The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1867-02-16

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year when another gil Wol burn, aud
! nIut duuc better never M smorc.
l'll tell you what II Is there was hine
gals born ono after another. II was
anuil 10 break up the richie, man in
The world But my Ole woman she's
purity smart, 4o acz she, Jacob, yon
must make them gals work out
Make 'cm earn their own bread iill
they ril ouull to marry liked
that idea FIST rate, so pat the oldest
one TO hooin corn and choppin wood
aud 50 on, and i.t ~ she got hrnt
how long comes Il TELLER aud marrics
her That pleased nae purity well,
cause ! thought now Id have one
less TO support, hat in about n month
her man took the white wcllin' and
he aint been out o the house scncr.
Then larnt my next oldest 10 work
aud 'hc up aud married right oil, but
she married a fcller that tried purity
hard to git along in the world. lie
started TO the gold diggins and the
lnjuns killed him. Now his widdcr
aud helpless little offspring throw
ed onto my hands. Polly, sc1 /,
this marryin's got to be stopped.
NO, no, Jacob, scz She, 'mcbbc the
rest on emil have better luck So
two more Of 'cm got married, and
dang-gam my skin, il their hus-
bands has ever done lick o work
scncc. They jist lay round and live
of me. And my ole woman thinks
thar never was aich men, aud sea
they aint able to work. There's
been a mortal change in my ole wo-
man o late years, surc's you're born,
Well, they was all married but tive
at last, and all on my hands still
when long comes a spruce lookiu
town chap. Said he'd bin to Pike,
Peak and then robbed, and | dom
know what all. lie was an all-frcd
smart CclIcr Could talk about any.
thing, and used to tell murder stories
for hours at a time, and ticklcd m,
ole woman aud the gals most to death
and the children were awful skcere,
at him. lie said he was printer
aud used to show us n little thin picc,
of steel about two inches long tha
he called his rule and said that wa
the key to any mans fortin. ThcI
he talked a great lots about haviI
rich parents into the East somewhat
aud said how he was expectln a prin
tin orfs TO be sent to him mp to 81
Jo., and how he would like to sta,
with me week or so till he got hi
stake as he called it, and | wa
mighty willin TO keep him, cause h,
was mighty intertainin; although h
was n little expensive, cause my lazy
good-for.nothin son-in-laws staid il
the house morc'n ever now, aud thcl
didn't seem to like for him to talk t.
their wives purity much. Well,
didn't mind him, havin to be ou
nearly all the time tendin to things
! 80 hc got to cuttin round Que o M,
single gals, aud one day he axcd M,
for her. lie said as how he wouli
take her to st. 10. aud make a lad,
on her; and was SO powerful gla,
/ to git one on en- of my hands thu
| was willin right of. Away IL
went for old preacher Barnes over b,
Parkcr's mill-thc same one tha
married all the rest on em-and the,
: spliccd. Then he laid round for
week or sich matter, and one da,
1 he scz to me as how his printin orf
e had come to ST. Jo. and II he'd onl,
fifty dollars to pay for shippin il, IL
: could set right up in business. Well
me and Polly had managed to scrap
o together a little money by sclliB roo,
G and feathers, and one thing and an
J. other, and ~ | lends him fifty dol
lars, though il was about all | had
lie starts up TO 81. 10. aud SCI h'
IN be back in a week for my wife
II That was little more'n n year ag'
: and | haint never seed hair nor hit
IS o that ar printer from that day
this. Let another on 'em ever pol
d his head around me and II don
70 rip his jugular my name aint Jal
5, lIackbonny. Now comes a fell
and wants to marry the last dart
I've got TO be another load on n
II shoulders. ] was gwinc to shoot hi
to but my ole woman puts in her ga
le (she aint what she used 10 be) al
he scz as how its mighty pleasant to ha
r a body. children with 'cm IN th'
ole days any how. Think of ths
C. Well, Ginral, there'll be auoth
,y we,ldin here tonight they all thin
o bat recken as how they'll laif wh
It. they find out better. That ar she
herd, as my ole woman calls hi