The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1870-08-13

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she 60 II n1t lu her mind that he was
gin' ~ b. President o. tho rnltti States.
81 some sich.
oval, old Black llosa he Want none
too polite " Mlry'a behut la general, but
when Eldcrkin used 20 cnme 10 SEQ
her he wa snatll nr than a saw ho hadn't
a good word for him npwRys, and he'd
rake up The hr1 rifht before hls face and
eyoB, and rattle about fastening mp the
windows, and tramp mp IN bed aud call
down The chamber stairs 10 Niry Nv 70 ~
bel, and was sort q agpmvatin' every
way,
Wal, ef folks want 10 get a sal sct on
havin' a man, that arcs the way 10 20 ~
work. Mty had a consolidate sll1 will
OF her own, aud Of she didn't care about
Tom Beacon before, she hated him now
and Of she liked Bill Elderkin before, she
was clean gone over 10 him now and 70
hetook togoin' tothe Wednesday evening
lecture, and the Friday evening prayer
mectin', and the singing school, Jest rs
regular az a clock, and so did he; and aC
forwards they always walked home the
longest way. Fathers may jest as well
lot their gals be courtcd In the house,
peaceable, cause II they don't be courted
there, they'll find places whore they can
be It's Jest human natur',
"Wal, come fall Elderkin he went to
college up 70 Brunswick and then used
to see tho letters rs regular up to the
store every week, comm 10 from Bruins.
wick, and old Black H0ss John he see 'em
too, and got q way of droppin' on EN- in
his coat pocket when he come up TO the
store, and folks used to say that the letters
that went into his coat pocket didn't get
to Mlry. Anyhow, Miry she says to me
one day, saya she, Sam, you're up round
the p~ostoflco q good deal says she, 4
wish It you see any letters for me you'd
Jest bring EN- along see right into il,
and | told her 20 DO sure | would and so
| used 10 have the carryin' Of great thick
letters every week. Wal, | was waitin'
on Hepsy along about them times, and so
Miry and | kind o sympathiIed. Ilepsy
was a pretty gal, and | thought u was all
best az Z wasj anyway | knew | couldn't
get Miry, and | could get Hepsy, and that
made all the difference in the world,
Wal, that next winter old Black Hoss
was took down with the rheumatism, and
| tell you If Mry didn't have a time OMIT
He want noways sweet tempered when
he was well; but come to be crooked up
with the rheumatis and kep'awake nights.
1t seemed as ii he was determined there
shouldn't nobody have no peace 50 long
AZ he couldn't.
"He'd get Miry up and down with him
night after night u maxim her heat fan.
nels and vinegar, and then he'd jaw and
scold so that she was eenym0st beat out.
He wouldn't have nobody set up with him,
though there was offers made. No, he
said Miry WAS his daughter, aud twas her
business 60 take care on him.
"MiTy was clear worked down; folks
kinl o pitted her, She was a strong gal,
but there's things that wears ont the
strongest, The worst ont WASH hung on
80. Old Black lloss had q most amazin'
sight o constitution. He'd go all down tc
deaths door, and seem hardly to have the
breath o. life in him, and then up he't
come ag'inl These ere old folks that no
body wants to have live alters hev such I
sight o wear In 'em, they Jest last and last
and it really did seem ASH he'd wear Mir,
odt and get her into the grave iust, for sht
got q cough with bein' up so much In tn,
cold, and grew thin as y shadder. Mem
/. Der one time | went up there TO offer /
watch jest in the spring o the year, whel
the laylocks was jest q buddin' out, an,
, Miry she come aud talked with me owe
/ the fence, and the poor gal she faifl
! broke down and Sobhed rs IL her heal
would break a tellin' me her trouble.
4 "Wal, it really affected me more I
have Miry give up so than most pals
/ cause she'd alters held her head up, an
had such Il sight o grit and resolution, bv
Q she told me all about II.
. "It seems old Black Hoss he want COZ
. tent with worryin' on her, and gettin' O
r her up nights, but he KEEP q hectorin' ht
about Bill Elderkin' and wantin' ON h
c TO promise that she wouldn't hev b
when he was dead and gone, and Miry 81
it wouldn't promise, and then the old ml
said she shouldn't hey q coat from him
t she didn't and 30 they had it back III
d forth. Everybody in town was sayi
ri what a shame I was that he should sar
ID her 50; for though he he'd other childre
Il. they WAS married and gone, and the
Sc want none of them TO do for him but |
II Miry. '
e. "Wal, he hung on till lest as the pin
Of In the front yard was beainnin' to bl,
On out, and then he began 10 feel he wa
I'd goin,' and he sent for Parson Lothrop
On know what was 10 be done about his 50
ret "'Wai,' says Parson Lothrop, "
no must settle up all your worldly afTai
IN you must be in peace and love with
Ier mankind, and If you've wranged AnybS
do you must make 1t good to EN-
ny "0ld Black Hoss he bounced rights
in his Rbssd dsssv ,tihT li SAYS he, ~ will take
Tas I've got And he never spoke auot
as word, though parson Lothrop he pra
zen with him, and did what he could for b
"Wal, that night sot up with i
I a and he went of tween two aud three