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me out, fer Binns he fell out of a tree that he had clum after a possum one day, and when they brought him home, you could hev put him in most any kind of a box fer a coffin, her was so busted up. He had fell upards of sixty feet down into a rock pile."
"And did you marry again?" I asked.
"Yes I did, and I was a fool fer doin' it. The next man I married was Jinkins. He was a purty good man when he was sober, but he warn't that way much of the time. He used to go to the store and stay away all day and spend all his money, and then come home at night drunker'n a lord, and thrash me around the place all night. I didn't mind it much at first; but it got tiresome after a while. I'd tell him I was going to quit him; but, when he got sober, he'd come around and talk so soft to me that I'd give in and promise to stay with him; and the next time he got any money he'd go to the store agin and come back and purty near lick the life out of me. I stood him as long as I could, and was packing up one day to leave, when the kids come running in and said that they had found pap in the woods, all clawed up by a wild cat. He didn't live long. Died before they got him home."
"Who was the next lucky man?"
"The next warn't very lucky. He warnn't as much good as either of the others. He was as lazy as Binns and had all the failin's of Jinkins. He used to go to town and git as drunk as Jinkins did and when he come home I used to thrash him around the place like Jinkins did me.
"It seems to me that would have been more agreeable."
"Well," said she in a thoughtful manner, "it warn't,—much. It was about as hard work fer me as if I was gitting the licking, and then I don't like to be a havin' trouble all the time. Besides, I never did believe in woman's havin' to do a man's work about the place." Then, after a long silence, "No siree. Marryin' aint what its cracked up to be."
ATHLETICS.
Baker next!
The next day, when our party came together around a big wild-cat still, the first men that we captured were Tom and Nate.
Page and Menhe have retired.
Precedent should rule gentlemen.
Dum and Springer will not be back.
Williamson plays full in good style.
Frank Crawford, Ann Arbor'91 is coaching Nebraska.
Piatt, Means and Shellenbarker are still laboring under injuries.
Soon after Champlins arrival the professional team will be chosen.
At Center, both Harvey and Jansen have been showing up well.
A careful diagnosis of last weeks work affords much encouragement.
Washburn will have no foot ball team this year, so her Athletic Association has decided.
Wheeler, Cowman, Shaefor, McMurray and Walker are learning the games and promise much.
Matteson and Coleman are playing splendid tackle, and Griffiths promises to be a very reliable man in this position.
Prentice and Hamill are doing good work as guards. Shorty has improved greatly in breaking through the line, and dropping on the ball.
On account of the weather the tackling machine has not been used, but Professor Shepard promises to wear more than one out before the close of the season.
One marked improvement this year will be in the second eleven. This team will be captained and brought into good shape. Professor Shepard has written for several games.
But one great fault is the irregular attendance of the players, there should never be less than twenty-two men on the field; and last week nearly all the games were played with from sixteen to twenty. Our material is excellent, but nothing can be accomplished except by continual practice. College spirit should remedy this, if nothing else.