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

Twinses is like the pistums or the
walkin beam NV a ambote-when you
lays 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 WOMB, I'm gwine
home. No you ain't--yOu'r re a gwine to
ten to them twinses, ten to nuthin but
them if you don't want the nous to cum
down and plezaut item you'll hav NV
it. You may talk to me bout GypcLuu
bondige, but 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 bondiCe Fsturs my sympathies
morn the Gypchuns and IzTalites COM
bined.
A quare thing il that the man gifts all
the kredit fur twinses, while the woman,
that has ten thousun items heap the
hardest item, don't git nun. Folks IA 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 ho'n off'n a steer fur a bet.
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.
'Tahlt every body has twinses, and then
is umhil bout it like me-" And they
tell me thar is wimmin that actilly 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 chill
/ dun, and its twisted sort of worP we
/ live in anyway. | don't enderstan it no
way-nOr don't ever hope to. | gifts
me-got me long ago.
/ The last obzurvashun ! got 10 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 ockahuneer NV
Tugs.
Thee 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
4 the wevil-eatiness man know. Sunthin
/ is always the matter with his durn tung,
/ and fIom gum-biles to corns thar Amt
nuthin that he don't hav and keep on
! havin it. Dispepsy is his stanby, and
] " AAtu lt ANU ROb llldI lAC HIS up lAiC
/ chinx with dipthery. He cant 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 worp
| looks to him like mixter NV misery,
bluein and lamp black Nv all humins !
l kinnot understan it. Thar ain mon
enuf NV him to make a do-mat, he is
very shucky and shaky, and is fraziled
out at his edgis into sumthin that anse rs
az he'd, arms, and legs. Now NV all and
NV all humin beins who should. hav
twinses but this same Meekins. 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
mind hay bin so ockqupide with politix
that aforementioned it till the luther day
TIA n | met him on the strete. He were
u, sadd. His chin wiggled and his
nose wobbled, he wer SO very sadd.
In the name of mizry," says, l.,
q Meekins, what's the matter p
"Ahp he says, groanin. and the water
gethered in his eyes.
Chow is your drotted tung, rowY'
?1Taint that" says he, and the teers
cum a rollin down his holler cheek, and
his nose trimbled.
"Tell me, tell me quick" [ says; az
feel so sorry fur you, and want to do
sumthin fur you rite away"
"Well," he says, in a vols that went
to nv very hart, were-I were took
down with the twinses bout month
ago. and bin very 10 ever since"
sfWhat :" l Exclaimed, "yo? NV all
and NV all, you got twinses? Civ ne
vo' hanl" and / grabbed him to kon-
graduate him.
But | heerd sumthin like krokry
crackin inside wv 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.
and NV all-this beats bobtail. Gearls, NV
No, he says, sorrerful, 1.-TWO NV as
fine boy as ever swollered catnip.
"And you cryin bout that?" says l.
1.-Two muses." he says, "two kribs,
two sets uv-uv--uv everything--tw
- And he sobbed--he actilly did.
Cheer up, my lively lad, (nluch
lively bout him. cheer ~, | says.
But he woed'n cheer bit.
Two baby csrriages, two par NV shoes,
two scots NV klothes, too everything, too
much too much too much - And he
fairly boohood.
Says /, g Meekins, fur goodness sake
don't Civ way so-youll bust the
breechin ny yo very soul if you kepe on
that a way
But he KEEP on, THROWN his face down
into his hands raid, in passhun Nv
teeIs:
HOub!l tie and dpbil ,ubiI.
Chlldpa bile and laeis hnehil,N