The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-04-13
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Like the elihnt and the kangerco.


Like the eli6nt and the kangerco."
Twinses is like the pistums or the
walkin beam NV a ambOte-when you
laws one down you takes the luther one
up, and when they both opens thar skape-
pipes and squalls at the same time, why
lettin off steme Is Quaker meetin to It.
F'yar well, 'vane wonP, I'm 4 gwine
home No you ain t--yOu' re gwine TO
ten to them twinses, ten TO nuthin but
them if you don I want the nous To cam
down and a plezant item you'll hav w
it. You may talk te me bout GypcL IN
bOndige, fbut a muther at ded NV mite
wrastlin with two bawlin, squallin
rhinestone holrin TO see if his holrin
amt louder holrin than the holrin NV
the luther one holrin-a mother endurin
NV that bondige sturs my sympathies
morn the Gypchuns and Izralites com
bined
a quare thing is that the man gifts all
the kredit fur twinses, while the woman,
that has ten thousun items a heap the
hardest item. don't git nun. Folks is in
klined to blame her and tell her :" no mo
Nv that, now" But the man puts on
his hat and walks 4th with a ar nv
modest pride, like the man that chawed
the hons Off n a steer fur bet. d"
don't take no kredit fur this" he kinder
seems to say, " RELY don't, but still [
want TO git the credit all the same.
faint everybody has twinses, and then
is umhil bout it like me-" And they
tell me thar is wimmin that actillv is
envus and jelius Nv wimmin that has
twinses, and wood fain git the resipe if
thar was one. Well, thar childun that
brags bout bein sicker than luther q l.
dun, and its a twisted sort of a worlS
live in enyway. / don't enderstan it no
way-nor don't ever hope to. 1t gifts
me-got me long ago.
The last obzurvashun / got To make
bout twinses ar this: They kin do
more kryin to the mint and kiver a
square inch quicker and thicker with
bawl and squawl than any luther Twin
thing except a Linchburg ockshuneer NV
Tugs.
There few remox is drord 4th by
/ Meekins. Wv all and NV all-but I'm
cumin to that dreckly. Peter Meekins
my naber-our back lots jines. He Is
the wevil-eatiness man l know. Sumthin
| is always the matter with his durn tung,
and from gum-biles TO corns thar aint
nuthin that he don't hav and keep on
udNll II. DAoDNDSl IL lAl0 TAdiDF1 anu
when he amt got that he fills up the
chinx with dipthery. He can't barley
walk, becoZ he's got the furtogO. Things
won't gee with him so he is always in a
state NV wo. Wv all and NV all. He
takes a melunkoly view. This worl'
looks to him like mixter NV misery,
bluein and lamp black. Wv all humins
| kinnot understan it. Thar ain NOR
enuf NV him to make do-mat, he is
very shucky and shaky, and is fraziled
oat at his edgis into sumthin that ansers
az he'd, arms, and legs. Now NV all and
NV all humin beins who should hav
twinses but this same Meekias. It's a
fac, by gum and it Jest knot me down
you know. amt fetch breth good since
heard it.
My wife must have told me, but my
that disremembered it till the luther day
when | met him on the strete. He were
very sadd. His chin wiggled and his
nose wobbled, he wer SO very sadd.
In the name of mizry," says, /,
d" Meekins, what's the matter %
All" he says, groanin. and the water
gethered in his eyes.
Glow is your drotted tuDg, now?
Gays.
his nose trimbled.
IS Tell me, tell me quick" 1 says; 81
feel 40 sorry fur you, and want to do
sumthin fur you rite away"
"Well," he says, in vols that went
to nv very hart, " were-I were took
down with the twinses bout 3 month
10 ax-ar cinpa -
" What !" | Exclaimed, "yo? NV all
and NV all. YOU got twinses9 Civ me
vo' hanl" and / grabbed him to kon
graduate him.
But | heerd sumthin like krokry
-crackin inside NV him, and feerin he wood
cum to peeces in my han let him go.
eyes" he says, they has lit down
upon me in my ole age and they is hevy."
And he weept.
"Well, well, welll" l says, "uv all
and NV all-this beats bobtail. Gedrls, NV
corset"
No" he says, sorrerful, "two NV as
fine boy as ever swollered catnip.'
"And you cryin bout that?" says I.
(" Two muses., he says, "two kribs,
two sets uv-uv--uv evervthing--two
-" And he sobbed he actilly did.
Cheer up, my lively lal," (much
lively bout him, cheer ~" | says.
But he woed'n cheer a bit.
Two baby carriages, two paruv shoes,
two scots nv klothes, too everything, too
much too much too much - And he
fairly boohood. X
Says I, 9. Meckins, fur goodness saTe
don't Civ way so-you'll bust the
breechin NV 70 very soul if you kepe on
that way"
But he KEEP on, thrown his face down
into his hands raid, in passhun nv
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