Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-04-08
Opposed to Eatrimony.


Wal, no, I'd rather guess not, seen as
how my mothers lad four husbands and
stands smart chance Of havin' another.
:: -Four husbands is it possible?' ?''
Oh, yes, you see my mother christened
name was Mehetable Sheet, and dads name
was Jacob Press, and when they got married
the printers said it was putin the sheet in
press. They said I was the first edition
An mother was the tarnelest critter te go out
to evein' meetin's She used to 90 out pret-
ty late every night, an dad was afraid would
get in the same habit, 50 he put me to bed at
early candle light, covered ne up with the
pillar and pat ne to sleep with the boot,jack.
Wal, dad bad to get up every night aud let
mother In if he didn't get down pretty darn d
quick. when she cum, he'd ketch particular
thunder, so dad used to sleep with his head
out of the winder, SOS he wake Up quick, au'
one night he got leetle too far out, and
down dad cum cufbumux right down on the
pavement, an smashed into ten thousand
pieces
What was be killed by the fall"
Wal, no. not exactly by the fall. | rather
kinder sorter guess as how it was the sudden
fetch up OF the pavement that killed him. But
marin cum hun and found lin lynn thar aud
she had him swept up together. an had q
hole dug in the buryin' yard, an had dad
putin and buried.lp an had white-oak plank
put to his head, and white washed all over, for
s tombstone"
50 your mother was left poor lone wild
.ow?"
8: Wal, yes, hut she didn't mind that much
twasnt long fore she married Sam Hide
You see she married Hide bekase he was
Just about dads size and she wanted him to
wear out dads clothes. Wal the way ole Hide
used TO hide me was a caution to my hide
Hide had q little the tboughest hide, except a
balls hide, and the way Hide used to hide
away liquor in his hide was a caution to a
bulls hide Wal one day old Hide got his
hide so full Of whiskey that he pitched head
long into snow bank, and thar he stuck aud
friz to death. So marm had him palled out.
and laid out, and had another hole dug in the
same buryin' yard, and had him buried and
bad another whitc-oak plank pns up at his
head and whitewashed all over and"
. So your mother was again a widow p
90. yes. but guess she didn't lay awake
long TO think about that. for in about three
weeks, she married John Strong-and he was
the strongest headed cuss that you ever seen
He went fishing the other day and got drown
be darned to darnation If he didn't float right
up agin the current, and they found him a
bout three miles up the river and it took three
yoke of cattle to pull him out. Wal, marm
had him buried along side 'tother two, had
white oak plank put up at his head an white
washed all ever nice, and there's three on .em
all In row.
:" And your mother was widow for the
third time p
g Yes but marin didn't seem to mind it
tarnal sight. The next fellow she married
was Jacob Hayes an the way marin does
make him haze is caution now [ tell We.
IF he does leetel out of the way, marin makes
min take bucket and wflitewash brush and
go right up to the buryn' yard and white.
wash tue three oak pianks, just TO let him
know what be may come to when she placed
him in the same row and got married to the
fflh husband. SO you see tuy family amt
tarned sight opposed 20 dose Of matrimony.