Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-14
" We Are no Longer Ont"

We Are no Longer Snt.'
Whats .up?" I'll tell you. lawyer. for I've
come back you see.
To fix up that agreement whieh you wrote out
And Tell yoq all that came of it, and settle up
For we don't need the contract now; I think we
never viii.
1 took the paper you drew up down home the
To read it to our Betsey. and see if 'twere sl
right
And after tea we both sat down to talk the mat
And see if we could both agree to settle on that
score.
/ told her how the starang point. whereon we
disagreed.
Was something concerning Heavens difference
And following this the other cause, l don't
remember how. 49,,
That l spoke OF yesterday-about what killed
the cow
And of those other things. you know. | told her
Just as nigh as possible as told them to you.
OF how 1 said sharp things to her. and she the
And how the more We arg ed the more we didn't
agree.
l told her that after thinking ont back to the
Since as We couldn't agree nohow that We had
better part.
That wouldn't live with a woman if couldn't
treat bsr right.
Then read her the agreement from Whereas"
on clean through.
And asked her to examine it and see if it would
Betsey read each paragraph. and l asked her if
twas right;
She gave the paper back to me and said it wasn't
quite.
Then she went and took the Good Book. and
opened to the page
Whereon was writ our children's birth. also the
And how five out of six of them were written
with the dead
And as read them names. l wished that some
things hadn't been said.
And then she turned another page. where stood
In t Rff %ane IN Mard. May the 10th. in 1921
By Parson Hood. Of Pleasant Plains. John Blake
Says she. g 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 sxty-two.
to roam;
But can't never do that. John. you've been too
kind to me-;
We've loved each other and been true. only we
didn't agree.
What boots it whether hollow horn. or murrain.
Since it weren't my, place to get spunky and
quarrel any how?
Well lot bygones be bygones. John. and take
another start;
Bein' yuked together forty years. We won't work
well apart
And after all 1 think we'll lot this new agree
mcnt be;
The old ones good enough; we've tried tits
good enough for me
And I'll hold my tongue hereafter. and not let il
ratteso.
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
And once Tom Jones. the lawyer. tried to cut you
out. | think,
But l mittcned him for love OF you. Poor Tom
he died from drink!
Folks said hat l was foolish then. but hav,
meier thought so.
For penty's better'n poverty. and happiness thar
So. John. we'll not break partnership; at least
we will not now,
But let our boat glide with the tide. with love tt
guide the PROV.
We will not ii live much longer here. for we are
And the years that God has given us ere Ions
Now let's be friends again. and in Heaven W,
x needn't fear;
We'll love each other better there. as we've beer
lovers here"
The rest belongs to Betsey and me- what was said
and done last night;
To-day we are as used iowa and all is coins
right.
For everything is settled, and the storm Is al
gone by;
There's no happier folk in all the land as is she
and L.
And I've come to 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 old one
stout,
We thought that we would stick to it. for we re
no longer out.