow fishing In tn" river ~ certain
point lie did not show himself. but
tlfty feet from where she sat under n
tree he discovered Numhlebecs most
In the grass 1t was Il large and lih
ernl nest, and II gay" hiN n Thought
The bees Wouldn't bother anybody so
long rs they were let alnpr IL stirred
up they would look for nrnt
There was II hnSstack not far away.
and Ebcnezcr had matches IN his
pocket He retired behind the stack
and collected n hatful of stoues from
the plowed land These ne threw one
by enc nj the spot whrr" the bees
Were pursuing the even tenor Of their
waya, The plot thickcncd You can
thicl>en n bumblebcc plot in Il very
short time. All you've got To do is 10
tread on their coattails When the in.
sects found the rocks dropping on their
heads they swarmed out of the grass
to look for the enemy. They should
have seen the widow and descended
upon her, and Mt her first shrek Ell
ene2er would come charging down
with n wisp of lighted hay In either
hand, But things went wrong The
bees then went for him alone They
ran him up and down the haystacll,
they ran him over fences and back:
they ran him across lots and in circles
and when they finally left him and he