Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-22
Quincy Ridge CORRESPONDENCE

Quincy Ridge Correspondence
Last Sat'day, ez tn boys wuz takin'
their reserved seats on tn frunt porch
Nv Hink Bastrop's new store, tray-
elm gent from ST. Louis cume aout,
after bookin' a order for wags Nv
nails an pale Nv striped stick candy,
an lined in tn conversation by sayin'
"You boys 'ud hev nice little taown
heer eff you'd take tn razorbacks orr
tn streets an git in railroad"
wall" seq Hike Budlong, "referin'
ter razorbacks l s'pose 70 mean hawgs
Eff so, l rise ter say tibet hawgs now
days il jewels ithout price. An ez
fer a railroad, | don't see whut in hell
we want NV railroad tootin' Ground
scarir' aour mules, an trim aOut aour
dawgs chasin' tn keers an KILN aour
hawgs an critters, when everything
we need, er don't need, is raised right
yere to hum
"Hou dew yo f1gger tibet aout?" SEE
the travelin' gent.
wall" SEE Hike, "the weemen an
kids raise the Gavin and taters, tn
hawgs raises themselves, tn goV'ment
raises tn taxes an tn price Nv ever
thing we hev ter buy, an also raises
hell 18th aour little mountain dew fac
tries"
This seemed ter sort Nv set tn trav-
elm gent on edge an he seq, Sum fell
lers il a workin' fer straightenin'
aout putty soon" Ter which Hike re-
piled, "Yo bet! An tn most Nv EN- IL
stickin' around Washington"
Men tn travelin gent SEE, kinder ter
hisself, "Whar ignorance il bliss, It's
foley ter be wise" But Hike heered
whut he sed an finished aout tn verse
by sayin, can fer doggone know-hit-
all 20 orter hev tR prize" But Hike
spoke hisen aout loud. This sort NV
speked tn travelin' gents gun. But
finally he SEE, "Whut time kin l git
aout NV heer?"
wall" seq Hike. 'yo kin git aout
right now by tn OF time an hour
sooner by tn new time"
Men tn travelin' gent SEE, How kin
git daown ter tn river?"
"Thar's tew ways" SEE Hike. ''Yo
kin take tibet road tibet wines daown
thru tn timber, or you kin go over
back NV taown an slide daown on the
sect NV yo're pants"
This sot thu boys ter haw-hawin', an
tn travlin' gent grabbed his satchel
an lit aout down tn road, but KEEP
lookin' over back NV taown ez eff he
he'd a notion ter take tibet rout.
After tn travelin' gent he'd gone, tn
talk dr'fted onto tn gov'ment ez usual,
an, Hike Budlong sed tibet when Will
son made tibet ar speech in Paris,
tother day, about us not 'expectin ter
rush inter tn light, but hevin ter GU
thru tn twilight inter tn broadenin
day" he must hev fergut tibet we wuz
runnin' on tn new skedool
"Thet's hit. Hike" seq Lem Stick
ler, "yo KANT never open yore zap
'ithout slammin' Wilson er tn demo
Gratis
wall" seq Hike, II never bPlieve in
talkin Nv things past an gone, an so
thet liz why / talk so much NV Wilson
an tn democrats jist now afore the
next election"
'Whut's tn matter 18th tn solid
south?" SEE Lem.
|Wall, tn matter iz,' sez Hike, 9Th
solid south wuz cooked Inter soft
much by tibet gov'ment wheat deal, an
nev'll be solid agin.'
Jist then Bastrop cum aout Nv tn
store an sed he wuz aout NV peanuts,
an asst eff eny gent could bring him
some. Hoke Bidnly sed he he'd sum
ter spar fer Is cents pound.
"Seventy-five cents! Gee Whit" SEE
Bastrop.
Wall" SEE Hoke, 81 seen tibet price
fer sum in the paper tother day an yo'
KANT expec me ter take less than tn
market price, kin yO?"
Men Bastrop sed he wuzn't tn gov
ment an couldn't soak tn kids fer
billion dollars ter square hisself up ter
thet price an en- git profit besides.
wall, en-, yo kin all go ithout," SEE
Hoke | know Nv cO'se they hahn t
atchelly with over ten er leven cents
a pound, but now tibet tn fashion il
ter grab-it-all, why shouldn't / foller
tn style an git my share Nv tn grab
bins jist as much as tn gov'ment er
tn wheat farmer?"
Thar bein', no answer ter this ques-
ton, tn meetin wuz arjurned.
N. G. ABBOTT.
Eureka Springs, Ark.