The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-02-20


why ugliness,s for she was we'll aware
that only her own repeated assurances
that Laviny would not soften toward
him if left to herself had kept him pas
sive thus far. ~.a-s -sts.tv -
Seems if wasn't doing the hand=
some thing not to go nigh her. he often
said. ''I wonder whether or no she
amt counting on my fetching her %
.f1'f If she comes of her free-will she'll
be likely teilstas put, = Miss Phebe
would answer; but try to drive hcrs
and you know what Laviny is.
! Mr.. HindIs did know, unfortunately,
and, knowing, schooied himself to pa
ient waiting. ''rA
Tlnis the days wore ON, and he
plodded through the spring work,
cheered a little ID spite of himself by
Miss Phebe's earnest efforts at making
him comfortable, willie Laviny, nlorti-
he'd and then alarmed by his non-appear-
anee, worried herself into a COURSE of
exasperating. sick headaches, aud in
every sense shut out the sunlight from
the hOuse-of the Tripps-z In the midst
of paint-scrubbing Airs. Tripp fouad no
leisure to devote to her complaining sis
ter, but left one of her children to wait
npon her. Mrs. Hinkle felt abused.
When. had Reuben been too busy to
bathe her aching temples Little Joe
made her nervous as.aiwitch. and one
day she told him so, 1anIls1 moment
after had the satisfaction of hearing
him SAY to. his mother in the kitchen
that he itceuldn't get along with Aunt
Laviny lnohow." s Goa sa- rs f.7fE.
- Why, that was just what Reuben had
said :; Reuben. who had never spoken
hastily ol.her in his life Was she, an
uncomfortable person to live with ?5s.f,
ii '''Tain't in the power Of mortal man
to .getz along with you, Layiny."' The
words came back to her with the smart
ing force. OF proof-text, and haunted
her afterward continually. ,..'t ---''il !
1t must have been in rhubarb time,
for dandelion greens had gone by, when
one morning little Joe rushed in with
the terrible tidings that 'Uncle Reu-
-ben had fallen -keE-clrunka from a beam
in the barn. . .ta+ Iss1-.7F
Mrs. Hinkle tore the bandages from
her head and started up. .....-....
where's my bonnet, Susan? I'm
going homer a--iD &C.
Maybe he isn't badly injured, Wait
till we hear further, urged Mrs. TripP.
IS ''I tell you I'm going home, Susan
Tripp! Where's my bonnet ?" and
snatching it by the string, Mrs. Hinkle
sprang into the wagon just vacated 10y
her nephew, and drove away at a doc
tors pace.
Little Joe turned R series of somer-
saults, and then lay writhing on the
grass in a 1T Of uneontrollable giggling.
Didn't Aunt Laviny streak it?'
shouted he. And Uncle Renben
wasn't hurt mite, but she wouldn't
let me tell her Tee-hee-heeI"
Yet, though no b hes were broken
the. fail, it. il, a fact tt Mr., Hinkie
found ais two linndred pounasavoirpu
pois considerably shaken, and he was
actually, according to his wife's predic
ton, camping down on the lounge i'll
his boots, when, opening his eyes, they
rested on her frightened face in the
doorway,
"Why, bless your heart! come right
in, Laviny, said he. And She went in,
and shut the door.
L Five minutes afterward, as Miss
/ Phebe lifted the latch, she heard her
sister-in-lsw say:
"I know 1 have hectored you awfully,
Reuben, but I do mean to live peacea-
BILE now, and put up with your folks. -
And Reuben answered, heartily, g
haven't blamed you. a bit, Laviny. !
knowed twas Miss Niddlins' work. But
after we'd lived together so long, she
might have let us be tilh God divorced
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