The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1851-11-13


| Opposed to MatrimOny.
'Is your family opposed to matrimony ?"
oval, no rather guess not, seein' as how
my mother has had four husbands, an stands
pretty smar; chance for havin' another
-Four husbands? Is it possible?"
80, yes. You see my mothers ehristened
name was Aehitabie Sheets, an dads name was
Jacob Press an when they got married the
printers said it was putin the sheets TO press
When was born the printers said was the
first edition. An you see mother used to be the
tarnelest critter to go to evenin' meetin's.- She
used to go out pretty late every night, an dad
was afraid l would get in the same habit, SO he
! used to put me to bed at early candle-light,
cover me up with pillar, and put me to sleep
with boot,jack. Wal, dad had to get up every
night an let mother in; if he didn't get down
and open the door pretty darn quick when she
cum, led ketch particular thunder; so dad used
to sleep with his head out Of the winder, as
to wake up quick, an one night he got his head
| little too far out and he slipped out altogether,
and down dad cum, cafiumux, right down on
the pavement an smashed him in ten thousand
pieces
"Wlat! was he killed by the fal.'' A
"Wd, no. not exactly by the fall / rather
kinder sorter guess as how it was the sudden
fetch up on the pavement that killed him. But
nam, she cum hum, and found him lyin' thar,
and she had him swept up together, an put him
in a cdfin, an had hole Dug in the buryin'
ground, an lad dad put in, an buried up, and
had a white oak plank put to his head, an had
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/ a"Soyour mother was left poor lone widow? ?"
/ sWal, yes;z she didn't mind that much;
'twasn't long before she married Sam Hide ,
You see she married Hide because he was just
/ dads size and she wanted him to wear out dads
! clothes. Wal, the way old Hide used to hide
me was a caution to my hide. Hide had little
the toughest hide of any hide except bulls
hide and the way Hide use to hide away liquor
| in his hide was caution to bulls hide. Wal,
| one cold day old Hide got his hide so full o
whiskey that he pitched head first into snow
bank, and there he stuck and friz to death. So
! man had him pulled out, an had him laid out,
an then she had another buryin, an then she
had another white oak plank put up at his head,
an white washed all over an - f--
$50 your mother was again widow ="
go, yes; but guess she didn't lay awake
long to think about it, for in about three weeks
I she married John Strong-an' he was the strong
est-headed cuss you ever did. He went a-hsh-
in the other day, and got drowned, and he was
so tarnal strong headed, III be darned to darna-
ton if he didn't float right again the current, an
they found him about three railes up the stream
an it took three yoke of oxen to haul him out
I Wal, mann had him buried alongside of tother
| two, an had q white oak plank put up at his
head, an white-Mashed all over nice, so that
| there's three iem all in arrow"
sand your mother was widow for the third
| time. -gHa =H a9e st.'-aea 5.1 f eiEsia-
"Yes, but mann didn't seem to mind it tar
nal sight The next fellow she married was ia
cob Hayes, and the way mann does make him
haze is a caution, now | tell you. If he does
anything q leetle out of the way, man makes
him take bucket an rwhite-wash brush, an go
right up to the buryin' ground and white-wash
| the three old planks, just to let him know what
he may come to when she's planted him in the
same row, an got married 10 her fifth husband
So you see our family arn't a tarnal sight op-
posed to matrimony."'
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