The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-02-24
KlZy Hobbs Speaketh to the Herald,

Mr. EDYTUR-Dear Sir: Folks tells me
you are mighty KNOWN man, and can tell
any body al! they want to know. Now,
there is somethin want you to do for me,
and you mustn't say toldyou. The Scrip
fur says, thar is marryin and given in
marryin. here lately; again, some Of tile Old
profits, believe it was Samson, in the book
of Sans, says the labror is worthy Of his
hire. Now you see, want you to give these
fcllers sut. and row EN- up Salt Lake City.
You are the man to do it.. A poor pas>on
has TO ride a hard trottid hoss twenty or
thirty milcrs splashin through the mud,
and when be gifts thar, his nose as red as q
tu. ky gobler's suout, his years friz off, and
his eyes blowed out by the cold winds. his
bones >huck till ther ready to fall together
ia bis skin. and be STAINS up and jnes EN-
rogerher. makes EN- both inter two for life,
a1i never as much as hears. heres your doll
lar. Aint it too bad. I reckon some folks
think as hCw a passon eats his dinner offin
his old sarmiDs; now, want you to just
tell en- what you think about it, in your pa
per. You see my darter and Sim Dodson is
promised, and when you tell EN- about the
way some people do, will give it to Jim to
read, and AK him what he thinks, and if he
is one of them sort. tell you he don't get
z tura Hobbs, and if he does get her and
don't pay the passon noth.n, she shan't live
with him single mint, and he will find
billy divorce in the sheriff g Office by sun up
uext mornin, or my name aint Kizy Hobbs.
he shall leave his bed and board. But
reckon man what can't. pay the passon
haint no bed, nothin but board. My gran
ny was ninety-fve years old when she died,
and she told me, after the Revolution war,
women was so scace in this country that
they brought ship loads Of EN- from some
where else, and a man could buy wife for
a bottle of rum, and a few pounds Of to-
hacker. thought that mighty cheap for a
good wife, but law me, now, they amt worth
nothin. think it is putin female woman
down nightly. I went to the Mississippi
once on visit, way out in the Chickisaw
Nation, and staid three months. When the
young folks thar take notion TO marry,
| they have to wait till the circus rider comes
round, and that aint more'n twice year,
when thar will be half q dozen couples to
marry, and you will see EN- q comm, some
with as meny cbfckins as they Can tote,
some With pair OF turkeys, another Cloth
for breeches, some with pile of socks. and
50 on, but all to pay the passon. Well.
that was the best they could do--you see
that money was scace in them days in LICK
SKILLET, that was the name OF the lite
town not far off Them people thought
their wives was worth somethin' and reckon
they was harder to get, and not so willin to
marry. as the gals these days. That is what
| tell Kitura. The gals ought TO know who
to get. and be sure to marry man that will
pay the paSson. Now. Mr. Edytur, you just
give it to em good; you are smart like, and
kin say right sharp things sometimes, and
haint got nothin to pay the printer, since as
how it has tuck all we can rake and scrape
TO fix kitura for housekeepin; but Iainrsu,e
| she WILL keep house. That is what want
to find out through your paper If Jim
Dodson don't pay the passon, kItura never
Keeps house with him. II YOU will send the
truck, after priEtin that piece for me, will
make som the smarest shirts for you that
ever an edytur wore-uo dsparagement TO
Mrs. Edytur's woS-but you see that is all
the way can show my gratitude:
KIZIA HOBB
Mrs. Kizia Hobbs will accept our
thanks for the compliment, equlvocal
though it be, that VIC sometimes say
hight smart things" As she has pretty
ably and fully covered the whole ground
of argument in the case. and exposed the
littleness complained of, it would be fol.
ly in to attempt to say more than
that Kizia is right and true as q trivet,
and that she has permission to touch
all small idead people up whenever she
feels disposed.