Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-01-17
WAS PLAYING SAFE
REASON ron Mr.. ouNNGv's vistr
TO OLD FRIEND.
Horrible Throat ~ elimination 81
Rea, Tale OF Woe Caused Him
10 Make himself scarce
'.for . Spsli."

Caleb Peaslee was sprouting seed no.
tatoes when Obed Quincy. his usually
placid face wearing hunted look,
sank upon the bench beside him aud
began sprouting mechanically without
a word. After q moment Caleb spoke.
"Wal," he observed, 'Out with It'll
What's pesterin' you nowf
Mr.. Quincy spent some time In pro-
found thought before he replied.
II d'know," he said at length. (which
could be reckoned the most whiffle-
minded-a hen or duck or women
folks. Prob'bly there amt any greet
difference"
Mr.. Peaslee grinned and Obed took
little heart.
"F'r three weeks" he went on, "my
wife's been tryin' to break a hen and
a duck firm settin'. She wore her pa
thence bout out, and she wore the hen
and the duck down 30 they didn't enjoy
Twin. She hung 'em up by the laig
and left 'em squallin', SO I was worried
that the Cruel Society Animals would
get after her, and she put thistles in
their nests, and throwed water on
'em-she tried bout every way she
ever heard of, and never budged either
one Of 'em.
"Now, my wife is what I might call
notional-that u.s." he went on hastily,
II might call her so to you. but I
wouldn't want 1t to get to her ears.
You won't let on that said that-wil
you, Kellup?
"Wal, when she didn't want them
fowls to set, she didn't want 'em to,
and there want any whoa to her. But
after she'd gin about three weeks to
the job, without any success whatever,
she topped over and made up her mind
she'd set 'em.
"She didn't have any ducks eggs
that she wanted to set, 80 she decided
to drive over to Dedham Mills and get
some from a woman she knew over
there, and while she was gone she
wanted me to mend up the coops where
the hen and the duck was settin'.
} II took the hen fust, and SOS she
couldn't get out while was workin' on
} the coop, I slid the door shut before
started in to hammer. Then fitted
. on a strip Of board over a crack and
nailed 1t on, and the fust lick fetched
at nail, the hen sot up cacklin' that
you could hear all over the place.
jest KEEP right on hammerin' and let
! her squat.
"She was still carryin' on at the top
| ~ hop T Anfu kAH mi
J her coop, and she didn't stop, either.
And when got to work on the ducks
] coop she added what she could to the
: genral uproar.
II fin'ly got 'em boarded In tight, but
they KEEP up such a racket that be-
gun to be scared I'd done 'em some in
/ jury; so kicked open the door of the
hens coop. and she come through 1t
like an arrow, with no two feathers
p'intin' the same way and her eyes
) as big as cranberries, and put of down
Z lords the brook.
Z after I'd watched her out of sight
: went over to the ducks coop and
3 kicked open the door, and, Kellup.
{ blieve 1t or not, that duck stood up
8 on her hind legs and fit me like q man.
and had to fend her of pretty spry
to keep from gettin' nipped.
"When my wife got home, she start.
ed to set them eggs she'd been after
and when she got to the coops and
r, found 'em empty. and when she found
- out how I'd managed to break up them
two fowls from settin', after she'd got
her mind all shifted over to agree
n with 'em, she said-well," Obed spoke
d, dejectedly, ION the whole, 1 guess
le won't 60 into what she said.
d. But when she got to maxim
threats" he asserted firmly, II though
twas no more'n good Judgment for m,
j. 10 come over here SPELL"
81 What did she threatenr' demanded
"a Mr.. Peaslee promptly, and Obed per
IS mitted himself another feeble grin.
q only that she'd a good mind to she
me up In one Of them coops and pu
both settin's Of eggs under me ant
e. make me set on 'em till Matched ZEN
n out" he explained sheepishly, ''and sh,
n was so mad that I didn't know bu
- sne'd try 1t. Now that I'm here, ant
10 safe' les you and me visit a spell AMI
be mftable."-Youth's COMPANION.