The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-08-10
Uncle Gabe,s Story.

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are prepsripgs dor bed among whom
is Uns,saG aG,beS asae fgeuius of the
crowd.
Uncle Gabe's partner for the night
drsws the attcptiYn of the boys, by sim
giqgau5 y clio, Egcle Gabe What max es
yoiEkestAach n lUpg tailed shirt? Well
now, fellows, I've worn long tailed shirts
nigh on to thirty years. lost gal
oaceJRy wearing q short tailed shirt,
aqagif goalwilI keep still III tell you
algabodtEib Tsog ITIs0ago
Tisirty years ngo I was tolerablo
/; ysssz eaaaad lived ia Texas, aud in,
the summer of 1912, some folks moved
out thar from East Tennessee, old friends
OF fQurn aand they. y.had three likely gals. !.
the zGidesEf which Ihad a kinder bank
cring arter hack in the old State. Well,
they had been out there FIVE OR six weeks
afaFk lheard oft, but the Sunday after
I determined I would strike out,
bought me a pair often dollar pauts and
fancy reaayrmade shirt, Of a j ew.-,
Well when | came oEput on the shirt.
thetail give out just below my waisband
about four Inches, it was all the clean
one had, aud wern't a going to back
ItSste Sllofthirty miles to my gals
house, and as 1 started late | didn't
make It'll late, and nothing to, eat
since breakfast [ arrived tolerable VOL
fish.
They had just, gotIinto new double
log house, the end they were living in
was dobed and chinked, but the other
end only had the roof on The old man
helped me put up my mustang pony
and Weayept UP to the house. !.
Well VAS kind of bashful and sot
down in the Chimney corner, and rite
along the side of me sot long bundled
frying pan the kind they use on the
plains you know, 1 got to running first
one fngerAAen another in the hole in
the handle, and at last I got my middle
finger in aud fast, aud L couldn't get it
out, ferA pullsdym,d (sweated, but it
wern'tno use, it were there Just then
they asked me to set up to supper, but
said Ithad eat a late dinner and wern,t
bit hungry. but 7Lord7I Were orful
hungrey, anu grub cooking made me
wuss:: But while they were ut supper
sIssset my finger oatea the hole. Well,
talked to my galtill about 10 O'Clock,
then she showed me "a bedsinsthe unfin-
ished end of the house where IAturncd
in for the halance ofthe night tolerabe
happy and Elniserably hungrey The
wind blowed in through the cracks be-
sweep the lops on my head pretty cvld.
go Itoook my new cashmere pants and
stuck in the crack and | went to sleep.
l was woke up in the morning by hear
ing the gals getting fast, so |
.thoesht IswouId getiup and reached for
my pants in the crack but they wern't
tlisirs 50. thought they had dropped
.'dateh che crack and I riz up and looked
thro'W7pnd cuss my old buttons if SOM
soppag calves hadn't found them and
chawed them all to pieces. | laid down
and softly cussed them calves.
Pretty soon one Of the gals come to
the door asked me to get ready and
coma tobreakfiist, but | told her 1 was
sick aud couldn't eat, at the same time
Il could have, cat Drilled dog, ilst
hen.
= = Tbey all eat their grub and the gals
fwentito milk, and could look through
nc crack and see them when they got
thfc, milking, and then they come back
and sbt the milk buckets inside the back
door of my room, at the foot of the bed,
aad went back to part the cows from
the caives,so thinks I, now is my chance
roget a good drink of milk, out of bel
Jumped and gathered big wooden
fncket by each side, and was just LETTING
i srop down my throat when the cusscd
I'll d.oped back over my head, and /
s.eard the gals comming, 1 knowed 1 was
? !; e!'a bud Gz, so stood my ground open
,ssa.,ie the door, in pranced all three of
''elfe gals for the buckets, when gazcd
7IBs =. f..a.., ai..,,..-..pJ o,vr ono ousu OF thc
i1l cket on my neck, and they did not
GEAR to see the show until they got
i iy close to me, then they give lite
:, ,apd7a whist, and was by myself,
5SssyusI give tho buokos twist aud got
i ofmy neck, and kicked it under the
hels aud crawled back into my old
uesa.