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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1898)
I T70 lTT Mil UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. Vol. XXVII. LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 11, 18SI8. No. Ill . . i Fooled. L was comin from the cow lot. AVith my milk pails splashin' foam: Stopped awhile outside the -winder An I knowed some comp'ny'd come Fer I h eared my Mandy tellm Em V make theirselves t' home. I jest shivered down my spinal And I struck it mighty straight, AVith my milk, back to that cowlot. If there's anything I hate An despise I think its company As comes right in on ye late. Cause ye're alius tired an' sleepy A:n' the lamps aint never lit An' ye jist go in an' smile like. An' ye sit an' sit an sit, An' ye talk about the weather An' 'bout when the drouth'll quit. So that night 1 chawed a splinter Sittin' on the barnyard gate An I vowed I'd sit it out there; AVateh the moon come up, an' wait 'Till the comp'ny'd went; till midnight. Anyhow till mighty late. An' the moon come up, 1 wriggled, Would that company never go? Finally I crept up soft like T' the winder bendin' low There wa'n't no one there but Mandy An' the baby rockin' slow. Then I felt so kinder sheepish An' I guess a little mad; Though, I must say, fer a minute I was inore'n half way glad. They had been a playin' visit: Mandy an1 the baby had. Ajwjk PltKY. red and yellow and white gables, for the sides of the houses are concealed by trees which are beginning to brighten up a little with the frost. Here and there a church spire shoote up out of the monotonous masses of houses, and you can count several great brick school houses with their massive chimneys and wav ing flags. Quite blue in the distance is the dome of the State House. The low level ground before the city is all cut. up into small garden patches, where you can see the whitening vines of the melons among the dying weeds and sometimes the yellow of a half concealed pumpkin strikes your eye. Among some large patches of dark green turnips and red-stemmed beets is a soli tary little house with a dainty cluster of small box-elders on one side that shine so brightly in their new colors that you might almost mistake them for a. big boquet. On the other side is a long line of clothes a big white table-cloth at one end, a tiny red dress at the other, and a whole famiry history between. Not far away is a great heap of straw near which a red cow is switching away the flies, few, but persistent. Near the edge of the garden a little bareheaded boy is struggling manfully to push a wheelbarrow load of pota toes across the xoft ground. .1. It is commonly held that Jtedburg is the best spot in the best state in the union. For who leaves Nebraska except to return? And still more certainly a person who has once lived in Bedburg is sure to die there. Did not Frank Smith become ambitious and move over the river to learn the druggist's trade, and was he not living now in the slab slianty under the bluif? Did not Dick St. Cyr come back from Arkansas minus an eye and Lincoln From tlie Kride, with a gimt whitening scar on heek where whiskers did not grow? Old Sqmre Thomas, You do not have to look far to see the city, once the rich man of the precinct, after four which appears like a thickly covered iield of years of speculation in Sioux City had re- CamerasDry Platen Filmtt Cards Printing Paper at LINCOLN PHOTO SUPJPLX CO. 181 Bo 11th street.