The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-08-30

I've Are no Longer aut.'
"Whst's .uss" I'll tell you. lawyer. for I've
come back, you see.
To fix up that agreement which you wrote out
And Tell you all that came of it, and settle up
your bill,
For we doa't need the contract now think we
never will.
l took tho paper you drew up down home the
To read it to our B tsey, and sec if 'twere I'll
ripht.
And af1srtea we both sat down to talk the mat
AM seeif we could both agree to settle on that
score.
told her how the starting point wherein we
disagreed. -
Wa omethng concerning Heaven difference
And following this the other cause. 1 don't
remember how. -
Tha' spoke of yesterday about what killed
tho COW.
And Of those other things, you know. told her
OF them, too,
OF how said sharp things to her, ana she the
same TO me: -.
And how the more we arg'ed the more we didn't
agree.
-tod her that after thinking ont back to the
Since as We couldn't agree nohow that we had
better part,
How il seemed the more we arged the sadder
grew our plight;
treat her right.
Then read her the agreement from Whereas"
on clean through.
And asked her 70 examine it and see if it would
do.
Bstscy read each paragraph, and l asked her if
twas right;
She gave the paper back to me and said il wasn't
quite.
Then she went and took the Good Book and
opened to the rage
Whcreon was writ our chldren's birth, also the
name and age,
And now five out OK six OF them were written
with the dead
And as l read them names. l wished that some
things hadn't been said -+-,..-
And then she turned another page. where stood
her name and mine
In this way" Married. May the 10th, in 1929,
By Parson Hood, Of Pleasant Plains. John Blake
TO Betsey Lee"
Says She That is the contract John. l think,
for you and me.
You want me now to take it all, the live stock.
farm and home.
And turn you out upon the world, at SiXty-two,
But can't never do that, John. you've been too
kind TO me;
We've loved each other and been true. only we
dldn agree.
What boots it whether hollow-horn or murrain.
kllled the COW.
Since il weren't my place TO get spunky and
quarrel any how?
Wen let bygones be bygones. John, and take
Bein' yoked together forty years, we won't work
well apart.
And after all think we'll let this new agree
The old ones good enough; we've tried tits
good enough for me
And III hold my tongue hereafter, and not let 1t
Then well be happy as we were some thirty
years ago.
We loved each other in those days; leastways we
thought so then,
For you chose me of all the girls, and chose you
of men:
And once Tom Jones. the lawyer, tried to cut you
out, i think,
But mittened aim for love of you. Poor Tom
he died from drink hE.l
Folk. said that l was foolish then, but 1 have
e'er thought so,
For plenty's bettern poverty, and happiness than
woe;
So, J ohm. Wen not break partnership at least.
But let our boat glide with the tide, with love to
guide the Prov.
We will not live much longer here, for we are
And the years that God has given us ere long
will all b. told;
Now let's be friends again. and in Heaven we
-, needn't fear;
Well love each other better there. as we've been
lovers here"
The rest belongs TO Betsey and me. what was said
and done last night;
To-day we are as we used-to-was and all is going
right,
For everything is settled. and the storm is all
gone by; ~
There's no happier folk in all the land as is she
and |.
And I've come 70 tell you, lawyer. that l want to
pay your fee
For writing that agreement to which we didn't
agree.
Your work was all right. lawyer. but the cid one
so stout,
W e thought that we would stick to it, for we're
no longer out.