Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-12-07
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Aunt Kissy Yields for Once.

"Kesiah, are you most ready?"
"In minute, Zeke''
"What in the deuce is in the woman?'
said Uncle, as he fdgeted at the foot o.
the stairs, waiting for his sister. Nc
wonder he thought something was the
matter, for never before, in all his NOR.
tai life, did he remember to have had te
wait for Aunt Kissy.
"Most half past nine, Kissy," shouted
he again, up the stairs, at the same time
lifting up his left foot, and examining
the sole of his boot, which was begin.
ming to show grinning pegs. "I declare
fort" said he to himself, ssthere is no use
in buying these ready made boots
Well, I can kill two birds with one
stone. I'll put ON my t'others, and
leave these at Dobbins, as go down to
the station"
"kissy, hurry!"
HThy, Zeke, who ever saw you in
such a hurry before, since the world
was made? I just thought would hunt
up bundle OF things, for them children,
that I've been saving up; maybe they d
hurried out to the neat, softly cushioned
come in play" said Aunt Kissy, as she
two-horse, covered carriage, into which
she pitched huge carpet-bag, and fol-
lowed it herself, with bound.
Uncle Zeke was soon beside her, and
the brownies trotted off at the rate of six
miles an hour. There was something
curious on hand.
"I've been thinking, said Uncle,
(whoh! Hhoh! there Nellie; so, SOY I've
been thinking, Kissy, whether, (ahem!
m 'mD this chill air makes me hoarse.
I've been thinking whether it wouldn' :
be good idea, for you and I, to take a
couple of them little ones"
"We!' exclaimed Aunt Kissy, "you
and me, Ezekiel! why, I've heard you
say thousand times, you'd never take
nobody else's children to raise" e ~
"Well, you see, Kissy, (steady, Nell!
whoh! steady, BessD you see, these chill
dren, that Mr. Van Meter is going to
bring along this morning, amt nobody
elses children; and if we was to take
one on 'em, it would be ours
claw! 'Zekiel; I never thought of
such a thing! What could 1 do with
it,
"Just what other people do, sup
pose"
"But I don't know anything about
taking care of children, or I'd took
one long ago."
"Don't, eh! and you have been telling,
this twenty years, what you'd do, if this,
that and t'other child was your It
would be heap of care and trouble to
you, know, for while; but then, af-
terward, it might come to be help,
(ahem! 'mD when we are both getting
older"
~"Law, brother, you know I don't care
about the trouble; not jot; but the re-
sponsibility, Ezekiel, it's awful to think
of it! I might get angry, and misuse
the poor, motherless thing. That would
be wicked"
"Then you would learn to keep your
temper"
II might make mistakes, and be too
indulgent, or too severe
"Then you would have to constitute
yourself committee of one, for self
culture and self-control.
"And then, if it should growup bad. -
"Just think it might have been a
great deal worse without your care.
"Ungrateful, and go off, and leave us
at the very time we love it, and want it
most
"We should be comforted by thinking
we had tried to do our duty"
"No, can't think of it; I'm sure !
amt hard hearted neither; but then
"Uh, you needn't make any excuses,
[ didn't seriously think ont (Come.
Nellie! up, Bess! put the ground under
your feet now, my beauties.) There's
the whistle; we're just in time, Kissy!
said Uncle Zeke, as he rounded the
corner of the station-house, at the very
instant when the cars came rushing up
with a shrek of triumph that wen'
echoing through the old hills, as if they
knew what precious freight they were
bearing through the rich and fertile
lands, towards the setting sun.
Letters had come to Woodside tha
the agent from Five Points woulc
land there that morning, with fifty q