Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1891 — IN A QUIET COUNTRY. [ARTICLE]

IN A QUIET COUNTRY.

The Old Farmer Had ••Clean Forfeit to Warn Bill Agin Frauds.” I had been staying at an Indiana farm house all night, and next morning the farmer said he would five me a lift into town. When he was ready to go he called to his oldest boy: • ‘Bill, is that shotgun loaded with salt for tramps?” ' -Yes." ' : ' "Got the gate shut so that no mad does can get in?” “Yes.” * ’Well. * lookout for windmill, — lightning rod. organ and sexing machine men. Don't have any truck with peddlers and poultry buyers. Don’t let tn any patent gate or wire fence men. Keep clear of patent hay forks, and don’t waste no time on churns, force pumps, ice cieam freezers. bag holders, patent barrels, frull trees, wagon jacks nor owl traps.” “No." "And eay, Bill,” called the old man, after we had driven forty or fifty rods; • ‘don’t buy no cure for the heaves, no fireproof paint, no patent gate hinges, pitchforks nor encyclopedias.” "Na” We had driven about three miles when he suddenly pulled up with an exclamation of disgust ••What is it?” "Hang my hide if I didn’t clean forgit to warn Bill agin Bohemian oats, New Zealand clover and them peaky insurance agents! Well, it’s too late now, but I kin git back afore the mob overpowers him."