The Georgetown news., 1856-01-03
f5ezckiah Bedott.

He was wonderful hand to moralize,
husband was, specially after he began to
enjoy poor health. He made an Obserya-
ton once when he was in one of his poor
turns, that | shall never forget the longest
day [ live. He says to me one winter ev-
enin as we was sittin by the fire, | was
knittin Il was always a wonderful great
knitter) and he was a smOkin' Che was
master hand to smoke, though the doctor
used to tell him he'd be better off to let
tobacker alone; when he was well he used
to take his pipe and smoke spell after he'd
got the chores done up, and when he want
well, used to smoke the biggest part O the
time) Well, lie took his pipe out of his
mouth and turned toward me, and | know
ed somethin' was comm, for he had a per-
tikeler way of l0okin round when he was
gwine to say anything uncommon. Well,
he says to me, says he, silly" (my name
was Prisiily materially, but he ginerally cal
led me "Silly," cause twas handler, you
know.) Well, he says to me, says he, "Silly,
and he looked pretty sollem, | tell you, be
had sollem cOuntenance nateraliy-and
after he got to be deacon twas more So
but since he'd lost his health he looked sol
lemer than ever, and certainly you wouldn't
wonder at it if you knowed how much he
underwent. He was troubled with won
derful pain in his chest, and amazin' weak
ness in the spine of his back, besides the
pleurisy in his side, and having the ager a
considerable part of the time, and bein'
broke Of his rest O. nights cause he was Sc
put tot for breath when he laid down.
Why its an unaccountable fact that when
that man died he hadent seen a well day il
fifteen years, though when he was married
and for five or six years after, | shouldent
desire to see q ruggeder man than what he
was.
But the time I'm speaking of he'd beer
out O health nigh upon ten years: and G
dear sakes! how he had altered since the
first time | ever see him! That was to 6
quiltin' to Squire Smiths, spell afore Sal
~ vas married. I'd no idea that Sal Smitl
was gwine to be married to Sam Pender
grass She'd been keepin company witt
Nose Hewitt for better'n q year, and ever
body said that was q settled thing, and i
and behold. all of a sudding she up and tool
Sam Pendergrass. Well, that was the frs
time | ever see my husband, and if any
body'd a told me then that | should q saiC
; but lawful sakes! | most forgot, | wa
gwine to tell you what he said to me tha
evenin', and when a body begins to tell
thing, | believe in finishln ont some tim
or other. Some folks have way of talk
in round and round, and round foreve
more, and never coming to the pint. Nov
} there's Miss Jinkins, she was Poll Bingham
afore she was married, she is the tejusses
individooal to tell a story that ever | see
in all my born days. But l was gwine t
: tell you what my husband said. He SAT-
} to me, says he. Silly" says |, "What?
| didn' say "What, Hezekier!" !" for didn'
| like his name. The first time [ ever hear
l it near killed myself lafin' "Hezekie
Bedott," says I, well l would give up if
had such name," but then you know
: had no more idee O marrying the lelle
: than you have this minnit O. marryin' tn
Governor. spose you think it's Gurus W
! should a named our oldest son Hezekier-
2 Well, we done it to please father and dmotl
J er BedOtt, it's father Bedotts name, and h
: and mother Bedott both used to think tha
names had ought to go down from ginera
5 ton to gineration. But we always calle
f, him Kier, you know. Speallin' Of Kier, h
7 is blessn' aint he? and [ aint the onl
person that thinks so. I guess. Now don
: YOU tell nobody that said so, but betwee
, YOU and me rather guess that if Kezie
S Wrinkle thinks she is gwine to ketch Kie
: Bedott she is a leetle out of her reckonin
: But | was gon' to tell what husband sai(
+, He says to me, says he, "Silly," says, say
: I, WHAT" If didn't say "what'' whe
5 he said Silly" he'da kept on sayin' SILLY,
from time to eternity.
He always did, because, you know, b
wanted me to pay pertikkeler attention
him. which / ginerally did; no woman wa
ever more attentive to her husband tha
: what | was Well. he says to me, says he
"Silly," Says |, "What?" though Id d
idea what he was goin' to say; dident know
but what twas sumthin about his suttennS
though he WANT apt to complain, but h
frequently used to remark that he woulden
: wish his wurst enemy to suffer one mint
he did all the time. but that can be calle'
f crumbIin'-think it can? Why, I've seel
: him in sitiyations when you'd thought NJ
: mortal could helpt grumblin' but he dldn I
= He and me went once in the dead OF WIN
=, ter in m a one horse shay to Boonville to SCI
~ sister, o. his'n. You know the snow i
t amazin' :, m deep in that section Of the kentry
1t,,i1' 3Ven tbe b6ss got stuck in one O. them ar
f famherrasted snOw-banks, and there w
cot enable to stir, and, to cap all, while w
1 were sittin' there, husband was took with
: dreadful crck in his back. Now, that wa
what call a perdlckermelt, don't you?-
Most men would a swore, but husband did
ent. He only said says he, 'Consarn it. :
How did he get out, did you ask? Why
, he might been sittin there to this day a
fur as know, if there hadent happene,
to come along a mess o men in doubl
team, and they hysted US out. But / wa
goin' to tell you that observation O hisen