The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-01-02
A WOMAN'S
"SOTNESS"
By M. QUAD
By M. QUAD
Copyright. 1919. by Associated LIZ
erary Press.

anu then | asked FOR story. he nuiS
of hit and then began:
~ hen l built my tirst cabin on this
yere mounting II was clus up to the
foot OF Il mn. Folks told me that il
landslide would come along some uut
and tnlke niatchwUod OF that caiiin
aud bury us thirty feet deep. but | /.
wasn't to he Skeered out OF a good i0
cation Oh that account. | was buildin
81, as lo he nigh a spring and a road.
yu, see. once III awhile as time went
on thar'd he II slip to the right or left
OF us. but nuthiu to do any hurt.
We kept taikin' bout mOvin', but
also Kept hoidin on. and SO week
passed. 1lIen spring sot in. and It
rained aud rained. | never did see it
pour down SO stidy and SO long.
l;eckoned it rained fur bout 'leven
days without break. One mawnin
jest Defo' daylight the ole woman
woke me up jest as ! was dreamin' of
cuttin' down a tree with thirteen cOOnS
rOustln' on the limbs, aud she seq to
me. seq She:
Nuie JoueS. GIT up.
"'What fury
"'Rpkase you wanter be a-gittin.'
"a gittin: fur wharf,
"A gittn' oEter this yere cabin. I've
heard the trees and rocks crackin' up
thar fur the last hour, and | tell you
We a.e SWil.e 10 hey Il landslide
"'Wha: cid YOU make study Of
In q, 4 fol
bout iOsin all them coons.
'Rube, dU;, t I've Il fule..
lone in tie family Is huff, [
reckon
THAT fired her up. Deed. but felt
50 mean bout iHei thirteen cOOnS.
with cOonskins bringin' six bits in cash
that var. that | sorter wanted to git
up row. 1t didn't take long. She
jumped outer bed with her jaw sot.
and when | got up she was sittin' on
stone out in the yard with all umbrella
over her head
"'Ole woman. we haint got ten min
it's to git outer this. Grab mp what yO'
kin and fOller me.
Whats the rumpus. RnbeT she
! tune.
"'Gwine to hev landslide. an It
| may cum any mint!
"'Whlr did 20 make study OF
| them air landslides. Rube?
| Don't make no fule of yo'self, ole
| woman, fur things up thar is already
shakin'
lone fule in the family is 'puff, I
reckon. Y0' go right on. My ole mar
says thar's no danger of landslide.
and SO I'm goin' to sot right yere-'
"'Ole woman. are you sOt"
"''Deed | are. Rube.'
"'And are you gwine to take chances
Of ben' buried under a millyon tons OF
dirt and rock:'
~ reckon | ann
"'And wont nuthin' move yO'Y
".Nuthin' but that thar landslide.
which my ole man says hain't a-cum-
in. Goodby. Rube. Better be gwine!
"'YO' are sot, ole woman. seq /. and
yo' are fule to boot, but can't leave
yo' to perish. Up 70 cit and cum
along!
| But it was no use. When tried to
lift her up she bit and kicked and
| wouldn't be budged. | was powerfully
| skeert, and 1 knowed the old woman
couldn't be unsot of her sotness.
got the clock and the feather bed and
rushed up the road to the bend. and l
hadn't only jest slowed around when
the mounting moved.
| 1T was a sight to lift yo'r heels
all that rock and dirt and trees and
bushes rushin down, and the ole wO-
man sot on the stone as stiff as a poker
and waited fur it to reach her. 1t was
rollin' over her when closed my eyes
and sunk down. When | cum to ev-
erything was hurry burly-wife gone.
cabin gone. land buried out of sight!
| "Mebbe yo' can imagine my feeiin's."
said the old man as he stopped to
knock the ashes out of his pipe and
scratch his leg. II kinder tainted and
fell down; then | sot up and cried; then
! stood mp and cussed. Reckon | was
crazy fur bout an hour. | was sittin'
down and weepin' and groanin' when
heard step and looked up to lind my .
| OIe WOtI1du uOt ten iect away Alct
clothes was Ieetle dusty. and thar
was a leetle blood on one ear, but she
was mighty peart as she SEE to me, seq
she:
stranger, yo' mought be acquaint-
ID round these yere partsy
Stranger. marm-slightly.' sez |.
lido yo' happen to know family
named Jones-Rube Jones. the great
hunter arter bars?
| ~ do. marm.'
"'Got fule in the family. I'm told
| "'Yes. marin. he has,
(which is it-Rube or his wife,?
| "'It's Rube. marin. and dod rot his
ole skin if don't lick him to squash
the fust time meets himv"
And she had escaped?" qUeried.
stranger. the hand OF the tawd was
b it, She was carried a distance OF
fifty feet and slowed into ditch with
two logs across it. When the stuf
quit fallin' she was buried ten feet
deep. but she got out between two
rocks and cum waIkin' up to me as
calm as a mewl gwine to yater.''
! And since then?"