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Title: S.D. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Butcher, Solomon D. (Solomon Devore), 1856-1927
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Broken Bow, Neb. : (Merchants Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ht. Thin, all of a sudden, phwat do ye think happened,colonel? I do not know, retorts the colonel, excitedly, unless he turned and ran.Divil the bit did he do annything of the koind. Aunt Sarah dippedthe caudle forwards and burned his nose. Thin the circus comminces. Hesphrings backwards, ivery hair on his mane little carcass sthandiu toward hishead. He sthands on his hind legs and scratches his burned nose wid hispaws. Aunt Sarah chuckles maliciously, as she again approaches wid thecandle extinded in front of her. She hisses through her clenched teeth: Yellfoind me roight here to sthay, Mr. Polecat, if ye dont climb that boord.She warms up to her work and again burns his nose, when he again goesthrough the schratchin process and retreats around the cellar. Another hourpasses. Sthill Aunt Sarah follows her victim, burnin his nose whiniver theopportunity offers, determined to drive him from the camp. Sometoimes hewould walk up the board nearly to the top, thin jump off, the rascal, but
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AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 271 oftener he would pretend not to see it, and go iindher it. Aunt Sarah getsbouldher as toime goes by. She crowds the inimy into close quarthers andburns his nose toime aftlier toime, till she makes it too hot for him and hecan sthand it no longer, wid the hair and skin literally burned off his pate.He mounted the boord and fled out in the darkness, wid Aunt Sarah aftherhim wid the pitchfork. But he was too shwift and escaped, just as the clocksthruck twelve, bein just four hours since Aunt Sarah discovered the thafein the cellar. And, sthrange to say, there was no damage done except to thepolecat. An phwat do ye think o that, colonel?Whv, I should think it trulv wonderful. QlaUaraau. George B. Mair. I have been asked to write a history of Callawaj for Butchers PioneerHistory of Custer County. I find, upon investigation, that most of those whowere here in the beginning and who took an active part in the organizationof the town have remov

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