Smyrna times., 1868-03-25

Return FROM HIS TRTP.-HOW SARY JANE
PROVED THE TRUE WOMAN-wHAT SHE SAID
AND WHAT HIS NEEGHBoRs SAID.
Mr.. EDATUR:
promised you, last weake. to
rite you agn about what happind at home
after cum back so suddinly and Onexpektlv
from mi onfortanit ralerode kear travis.
VIII percede to deeskribe the sene that awaited
mi reeturn.
The sun had settel, the towels had roasted :;
the stars wus out in the ski, an | wus out in
the mud. | approached mi umbel aboad: 1t
wus dark seed no lite-I seed no form of
Sary Jane a flittin acrosst before the winders,
Sary Jane, onkonshus of her busbends trub-
BILE, had retired to her vurchus kouch, an wus,
no dout, weepin for her deer pardner. who
she tho wus absent much distence. Parme-
LA wus also likewise in her bed, and little Pete
the last pledje of Sary James an mi love-
wus rapt UP in too his bed at the foot of his
muthers. Thus would fancy have pctered to
me mi family on that mite, but it did mt, bekase
WHY wus mad wus tired-I wus hungary
= wus muddy wus in torned an rumpled
clOSe-an fancy had no plase in mi feelins.
| wunder now how it wus that forgot 7 WINS
llterarlal karacker-there wus a good chanse
TOR good ldees-an | Orter have sot doun on
the yard Tense an rlt em doun rite away; but
din Mt All these happy musns which / now
rite ot-wus after tho 'ts-I only thot then Of
don't no what. But l cum neerer-a mock
wus heerd on the door. 1t wus me. But 81
lense rain d within. Another mock wus heerd
on the door-that wus me too-then well
moan voise wus heerd within, sayin, who's
that; Sary ) ane said that. The nocker rec
Piled the nocker wus me-'it's me, let me
in" "Who's me" sez the within voisew
Sary James. You see | wus cold, an mad, an
naryous, an excited, SO she didn t no the deer
pardner-Sary Jane didn t-wherfour the vols
WlthOut-my voise you no-answered, "me,
Oary Jane, me, your own wanderin prodigel
sun huslbend; let ME in quick, for I'm hun
gered an thirst, an tired an rumpuld up,
an IN bad plite ginerully"
With this, she opun'd the dore, Sary Jane
dld' an ketched me round the neck in her arms,
an e&klam u all IN 6reth-or ru:her | should
orter sed, out o breth-" viii grashus massy
on mi hart an life, you, you, mi deer deepartud
huslbend, what in this wurld an pity sake
brings you back at this time O. mite, an all wet
an muddy, an your close torned, and you're
Sundy hat smashed, an you aint been on
spl ee, nor nothin, have you, an didn't 90 on
the kears at all. Josh tole me he seed YOU on
the kears; ] wouldn't think he d lie to his own
sister; an you sed you wouldn't git on any
more sprees; that time you broke our clock
tryln to wind it up with the fiat irum. But
no you amt been ON spree, for don't smell
no ilcker on yure breth. I'm 50 glad to sec you,
tho don't keer when you cum home, or how
you cum; an didn't expect to see you agin for
don't no how long; an there wus in bed, think
in OF you bein fur ava from you're Sary Jane.
an me krien, as tho I'd kry mi eyes out, a
wishin for you, an you, all that time, tramp-
in in the mud and maxim tracks rite strate for
Sary Jane. Kun in, kun in, mi deer old fell
Ter, kun in an dri yourself, an I'll git you sum-
thin to etc.
An all out breth, as she wus, she dragg'd
me along, with her arms roun mi neck, sot me
down bi the fire an went rite to work q gitten
me sumthin warm, all the time akin of me
what bapp' nd; but akin so fast an so often
that l hadn't chanse to git in a wurd eend-
wayse. But it Civ me time to gether up mi
thot's an consider what I'd tell her. I'd bin
thinkin' about that all the wa as | trampud
along. But l concluded, at last, it wouldn't
dc. to tell her fb, so up an tells her the
hole thing jist as l told you last weake; then
she, insted of doin what most any other woman
in the wurld would done; instead of larfu at
me an kallin of me fool or some sech pet
name-go's to work and talks all the blaim on
to herself bekase she'd made the pockit TO
opin inside insted of outside. Sich generossy-
ty mooved me, an | said, No, Sary Jane, it
wusn't your fault ort to had sense enuff to
'av got q ticket of the man at. Snaptown,
and then it wouldn't happend. When cum
back to Snaptown | told the man about mi git
tin put out, an he explained it all to me tho
he had ort to had better sense than to a laf-
fed at me the wa he did. No, Sary Jane, it
wusn't none O. your fault.
These family senes, MIR. Edatur, isn't praps
intrestin to evry body, but think when fel-
have tried Sary Jane, an always finds her 40