The Worlds and I (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III The Beginnings Of Success IN my early teens, before the railroad came to Windsor, our post-office was at Westport, five miles distant. Mail came, I believe, only twice a week. My early effusions were posted in that office, and when the men were busy with farm- work I used to go into the pasture, put a bridle and blanket and surcingle on single-pacing Kitty, take a cross-lot ride to: he home of Alice Ellis, whose father had brought her a pony from California, and off we would speed to the Westport p-ost-office. There was great joy of life in those rides, but they were restricted before long, because a Mr. Butt-In from somewhere along the route told a male member of my family that Elly and Ally rode like the very devil and would break their necks if allowed to go on in that way. Soon after this, a post-office was established at Leicester, four miles west of us, and still later at Windsor, three miles east of as, where the railroad had formed the nucleus of a little town. Leicester about the same time became merged into 'A'aunakee, two or three miles to the south, but the same distance from my old home. I believe Waunakee is now quite a thriving town; but even in the early years of my marriage; was so modest in size that it led to a droll sarcasm from the pen of my humorous husband. I was making my second visit to Wisconsin after my marriage. My husband went with me, but left after a few days for the East, on a train passing through Waunakee to Chicago. I wrote him the next eek that a citizen of Waunakee said Mr. Wilcox was the handsomest man he ever saw. To this my Robert replied: Which of the residents of Waunakee was it, my dear? The one who lives in the red house north of the railroad track, or the other one living in the white house south ofthe track? Wi...