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

mace 1OI more, JudL nave FChCoA ~
to carry them q little further and hope
that they will not prove an anti-cli-
max.
Every summer vacation Col. Able
mans house, and indeed the whole OF
Ableman, was overrun and OverfloWed
by Mrs. Ableman's flock of nepheWs
and nieces who always came then
and stayed until school called them
unwillingly home. The summer l
taught there William Pearl and his
family visited there for a short time
and Laura and Aggie went to school
for few weeks. Aggie was then the
same bright, Wide-aWake girl she was
in after years and still is. The quiet,
gentle nature of her older sister Laura
made an impression upon me which
has never faded. You all know their
after life, so | need not dwell upon 1t.
Mrs. Ableman's bevy Of youngsters
had one place where they were partIc-
ularly fond of going to play and ex-
plore. which they called Hampton
HEIGHTS. Just at Tie rise Of ground be-
a road branchod off from the one go
ing to and through the NarroWs Creek
narrows. going up AID over the high
ridge to the south Of that road; little
to the side and south of this branch
road. was a rather flat ard wide place
at the top OF the ridge which at this
place sank abruptly to the lowland ex-
tending from its foot to the river.
This high T~omontory was Hampton
Heights. There they went nearly ev-
cry day at some time and never
seemed { tire of it. " nat ,Hey did
there | do not know. only one day
they came back in great excitement
and told us that they had dug up some
Indian bones on Hampton Heights. 1t
made quite furry in the village for
a little while, hough we grow1-ups
at the house had our suspicious that
there was some joke about it. | be-
lieve they afterwards confessed that
they made the grave themselves and
put the bones into it, The bones
proved to be those of an old mule
which had died and been dragged out
there.
From the foot Of Hampton Heights
to the river road was quite q large
swampy place covered with tt.maracks
which was called the Tamarack
Swamp. All OF the t~ces have been
gone for years and / think the land is
now dry FL for ought | know bare;
Isnt then in the early spring tfeSe
trees. with their bright, green tasseis,
were very pretty.
This ridge, Of which Hampton
Heights formed a corner extended to
the south along the west side OF the
river road for some distance, and west
along the south side Of the NarroWs
Creek road through the Narrows Creek
narrows and is part Of the rugged
aeauty Of the Alderman scenery. On
the top Of the ridge is extensive farm
ing land of very good quality, | be-
bisVS
Just within the southern opening
OF The river rarrOws and close at the
base OF the west bluff. was the
beautiful Boiling Spring. whose clear,
cold water boiled up through the white
sand in the bottom of a great natural
Kettle, with the lower side partly
broken out. The little stream it made
lowed out through the broken side.
and with the ferns and MOSES about
it's edge and sides it was indeed beau
tiful. [ used to love to watch the
water boil up, smooth out and then
boil up again sometimes in one place
and then in another. | believe the
company that works the quarry there
now has preserved this spring, and
think | have heard that a house has
been built over it. 1t can hardly be as
beautiful now as it was then, however,
for the surroundings have been spoiled
as far as beauty goes
There used to be another boiling
spring at the foot Of the east bluff,
Just across from the one l have de-
scribed, but it never was as fine and
it may not be there at all now.
Hog and Dog at Large
Among the animals belonging to the
mill and its owners and running at
large wherever they 'willed was a
savage old hog. a good deal, l should
Judge, like the razorbacks Of the south.
This hog had a habit of going for any
body when it chose and chasing them
off of the premises. There used to be
d story which was told to me by some
one up there, that this hog went after
Col Ableman once and chased him into
the old covered bridge, where he had
to climb up on the inside and yell for
someone to come and drive it off.
When you think that Col. Ableman
was very tall and broad shouldered
and weighed at least three hundred
twelve pounds, you will realize that
that chase was something to see.
Later, there was little dog named
Pincher, belonging to someone about
there. who went with lot of us young
people one evening to a singing school
which a man by the name of Abbott
was trying to start in Alderman. He
was an elderly man and rather pomp-
Gus. | don't know whether he was any