The Ronan pioneer. [volume] (Ronan, Mont.) 1910-1970, 1917-03-30
One On Dad

Boys" said Dad one April day, want
to earn little pay killing gophers IN the ne
Sure we did, so me and Win took some
fishline up the hill and tried to snare 'em
when the come from their holes We did
get some, but didn't do SO very awful we'll.
So we took my pony, Bess and the swill
loads of water long the rough farm roads
to drown a measly half dozen gophers
out. Gee! but 1T was as hot as Ned Sun
cause we didn't know what we were bout.
so M ne a f'a the a %n iwfu P he Tenans
bers what he's read. So after supper, viii
a bunch" Next time dad takes us to
town you and NELL look around for a GER
tain kind Of dope that will spoil them
gophers' hope. Tom, l got a scheme. a
bully hunch'
We got nickle for the tail Of every GO
pher we could nail We went down to
town next Saturday n took along our
gopher pay. It wasn't much, one twenty
was the lot When we got down on the
beat it to the drug store for some stuff
that will put these gophers rough SO pass
me every BIT Of dough you've got.
Tht night viii took his box of junk and
went and hid it in his bunk He said
we start our little show. Believe me, Tom.
Well make those measly gophers hump"
Next afternoon Dad took nap and us kids
slipped out through THE the gap between the he
and he. put in some oats then poured in
water from the pump.
When Dad went to the field next day,
Will drained the water all away and
poured the box of powder In and stirred
it up, When he had mixed it through
and through, he said, There, that will
do, now Well get rich or don't know my
name." We spread them oats out on the
ground, not in the holes, but close around.
The gophers come and the whole bunch,
they started in to have lunch. The way
it knocked 'em was an awful shame,
Gosh! but they was rayin' thick when
me and Will begun to pick EN- up and
take 'em back to the mouse. There was a
pack. We took 'em all into the barn and
laid 'em our in rows. Col darn! but
they was plentiful. You see we had two
enough to fill a hack.
When Dad come back from plantin
wheat and seen em, he said: Don't that
beat the Dutch? l did not know there
were so many gophers wearin fur. !
Then Will said: This bunch here we got
from off the little pasture lot. There's
hundreds more AROUND the place for 60
piers is NUMEROUS race. They're breedin
everywhere to beat the band.''
Well, Dad he come with the "mon' a mic.
kle each--like it was fun. But first, you bet
he made us tell how we had done the job
so we'll. He said he'd nave to know wha.
turned the trick. 1t we could kill that
bunch on ten acres we'd surely bust him
when we started out to DO some harm to
every gopher on the farm by feedin' 'en
a meal of Kill EN- Quick.
Dad, he sure is a game old boy. For he
said it would give him joy to give, us
half of what he saves by putting gophers
in their graves. lie SAID a nickle each was
not too high. We had Il lot Of poison We:
from that first box ana you just bet we
scattered all them poisoned oats where
they would get the gophcrs goats. We
didn't let a Jingle one get bv.
This happened way long last spring and
Dad says now his crops will bring Il LOT
more than they did last year He thinks
they'll double pretty near. and now may
be you think it makes him sad. He says
il boys can read the ads and put it over
on their dads like me and Bill pulled off
the trick like we kids did with Kil-'Enl-
Quick: it time for EN- to come to life,
said Dad.