The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-12-08
.4.a4s ..as7 sBaEEEEA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER s 1856

AVuht ohu AVnnu ohu fOuuu ioF eVerm0re, AN
never comm to the pint Now there's Mis-
Jinkinss She that was Poll Bingham aror,
she was married, she is the tejuest indiyid
Ooal to tell story thatI ever see in all m,
born days. Bot was gwine to tell you whal
husband said. He says to me, says he, .Sii
~ says | .Whatp ! dident say What, Hez
ekier?' for dident like his name. The
first time L ever heard it nearly killed my.
self latin. 'Hezekier Bedott,' says I, 'wel
! would give up If | had sieh name,' bul
then you know ! had no more idee o. marry.
in the feller than you have this minnit q
marryin' the governor. s'pose you think
it's Gurus we should a named our Oldest son
Hezekier. Well we done it to please faith,
er and mother Bedott, it's father Bedott
name, and he and mother Bedott used 10
think that names had ought to 20 down
from gineration to gineration., But we
always called him Kier, you know. Speak
in'o o. Kier, he Is blessin, amt he! and
| amt the only one that thinks SO. I guess.
Now don't you ever tell anybody that / said
SO, but between you and me /, rather guess
that if Kenzier Winkle thinks she's gwine
to catch Kier Bedott she is leehc out o.
her reckonin.' But was gwine to tell
what husband said. He says to me says he,
"Silly,"I says, ,saysI "Whatw III dident
say "What" when he said "Silly" he'd a
kept on .sa, in" "Silly" from time to eternl-
ty. He always did, because you know, he
wanted me to pay pertikkler attention. and
1 GENERALLY did; no woman was ever more
attentive to her husband than wha. was
Well, says he to me, says he, "Silly."-
Says !, "Whatn' though I'D no idee what
he was gwine to say, dident know but twas
somethin' about his sufferin's, though he
want apt to complain, but he frequently
used to remark that he wouldent wish his
worst enemy to suffer one minnit as he did
all the time, but that can't be called grum.
blin'--think it can! Why, I've seen him
in situations when you ID a thought no NOR
tai could a helped grumblin', but he ddent.
He and me once went in the dead o. winter
in one hoss slay out to Boonville to see
sister o. hisen. You know the snow is a.
mnzin' deep in that section o. the kentry.---
"Well the hoss got stuck in oae o. them
are fambergasted snow banks, and there
we sot enable TO stir, and to cap all, hus-
band was took with dread-crick in his back
Now that was what call a perdicherment,
don't you! Most men would swore, but
husband dident. He only said, says he,
"Consarn it." How did he get out did you
ask! Why he might been sittin' there to
this day fur as 1 know, if there hadent a
happened to come along mess O. men in a
double team and they hysted us out. But
was gwihe to tell you that observation O.
hisen. Says he to me, says he, "Silly,"Q Il
could see by the light o. the fire, there did
ent happen to be no candle burnin', i'll
don't disremember, though my memory is
sometimes rather forgitful. but know we
want apt to burn candles exceptin' when
we had company I could see by the Light
OF the fire that his mind was uncommon SOL
emnized. Says he TO me, says he, "silly,"|
l says to hiEa, says I, ,"What!" He says to
me, says he, "We're all poor critters" ~.