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Show HIS PAP HAD A PREMONITION Farmer's Son Explained Why Parent Was Not Surprised When Family Party Arrived. A family of eight, in a large automobile, automo-bile, stopped nt a likely-looking farmhouse farm-house in the northern part of the state recently to get a drink of cold, pure water, which is believed to lurk about farmhouses, explains the Indianapolis News. To his surprise and evident gratification, the driver of the machine found in the farmer an oldtime acquaintance, ac-quaintance, and plans were made immediately im-mediately to pay the farmer's family an Impromptu visit. The automobile was put away in the barn and, after a hustle and bustle, the hard-worked farmer's wife prepared a meal adequate ade-quate for the sudden increase in eaters. eat-ers. After the meal the visiting children, in fact the entire family, made free with the house and premises. The , head of the visiting family noticed the farmer's oldest boy hanging dejectedly dejected-ly about the rear of the house just be-foce be-foce time to do the evening chores. "Well, sonny," said the man, "I guess your father was surprised to see us, wasn't he?" "Wall, I dunno, fer sartin, but I don't think pap was much surprised," answered the boy. "Not surprised- Why, how Is that? He surely didn't know we were coming, com-ing, did he?" "No, I reckon not ; leastways he didn't know it would be you. But pap had been complainin' all morning that he jest knew something was goin' to mappen, 'cause, he said, he felt jest that way the day he got his leg busted." |