Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-08-29
=. We Are no Longer OUT

I'VE Are no Longer Out"
"Whai's up9" I'll tell you. lawyer. for I've
To fix up that agreement which you wrote out
And I'll yGsYP all that came of it.and settle up
For we don't need the contract now; think we
never will.
I took the paper you drew up down home the
otner nisbt
To read it to our Betsey. and see if 'twere sll
And after tea we both sat down to talk the mat
ter Ger.
And see if we could both agree to settle on that
score.
] told her how the starting point wherein we
disagreed. E44 tf = 5N r
Was ,onething concerning Heaven "a difference
And following this the other cause. I don't
That spoke Of yesterday about what killed
the COW.
Just as nigh as possible as teld them to you;
Of how 1 said sharp things to her. and she the
same to me;
And how the more we arg'ed the more we didn't
agree.
-told her that after thinking ont back to the
very start,
Since as we couldn't agree nohow that we had
better part,
How it seemed the more we arg'ed the sadder
grew our plight:
That wouldn't live with woman if 1 couldn't
treat her 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 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
Wherein was writ our children's birth. also the
name and age.
And how i've out of SIX of them were written
with the dead
And as read them names. 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 lS29.
By parson Hood. Of Pleasant Plains. John Blake
Says she, !" That is the contract John. I 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
We've loved each other and been true. only we
didn't agree.
" hat DOOUS II whether QOllOW-QOrQ, OF lQurrdlQ,
Since it weren't my. place to get spunky and
quarrel any how
Wen let bygones be bygones, John, and take
another start;
Bein' yoked together forty years. we won't work
well apart.
And after all 1 think we'll let this new agree
ment be;
The old ones good enough; we've tried tits
And I'll hold my tongue hereafter, and not let it
rattle so,
Then we'll be happy as we were some thirty
years ago.
We loved each other in those days; Ieastways 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, think,
But mittened him for love of you. Poor Tom |
he died from drink
Folks said that was foolish then. but I have
ne'er thought so,
For plenty's better'n poverty, and happiness than
Woe
So, John. Wen not break partnership; at least,
we will not now,
But let our boat glide with the tide, with love to
guide the Prov.
We will not live much longer here, for we are
getting old.
And the years that God has given us ere long
Now let's be friends again. and in Heaven we
needn't fear;
Wen 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 l.
And I've come to tell you. lawyer. that I 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,
We thought that we would stick to it, for we're
no longer out,