The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-18

citizen who used to work in a saw1nill it's
my opinion that you'd better write to
humble pie"
WAL RI do as y: you say about it.
think it was best. Yes. I'll do it, Abe, but
don't you mention a word, not a word;
asked your advice and you mustn't even
whisper it around. You'll probably have
another letter for me this week, and I'll
right along as to which gives it first, but
we amt, to say nothin' to nobody till it's
mot a burned wordr'
Ind Abe be sa go .b+ dear ar man nan and md
send to her mine
And I wrote:
c. Sarah Crew. in Kansas dwells,
When she dwells anywhere;
And she has been a-raising Cain
And pulling hubby's hair.
She loves the trash that you will find
Bneath the novel covers
She loves to read of knights and maids,
And that ere sort of lovers.
Her husband loves the gentle plow.
Also the gentle hoe;
He looks with joy pun pkfnS big,
And 'taterS on the grow
so sarahs hubby he got mad,
An awful swears he swore;
And Sarah she did talk divorce,
And other things galore.
And they don't speak they pass by
The which is sad to see
They go to bed like cat and dog
They make 1t mis-er-ee-
Now, Sarah, just word with you
And promise hubby from this date
You'll make grand kerflop.
the gate with a glass of cider and a fried
cake, and We had scarcely said good
morning when he began:
Say. Abe, 1 want to ask you a straight
question and git a straight answer l
world. You know my daughter Viola, of
course?'
''Waal, now, between me n you and
the gatepost Teller has got struck on
her. He's windmill agent, and there's
end to the style he filings on. He
do for 10 cents. and he says if he ever
gets married he'll take his wife to
Niagry Falls and New York and all
around. He's only an agent of the wind
mill company now but he expects to
own the hull bizness in less'n five years.
He's struck on Viola, and Viola is ~---~l<
on him, and I want to ask you W: at you
think about it?''
Why, it seems to be all right" I said.
yes, 1t seems that way, but is a wind
straight up and down. like a lightnin rod
or a tin peddler? If he's worth $500 in
cash. as he says he is, and his gold
Watcn ana diamond pin are all right, /
amt going to stand in Vfola's way, but
if he's only BLOWN around it's my duty
to hump him out. Did you ever meet
with windmill man, Abe?'
mot that I remember"
I've heard that they went a good deal
on wind, same their mills, but this
Teller seems to talk dizziness Up to this
time he hasn't asked the girl to marry
him. He's only squoze her hand and
praised her good looks and flung out
hints, but it'll come within a week You
can see the love shinfn' right out of his
eyes and hear his toes crack as he walks,
and when a Teller gifts that way he's goin'
to lay his heart at gals feet purity soon.
If it was your daughter, Abe, would you
let her go ahead with her dreams of
bliss?"
ST think would until he proposes. any,
how. When he asks her to be his wife
you'n have opportunity to ask him ques-
tons and find out about him.
But I don't believe I will. You don't
know what a way Viola's got. She's
snippy and snappy and thinks she knows
1t all. Only yesterday she was te11in' me
that she was runnin' this love dizziness,
and that I needn't trouble to interfere
/ don't believe she'll let me ask him a
single question. Would you box her ears
and put your foot DOWN."
Hardly. You might give her your opin-
ion and let it go at that If you go to
opposing the match, they may run away.
Things generally work out all right See
you ag'in tomorrow.
by thunder Abev' he said as he reach
ed up to shake hands. I'm goin' to do
jest as you say about it, You represent
the American eagle and the great United
States, and you've got a head on you
Yes, sir I'll let that dream of bliss keep
right along without interference, and If
Viola makes any mistake about it she
can't blame me- I was tel1in' her an hour
ago that if windmflls bobbed around ev-
cry which way, windmill husband would
probably do the same. but I'm done talk
in Let 'em squeeze and love and git
married, and I'll keep right on hoein'
corn and cuttin' three tons of grass to
the acre Much ableeged. Abe. You've
lifted big load off my mind and kinder
settled me down, and next week when I
kill a sheep you'll come fur a hull hind
quarter