Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-10

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ed to speak tew me-and so it went on for tew
hull months. All the Majors begun to talk a
bout Josar Canoot and me--and Star himself
was teazin on me to know whether hadent
considered eny most long enouCb--and what to
dew dldent know. | was nigh upon crazy
my health faiIed--I hadent no appetite, nor no
spirits. Yer gram'ther was awful Uneasy "a
bout me. You see was all the darter she had
left to hum. Yer mar was married and gone,
and yer aunt Bedott Gas married and gone tew.
Wei, got to be miserable critter. One ey-
eDung, arter supper, was IN a dretful state o
mind. | knowd Star was a comm that night to
git his anser, and wanted to git rid on him.
So huv on my things and slipt out and went
to sisters Bedott's. She lived to the upper eend
othe village. Well, found yer aunt Bedott
{, hum alone. Yer uncle Hez want in--gone
to some meetn or other--and Kiar, (he Was
baby then,l he was asleep in tine cradle. SIN
glad you've crm,' says she, ''for I'm awful lon
esome. Hez has gun off somewher--1ear knows
wher: It's amazin how any man can be willin to
leave his pardner alone as much as he does.-
Fm clear out o patience with tiff it hadent a
ben for that fambergasted young ones havin
the snuffles, I'd went off solnewher myself"
Eyer aunt Bddott's q nice woman, but she was
always an awful grumbler-they der say she
she went on, scoldin and frettin, and tellin her
troubles and trials, for ever so long: at las |
broke in, and says ], 80 Silly don't GO On so
you don't know what trouble is" | said 1t
in kind O way that startled her, and says she
'Melssy, what dew you mean p bust out a
erwin. Yer aunt huv down her kitten work
and come up tew me, and says she, 'Melissey
Poole what is the matter e. | kept on cryin
and dident anser. At last says she, Dew tell
what als YOU, Melissey dew--taint nothin a.
bout Joshaway Magwire, hope. | wouldent
fret my gizzard for him. there's as good fishes
in the sea as any t ever was ketcht yit."--
Well, arter spell thinks mel may as well
tell her. So ,elled her the hull from begin
ming to eend--how nigh yer uncle come to pop
pin the queston--what said to Hammer Can
oot--how she provoked me to say it-how on
doubtedly she'd told Joshway on't--dnd all how
and about 1t. Well, at fust yer aunt blowed
me up sky high, for maxim such an unprudent
speech, [she was unprudent enough herself, but
she hadent no patience with anybody else for
bein so. "Whats said can't be onsaid-the
only way to mend the mschiefis for Joshaway
and you TO git together and make it up some
how .:But how can we git together, says L:
81 can't 90 to see him, and he don't never come
to see me no MORE" AFTER thnkin a spell,
says Sily,says she (Silly was always cunnn
crltter,) "fve got it now: you jest stay here and
see to the baby,and I'll run into the wilder Mag
wire good while sence Eve been there.
hum it'll be awful dark, and Joshavay he'll
come with me-he's did it several tmes--he's
wonderful perIite and when we git to the door
III ak him to come in and see husband. Hez
won't be to hum faint likely--but Josh won't
know but what he is.-and when he once gifts
in, I'll bet forty gret apples you and he'll make
it all straight purity soCn." go, Silly" says ]
''that's real good idee-but YOU mustent let
him know I'm here, cause if you dew he wont
come in 81 won't, sartin sure" says she.-
So she put on her things and off she went, and
| sot down the back side o the room and be-
gun a contriven what should say to yer uncle
o, Nancy! yo've no ldee what state of pertur-
baton | was In--oDe minute was afeard |
shouldn't say nothn to no purpose--and the
next mint was env most sure O gittin Josh
way back agin. Well, sister Bedott was gone
hull hour. You see Joshaway want to hum
when she went, and so she stayed till he come.
1t did seem to me asif she was gone year. AT
last heerd Elm comm. They got to the door
and says yer uncle, says he, STOOD night" so,
you come in dew says yer aunt Silley, says
she: "Mr. Bedott wants 10 see YOU amazinlv
SWELL SAYS he, '1'l step in mint" So in
they come. ''Whv," saws sister Bedott, saws
she,T wonder where husband is? you set down
by the fire and I'll go call him--he can't be fur
of, I'm sure: he wouldn't 90 off AMI leave the
baby alone" So he sot down with his hack
to me-H was settin where he dident see me-
and she went off into tother room and shot the
door. Gracious sakes alive Inever in nv
hull life experienced such feelns as did that
minit-and never shalt agin if | 1--we a thou
sand year. ltsem'd as if my heart would jump
right out my mouth. AFTER mint or sol
hdm'd-yer uncle he started and lookt round
and when he see me he riz up and made for the
door. Thinks me, I've lost him now sartain
sure. Jest as he got his hand on the latch,sa
|, "Mr Magwire ~ He stopt and lookt ronnd
at me, and says he, 'sDid you speak to me, Miss
Poole % "Yes, says |. ''What did you want p
SAYS he:--he spoke so cold and onconsarned
felt clear dIscurridged, and | jest bust right
out cryin. So then he comes up to me, and
says he, .'Melssy r. Says |, ''Joshaway, what
makes you so cold and distant to me lately r.
Says he, ''You're engaged, amt you Melissy r
Says |, 'No, | aint--no such thing Ar
ter mint he SAYS, says he, "What made you
say you wouldent wipe yer old shoes OH me ~
''Cause | ,coutdeaf' says !, sand Their amt but
one Teller in the town woutd sarve such mean
trick,dhu that 5 Slar Canoot--Ie jest III 10 wipe
old shoes on" Now Nancy what do you spoze
yer uncle done then Why he huv his arms
round my neck, and gin me such thnnderin
smack as | never got afore nor since. go, Mil
issy,' says he swell be married arter all the
fuss-won't we p 81 shouldn't wonder, SAYS
|. And VIC ,cas married in less than month
and haint never had no 'casion to repent--for
he's made me fnst rate husband; but only think
how nigh come to loosin on him Jest for speak
In as | did to Hammer Canoot. She haint new
er ben nigh me since ! was married-and as
for Star, he was as mad as the Dragon
-s-.s,- t-z FRANK.
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