Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1913-04-09

DOuy would De WtIlUB 10 ldAc jim
home and feed him and take care Of
him, for las Gods truth hadn't
enough for him and the children too
But nobody wanted him: he was pref
ty old, and he wasn't never handsome.
And one store | was IN. as | went out
heard a drummer that was trying to
sell goods say. I saw that Teller at the
RELIEF. but l notice he's able 70 keep
a dog Lets the children go hungry
ruther'n the dog. guess / kinder
turned ca him, then I turned back
again. and / whistled to Sport. and !
looked at him and saw how his ribs
showed ard his eyes was kinder sunk
He wagged his tail and yelped ike he
used 10, seeing me look at him; and
then ! went straight TO that drug
store Billy used TO keep-Billy Har-
ysy He moTei away last year; he
was a good friend Of mine. l said to
him, Billy. you got something that
would kill a dog in a flash. so he'd
never suffer or know what hurt him?
And Billy-he understood, and he said
he had. You Jest put it on his tongue
and he'd never know what killed him.
( Billy was sorry for me He gave 1t
to me for nothing, and he gave me
some bones and corn bread and milk:
/ so Sport had a good dinner. And he
come right up to me and looked me In
the eyes. wagging his tail. His eyes
was kinder dim, but they was just as
loving as ever. And he was wagging
his tail when he dropped. Then
/ went home. and the children asked me
where was Sport. and little Peggy
cried-oh, Lord"
1T was awful hard on you, Wesley"
/ said Robbins getty.
Il suppose 1t wasn't nothing to what
/ some men have suffered There was
/ poor Tommy Walker, give up his farm
when it was oreclosed--thought he
/ had to-and went off tramping TO
Kansas City, and after he'd tramped
I week there, looking for job. give
/ it up and jumped into the river. And
4 you know how old man 0sgood killed
/ himself, honest old man as ever
lived; always kept his machines un-
/ der cover, too; be couldn't stand 1t.
i They found ii harder-aud lots more.
( too but I've found II hard enough.
/ And / know I'd shoot that sneakiug.
sneering young shylock. and not mind
It near so much as ] minded killing
poor Sport"
Il don't know but we'd all better
1 quit" said the younger man with
/ sigh. This isn't living country.
I Three years of drought would break
any country up. RS not meant TO live
in. We had fair crop this year. but
/ it's so low; and frelghts, though
they're lower are pretty high. don't
/ see any wy out of IT, And | declare
/ | think If we run this young fellow
of wen only get bad name for the
! place"
Il don't care for bad Names" said
I the other sullenly. Il got wife and
three children; was foraclosed
4 year agO-sos you, SOS lct of tie
/ boys we're at the end Of oui string
now-legally So what did we say?
/ We said We didn't care, was il legal
/ or Illegal; that laws was made TO skin
J inv pun AlsiAAf anu We tiEINtu q SAtlA ia
We could depend on not to enforce
the laws. and we druv Off the blood
suckers they sent out here. They say
| one Teller was killed. | don't know.
I Guess that's one OF Doc Russell's
! stories. The boys talk a lot about
! the cause of all this here trouble, and
how we're going to have revolution,
and how referendum and initiendum
will help, and how free silver. will help
- guess, myself, a little more rain
I three years ago when corn was up
would have helped more'n anything
1 and they talk how they're fighting the
/ battles OF the poor man, and the east
! ern bloodsuckers mas ruined US, and
/ the Shyloeks are devouring us. and
I they boiler the roof off. l listen to
EN-. but don't believe EN- any more
tt-n You do"
4 hut" interrupted the other man
eagerly. y voted with the peoples
party"
'Of course you did We was going
to be unanimous. and you dsss'n't
stand out; but you didn't believe in
! IT, Me either | amt maxim any
pretense. but I'll tell you it's jest here
/ I'm down to bedrock II / let my
! farm be took away and my stock.
what's going to become Of my wife
aud children? You can call It stealing.
/ or resisting the law. or anything you
! please, but I'll kill that Teller before
/ I'll let him turn me out"
Don't you think We can scare him
/ OF? Killings nasty word y
My father was with John Brown:
/ he helped kill a man. He never lost
/ no sleep about It; | shan't neither
Look here. Mr. Robbins. | got lots OF
I time to think. winters-lots. Remorse
1 and all them fine feelings you read
( of, they don't belong 10 folks that are
! way down In the dirt You got TO have
something to eat and wear. and not
/ have your stomach sassing you, and
you half froze most OF the time. when
your body is in sech fix it's keeping
your mind SO full there amt any show
for any other feelings And look a
here. there's worse'-his voice sank.
Why, YOU git to that pass you amt
able to feed your own wife and babies.
When this morning Peggy kept hush
ing the baby and she was frettinE and
moaning aud Peggy says 20 me.
couldn't git little crackers In town:
maybe the baby could eat them?
didn't feel nothing cept a numb ach-