The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-10-04
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"a them days and Miiy she used 10 smg
cunuier So we oi putty pear together
ia thp singers seats aud ] ased a.
thiuk Sunday mornius when she come
d mgetiu in hrr vhlte dress aad hef
rgd check aud hei bonnet sll tipped 81
1tb Eylock, tYat twus for all the world
Jest Ike a JuHe sunrise 60 have hcl
aJmo isio tho singurs seats. Them VAS
thc days that didnt improve my pris
iltges, bols sad Sa g, signing deeply
faere Was Tunes lhat Il III a spoke,
there's ~ KNOWN what n,isht'nt ID
happerel cause sou see. leAs ] WAS
better leuku 10 them days than ht
nov Now you mnd. BOYS, When yel
gyow up. Il you get To Waltu uu "a u,co
ga apd youfe tuost u miud TO speak
up 10 her don't you 60 aud put it ull,
cause u you 10. you may hyo 10 repent
il
Wa yen see lrom the time that Bill
Ederklu come and teok the academy,
! eoald zee pain enough that i VAS
tine iur nt to hang up my fiddle Bpll
he ss,l 10 ST 10 the Singers seats, too,
nd he would haYe il that he sung tenor.
II 40 none snug tenor than skunk
biaekbld, bat hp made 'lieye he dii,
jest to -et next 20 Miry IN tbe singers
seats, aud then they used to be VI tin
backward aud forward to each otser til
iheS tore out al the leaves OF the hymn
hloks, and the slngln books besides.
Wal, ! never thought that the 4ouse D.
tie Lord was jest the place to be court
IN in, and | MS 4 10 get cunsid'ublo
shocked at the way things went on
atwecn en- Why, they'd be a writin'
all sermoEtlme and I've seen him a
lookln at her all through the long pray
er IN way that Want right consider
IN they WIS both professors Of religion
Bat theu the fact wus, old Black Hoss
John was TO blame for IT, cause he never
let EN- have no chance to home le
see od Black Hoss he was sot ag'u Ell
derkin cause he was poor. You see his
mother, the Id Widdah Elderkin, she
was iest about the poorest, peak, dest
old body over to Sherburne, and went
cut to days works, and Bill Edelkn
be was an for books aud larnin, and Did
Black Hoss John lie thought it was Just
stnltlessness but Miry she thought he
was genius, and she got il sot in her
mind that he was goin' to be President
o the United States, or some sich.
Wal, old Black Hoss he want none
too polite to Mlry's beaux in g.neral,
but when Elderkin used to come and
see her he was snarlier than saw he
hadn't good word for him noways !;
and he'd rake up the fire right afore his
face aud eyes, and rattle about fasten-
lug up the windows, and tramp up to
bed and call down the chamber-stairs
to Mlry to go to bed, and was sort o
aggrayatin every way.
Wal, ef folks wants to get gal set
on havin' man, that ares the way to
go to work Mmy had consid'able
stiff will Of her own, and ef she didn't
care about Tom Beacon before, she ha-
tod Lin now and if she liked Bill FL
derkin before, she was clean gone over
to him now ard so she took to goin to
tile Wednesday eyenIn' lecture, and the
Friday-eyenin' prayer met tin and the
singing school, Jest as regular as a clock,
and SO did he and afterwards they al
ways walked home the longest way
Fathers may jest as welllet their gals
be courted in the house, peaceable.
cause il they can't be courted there,
they'll find places where they can be
it's Jest human natur'. - Atlantic
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