The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-10-02
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From the Pdrior Caskrt.
AUNT HANNAH TRRES EVENING TALES.
DY CLARA AUGUSTA.

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husband aint been dead more'n tcw years
last September, and she a-goin to marry
ag,n! All, me ah, me !-how fast this
world Is a-goin to rack and ruin The
folks in it grow shaIcrer and shallercr
every day, and shouldn't bo mite sur
prised to hear that something had happened
emmy time.
81 alters did like Jeruslna-allcrs thought
she was nice gal, and made poor ToJasco
Turner a good wife, but there the heart
is desatefu thing. and like as not she
warnt no better than alters thought she
was! But I'll wait dcsunt time, know
MS Mr.. Crander Pope scz, till the shoes I
foIlcred my poor deceased partner 10 the
grave with was wore to tappin, if they
warn't clean gone! I ain't sar,in tlla.
sllus git notation from poetry right, but
ennyhow, I get the half of it.
90, Clara, tell you, these young Wild
tlsrs is orful critters; | wouldn't advise
you 10 be ono il you can help il-f,r
you'll sar,iuly he j.st like all the rest Of
Jim!
Now, though do say it, that ha,ln't ort
to flalteratc, do think that I've pro'luctcd
myself will, the gratest notoriety sense Mi
cajah (poor, dear cri'tcr!) left ne alone in
this vale Of tears! It's a CRATE thing, child,
to l,cv clear conslInns! \ blessed thing
to so to bed at night ais, feel peaceful and
good naturcd with everybody Q'ed-buSs
and miskcc;crs axccpled and slrcpiy into
the bargain O, YES it's booi!uI fecin,
specially if its cold night. and there's
blankets enough on tie bci!
Now, if should tell you little lit of
story about what happened TO me sense
I've been 4 poor solicitous willcr woman.
you'll keep still about it, won't YOU! You
know sieli thugs makes an orful talk with
some folks, and if there's anything I
Especially hate, it's Lcin IL project Of con-
trarity.
"About year and few months artcr
your uncle Micajah died, there was Il rich
old bachelor cum here 10 Timlcrowu, and
sot up Il mannerfactory-,l, is to say, he
shod horses and oxen, and fixed chains, aud
ironed wheels, and sleds, ami fixed thing,
that got broke.
swell, one mornin got up airy, aud
went about breakfast, and got into kinder
hurry and dropped the tca-kctlle kiver on
the hartl' and broke OF the ring! don't
know how m;,ny times burnt my hands
with the torncnted thing arter that, aud
Mt last I got ravin, and sez l to Cicero,
scz L
Cicero, if you don't kerry this kivcr to
the blacksmith and get it mendcl, l will y
"' Well scz Cicero, | guess you'll l,cv
to 60 yourself-I want to open them hay
heaps down in the mcd,ler this forenoon,
and can't bother with no tea-ki,tlc kivcr,.'
and off Cicero went a-whistlin.
add you ever mind what f.ller Cicero
is to whistle! He's wlistcd so much that
his mouth looks for ;ll the world les. like
a"idcr tunnel: I've tried TO persuade lin
to tie Il handkerchief over it nights, when
he goes TO bed, for I'm acilly afeard that
If it keeps OH pertuding. It'll pcrtude itself
into some forrcn place, aud leaye Cicero
here; and if it should, massy knows
whether lie could stummucli forcncrs' Wit
ties! But Cicero wont tic on the hand
kercher-he's orful contrary nowadays
Sometimes I think he's got the spcpsy in
his brain, or the contagion OF the limbs, OF
somethin or ruther, hes so cross.
"Well, that mornin arter Cicero had
gone to the medder, I went and put OH my
best black silk gown (stop laflin) and new
Grape bonnit, and my chanticlcer over my
shoulders, and the kivcr rite in my hand
and started for the iron manncrfactory.
"Mr. Blackstcd was to l,um, and he
peared powerful glad to see me, and asked
me to set down on a nail kag and wait til
He'd mended it, but told linn couldn't
and he said he'd bring it up to GURUS tla
night.
{" was very much delighted with Mr.
Rlackstcd, and determined, if lie come II,
with the kiver, to give him good, strong
cup of my best green tea. Yer cuzzi,
Mary, was here, and you know what wild
rude crittcr she is; well, she sed that if sb
was in my place, she'd build up fire il
the fore room, and intertain him in there
Jest 10 please her, did, and hadn't got
fairly done, when in cum Mr.. Blackste
with the kiver in Ibis pocket. Mary 81,
went to the door, and paraded ll.n in til
ore4room, and made him sit down in Ill
gfsstsarm.chair, Cicero made it out of a
old barely and gin him cricket to SGT Il
feet on.
I'VE drinked tea. and Mr.. Rlackste
stayed sfu.l three hours, and We had nil
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