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Paw catches a trout sometimes on the cane pole that hangs alongside the car; not always, but sometimes, he catches one. And Maw, once she had conquered the notion that you ought to skin a trout the way you do a bullhead back in Ioway, took to cooking trout naturally; and her trout, with pancakes and sirup, to my notion beat anything the hotel chef in the best hotel can do.
One of them had passed a short time among the Mormons, at Nauvoo, and had many amusing stories to tell of them. One I select among many, which is the failure of an intended miracle by Joe Smith. Towards the close of a fine summer's day, a farmer of Ioway found a respectable-looking man at his gate, who requested permission to pass the night under his roof.
He here paused, and looking sternly down the room, to where two Sauks sat, pointed his finger at them and said, "The Sauk, who always tells lie of me, goes to my white brother and says the Ioway has killed your cattle. We come from our huts unarmed even without our blankets and yet, while I shake hands with my white brother, he shoots me down my best chief.
Some of them lower Ioway men, them that first nominated you in the train meeting town meeting what you call it, they seen where you'd been plowing along here just to keep your hand in. One of them says to me, 'Plowing, hey? Can't wait? Well, that's what we're going out for, ain't it to plow? says he. 'That's the clean quill, says he. So they 'lected you, Jesse.
I declare, I can't hardly get used to bears. There ain't none in Ioway. But if Eymogene gets into my bed again tonight I declare I'll bust her on the snoot, no matter what the park regulations is. People has got to sleep. Not that you girls seem to be troubled about sleeping. Where were you going?"
We've even got them in Ioway, where the hills is rough. "Set down on the log here," said Maw, "and rest yourself, and I'll build up the fire. Ain't it fine outdoors? I declare, I let out my corsets four inches above and below, I breathe that much deeper here in the mountains; and the air makes you feel so fine. What was I saying? oh, about my knitting.
Why, they ain't a harder-workin' woman in the hull State of Ioway than she is" "Except Marm Councill." "Except nobody. Look at her, jest skin and bones." Councill chuckled in his vast way. "That's so, mother; measured in that way, she leads over you. You git fat on it." She smiled a little, her indignation oozing away. She never "could stay mad," her children were accustomed to tell her.
The Oasis stands over by the highway, alongside Casey's garage, and the proprietor spends nine tenths of his waking hours sitting on the front porch and following the strip of shade from the west end to the east end, and in watching the trains go by, and counting the cars of tourists and remarking upon the State license plate. "There's an outfit from Ioway, maw," he will call in to his wife.
"Well, we told the committee that we came through Ioway, and that to Ioway we must go; so they rather let up on us, and set us ashore just opposite Wyandotte.
You two ought to git together you'd sure make a pair to draw to." "Wouldn't we?" said the stranger, in hearty humor. "What business did you foller back there in Ioway?" inquired the bone man, not much respect in him now for the man he had lifted out of the road. "I was a professional optimist," the traveler replied, grave enough for all save his eyes. The bone man thought it over a spell.
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