Eureka Reporter | 1906-04-27 | Page 4 | Had Several Good Excuses

HAD SEVERAL GOOD dakota man really liable to invite traveler to dinner along about noon as I 1 was riding horseback along a south dakota high way I 1 came upon a settler at his gate and after he had brought boree a pail of water be asked stranger did ou meet a strap ping oung man alth a set jaw be tween here and ellendale yes I 1 believe I 1 did I 1 replied wall that was son jim going to town to marry a woman 12 ears older than he Is durn his hide 1 ut he wouldn t listen to me did you also meet a gal about twenty years old between here and town cn ss eyed and her nose turned upa yep my gal sal chos gone to town to sue a feller tor breach of promise dog her cats but nobody ever asked her to crarry him or ever will I 1 also met a woman about fifty years old I 1 said red hair and freckled facea yes my old woman I 1 told her this morning that it she dian didn t like my ways she corn take the outside of the house and drat her antics it she walk off I 1 was going to as ask you to stop to dinner but as ahinga are as they are I 1 assured him that I 1 gasn wasn t a bit hun gry and that his excuses were all right and lent him a chew of tobacco and left him trying to whistle up his spirits rochester democrat and chro incle