Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-01-13

flau Irleu 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 a ten-foot pole instead OF
yardstick. If they're too long l 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 n blue sWalloW-tail coat
with brass buttons, the tails OF which
We're so short as to be we'll 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 darned
socks of mine are rather proud and
conceited.' he used to say. They
like TO show off"
He Wore q shirt OF white, ufI-
bleached cotton, starchetl 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
large head, sandy hair and 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 il they were
q lot Of schoolboys not to be trusted.
They came out with a 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 kutledge and BIN Kelso
and Harry Needles and John Mcneil
played with them. In one of the
dances all Joined in singing the
verses:
won't have none O. yer weevily wheat.
l won't have none o. yer barley;
i won't have none o yer wesvily wheat,
70 make a cake for Charley.
Charley is q fine young man,
Charley is q dandy,
Charley likes to kiss the girls,
Whenever it comes handy.
When victim was caught in the
flying scrimmage at the end Of pas
sage I'm the game of Prisoners, he or
she was brought before the bina.
folded judge:
Heavy, heavy hangs over your
head said the constable.
Fine or Superfne?" the judge in
quired.
Fine" said the constable. which
meant that the victim was boy
Then the sentence was pronounced
and generally it was this:
go bow to the wittiest. kiieel to
the prettiest and kiss the one thar YOU
love best"
Harry was the first prisoner. lie
went straight TO BIN Kelso and bowed
and knelt, and when he had risen size
turned and ran like scared deer
around the chairs and the crawd of
oniookers, some assisting and some
checking her flight, before the nimble
youth. Hard pressed, she ran out Of
the open door, with merry laugh,
and jus, 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 Rutiedge
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.
We'll, it's just the way he looks at
her." the other answered.
At the first pause m the merriment
keiso stood on a 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 q new home
is 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 tine or an
other had his feet in the soil and felt
its magic power going up into his
blood and bone and sineT. Here is a
wonderful soil and the inspiration OF
wide horizons; here are bread 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 a man viii come to carry the torch
of Liberty and Justice SO high that
it's light will shine into every dark
place. So let no one despise the cabin
humble as it is. Samson and Sarah
Traylor, | welcome and congratulate
you. Whatever May come, you can
find no better friends than these, and
OF this you may be sure, no child of
the prairies VIII ever 20 about with a
hand organ and monkey. Our friend,
Honest Abe, Is one OF the few rich j
men III this neighborhood. Among his
assets are 'Kirkham's Grammar "rhe
Pilgrims Progress the Lives OF
Washington and Henry Clay, Ham
let's Soliloquy.' '0tbello's Speech to
the Senate Marc Anthony's Address
and q naft of .Wehater'S Raply to