The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1878-03-29

1 III a pan OF SIAFcns Anu sue wal
dressed so fine too, all in the very Ia
test finest fashun Grecian bend and
Polly Pardon dress, all ruffled and
fiounced and pleted and tucked up
with dead oodles of ribens and iewelry,
and hy-heeled shoes To match hit.
Take her all I'm a lump she ar the pur-
tiest gal in the world. She jist fitted
that ar winder and that ar winder IjiIt
fitted hur. A gal always did look nice
tiH q winder at meetin, specially if the
wiuder war purity ny, but none ever
| looked SO nice TO me before. Then she
| behaved so ladyiike too, she didn't set
/ Ike statu, listenen to the sarmint
like most of the gals do back in ole IL
| zard, but she war laffin and taukin all
the time, an showed she war enjoyin
| the sarmint fust rate. People ar not
SO puFtielar here at meetin as they are
| back in Arksnsaw. This yer gal in
| trested me more than everything else
at that ar meetin.. Presently hur and
/ another gal. what had on Iiu caliker
dress, went to the spring, lpunched
Cousin Pesker and we went too, fur l
war nifty dry. When we got to the
| spring Cousin Pesker give me pro-
| ductioI to hur,- and hur name-oh,
| what sweet name ii war Popsie PO.
1 sorter stood back and sorter on one
side; my yeers stuck up on the side of
my head like pet pigs when you
tickl him under the jaw. To tell you
tire truth don't know how L did feel
nor what done, nor what ] sed, ! felt
so all-overish. felt like | wanted to
give her something the first thing /
recollect. / thought / had stick of
candy, but didn't. .! would give
Roper fur a stick of candy. l had
half ginger cake left, gave her that
and she eat it just like anuthur gal
wood, and sed it war bully. ] stood
long time and didn't say enything, fur
didn't know what to say AT last
she ses: Oh, Mr.. Virgins. looked
around fur Dad, fur some folks call
him Mr.. Wiggins-Mr. Virgins, oh
how it sounded. NJ. Virgins from
lips SO sweet war far sweeter than the
musick of Mans dinner horn when
one are tired and hungry. Mr.. Wig
gins, have you got sum terbackeT'
Nes, ses /, and give hur hole slab;
and she took chaw jest like do, and
sed it war good.
Sez /, it ar nice wether. She sed it
war splendid. Ses /, thar ar heap of
people here to-day. Sez she, lots of
'em. Then aXed her if mout go
home with her. She sed | mOut.
Then she went and got on her fine lit
tie spotted hoss and | got ole Roper
aud we started. We hadn't gone fur
when her hOss begun to pitch and
pitch dreadfully. You folks hack in
Arkansaw don't know eny thing about
hoss pitchin. Well, the way the in
fernal things do it ar this: They tucks
down thar heads between thar fore
Iaigs and stiffen all their legs, and rare
up behind and kick up before, and jist
keep doin sorter like sheep when
he are skeered, or a sash saw mill
when she or rUflnin away. ] don't
know what made POpsie's darned hOss
do it Jest then, unless he jes wanted to
show out. The fust thing l noed he
war bouncin jest like thunder and IL
TENN all over thatar bottom. POpsie
froze TO him--but at last the geert
broke and split the saddle and POpsie
on the ground all in pile together.
swar / wouldn't a give Quart puckOnS
then an thar for POpsie's life-I iist
noed she war kilt. Ikryed sarim, But
befQre ] pOnd git to her by golly she
had crawled outen that ar pile, and
war holdin and cussin that ar boss;
and he war still pitchin Iaway, so that
could not tell whether she war
kussin at the ditchin, Or he pitchin at
the kussin. She hit him. [ tell you
backbone. She ar trll blue EaFtiu, And
she ar the best on a stFate out kuSSin
match l ever hearn. ] always did luv
to hear a woman kuss, itar so becOmin.
Two things can beet fiddle all hOllar
maxim mustck aud they ar hen
nroWtn and a woman kuSstn. j wood
ride ten miles of O cold mite to hear a
one-Popsie war not hurt but war aw-
fully changed. Darned if / hardly
noed her. Thar had bin nifty big de-
structiOn of dry goods thar, scattered
all around and stickin TO the brush
ginerally. Her har war 9 stiokin up
in the t9l4 or q busii-the Holly Pardon
war scattered round promiscuously,
and hur hat war sumwhar else. An
last and biggist of all found a his
roll of nusepapers-Yau bet Rhe ar in-
| teiefgeat aud keeps posted. 1t tuck
Us a good while to repair damages, re-
rig and git started agin, but we did
after awhile without any further cat
| aStrowphe. When we got thar her
nanny put on her specks and looked
at ME kinder pross-eYed, and Thought
| / saw SPARKS of tlre rollin off her nose,
but ! reckon / didn't. She said she
wundured what bizness / had thar
] said nothin, jist loud it war hur
way of taukin; I thunk nothin of
that. She went out and tuck PQpsie
with her; Presently the ale man come
in. Ses he, rogues are not welcome
! about my house. Ive hearn of you--
you ar that ar roguish Pete Virgins
outen Piper-your cumpanv ar not
wanted here. l said nothin, sposed
it war his way. 1 thunk nothin of
that, SO / sot still. The ole man left,
and presently Popsie's brother Jim
| Ium in. He ar q great korn kad fellef
as big as d hoSs. He said nathin to
me, but just tuck me by the back of
the neck like | was sick kat, gived
me a shuv towards the door, and give
me two of the darndest kicks right on
the place whar lOafer fust wares out
| his pants. / war outen thar them
didn't kLOw what 10 make of Jim. !
reckon he war Jest trSin his nW boots
tho Had hit a bin epybody else
should of hurt him, but my affections
are sogreat for POpsie | luv the hole
family ginerally. So thunk the mat
ter over and cluded my cumpany war
not eXceptionable thar, SO left. I'm
Gle, I'm in luv to deth; weod give
the world and al the "a r. Ia ii for Pop
! ste. ! rite 10 you for advice. ! am
mitily in a barrel of trouble.
Your nephew til deth
PETE WIGGISz,
Ia EhiniyeF WiggIssi fisa., Frog
| Inv KOSIOfftce. IZard county, Ari<AO-