The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-15
MISTAKE OF oBED
MADE ScAREcRoWS OF CLOTHES
WIFE AND DAUGHTER
WANTED.
It Frightened the Birds Away From
the Corn, but He Had to Give
S'lome Money for New
Things.

| MY gracious. eJuCulutcu MT. Gun-
ney. He passed from the fervent
warmth of the June sunshine into the
welcome GOODNESS of Caleb Peaslee's
wagon shed and famed himself vigor-
ously with his straw hat. MY gra-
cious!' he repeated. Mr.. Peaslee
mending.
whats the matter of We now,
Obed?" he desired to know.
my wife and daughter" replied Mr..
Quincy, have jest gin me kind Of
goin' over, l guess you might call it
sort Of took my breath away, and I've
Skun out spell, to give 'em chance
to get over it."
"What you been up to now?" de-
manded Mr.. Peaslee.
II amt been up to single thing"
asserted the culprit stoutly. AT any
rate, l amt done nothin' further'n to
make a mistake that any man might
have made. | dessay you would have
done jest the same as did"
thNbpV, dululttSu SultD. W uul
you been doin'?"
"Well," hesitated Obed, "I'll tell you
how twas. My wife an S'lome have
been away visitin' for bout three
weeks, and they left me to do as
was mind to in most ways but when
any little thingd come up that l was
onsartain bout, I'd write to 'cm. or
one of 'em. There want much
| bout whether I'd set another hen, or
how much Mis- Griggs owed us for but
ter, or some such thing us that.
"Bimeby, though, l wanted some ad-
vice bout what to use to make II scare
crow. I'd got my corn in, and them
pesky crows was cawin' it out of the
ground Eastern l could put it in.
didn't know where to find the things
to make II scarecrow of; SO l wrote to
EN- and wanted they should tell me
where l could find somethin'.
"Mebbe you remember" said Obed
with Il questioning glance, that wom-
IN and her daughter that boarded ut
our house last summer" Mr.. Peas
lee signi,led that he remembered them
well.
"Well," Obed went on, "when they
went away they left raft of stuff
that they didn't want in the way of
clothes, l mean. Some of the things
We're clothes that they'd worn fishin'
and trampin round In the woods, and
they was c'nsidable tore to pieces.
| There they was, hnngin' up in II
clotheS-preSS, and S'lome wrote to me
to go and get somethin' to dress the
scarecrow. She didn't tell me what
TO take" he added defenslvely, $50 how
in tunliet they blame me is moren
can figger out.
swell, l went up there, and paved
over the mess of stun and picked out
some things and took 'em out TO the
field and dressed the critter up In 'em.
n long, jacketlike thing that they
| called blazer, and n skirt with red
and white stripes in 1t, and the stripes
was an inch and II half wide. l don't
believe" Mr.. Quincy declared, in the
pride of creation, that when | got
through you could have found tasticr-
dressed scarecrow anywhcrcs.
II took n lot of pride in it," Obcd
admitted, and guess it's just rs well
| took ii before them womcnfolks got
home. Well, l amt had n quiet min
ute since, and no knowing when will
have.
'"Comc to get ut the rights of It," he
explained, there was some things
there that both my wife and Slomc
was callatin' to wear themselves. My
wife was goin' TO fix over the hat for
herself and Stoned been pIcturn'
herself rugged out in that striped skirt,
and that fancy jacket.
Course they couldn't use 'cm now
-'twouldn't never do to have II said
that they'd been rubbIn' n scarccrow
10 get things To wear. So the upshot
Is that I've had to CIV" 'cm NOR"
money than could RELY afford. to lay
ont In new clothes. There's jest one
comfortin' thing bout the whole bust.
ness"
what Is IT." asked Mr. Ponslcc.
"Thcm crows" grInncd Obcd con
tcnt"dly. "Thorc amt been II crow
that's felt 1t safe 10 come within n
quarter of mile Of the field since !
| rugged that scarecrow up. So m"bbc
I'll get my moneys with out Of +,
after nll."-fouth's Companion.