The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1864-06-10
r-orprssa.ss Mmrimenx

Isyour family opposed to matrimo.
wal, no, ] rather guess not, seiu
as how MY mother has hail four hu,.
ihtnds, aud stands, pretty smart
chance for having another"
"Four Iulsbands. Is.it possible 2"
Y "Oh, Nesl You scp hlv mother, :,
tchristened name ewasiielEfalle Sheets
and dads name was Jacob Press, and
when they got married, tho printers
said twas putting the sheets to press.
When /. was born, they said was
the 6rst edition. An you see moth.
Ter used to be the tarnalist critter to
go To evenin' mcetin's. She used t..
4 go pretty late every night an dad
was afraid I'd get in the same habit.
SO he put me 10 bed at early candle.
light, aud covered mo up with pill.
lar m'-put the to sleep with n boot
jack. Wal, dad had got up every
might an let mother in. Ii he didn't
get down aud open the door pretty
ldarned quick when she cum he d ketch
particular thunder. SO dad used To
sleep with his head ont of the win.
der, 500 to wake up quick, an. one
night he got his heal Too far out an
he slipped out altogether; an, down
dad cum cahummux, right down on
the pavement, an smashed him in ten
thousand pieces !" 'A'. "
What! was he killel hy tha
iallf" f.Ira .-llt
Irather kinder sortcr guess as how
IL was the sudden fetch up on the
pavement that killed him! but main
she cum home and found him swept
up together au' put in u coffin, an
had a hole dug in the huryin' ground
an, had dad put in an buried up, All,
had n white oak plank put up TO his
head, an had il white washed ali over
Tor a tomb stone" -a-a.----sa
$50 Your mother was left poor,
lone widow 7" .......,.i.
Wal, yes, but rs she didn't mind
that much, it wasn't long before sho
married Sam Hide. You see she mar
ried Hide because he was just dad )
size, and she wanted him to wear ont
dads clothes. Wal, the old Hide
used TO hide me was n caution, to NV
hide. Hide had u little the toughest
hide except bull's hide, and the way
Hide used to lile away the liquor
| his Iii le was caution to q bulls
hide. Wal, one cold dnv oil Hide
got his hide 30 full of whi sky that b.
pitched head first into a snow .Lank.
an there stuck aud friz to death. So
nam had him pulled out, an then sha
had another buryin' ground, an had
him buried, an then she had another
white oak l,li.nL l..it n,. 90 i.:-.-L..-.-i
nm white Washed all over, an -
$50 your mother was once more
widow =
"Oh, YES, but | guess size didn't
lay awake long 90 think about it, Tor
in weeks SHE married john Strong
An he was the strongest headed
cuss you ever did see. He mcnt II
tishin' one day an got drowned. M
he was 80 tarnal strong headed. III
be darncl 10 darnation il he didn't
float right agin the current, an they
found him about three miles up ia,
stream, an II took three yoke vi oxcn
to haul him out. Wal, mann had him
buried along side % totlicr two, M
had white oak plank put up at his
head, and white washed all over nice,
81 there's three on 'en all in n row"
And your mother was Il widow iur
the third time -
"Ies, but mam did.l,t seem to mini
it Il tarnal sight. Tue next fellow she
married was Jacob Hays, and the
way imam does make him haze Is IL
caution, now I tell Sc. If he does
anything little out of the way, MAIN
makes him take bucket and q white
wash brush an go right up to the bu.
Iryin' ground an white wash the three
old planis, jest To let him know what
he may cum TO when she's planted
him in the same row, and got married
to the fifth husband, SO YOU see my
family amt tarnal sight opposed to !.
dose of ma'rimonyp 'a",.ac~ 80
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