Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-09-22

to the house warming. The people
were In their best clothes. The women
wore dresses Of new calicO-save Mrs.
Doctor Allen. who wore a black silk
dress which had come with her from
her late home in Lexington. BIN
Kelso came in dress of red muslin
| trimmed with white lace. Ann Rut-
| ledge also wore red dress and came
with Abe. The latter was Father
grotesque in his new linsey trousers,
Of better length than the former
pair, but still too short.
/ 1T isn't fair to blame the trousers
! or the tailor" he had said when he
| had tried them on. "My legs are, so
long that the imagination of the tailor
Is sure to fall short IL the cloth don't.
Next time I'll have 'em made to meas
ure with ten-foot pole instead Of q
| yardstick. If they're too long can
roll 'em up and let out link or two
when they shrink. Ever since was
boy have been troubled with shrink
ing pants"
Abe wore blue swallow-tail coat
with brass buttons, the tails Of which
were so short as to be well above the
danger Of pressure when he sat down.
His cowhide shoes had been we'll
blackened; the blue yarn of his socks
showed above them. "These darnetl
socks Of mine are rather proud and
conceited," he used to say. "They
like to show off,"
He wore a shirt Of white, I'M
bleached cotton, starched collar and
black tie. -
In speaking Of his collar to Samson;
he said that he felt like wild horse
in box stall.
Mentor Graham, the schoolmaster,
was there-a smooth-faced man with
a large head, sandy hair and a small
mustache, who spoke by note, as it
were. Kelso called him the great
articulator and said that he walked
In the valley of the shadow of Lindley
Murray. He seemed to keep watch
full eye on his words. as If they were
lot Of schoolboys not to be trusted.
They came out with kind of self
conscious rectitude.
The children's games had begun
and the little house rang with their
songs and laughter, while their elders
sat by the fire and along the walls
talking. Ann Rutledge and BIN Kelso
and Harry Needles and John Mcneil
played with them. In one of the
dances all Joined in singing the
verses:
I won't have none O. yer weevily wheat
won't have none O. yer barley:
l won't have none O. yer weevily wheat
To make cake for Charley.
Charley is fine young man.
Charley is a dandy.
Charley likes to kiss the girls,
Whenever it comes handy.
When victim was caught in the
flying scrlmmage at the end Of pas
sage in the game Of Prisoners, he or
she was brought before the blind.
folded Judge:
Heavy, heavy hangs over your
head" said the constable.
Zine or superfine?" the judge In.
quired.
Fine" said the constable, which
meant that the victim was a boy.
Then the sentence was pronounced
and generally it was this:
Go bow to the wittiest, kneel to
the prettiest and kiss the one that you
love best"
Harry was the first prisoner. He
went straight to BIN Kelso and bowed
and knelt, and when he had risen she
turned and ran like scared deer
around the chairs and the crowd of
onlookers, some assisting and some
checking her flight, before the nimble
youth. Hard pressed, she ran out of
the open door, with merry laugh,
and just beyond the steps Harry
caught and kissed her, and her cheeks
had the color Of roses when he led
her back.
John Mcneil kissed Ann Rutledge
that evening and was most attentive
to her, and the women were saying
that the two had fallen in love with
each other.
"see how she looks at him." one of
them whispered.
swell. It's just the way he looks at
her." the other answered.
At the first pause III the merriment
Kelso stood on chair, and then ST.
lence fell upon the little company.
my good neighbors," he began, I'VE
are here to rejoice that new friends
have come to us and that a new home
IL born In our midst. We bid them
welcome. They are big-boned, big
hearted folks. No man has grown
large who has not at one time or an
other had his feet in the soil and felt
Its magic power going up into his
blood and bone and sinew. Here is a
wonderful soil and the inspiration Of
wide horizons; here are broad and fer
tile fields. Where the corn grows
high you can grow statesmen. 1t may
be that out Of one Of these little cab
ms man will come to carry the torch
of Liberty and Justice SO high that
its light will shine into every dark
place. So let no one 'despise the cabin