The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-06-14
The Baby's Missing Shirt.

Jones, "to so to the wedding" was
going, father was going, the gals was
going, anu we was going to take the
baby. But, come to dress the baby,
COUNT find the baby e Shirt I'd laid
q clean one out of the drawers pur~
pose. I know'd just where I'd put
It, bat come to look for it twas
gone. " '.,'' ....''." ~. .'.'.. 49,. /
'For mercy's sakei' says I, "gals
has any one Of ye seen that baby's
shirt9
Of course none of them had seen it
and / looked, and looked, and looked
again, bpt t'want nowhere to be
found. lite the strangest thing in
all naturer says I-'here I had the
shirt In my hand not more'n ten
minutes ago, and now it ir gone, no
body can tell wherel / never seen the
beatI Gals,' says I, do look around,
Cant YET But frettiug would not
find it; so / give up and went to the
bureau and fished up another shirt,
and put it onto our baby; and at last
we was ready TO start.
Father'd harnessed up the double
team-we drove the old white mare
then-and gals and ali we're having
a good time, going to see Mary Ann
married; but somehow l couldn't get
over that SHIRT. Twant the sI!irt 80
much, but to have anything spirited
away right from under my face and
eyes go twas provoking. -.
'What ye thinking about mother2"
says Sophrony, 'what makes ye 30
sober3' says she. o"
| '1'm pestered to death thinking
about that are Shirt says 1. One of
you must took it,
'Now MAJ says Sophrony, says
che 'you needn't say that,' says she
) and as laid it to her a good many
times che was beginning to get vexed
and 90 we had it back and forth all
about that baby's shirt, until we ar
rived at the wedding.
Seeing company kinder put it out
of my mind, and was getting good
natur'd agin, though l couldn't help
saying to myself every few minutes.
what could have become of that
shirtI' till at last they stood up to be
married, and l forgot oil about it,
Mary Ann was areal modest creature
and was MORN frightened TO death,
when she came into the room with
Stephen, and the minister told them
to jine hands. She fust give her left
hand to Stephen. your other hand,'
says he, poor Steve was 80 bashful
too, he didn't know what he was
about-he thought twas his mistake,
and that the minister ment him, so he
gave Mary Ann his left hand. That
wouldn't do any way; but by this
time they didn't know what they
was about, and Marry Ann joined
her right hand with his left, and the
left with his right, then both their
hands aRin till was all of o fdget,
and thought they never would get
fixed. Mary Ann looked as red as a
turkey, and to make matters worse
she began to cough, TO turn off sup.
pose, and called for glass of water
! The minister had been drinking, and
tue tumbler stood right there, and I
was so nervous aud in such q hurry
to see it all over with, ketched mp
| the tumbler and run with it to her:
for thought to goodness she was 60
ing to faint. She undertook 20 drink
IL don't know how it happened, but
the tumbler slipped and glorious mel
if between us both we didn't spill the
tumbler Of water all over her collar
and eleeve. "
was dreadfully frustrated, for it
looked as though it was my fault; and
the fnst thing l did was to out with
my handkerchief and give it to Mary
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