Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-07-30
sETsEY AND ! ARE OUT-A FARM BAL.
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BY WILL NJ. CARLTON.
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Draw mp the papers, lawyer, and make EN-
Things at home are cross-ways, n Betsey
We whohavs worked togsthsr SO long as man
Must pun in single harness the rest Of our
what il the matters' say you swami It's
hard 20 tell
Moat Of theyesrs behind US, we've passed by
1 have no other woman-she mas 0 mother
Only We We lived together as long as we ever
can.
So 1 have talked with Betsey, and Betsey has
talked with me;
So we've agreed together that we can't never
agree,
Not thaE we've catched each other in any ter
We've been a gatherin' this for years, a little
at a M
There was a stock of temper we both had, for
start:
Although we never suspected twould take
I had my various failings, bred In the flesh
And Betssy, like all good women, had a tenn
per Of her own.
EA-Ih NLAA6 4 OAAGDAa a1AeIL W
greed,
Was somethin' concerning Heavens differ
ence Ia our creed.
| We arg ed the iii at breakfast-We arg'ed
the thing at tea
And the more we arg'ed the question, the
more We didn't agree.
And the next that I remember, was when we
lost a cow;
She had kicked the bucket, for c~ertain-the
question was only-HoW3
1 held my " opinion, and Betsey another
had;
And when we were done a talkin', we both Of
US Wa mad.
And the next that | remember and it started
In a Joke;
But ia for a week it lasted, and neither OF us
spoke.
And the next was when 1 ecolded because she
bTOke q bowl.
And she said I was mean and stingy, and
hadn't any soul
And so the BOWL kept pourin' dissensiOns In
And 80 that blamed COW critter was always a
comm up;
And so that heaven we arg ed no nearer to
Us got,
But it Ra7su US a taste of somethin' a thousand
times as hot.
And so the thing kept workin', and all the
Always somethin' to arg'e, and somethtn'
And down on US come the neIghbors, a couple
And lent their kindest sarvice for to help the
thing along,
And there has been days together-and many
a weary week
We was both o:us cross and spunky.a and both
too proud to speak,
And l have been thfnktn' and thinkin', the
whole OF the winter and fall,
II l can't live kind with a woman, why, then
won't at all.
And so I have talked with Betsey, and Betsey
has talked with ma
And We nave agreed together, tina we can't
never agree;
NINE, snall De mine,
And IN put 1t In the agreement, and take 1t
to her to sign.
Write on the paper, Iawyer-the very first
paragraph
OF al the Iarm and live stock, that she shall
For she has helped to earn it, through many
a weary day,
And it's nOthin' more than Justice that Bet /
sey has her pay.
Give her the house and homestead; a man
But women are skeeTy critters, unless they
have a home.
And | have always determined, and never
That Betsey never should want a home, If L
was taken away.
There is q little hard money, that's DRAWN
Couple Of hundred dollars, laid by for a rainy
Safe in the hands Of good men, and easy to
Put in another clause there, and give her
hall OF that.
Yes, I see you smile, sir, at my givin' her so
much;
Yes. divorces is cheap, sir, but I take no stock
in such. |
True and fair I married her, when she was
And Befssv was sl7avs good to me excepun'
with her tongue.
Once, when was young as you, and not so
For me she mtttened a lawyer, and several
other chaps:
ali OF EN- was clustered, and fairly taken
And 1 for a time was counted the Iuckiest
maj in OWn
Once. when I had a fsver-I won forget 1t
soon
1 was hot as a basted turkey, and crazy as a
Never an went by me, when she was
out of sight,;
She nursed me true ana tender, and stuck to
me day and night.
And II ever a house was tidy, and ever a
Her house and kitchen was tidy as any lever
seen.
And / don't complain of Bets Y. or any OF her
Exeeptin' when we've quarreled and told
each Other tdGigs
draw up the paper, lawyer, and IN go
home to mig
And read the agreement to her, and see tftts
ali right;
And then in the mornin' IN sell to a tradin'
man 1 know,
And kiss the child that was left to us, and
out in the world IN 60.
And one thing put in the paper, that first to
me didn't occur;
That when l am dead at last, she shall bring
me back to her,
me under h emaples l planted years
ago,
When she and l was happy, before We quar-
relied SO. /,
And when she dies, l wish that she would be
laid by me;
lyin' together in sllence, perhaps we Will /
agree. !
d II ever we meet in Heaven, l wouldn't
think ih queer II,
+ welOved each other better because we have
quarreled here. {