. The uplift [serial] . : ! SCHOOL —— MAP OF WILSON COUNTY. 18 the uplift- GRANDFATHER MARSHS STORIES. Bears? said GrandfatherMarsh, in reply to my question,—Ihad just come to board at the com-fortable old Marsh homestead andteach the rural school here? Bless you, no! Norhasnt been for years and there used to be, when we firstlived here, and a pesky nuisancethey was too, often carrying offlittle pigs and lambs, breaking downthe corn rows to eat the young corn,and wallowing down the grain andstripping the heads from it. At thattime all this part of Wisconsin waspr
. The uplift [serial] . : ! SCHOOL —— MAP OF WILSON COUNTY. 18 the uplift- GRANDFATHER MARSHS STORIES. Bears? said GrandfatherMarsh, in reply to my question,—Ihad just come to board at the com-fortable old Marsh homestead andteach the rural school here? Bless you, no! Norhasnt been for years and there used to be, when we firstlived here, and a pesky nuisancethey was too, often carrying offlittle pigs and lambs, breaking downthe corn rows to eat the young corn,and wallowing down the grain andstripping the heads from it. At thattime all this part of Wisconsin waspretty much a wilderness; there wassettlements here V there, in phuieof the many towns there is now,—miles and miles apart, mostly,—and instead of fine up-to-date farmbuildings and smooth fields stretch-ing away, thick, just s far as youreyes can reach, it was log buildingsset in the middle of a stumpy clear-ing, with the heavy woods round itall. The roads wasnt what theyare these days, I tell ye! Mostly jestrough trails cut through the
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