Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-03-28

and skunk out of the other door. / fol-
lowed.
"You go one way" said he, land I'll
go the other"
We wanted to see the old hen when
she lit, and we did. Out at the farther
end of the platform, we turned oppo-
site corners just as she sailed down on
her runaway.
He had a cotton hoe by the handle,
and to its neck, cord two yards
long, he had tied flop-eared, half
breed dog. He was sitting on the plat
form holding the hoe handle and dog
in fishing style, as if he had a bite.
BUSTER yelled the approaching as
sailant. "Wha' chu mean runnin' off
an the train about to start?'
''Why, maw," drawled the boy, ''the
train amt come yet, and paw made me
leave old Tige out here, while we went
to the depot, an he's cold.'
'Well, 1 guess you'll warm him up
holdin' him here by the handle! I'll
kill that fool dogW she stormed, but
| aimed a blow at the boys head. He
lodged readily and still chung to the
hoe handle, while the whining dog
huddled against the platform with his
tail safely between his legs.
Just then the hOg-back squealed in
the distance, and the warlike mother
set off to gather her belongings pre-
paratory to boarding tie train.
She took down the bird cage, got an
arm about one clock, seized the UNI
brella and bag again, gave vociferous
commands to the children to 'git them
things and git on that train," and mar
shaled them in long line by the track
while No. 1 came Gathering in.
Most of the passengers were in no
hurry to get aboard, as No. 1 usually
stopped an hour or twO-long enough
for a drummer to "work" the town
and catch the same train for the next.
But today, those aboard had been
there so long they were anxious to get
off, and soon the family phalanX was
|. broken up by the crowd. After the
drummer and I had secured seats, we
IOOhCu OuI anu saw liIc NOuIuL, Will
the clock and Gagged rabbit, racing up
and down the platform, calling at
every jump: "Jerri-mi- aah-hh ~
AS this was new name. we soon
| figured that the husband had escaped
while she had been looking for the
missing Buster. The drayman emerged
and out of pure good will began to call
jeremiah also. Several boys took up
the cry, till the town rang with the
chorus of shouts for that namesake of
the weeping prophet.
Finally, the woman collected her
children, clocks, rabbit, ETC., in a knot
near the train, and gave out in stem
tOrian tones that she would "stay right
there till the COWS or Jerry came
home"
"1'm betting on the COWS in that
race" remarked the drummer, and
then he settled for an hours doze be-
fore the train started.
After a while we were all awakened
by jerk of the train and the renewed
! cries of the moving woman, who
seemed to think the COWS were about
| to win.
Jeremiah had not vet appeared, and
! the engine had finished it's switching
work and backed up to get the train
| for another start.
| Several of the children added to the
hubbub with their frantic yells for
father, and just as the bell began
ringing for the departure of No. the
missing hero came around the corner
of the depot scowling furiously at the
uproarious family.
Cant Teller git away long enough
| to have a smoke in peace?" he growled,
| referring to the twO-fOr-a-nickel cigar
protruding from his overgrown beard.
| He went into the depot again for the
tickets, but the sn0rting little hog-back
| began granting OFF down the track,
leaving the moving-woman the picture
of wrath and despair as she chung TO
her clocks and rabbit, groaning:
II knowed it l knowed it! I
knowed he'd git left !"
A new disturbance at the rear of the
/ train now attracted our attention. On
investigation, we found Buster, the dog
! and the hoe, mixed up in a row with
the brakeman. The boy and the dog
had slipped onto the rear Of the train,
Willie others of the family were calling
Jerry.
81 tell you, bub," declared the brake
man, you can't bring that pup on this
carr
well he's on here, amt hep" re-
torted Buster.
"Well, take him to the baggage car
and express him through! He can't
stay on this car Where's your ticket?"
Paws got it, | reckon"
-"Where is he? Hunt him up quick J"
The boy. tried to leave the dog in the
corner by the stove while he went to
show the brakeman the holder of the
ticket. but the trick failed. The dog
followed, and. when assaulted by the
brakeman, started bowling down the
aisle with the hoe catching in the seats
and hitting the passengers.
Boy and brakeman tried TO stop the
| fugitive. They caught him at the door
| Just as a passenger who had been out
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