Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-03-19
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from the clouds. "It's morn two
years since he has been with any Of
them wild chaps, an its my opinion
that if he'd kept away from EN- in the
first place, he'd been a tough now, in
stead ofhaving to take so many lot
them little pills to brace him up.
Umphl the idec of them things bra
Gin anybody up" M 4la g
BY the Chances she cast .heavenwar.l,
it was evident the good lady had BEEN
persuaded this would fetch the answer
she expected if anything would, and,
ffyuratively speaking, she prepared MT
To leaveita leg to stand s,is Uncle
lDavsd4ahhsd his no., sisIssstlys ahds Md
nothing. -. - -. :. !. 81 4 s.
|, ssTheres Kate, toe. When We took
her in an adopted her, m made AZ
much 1T her asi il she was our own
dead baby come to life"-at tear here
| glistened in the old 4lady's .eye-"ve
expected she. wouldn't make us no
trouble nor nothing Now look at
her, say, coming home from church
only last night with that Tom Jones
with her; he wearin' mustache, too,
and his father a deacon in the church. :"
This last seemed particularly dreadful
to Aunt Hepsey. Uncle David candy
smoked his pipe, rubbed his nose, and.
somehow, didn't seem at all Mortified
! There, there, Hepsey. don't"
"That's jist like you, David Cum
nlings; you wouldn't fret if the whole
earth should cave in. Next you know
that gal will be gettin' married.; gals
are so foolish nowadays they don't
know what they want or what's good
for EN-, neither" -'sil ir'i@
.Bout the same as they used to be,
Hersey; jist about the same, for what !
see. Better let 'em alone, an it'll all
come straight, guess and Uncle Da-
| vid went off to the barn to see to
things, while Aunt Hepsey went into
the house, first looking around to see.
# that answer was in sight anywhere
She was far from being in as calm a
frame OF mind as Uncle David about
both John and Kate. The former wor
ried her with endless new diseases he
was going to have, and endless new
medicines he was taking to cure them;
/ homeopathic medicines too, which SHE
couldn't SEE any sense or use in. The
latter troubled her far more about get
ting married: and especially to that
'sTome Jones. with mustache." Aunt
He2sey wanted her to stay with them,
or at any rate till some one came along
good enough for her; and as no man
was ever made who could come up to
her rigid standard, and that staying al.
ways meant the same thing. Kate was
very pretty, and Of course had many
admirers which kept the good old lady
in perpetual fever of false alarm. +
just at Aunt Hepsey sat down to her
sewing John came in; and handsome
fellow he was too, or would have been
it he were not wrapped and muffied 10
the last degree for warm autumn day. Z
He seated himself BY the fire with
groan. ai7g @
What's the mstteri" rather sharply.
asked Aunt Hepsey, who, although one
Of the kindest women in the world at
heart, had way Of speaking that made
her seem otherwise.
FIN afraid I'm going to have a ty
phoid," solemly replied the invalid.
| '".What makes you think 80 I"
! 81 felt a cold chill run up my back
| just now, and that's one of the synip
toms, groand John. e. 81
Zone of the fiddlesticks," snorted the
old lady. II have them any tine."
.sl'lln afraid I've got ii" was the lu-
gubrious reply. "My heart disease i
worse to-day, too; it thumped quite
hard as came up the hill. Just hand
me that pill box s.
The pills were handed with an indig-
nant jerk, and the sewing resumed.
After pause the sick man went on:
Il am quite confident my cancer is
growing rapidly;l have FIVE distinct
pains in my liver thiS afternoon. and
three this morning an increase Of two,
you see; there is no doubt my stomach
is diseased past all help. i have had
no appetite all day (only eight buck
wheat cakes this n1oining) }; probably in
! farnation il about to set in. Pass the
bottle of aconite, l am . little teverish.
The aconite went across with sniff.
II don't know but shall have thf
lock jaw; they have felt very strangely
all day.
Another pause. 4Aa4
"Don't you think we'd better have i
4 little more fret Ny neuralgia has
been threatening all morning" y.
! Aunt Hepsey said nothing as she put
on more wood, but from the way she
looked at the chimney it was evident
she thought that answer might come