Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-07-06
MISTAKE OF 0BED
MADE SCARECROWS OF CLOTHES
WIFE AND DAUGHTER
WANTED,
1t Frightened the Birds Away From
the Corn, but He Had to Give
S'lome Money for New
Things.

my gracious!" CALCULATED Mr.. Gun
ney. He passed from the fervent
warmth Of the June sunshine into the
welcome coolness of Caleb Peaslee's
wagon shed and famed himself vigor-
ouSly with his straw hat. 'eMy gra-
cious!" he repeated. Mr.. Peaslee
looked up from the rake that he was
mending.
whats the matter of We now,
Obed?'' he desired to know.
my wife and daughter" replied Mr..
Quincy, "have jest gin me a kind of
goin' over, L guess you might call it
and me as innocent as a baby. 1t
sort of took my breath away, and I've
skun out spell, to give 'em a chance
to get over it."
"What you been up to now?' de-
manded Mr.. Peaslee.
81 amt been up to q single thing"
asserted the culprit stoutly. cat any
rate, 1 amt done nothin' further'n to
make mistake that any man might
have made. l dessay you would have
done jest the same as 1 did,
''Mebbe," admitted Caleb. "What
you been doin'?"
'Well," hesitated Obed, ''I'TI tell you
how twas. My wife an S'lome have
been away visitin' for bout three
weeks, and they left me to do as 1
was mind to in most ways; but when
any little thing'd come up that l was
Onsartain bout, I'd write to 'em, 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 as that.
"Bimeby, though, l wanted some ad-
vice bout what to use to make a scare
crow. I'd got my corn in, and them
peslzy crows was clawin' it out of the
ground Eastern 1 could put it in. l
didn't know where to find the things
to make a scarecrow of; so 1 wrote to
'em and wanted they should tell me
where l could find somethin'.
'Mebbe you remember" said Obed
with a questioning glance, that wom-
an and her daughter that boarded at
our house last Summer? Mr., Peas
lee signifed that he remembered them
well.
"Well," Obed went on, "when they
went away they left a raft of stuff
that they didn't want in the way OF
clothes, 1 mean. Some of the things
were clothes that they'd worn fishin
and trampin' round in the woods, and
they was c'nsid'able tore to pieces
There they was, hangin' up in 8
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 defensively, $50 how
in tunket they blame me is more'n
can figger out.
''Well, went up there, and I paved
over the mess of stuff and picked out
some things and took 'em out to the
field and dressed the critter up in 'em
There was fancy rig for hat, anC
long, jacketlike thing that they
called a blazer, and a skirt with re(
and white stripes in it, and the stripe:
was an inch and half wide. 1 dom
believe" Mr.. Quincy declared, in tn,
pride of creation, that when I go
through you could have found tastier
dressed scarecrow anywheres.
81 took a lot of pride in it," Obet
admitted, "and guess it's just as vel
| took it before them womenfOlks go
home. Well, 1 amt had a quiet min
I ute since, and no knowing when 1 will
. have.
Come to get at the rights of it," h,
explained, there was some thing
there that both my wife and S'lom
was cal'latin' to wear themselves. M,
wife was goin' to fix over the hat TO
herself, and Stoned been picturin
herself rugged out in that striped skir
and that fancy jacket.
Course they couldn't use 'em nov
-'twouldn't never do to have it SAT-
that they'd been robbin' a scarecrov
to get things to wear. So the upsho
) is that I've had to give 'em NOR
money than 1 could reely afford, to la,
out in new clothes. There's jest on
comfortin' thing bout the whole busi
!, ness"
what is it,? asked Mr.. Peas1ee.
Them crows" grinned Obed COZ
tentedly. ''There amt been a croN
that's felt it safe to come within
4 quarter of a mile of the field since
rugged that scarecrow up. So mebb
: I'll get my moneys wuth out of