Show AWFUL IO A Tumble Calamity N Happen aRR 3 n at Ramse Smi Smileys Smiley's eys ey's Barn Bam Hai Raisin sin Which hick Was a Hard Blow to all the Barn Raisers Present Who Vho ho Went Home in Disgust Horrible Disgust I Horrible Details Below Berow I r Ramson Smile Smiley had a barn raisin la last t week has been talking about having ing a barn raisin ever er sh shut t two years ago bein being as he hc said he was a 1 going to bild bud a new barn whereas the theold theold old one was all tumbled down own and not fit tit to use no more so 50 last spring Ramse Rame log logged ed lumber often offen his bis wood lot lotto lotto lotto to bild the barn with and had it sawed saverI at Snake Bend and the lumber to the barn site where Lcm lem Brown our expert carpenter has h hen been en working on the timbers and uprights getting gettin same rea read ready to be lie raised and put into place which he e c done last week weck and so he give i e out notice that the WP line raisin be bl held on la last t Thursday rum anti h he would be much obliged to his nabers if the would come and help him hint with the job I Ramse amse also let Jet it be knowd kno that he would have ha a 15 gal keg of hard cider which was made this fall two t years ago ogo I O on tap at the barn raisin from which all who was thirst thirsty might drink freel freely Soon as this news of the hard cider was whispered around our most citizens of me Bingville and I I couldn't trait ait ait until the theda da day of the thc raisin and when Thursday arr arrived the men folks begin to arrive at Ramses Ramse's not long after daylight and and where the old 2 hard cider was being as the they didn't see sec it on tap tapas tapas tapas as Ramse said it was to be Ramse he lie told the early arrivals arri that he didn't think it would be advisable to drink the cider first and then raise the barn timbers afterward and if they would go ahead and put the timbers into place he would then reveal the keg of hard cider to their expectant eyes Well the boys bop present laid holt bolt and the way they lifted them big barn timbers tim tint hers bers into place was a By 9 a. a m. m they ther had the barn timbers half raised and being as it was a party purt hot da day clay and the thc fellers had worked so hard and faithful Ramse thod it would be beas beas beas as little as h he could do to let Id them knock off a 1 few and tap the keg of oi hard cider and give gi each man mana a tin dipperful all around so Ramse he holl hollers rs Hi fellers kin km you knock off work long lone to take a little hard cider If a l person could of saw JW how the men who was raisin the barn timbers tim tim- hers bers responded to this they would of that all hands could knock off all right rh They y whatever whatever what what- ever they the was at like it was a hot and nd all run Ramse Jake Hanover and Bill Williams who was wasat wasat wasat at th that t minnit lugging a heavy floor sleeper the barn harn let goo go of it like it was a red hot iron and it fell and and broke right in two in in the middle Enos I McCracken who tho was standing 10 ft up on a cross timber when Ramse giveout give giveout i e I out the give she a jump into the air and when he lIe struck the ground he strained his ankle so that hes he's lame yet Ramse he led the fellers to the old well back of the old barn where he gits water for his stock in dry weather and the top offen the well and told the fellers that he had put the 15 IS keg of cider into a grain short sack and then tied a rope to the sack and lowered sack and keg into the worter of the well to keep it cool and if the they would kindly take holt bolt of the rope and ald pull on same the keg would rise ric to the thc Soon as said aid this willing hands L halt halt- haltof of Ai ti a in cutna I r I I the k keg g with a 1 rush but alas there was too m many ny hauling on that rope rope alas alas thc they overdone it Jest as the keg eg reached reach reach- ed the brink of the well it seemed to lo loketch ketch for a instant on the eu edge e and Hod Bod Peters and Jim Jones they bent over o and laid holt bolt of it with firm hands Then the fellers on the rope give another heave hea and do dog clog if the rope didn't bust and back into the well went the thc keg of hard cider In falling the keg struck ginst a stone about way half down the thc well and sad to relate one head of the keg was busted in and before could do that old 2 hard cider fell k into the well and become mingled as yo you might say y with cold coM spar sparkling lIn worter Ramse he lie looked as if he lie could be knocked down with a feather As for forthe forthe the rest of the fellers ellers whose mouths was for a drink of that old hard cider it is said that the way they swore and cursed simply bc beggars gars description tion and was Q n shame and a disgrace for to hear After the hard cider had fell back into the well and with the worter them as had been working with sich energy to raise the timbers of the barn marched off home in disgust leaving lea to git sit the rest of his barn tim tint timbers hers bers raised as best he could Only Hank Dewberry De and Bill Dill Hepburn our artis- artis tick blacksmith remained remained and told Ramse thc they would stick to him hint to the bitter end Bill he got a pail and tied a rope rol to it and lowered it into the thc well and up a pail of water and cider and took look a long drink of it and then past the the pail pail to Hank who drunk also But both Bill and Hank Tank was disappointed disappointed the they said that the worter in the well had the cider so much that a 1 person would haft to drink about five times as much as ashe ashe ashe he could hold in order to be all any ally allAnd And so Bill and Hank also toM told R that the they must he be a going and they left him alon alone with his barn half raised Ramse says he lie dont don't know knots what hes he's a going to do to git sit help being as lS ashe ashe he has no more more hard hard cider what's in the well |