The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-01-02
SSiui&a5rens ST. Of Nathen Spooner.
DY JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE.


heavy fine to pay for shettin' up doors
you wouldn't never lose Il cent of your
property in that way" and says
tlutchin' my lap full of carpet rags with
tirmcr grip, for truly, they wus fu,!er.
you don't want me to blow away, Josiah
Allen, shet up that door"
ooh, shaw! Samantha, you wont blow
HurrycaDe, and Simon, too, to tackle
you, and lift you"
"Simon who?" says I, in cold axcnts,
partly by the chilly blast, and partly by
his darin' to say any man could take me
up and carry me away.
"Ohl the Simons they have on the
desert. Pve henrn Thomas j. read about
'ein. They'll blow camels away, and
everything"
Says I, drcamily, who'd have
thought twenty years ago, to have heard
that man a-courtin' me, and callin' me a
zeohire, and q pink posy, and a angel,
that he'd ever live to see the day he'd
call me Il camel"
meant that you was hefty, and camels
wus hcfty. And i. would take Simon
"a two to lift you round, either on YOU"
wall, says ], in frigid tones, "what
| want tC know is, are you a-goin' to shet
that door,"
"Yes, 1 be, jist as quick as change
these new brches."
ms could lay holt of-half bent, tryin'
Ennn tn, e
rags from spillin' over the hoor-and
wcrt and sI'et the door myself, which |
might havo known enough to done in the
first place, and saved Time and breath.
For shettin' of doors is truly accom-
plishment that Josiah Allen never will
master. have touched him up in lots
OF things, sense we wus married, but in
that branch of education lie has been too
much for me; have about gin up.
In the course of ten or fifteen minutes
josiah came out of the bed. room lookin'
rs peaceful and pleasant as You NAV
please, with his hands in his pantaloons
pockets, scarclin' their remote depths,
and says he, in finland, careless wav
"I'll be hanged if there lan't Il letter
for you, Samantha"
How many weeks have you carried it
round, Josiah Alen?" Says |. at
would scare me if you should give me "a
letter before you had carried i: round in
yonr pockets Is month III 5o.'
"Oh! | guess | only got this two or
three days ago. l meant to handed it to
you the first thing when | got home
But haih't had on these old breeches
sense that day l went to mill"
Three weeks ago, tod day." says !, in
almost frosty axents, as l opened my
letter.
"Wall," says Josiah, cheerfully, II
knew it wuzn't long, anyway"
II glanced my gray eye down my let
ter, and says |, in agitated tones:
She that was Alzina Ann Allen il
comm here a-visitin'. She wrote nc
three weeks ahead, SOS to have me pre-
pared. And here she is liable to come
in on us any minute, now, and kctch us
all unPrepared," says !. II wouldn't
have had it happened for tcn-cent bill
to had one of the relation, on your side
come and ketch me in such condition
Then, The curtains are all down in the
spare ro1.n washed 'em yesterday
and they hain't ironed. And the CARPET
in the settin'room W to mend and mol
mite OF fruit cake IN the house, and she
a.conin' here to-day. l am mortified
most to death, Josiah Allen. And il
you'd give me that letter. should have
hired help, and got everything done.
should think your conscience would
smart like burr, if you have got con.
science, .!osinh 4 len"
"Wali, less have little sunthin' t.
eat, Samantha. aud III help round"
"Help! Whal'll you do, Josiah AL
len?"
"Oh I'll do the barn chores, and helI
all can. guess you'd better cook 6
little Of TINT Canned samnon, ] gni /.
Jnncsviiie."
Says /, coldly, II believe, Josiah AL
len. If you wus on your way to the gallus
you'd make 'em stop and get vittles fol
you, meat vittles, if you could'
didn't say nothn' more, for, as the
greatest puets has sung, "the least said
The soonest mcnded." But l rose, anc
with outward calmness, put on the tea
kettle and potatoes, and opened the car
of salmon, aud jist as put that over the
stove, with some sweet cream and butter
ifyou'll believe it, that very minute, she
that was Alzina Ann Allen drove righ
up to the door, and come in.
You could have knocked me dowr
with hens feather las it were), III,
feelin's wis such but concealed 'e,r
as we'll as could, and advanced TO th,
door. and says | (:
"How do you do, Miss Richerson %
ale is married to Jenothen Richerson
old Daniel Richerson's oldest boy.
She is tall, spindlin' lookin' wemen
light Completed, sandy haired, and Will
big, light blue eyes | hadn't seen he
fur nineteen yeers, but she seemed dred
ful tickIed to see me, and she says:
You look younger, Samantha, thar
you did the first time ever seen you"
ooh, no!' says /, "that can't be
Alzina Ann, for that is in the ncighhor
hood of thirty yeers ago"
Says she, "It is true as live ant
breathe, you look younger and hand
so ner than ever seen you look"
II didn't believe it, but l thought i
wouldn't look well to dispute her an,
more, so let it go; and mebby sh
thought she had convinced me that dit
look younger than I did, when l wa
eighteen or twenty. But only said
"That didn't feel so young anyway.
had spells Of fcelin' mauzer."
She took of her things, she wus dress
ed up awful slick, and Josiah helpe'
bring in her trunk. And told her jus
how mortified wus about .Josiah's for
gcltin' her letter, and her ketchin' IN
unprcpared. But, good Lord she toll
me that "she never in her hull life, sc
house in the order mine WIS, nevol
aud she hid seen thousands and thou'
ands of different houses" 3t
Says T., 81 feel worked up. and almo'
mortified, .bout my settin-room carpc
ben' up"
But she held up both hands (they wl