The Harlowton news., 1914-01-02
.Mirandi Purkinz Story

4 Well lkrismus rush is ovur and
] the New Year is come and gone
and aWl hands including Silus and
the cat are feeling az if they had
been showed threw a threshing
machine. Silus sez that yew stuff
yersen with turkey atkrismns and
list git ovur the effects of it buy.
New Years when yeW load up agin
and doant feel much like goin teW
church the next Sunday, let alone
4 speak sociabull teW the preaehur.
!. [ doant no but he IL haff write AZ
it generally takez sum time fer is
/ pocketbook and good tempur tew
/ git back inn it's uzual shape.
1 We iist hev got back frum Harlo
4 Whur we hev bean taking hour sun
and hiz children up tew town tew
ketch there trane. Az ( sed before
i Jameztiz a railrode kundnkter and
he nose every won Of the fellows
at the stayshun and interdused us
/ teW every won inn site. The trane
Ecnm along at last and aweigh they
went and | looked around fer Silus
and he wuz sittin with hiz legs
4 ( II. H. as.
/ <rossed on an express truk cnewin
terbaccer and spittin awl ovl1r the
mice clean platform. He wuz talkin
teW an injunear hoo IL called Mig
| Ferrul and the weigh they Wul
! talkin near skaired me teW deth.
| Mig tWus tellin about the time the
bhog he Wuz drivin on the JaWbone
J went in the ditch mere 2dot and
rolled ovur on him and hurt him
mitey bad. / jist rite up and asks
him what biziness he he'd drivun
poor pig so far and it served him
write il he did get hurt, then Silus
and the injunear feller laffed az
hard az they Good and finally got
sobered up long enuff tew explane
that the word hog" wuz word a
injunear uses instead of engine.
| | wuz goin tew 60 hoam write
a weigh when hoo Gums along but
Mr.. Hart, the agent, and mitey
nice feller he il tew, and asked us
7 if we woodent like tew see the
roundhouse and shops. Of coarse
we sed yes we wood: d:..be very much
orbliged tew him if he TUX us with
him on a toor of inspeckshun.
We went ovurs tew the round
fhouses furst. Silas kept tallSi1S tem'
I beet the band and yew wood hev
thot he wuz borne and razed on a
! railrode instead of a railpile. Well
we met Mr. Vandurwurkur their he
is won of the big gum and he in
terdused us tew Mr. Burrows and
he TUX us threw the place. They
hev snm mitey big injunz their and
they wur fixin sum of them up fer
repears they sed. Enyhow we wur
standin around takin in the sites
and Silus with hiz mouth wide
open as if he wuz catchin flies when
won of those injunear fellers cum
| in and walked write up tew Mr.
! Vandurwurkur and asks him whur
biz "tallow-pot" wuz. Silus is awl
1 weighs lookin fer chance teW
4 bee a kommodatin and he sees a
| pot of grease buy his feet and he
| grabbid it up and sed here is L"
| thot evury won standin around
wood hurt themselves laffin. They
latfed till they coodent stand up
land Silus new he he'd put his foot
in sumthing and he komensed tew
get read in the face and finally he
asked them what wuz the joke.
They told him a tallowpot wuz an
other name fer a fireman and awl
startid laffin agin.
! / sed tew Silus lie he'd better go
Foutside and get sum fresh air SO he
Ecum along and we vent ovur and
saw the wreclxin derrick. I wood
hev liked tew see it wurk but Mr.
/ Shook sed it Wuz only used on a
big wreck so / tolled him teW start
write away on Silus as he he'd the