Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1864-03-23

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I'll leave every cent ont tew Siah, tho
he amt done as well by me as yeOu be7
Come, sez she, I'm breakin' up ike
brothers I shan't wurry any one a gret
while, and fore spring I dessay yeou'fl
heV cause tew rejioe that yeou done as
Aunt 81 counselIed yeou.'
Now, that ideo kinder took me, seein'
I hednt no bFerpaorins love fer cousinj
but I brewdid over it a spell fore I greed
Fin'lly I sed I'd dew it, as it warn't a
hard thing nor a had trade; and begun
to look araound for Mis- Flint, Jr. Aunt
was dreadful pleased; but main par
ticker as tew who was goin to stand in
her shoes, when she was fetched up
aginst the etarnal boom. There was a
sight er lovely women folks raound the
taownj but aunt she set her foot daown
that Mis- Flint must be smart, pious, an
good natered; harnsome she didn't say
nothin abauut, bein' the humliest woman
in the State er Maine. l he'd my own
calkilations on that pint, an went spark
in two or three er the pootiest gals, all
that winter. I waru't in no hurry, fer
merryin' is an awful risky bizness; and
I warn't goan to be took in by nobuddy.
Some heow I couldn't make up my mind
which I'd hev, and kept dogin', all ready
to slew raound and hitch On tew airy one
that seemed likeliest Long in March,
aunt she ketched cold, took tew her bed,
got wuss, and told NE tew hurry up, fer
nary red should 1 her, EFF I-warn safely
merried Tore She stepped out I Thought
that was ruther craoudin' feller; but I
see she was gOan sure, an I'd got intew
way er eonsiderin the cash mine, so
that it come hard to hear abaout givin'
ont up. Of I went that eyenin' and
asked Almiry Nash eff she d-Ley me. No,
she wouldn't; I had shilly-shalleyed SO
long she'd got tired er waitin', aud took
tew keepin company with doctor down
tew Banggore, where she'd been visitin
spell I didn't find that as hard rub
ito s1aHer as Ia tHo0gTE1 would, tho
Almiry was the richest, pootiest, and
good-naterdest Of the lot Aunt larfcd
waal, an told me tew try ag'in; so a
couple er nights arfter, I spruced up, an
went over tew Car'Iipe Miles she was
as smart as old cheese, an wall off intew
the barg'in. 1 was jest as sure she'd hev
me, as be that I'm gittin' the rewmatiz
settin' in this mash. But that mink
Almiry, he'd ben and let out abaout her
own sarsy way or sarlil me, an Car line
jest up an said she warn't goan TO hey
ennybuddy's leayin's, so daown I come
ag'in.
Things was gittin' despr'r by that
time; fer aunt was faiIin' rapid, and the
story he'd leaked out some way, so the
hull taown was gigglin' over It. l tho't
I'd better quit them parts; but aunt she
showed NE her will all done complete,
septin, the FIRST name er the -legatee.
There, sez she, it all depends on yeou,
whether that place is took by Hiram or
Josiah. It's easy done, and-so it's goan
tew stand till the last mint That riled
me considerable, an I streaked off tew
Mary Jane Simlin's $, She want very
waal off, nor extra harnsome, but she was
pious the wust kind, and dreadful clever
to them she fancied. But l was daown
,en my luck ag in; for at the fust word I
spoke of merryin', she showed me the
door and give me to understand that she
couldn't think er hevin' a mau that wan t
church member, that hadn't been even
struck with conviction, and all the rest
ont. Efenny one he'd a wanted tew hev
seen a .walkin' hornets nest, they could
hey done it cheap that night, as l went
hum. I just strained intew the kitchen,
chucked my hat into one corner, my coat
intew mother, kicked the cat, cussed the
fire, drawed up chair, and set scouIin'
like sixty, bein' tew mad for talkin'.
1 The young woman that was nussing
aunt-Bewlah Blish, by name-was a
cookin' greweI on the Goals, and 'peared
tew understand the mess I was in; but
she didn't say nothin', only blowcd the
fire, fetched me a mug er cider, an went
round so kinder quiet aud synpathizin'
that I faound the wrinkles in my temper
gettin' smOOthed out main quick; and
fore long I made a clean breast er the
hull thing. Bewlah larfed, but didn't
mind her doin' ont, for she sez, sez she
real sort O. cunnin',
Poor Hiraml they didn't use yeor
q wall. Yeou ought to hev tried some e.
the poor an humly gals; they'd beer
glad an grateful for such a sweetheart al
Z yeOu be-
Il was good natered ag'in by that time
an sez, larfn' along with her, 'Waal
I've got three mittens, but I guess