Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-09-26

be awake before he is has got O sit up
all night"
eth old man isn't anybody's fool
an that's a fact. Well, when u was al
settled, Joe Simmons was give tn Job
Father made q contrac' with him, an
think, | rayther think, that tn olt
man had n fair shave there, too
Played him an tn new man at tn,
Corners agin' each other, you see, an
got things down fine. But fonnd ou
from Joe what he'd promised o NOV,
EN- Tor, per corpse, an / told tn ole
man, just ms things was all ready & be
Rin, That guessed I'd leave Martha an
Tn, baby over in the old ground-time
bein' hard an there bein' no money fol
me, so far rs l could see, in havin' 'en
dug up an traDsplanted. That JUS
brought tn old man 6 his bearins in
hurry. He talked for good while, bu
stuck it out, an at last he give in
| givin' me bottom rates an not maxim
n cent on me. Iguess might ha' made
him pay cash for my contribution o. re.
mains, but allowed that he was my own
father an that | ought g honor him in
tn land fur enough not T. beat him at a
trade, anyway. More an above, |
come out somethin' more'n square on
sellin' my lot in tn old ground.
81 had q 90 down Z Bostun about
TIL time tn dlggin' up an transferrin'
was g be done, an when | got back il
was all over an Reub was putin tn
hnishin' touches Z tn tombstones. 1t
looked like it was a different cemetery,
up at fathers end; cheerful an com
panionable as anybody need want
Father'd d had two or three bites for lots
already, an tn old man was just tickled
Q death an thought more o. Mariar
than ever. But when | rot over home
an into the sittin' room, there was
Mariar lookin' like as she'd ct green
persimmins. She gets up from nursin'
tn baby, goes t tn mantel shelf an
reaches suthin' down.
60 Here's what Joe Simmons left for
you,' says she, talkin' in scornful sort
o. way like as she used t do when we
was keepin' company an she ketched
me sparkin' another girl. | didn't APP
prehend nothin' an 50 reaches out for
It an she hands it Z me. Gosh hang
me if It want big back tooth!
s'pose you recognize it, says she,
gettin' red. II do her Justice, Mariar
is most times very mild hammered
woman.
&c Recognize it, says l, no, I'll be
burned if do. d. you s'pose I'm on
speakin' terms with all tn old teeth in
tn countryP'
Maybe not says she, but guess
you've been on speakin' terms with that
tooth, an on kissin' terms with it, too
says she, gettin' redder an redder, an
either that tooth or me has got T. leave
this house in lesser no time, an that's
all there is about it!'
''' Mariar,' says /, what do you
meanP 1t was all l could say, for |
was just dumbfoundered, thought all
hands was goin' crazy.
60 Meanr says she, mean! Why
mean just what l say, an you may as
well understand it so. It's bad enough
t be told twenty times a day that this
want so an that want so when your
first was alive; that nothin' $ right
about the house now as It was when she
it; that her ways was perfec-
ton an mine just nothin' at all, an t.
ave it even limited that my looks is agin
me an that Pm no better scarecrow
alongside o. her, when everybody
knows that she had no more perten-
'ions to tidiness about tn house than a
BAT, an that she looked more like
worm fence than q human bein'; it's
BAD enough t ave all these cruel things
'aid all tn time an at no time without
Observation-Disclosures tn horrid
lead things teeth brought in here an
round for love tokens right
sfore my very eyes-O-o-o-o-hr
Then she busted out into n regular
'ryin' spell, took t huggin' tn baby,
IN went down all in q heap on tn set
zee.
60 1t upset me awful t ave her 90 on
n this cantankerous way, for knowed
didn't deserve it. I'd allus tried t be
| good husban' t her; hadn't never,
except in casual sort o. way, now an
hen, said anythin' about my first's
or looks, or things o. that
ort an I'd centrally let her ha' her
read in everythin' that didn't cost
lothin' an that didn't tech on me.
What she meant raisin' all this to.do
'ver tooth, couldn't see. knowed,
ure, that th' tooth want any o.
dartha's tooth, an when she quiieted
lown little | told her so. She riz up
N was off agin in no time.
Now, don't you try to deceive me-
ays she. You've set it all up with |
Ioe Simmons, but you didn't think he
know any better'n t let me
nto it, too. 1t was yesterday he come
ere with it, an he said, very confiden-
ial-like; "Give this T. your husband,
ma am, please, an tell him it's inter-
stin' keepsake of his first She'd sort |
, fallen apart. you sec, an as things
vas lynn round loose | thought I'd
lick this out fur him. It's sometimes
oothin' T. tn feelin's o. tn livin' T.
ave some tender momentum o. the dear
diseased by 'em. Mrs. Homans, only
asst week, ma'am, was tellin' me that
he still has tn mustard plaster that
'oor Mr.. Homans wore last before
,oin' t his long home, an tooth,
elm handler an more convenient like,
J better momentum o. TIL dead than
stale mustard plaster, you must al
ow"-an' then he cleared out, an |
elt like throwin' her tooth into tn pig
zen. An now, | just tell you plainly,
ither that tooth or mes got & leave
/" Mariar,' says l, very serious, Just
on listen T. me. You are maxim
nmitigated foolish virgin o. yourself,
there is one in all the Bible. Just
on put down that baby an listen t.
that I've got t say: ID You see this
ole in this tooth, an this piece cracked
FIN tn edgeP Well, that settles tn
hole business. That blamed fool of a
oe s gone an got those ,corpses
lixed, an when he Thought he was
ickin' out one. o. Martha's feeth-an'
won't say, even = please you, / /
have been glad t ave had
ne--he's just gone an picked out one
uncles.'
"Mariar looked as if she didn't be-
eve what | was sayin' but | pre-
ended not t notice, an went on:
:" Uncle says !, had this tooth
lugged not more'n two months afore
Q died-he died sudden-an' there was
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