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


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things
"Mis Eliefkln she thinks she's rrot
lady nowadays spose, bot I member
when she was Mlry Brown over herein
OlitoWu. and I uscd 70 be waitln' ON her
20 alnsine school
"Miry and | was putty good friends
along 70 ihem days-we was putty ron
siderable kind ~ intimate Fact Ia. boys.
there vas times IN them days when I
thought whether ot no I wouldn't tits
Miry myself,s said Sam. his face growing
luminous with the pleasing idea " HE
former masculine attractions and prlyi-
legcs "Tis," he continued. there was
q time when folks said | could a had Miry
cfId asked her, and | putty much think
50 myself but ! didn't ssy nnthin' mar.
riage IL alters kind o. venturaome and
Miry had such up anddown kind o ways,
WA sort o. frald ont
But, Lordy massy, boys, you mustn't
never tell Hepsy | said So, cause she'd be
mad enough to bite a shinglo-nall In two.
Not that she sets 10 very great by me
neither. hut then women's backs Is alters
up ef they think anybody else could a
had you, whether they want you them.
selves or not.
"Ye see, Mlry was old Black Hoss
John Browns da'ter, aud lived up there
In that are big brown house by the meet
In house that has the red hDllyhock In
the front yard Mlry was about the hand.
soonest gal that went into the singers seat
q Sunday.
81 tell you she want none o. your
milk and.suRar gals neither she was
'mazin' strong built. She was the
strongest gal In her arms that | ever
see. Why, I've seen Miry take up a bar
rel O. -four and lift II right into the kitch.
en-, and IL would Jest make the pink come
into her cheeks like two rosea, but she
never seemed to mind Il a grain She had
good strong back of her own, and she
was straight as q poplar, with swapping
black eyes, and | tell you there was n
snap 10 her tongue, too, Nobody never
got ahead o. Miry; she'd give every fell
low IS good SIS he sent, but for all that
she was a greet favorlto.
"Miry was one o your briery, scratohy
gals, that seem to catch follers In thorne
She alters I'll and flouted her besux, and
the more abe tt and tlnuted EN- the more
they'd be arter her. There want q ga
in all 0ldtown that led such a string o
tellers after her, cause you see, she'd
now and then throw EN- . good word
over her shoulder, and then they'd al
fight who should get II, and she'd jest
laugh to see en- do II,
"Why, there was Tom Swain, he was
one OF her besux, and Jim Moss, aud Ike
Bacon and there was q Boston boy, Ton
Beacon, he come up from Cambridge tc
rusticate with Parsnn Lothrop, he thought
he must have his say with Mary, but h,
got pretty well come up with. You SEA
he thought cause he was Boston born h,
was kind o sristocracy, and had right les
TO pick and choose 'mong country gals
but the way he cot CONF up with by Mir
was too funny for anything"
"Do tell US about H." wa said, as San
made an artful pause, designed to draw
forth solicitation.
"Wall, We see, Tom Beacon he told Ii
Bacon about Il, Gud Ike he told me
Twas this way, We see, there was
quiltn' upt TO Mis- Cap'u Breads, aud Ton
Beacon he was there, and come 10 goinl
home with the gals, Tom cut Ike out, an.
got Miry all 10 himself, and twas a putt
long piece Of a walk from Mis- Cap
Breads up past the swamp and Ii
stone pastur' clear up to old Black Hos
Johns
oval, Tom he was in high featht
cause Miry took him, so that he didn
REILLY know how to behave; aud so
they was walkin' along past Parson Lott
rop's apple orchard, Tom thought he.
try bein' famllisr, and he undertook TO p,
his arm round Miry. Well, IL she didn
Jest take that little fellow BY his tw
shoulders and whirl him over tho fem
into the orchard quicker'n no tim
Why says Tom, the fust | kne
/ was lyin' on my back undI
the apple trees, lookin' up at u
stars Miry che jest walked of hon
and said nothin' to nobody-it wa MT h
way TO talk much about things and II
hadn't been for Tom Beacon himself Il
body need a known nothin' about
Tom was a little fellow, YOU see, q
main good natured, and one Of the 8
that couldn't keep nothin' to himself, a
90 he let the cat out o. the bag hims,
Wal, there didn't nobody think the wol
o Miry. When tellers find q gal wo
take ssace from no man they kind o.
epect her, and then fellers Allars thinks
Il had ben them, now, things d. "a b.
different That's Jest what Jim Moss a
Ike Bacon said they said Tom BesC
, was q fool not 70 know better how TO
along with Miry-they never had
trouble. The fun Of IL was that T
Beacon himself was more crazy altar
than he was sfore, and they say he no
Miry q right up and down offer, and NJ
abe jest wouldn't have him.
Wa. yos ss Ms tsal BAiacs. Hoss
about as close as e nut and a. contrair,
pipperagetree. You ought TO - s
him. Why his face was all a per
crisscross q wrinkles. There wan
spot where you could pu. apin down
there want q wrinkle, and they use
say that he held on 70 every cent
went through his fingers till he pinch
into two. You couldn't cay that hiE
wa his belly, for he hadn't none
more'n an old file; folks said that
starved himself till the moond
through him.
sod Black Hoss WIS swfally &
about Miry's refusin' Tom Beacon, 7
there was his houses and loss O lar