The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1855-12-01

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never shall forget the longest day 1 live. lie
says to me one winter ,evenin' as We was o set
tin, by the fire, Twas q fknittin' q was always
a wonderful great knitter) and be was q smokin'
The was a master hand to smoke, though the
ldoctor. used. to, tell him he'd be better off to let
tobacker alone; when he was well, used to take
ibis pipe and smoke q spell after he'd got the
chores done up, and when he want, well, used
ito smoke the biggest part O the time). Well
he took his pipe out of his mouth and turned to.
ward me, and / knowed something was. comm,
for he had a pertikkelrr way Of lookin' round
when he was gwine to say anything uncommon.
We'll, he says to me, says he. "Silly," my
name was Prissilly materially, but he ginerally
called me "Silly," cause twas handler, you
know), Well, he says to me, says he, "iSilIy,N
and he looked pretty sollem, I tell You, he had a
sollem countenance naterally-and after he got
to be deacon twas more so, but since he'd lost
his health he looked sollemer than ever, and
certainly you wouldent wonder at it if you
knowed how much he underwent. He was
troubled with o wonderful pain in his chest,
and amazin' weakness in the spine Of his back,
besides the pleurissy in his side, and having the
ager q considerable part Of the time, and being
broke Of his rest O. nights cause be was SO put
to t for breath when he laid down.
Why its an onaccountable fact that when
that mar died he hadent seen a well day in fiji
teen year, though when he was married and for
five or six years after I shouldn't desire to see
a ruggender man than what he was. But the
time I'm speakin' of he'd been out o. health
nigh upon ten year, and o dear sakes! how he
had altered since the first time 1 ever see him
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spell afore Sally was married. I'd no idea then
that Sal Smith was agwine to be .married to
Sam Pendergrass. She'd ben keepin' company
with Nose Hewitt for better'n a year, and
every body said that was q settled thing, and
10 and behold all of a sudding she up and took
Sam Pendergrass. Well, that was the first
time l ever see my husband, and if any body'd
"a told me then that I should ever marry him, !
should a said--but lawful sakes !! most forgot, I
was gwine to tell you what he said to me that
evenin', and when a body begins to tell a thing
| believe in fnishin' ont some time or other.
Some folks have q way Of talkin' round and
round and round for evermore, and never comm
to the pint. Now there's Miss Jinkins, she
that was Poll Bingham afore she was maeried,
she is the ~tejusest indiyidooal to tell a story
that ever ! see in all my horn days. But /
was a gwine to tell you what husband said.
He says to me says he, "Silly," says I
WHAT" 1 dident say /" What, Hezekier :"
for / dident like his name. The first time I
ever heard it I near killed myself a LATIN.
"Hezekier Bedott," says, " well I would give
up if l had SIGH a name" but then you know I
had no more idee o. marry'n' the teller than YOU
have this minnit O. marryin' the Governor. 1
s'pose you think it's Gurus we should a named
our Oldest son Hezekier. +
Well, we done it to please father and mother
Bedott, it's father Bedott's name and he and
mother Bedott both used to think that names
ought to go down from gineration to ginera-
know. Speaking O. Kier, is a blessin', amt
he? and ! amt the only one that thinks so, I
guess. Now don't you never tell nobody that
l said so, but, between you and me, l rather
guess that if kezier Wrinkle thinks she is a
gwine to ketch Kier Bedott, she is a leetle out
Of her reckonin'. But I was going to tell what
husband said. Hesays to me, says he, "Sily,n
l says, says I, "What?" If 1 didn't saw
:" what" when he said Silly" he'd a kept on
sayin', Silly . from time to eternity. He al
ways did, because, you know, he wanted me to
pay pertikkeler attention, and I ginerally did +;
no woman was ever more attentive to her hus-
band than what I was. Well, he says to me,
says he, +" Silly" Says l /" What ~ though
I'd no idee what he was gwine to say, didn't
know but what twas something about his suf-
FERNS, though he want apt to complain, but
he frequently used to remark that he wouldn't
wish his worst enemy to suffer one miput as he
did all the time, but that can't be called prum-
blin'-think it can?
Why, I've seen him in situations when you'd
a thought no mortal could a helped grumblin',
but he dident. He and me went once in the
dead o. winter in q one-horse slay out to Boon
vile to see a sister O. hisen. You know the
snow. is amazin' deep in that section O. the
kentry. Well, the boss got stuck in one O.
them are aambergasted snowbanks, and there
we sot enable to stir, and to cap all, while we
was a sittin' there husband was took with a
dreadful crick in his back. Now that was
what l call a pradicherment, don't Won? Most
men would a swore, but husband dident. He
only said. says he, " eonsarn it." How did he
get out, did you ask? Why he might a been
sittin' there to this day fur as I know, if there
hadent q happened to come aleng a mess O.
men in q double team and they hysted us out,
But was gwine to tell you that observation
O. hisen. Says he to me-, says he, "Silly," q
could see by the light o. the fire, there dident
happen to be no candle burnin', if l don't dis
remember, though my memory is sometimes
ruther forgetful, but I know we want ant to
burn candles, exceptin' when we had company,
| could see by the light of the fire that his
mind was uncommon solemnized. Says he to
me, says he, "Silly." l says to him, saws I,
" Mhat?" He says to me, says he, " We're
all poor critters!"