Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-24

when Carol begged. Lets keep up an
outdoor life this winter, let's slide
and skaee.'> Their hearts Shut again
till spring, and the nine. months Of
cuQues and radiators and dainty re-
freshments began all over.
III.
Carol had started salon.
Since Kenntcott, Vida Sherwin, and
Guy Pollock were her only lions, and
since Kennicott would have preferred
Sam Clark to all the poets and d
calls in the entire world, her private
and self-defensive clique did not get
and Guy, on her first wedding an
niversary; and that dinner did not
get beyond d controversy regarding
aymle WutherSpoon yearntngs.
Guy Pollock was the gentlest per-
son she had found here. He spoke
Of her new Jade and cream frock nat
urally, not loosely; he held her chair
for her as they sat1down to dinner;
and he did not, likeAKennicott. inter-
rupt her to shout. oh say, speaking
Of that, I heard q good story today
But. Guy was inenrably hermit. He
sat late and talked hard, and did not
come again.
Then she met Champ Perry in the
postoffice-and decided that in the
history of the pioneers was the pam
acea for Gopher Prairie, for. all Of
ness, she told herself. We mus re-
store the last Of the veterans to pow
err and follow them on the backward
path to the integrity of Lincoln, to
the gaiety of settlers dancing in a
saw-mi1l.
She read tho record Of the Mime
sofa Territorial Pioneers that only
sixty years ago, not so far back as
the birth of her own father. four cab
ms had composed Gopher Prairte.
The log stockade which Mrs. Champ
Perry was to find when she trekked
In was built afterward by the soldiers
as a defense against the Sioux. The
four cabins were Inhabited by Maine
Yankees who had come fup the Mis-.
sissippi to St. Paul snd driven north
owe virgin prairie into virgin woods.
They ground their corn;tthe men
folks hot ducks and pigeons and
pfairie chickens; the new breakings
yielded the turnip-like rutabagas,
which they ate raw and boiled and
baked and raw again. For treat they
had wild plums and crab-apples and
!, tiny wild strawberries.
Grasshoppers came darkening the
sky, and in an hour ate the farm
WNfe's garden and the farmers coat.
Precious horses, painfully brought
from Illinois, were drowned in bogs
or stampeded by the fear of billiards..
Snow blew through the chinks of
new-made cabins, and Eastern chill
dren, with sflowery muslin dresses,
shivered all winter and in summer
were red ana black with mosquito
bites. Indians were. everywhere; they
camped in dooryardst stalked into
Kitchens to demand doughnuts. came
with rifles across their backs into
!. schoolhouses and begged to seea@the
:. pictures in 1.-THE biographies. Packs
of timber wolves freed the children;
. and the settlers found dens OF rattle
snakes, killed fifty, a hundred, in a
{ day.
read e~nviouslY In the admirable Min
[ nesota chronicles called "Old Rail
: Fence Corners, the "Reminiscences of
!. Mrs. Mahlon Black, who settled in
!, Saltwater in I848:
There was nothing to parade over
in those days. We took 1t as it came
| ind had happy lives. We
would all gather together and in
about two minutes would be having
! Ing. . We used to- waltz
. n dance contra dances. None OF
these new figs and not. wear, any
, clothes so speak{of. We p6vered our
! hides in those days: no tight skirts
like now. You could take three or
5 Four steps inside gu. skirts and then
not reach the edge. One OF the boys
i one would spell him and he could
! get a dance. Sometimes they Would
dance and fiddle too
: h reflected II size could not have
bathrooms OF gray and rose and crys.
tai, h wanted to pc swinging across