Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-22
Betsey Destroys the Papers.
SeoueI to "Bctsey and I are Out"



I've brought back the paper, lawyer, and fetchen
the parson here
To see that things are regular, settled up ana ia
For I've been talking with Caleb, and Caleb has
And the mount of it IL we're minded to try once
more to agree.
so 7 came here ON the business-only word to say
Caleb is stalking pea-vines, and couldn't come TO-
day, ,,
Just to tell you and parson how tina. we've changed
our mind: :. - y.
So m tear up the paper, lawyer, you see it wasnt
signed
And now II parson is ready, III walk with him to-
I want to thank him for some things twas kind OF
Has showed the Christian spirit, stood BY us firm
We miehtnt have changed our mind, squire, if he'd
been q lawyer too.
There How good the sun feels, and the grass and
BLOWN trees
Something about them lawyers makes me ieei NJ 70
7 WASN'T hound TO state particulars to that man,
But its right you should know, parson, about our
change OF plan.
We'd been some days s-waverin little, Caleb and
And wished the hateful paper at the bottom of the
But guess twas the prayer last evening, and the
few words you said, ,
That thawed the ice between us, and brought Things
on a head.
Won ace when we came to division, thore was
things that wouldn't divide;
There was our twelye-year old baby she couldn't be
To 90 with one or the other, but just kept whm-
perrin low, , a.,
"I'ii stay with papa and mamma and where they
go III 60"
Then there was grandsire's Bible-he died on our
wedding day; -
We couldn't have the old Bible, and should 1t go or
The sheets that was Caeb's mothors's, her sampler
on the wall, -
with the sweet old names worked in-Tryphena
and Ennice and Paul.
1t began to be hard then, parson but it grew harder
still, ,,,, .
Three dollars week twould cost him F.; no mehdlh
And board at the Widow Meachams, woman that
wears false hair.
st,ll we went on a-talking; agreed to knit some
socks,
And make a dozen striped shirts, and a pair OF wa
frocks 80,
And he was to cut doorway from the kitchen to
the shed =,
Save you climbing steps much, in frosty weather,
he said.
He brought me the pen Mt last; felt sinkin,
Looked as he did with the agur, in the Spring of
siSty-three. ,.,
Twas then you dropped in, parson; 'twasnt much
Little children, love one another but the thing
WAS killed stone dead.
should IKE s 70 make )1'''SS'o" n0' '''' : o.
The fault was al on my side, that never was my
But il NAV be true that women-tho' how tbs
Are a tribe more aegravatin' than men know how
to be.
Then parson, the nelghbors' meddlin'-t wasn't
pourin' oil;
And the church a-aborin' with us, twas worse than
wasted toll
And I've thought, and 30 has Caleb, though maybe
II they'd kept to their own business, should havo
got along.
Thore was Deacon Amos Purdy, good man as we
know,
But hadn't gift of laborn except with the scythe
Then load came over in peach time from the Will
bur noighborhood,
"season OF prayer they called it; didn't do an
atom Of good
III tell you about tho heifer-one of the kindos and
best
That brother Ephraim gave me, the fall he moved
I'm free TO own it rlod me that Caleb should think
and say
She died Of convulsions-a COW that MIXED four
gallons day.
But needn't have spoke OF turnps, peednt have
been so cross, ,
And said hard things, and limited If twas all ,ay
And III take 1t all back, parson that fire shant
ever break out,
Though the COW was choked with turnip never
had doubt,
Then there are pints of doctrine, and views of a
future state
I'm willing to stop discussin'; we can both afford to
wait,
'Twont bring the millennium sooner, d1sputin about
when Its due,
Although | feel an assurance that mines the Scrip
tura view.
But the bessedost truths of the Bible I've learned
to think, don't lie
In the texts we hunt with candle to prove our doc
trnes by,
But them that come 10 IFS IN sorrow, ana when were
our knees:
SO il Caleb won't argue free WILL III leave alone
the DEGREES,
One notion of Calebs, parson, seems rathy misty
aud dim;
wish, if it comes convenient you'd change word
with him.
II don't quite stand to reason and Tor gospel IL Ism
clear,
That folks love better in heaven for having quar-
relied here.
I've no such an expectation; why, parson If tina
is so,
You needn't have worked so faithful to reconcile
folks below.
hold another opinion, and hold it straight andl
square,
II we can't he peaceabe here, we won't be peacea-
bile there.
But there's the request lac made, you know it, par
son, about
Bein laid under the naples that his own hand set
out,
And me 10 be laid beside him when my time comes
togo,
As if-as tfdont mind me; but twas that onstrune
me SO,