The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1880-02-05
[For the n. Y. Tribune, by Resident of Georgia.
GEORGIA SKETCHES.
A REVEREND REPRoBATE.

''Good ebenin', Mars Gordon; how's
your health dis ebenin', sab? An dis
de little lady, sab? Yes, ma'am, good
ebenin', ma'am. Yes, ma'am, I'm
Nelly's husban', ma'am. been a
wantin' to see Mars Gordon's wife
eber sence | heerd he done cotch one;
an Nelly, she talk so much bout Miss
Jasmin, ma'am. | do RELY, reely,
ma'am, feel so tankful to you, yes
ma'am, for dem little pills you give
my wife to cure her toothache, ma'am.
She tink dere amt nobody like Miss
Jasmin, sab. Nelly say: Pa, l b'leeve
Miss Jasmin's pills could cure your
headaches, rec ly do b'leeve it, eff any
thing can, she say. Yes, ma'am, Mel
ly talk so much bout you"
"Well, good evening, George, you
are keeping Mrs. Alexandria stand
ing" Gordon said, impatiently waving
the wiry little colored man off, and
helping me into the buggy. mo,
Jessica, don't speak to him. in an
undertone-'good night, George
WalI'-leaning back in his seat with
an air Of resignation, ''come here,
George. Mrs. Alexander wants to say
something to you"
''Only to ask you if you won't ask
Nelly to bring in my washing early
tomorrow" l said, leaning across
Gordon's knee to speak to the man,
still rubbing his hands, squirming,
and smirking on the sidewalk. And
[ will send you some medicine for
your head by Nelly, George, if she
can tell me exactly how it troubles
you. You have very nice wife,
George; | hope you will do all you can
to make her happy"
Yes, ma'am, | tries to do so, ma am.
She is nice gal, ma'am-gOod eben-
in, ma'am," for Gordon had touched
the horse with his whip and we were
Off
"Jessica," my husband said, ''the
less you have to say to George Tom
kinson the better | shall like it, my
little missionary. 1t is all very well
to doctor Nelly, and lecture Diana,
and teach Kernanny manners, but L
do not like to see your benevolence
manifesting itself toward that slippery
knave."
HE has not a good face, has he?" |
said, II shall not do any more for him
than | think | ought to, Gordon,-l
don't like to look at him. But didn' t
he say his wife called him Pa? And
they have no children"
''She does call him so, | believe. He
has brought Nelly up from her baby
hood, and she always called him what
his first wife's children called him.
| When she was still mere girl he
: married her, his wife having died. 1t
is a great shame Nelly is tied to him
for she is a capital woman-the best
servant mother has ever had, faithful
honest and good-natured."
but what does he do that is dread.
full, besides smiling so?"
He is anegro preacher, Jessica, and
he has about SIX wives; he Is one OF
these smooth, oily, humble negroes
!, who will do more villanous things in
l day than you will find out in a year
E Let the subject drop, wife-it is nause
! Gus. Don't puzzle your little heaC
a about such things-I see a dozel
u question marks puckered up in you
t forehead now-not a word not a wOrC
. more, shall you get out Of me, to Sc
. you pondering."
The next morning about ten oclocI
q Nelly, the washerwoman, came Il
a with her basket on her head, and he
.e green checked sunbonnet tilted owe
IT her eyes. She always looked neat an,
t; tidy, and seemed unusually good
ID natured and as full of interest as
e child in whatever | was doing whe
TO she e-calle-maling, sew
1f ing, or anything else. To-day | ha
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