White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1871-08-03
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So Miiny, it's me an you agin. is it,
Strange; after so long while, % think
An set tipped hack here agin the sink
An took To ye jes' s did, We know
Wal nigh ON to forty year ago.
Le' me see, Married in twenty-six;
Tw1n new house then an ye moved right in
Don't look quite new to-day. It's sticks
1t ever wuz, though-neat As q pin!
oilers teed Jerome, when be got
Our Mimy, he picked the best o the loe
Ye axed my advice remember: He ant
The smartis feller in oil creation"
Well of, though an that's consideration
F he gifts the right kim Of wife, he'll let her
Manage. guess ye can't do no better"
Saws 1. An We found it jes' bout So
fe begun it'll him right oilers said
F woman expects to hoe her row
She mus start in season: slim chance she II stan,
Once give him fairly the upper-han.
Then got married. All wal poor Mary!
She made good wife, though she wuzn't strong.
An she wua Is pleasant's the day wus long.
With jes' the pertyis' kim of vice
never had reason to rue my chico.
I got \ wife an q farm to boot;
Ye couldn't ketch me nappin' there.
The farm-l be su thin to make that square:
No resk bout that. An where's the harm.
If the wife turns out as good As the farm!"
She'd nat'ral larnin'-brights dollar.
1t runs in the Grimeses-she wuz clear Crimes
I'm mos sorry didn't foler
Her comsels norm did, sometimes.
The want nothin' but what she understood;
An her Judgment in motors wu oilers good.
1t might be- n well If had-dono.
'Twant never my way to be led. hate
woman at wears the brooches; an, So
Mebby, by tryin' to stan too straight
When she'd have bent me q little, fell
Over back now an then-dOnO; can't tell
She'd high idees! She claimed we'd otter
Give Simon . college edecation:
leased me to send sec6n d0tter
tShe knowed 'twould cos like oil creatioaD
To boariin' school. an have pianer
An musc-master for Abby an Hammer,
I thot that notion might cool q spell
Inever'd sot foot inside . college,
An I'd rubbed through the world perty well.
As fer the gals, Q tribe o knowledge,
Enough fer to teach might help 'em some;
But that they could have thOut goin' m hum.
They needn't poke off 70 the 'cademy,
To fin good husban's, I'm sure" saysL
" You never done that, an you foun'
'Thouf French an drarin'; IT don't take these
Fer to mix pudn' an set cheese.
IT mean to bring up our Sim" saysL
ITO 60 to meetin an Sunday school,
An dos he'd be done by, perty Nigh
An be a good farmer an nobdy's fool,
An give him schoon' enough. SOS he
Can take good care Of his promptly
with some to take care on; then, If he's sound
In the doctrine, an poplar enough fer to 90
To the Gin raj Court when the time round,
Don't take much schoolin' fer that ye knowJ
shn consider" says I. 1T I've done
payrunt's hull dcoty to
"But drarin, an French an pianer playin'-
That nonsense II wouldnt give strah
Fer gals brot up tut An as fer pawn,
Says l, "bills longs the marral lab
T. yer board n schOols-when I'm sich q Ounce.
Jes' put me under guardeens to once."
That didn't quite jibe it'll her idee;
An once she couldn't help hingin out
II the money it cost wouldn't come I'm me,
Sence the farm wuz hern. But that wuz about
The last On't-t0ck like that i told her
'Twould make the old house too hot to hold her.
Singin' wu1 well enough; an Sim
An Jemimy gin'ally sot in the choir.
Then, I they struck up Sunday hymn,
A-settin around Winters fire
Er a good oil fashioned week day song
Tn eveHins didn't seem quite so long.
But the sweets tunes wuz oilers sweeter
Though do say il, IL she fined in
She wuz jes the meeks PATIENTS creatur!
I've said 1t, er thot it, time an agin.
D0no as ever spoke il out loud
To her. fear prasin might make her proud.
e never ulu see 61cn q cute cOntF1ver
Fer maxim things nice an conf table.
Work-though she want no gret Of . driver
Oilers when she wuz around went well
Seemed's though the WIZ su' thin in her smile
AT made the wheels run rs slick - lie.
Wal, bimeby Hammer she got married;
An Simon he begun to spark IT,;
An Abby died. an Jemimy carried
=, Her wool !: said, to a dumb poor market
Out West-smart chap, but hadn't a cent
7 ;,,hx 80.
To buy EN- some Land; twould tickled mother,
They lotted ont; but then she wuz oilers
Forever a teasin' for this I'm an t'Other-
I'd got 50 used ter sayin' no
forked cut fifty an let emgo
Sim he done weIl-square Ebbitts dotter;
They gin her a hons settin'-out
fixed EN- a house. an her folks bot her
The biggis' pianer in town, about
'Twould do for her. Sounds kin o. nice!
She'll play! You'd think her fingers wuz mice!
Children oil married off er dead,
Ii seemed some lonesome fer . spell;
We uz gift n in years, an wife she said
We'd made enough an I'd otter sell
Give up hard work, an settle down.
LOngside o Simon, higher town.
1 hated. wusn ever q man did
To quit the farm; fer every year
Layin up reg lar su thin clear;
An the 3 sch satisfaction KNOWN
Yer grass an yer bank-account is CROWN!
Buf sbe Ken nm =, rl,Y,t ber varLN
She'd olIer. irs' Them deiikif f..fnr;.
Wuz lea ~ ouiet an lea NJ chirt
fShe never vonld fret fbongb she newer vu. .l.~l.
I'd soOld lint she never .cojied hscIlW
I didn't once ,spect how low sbe vu,
Ner dream a. What nm, aooin' In hammer
Till bimeby neirhlors begnn To hun.
An says oue.fo me: WHY we're cr,xv Cam,
She'll work long, ever she dros breath
An she's les Workin' herself to DEATH"
Another said. she WINS pipin' .vav-