Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-08-25
ChildrpnsS Dfeu.
OLD woNENs rAIk AT YANKEE QUILTING.
tfrom koee Tory Ocoke's Story In Sertembcr
Haryers

OLD WoNENs TALK AT A YANKEE QUILTING.
tfrom koee Terry ocoke's Story in September
Harper's
- haint see ye a month o. Sundays Miss
Walker; where do ye keep yourselfY
Why, I've ben 10 hum. sTainr real handy
20 lake 10 baby tendn' when ye git along In
years spell; but there don't seem TO be nobody
eise 10 take care OF Bezy S babe but me. Bezy's
as perhlckity as a woman about the child: he
c,. femme give IL speck OF nothin' but red
COWS milk, an he's nigh about seven months
Cid, an he'd oughter set In lap 10 The fable am
take taste O whites along With us NV land,
my Shlluen used 10 set 10 an grab things as
Little Jenny WAS the greatest hand FOR billed
Cabnaee ye ever did see; an porkI how
that child would holler for fried PORK! There
want no peace 10 the wicked TN she cot
IL; shed ha' ben a splendid child OF
she'd lived but the summer COMPLAINT was
Gr.adful prev alent that year an Il took her on
ne healthy children. Then my Sanwell why.
LIE Was the greatest hand Tor pickles that ever
VAS vas; hed GIT hunk o. fried steak into one
Seue nand an pickle into t'other an he
, mouu Crow an squeaL Cuttin OF his stomach
.eth was the END O him; got EN- too early WAS
tSoA MN commissions an died right on. AM
beans an minute puddin'; they was rs monfhs
OLD when they died. an they Get toast an cider
l IKE GOO ieiers only the day they was took
Sch; WE'D bed buckwheats an tree rnola sos for
breakfast that day, an expect they'd spt 80
mUch sweet IL kinder made 't'm saueimy SO 4
M, me nard cider Jest bed the right tang Poor
IltIe ClelufS. maboe TWAS the bilious collie a.
comm on made EN- dry; anyway, they was aw-
Iui slck with I, an they died a SUNDAY week
LOT they was took OF a sunday an
miss ioliy Paine, a short plump old maid.
gently interrupted here; she thought Ntdow
Walker had occupied the floor long enough.
But, say, what do We give IL red COWS milk
iol: never Knew there was any great o. ylrtoo
In red cows
Sexes allve,' Here semanthy House, Dea-
con Houses wife, took up the thread of CONVEX
salion. Il want TO know ef We didn't? Why.
reds the powerfulest thing, You lest put a red
nsnnel round your throat. al 4 won't never be
sore: an red string IN your ears III keen off
lever. ybody knows but thea donI hold
10 1etchln up child Oh milk altogether: they
won't never make Old bones that way. I b'neye
in hearty whites for everybody Pies real
hearty ef We make II good. an SOS cheese. when
We can't git butchers meat | blieye could
stan IL the year round On pie an cheese an
baked beans"
well. ye see,r pottered on Mrs Walker. who
seized chance TO begin again. "Bezy he won't
hear 10 know reason; he claims ne knows more
about fetchtn' up Children than | do spite OF
my hGVin' hev four on EN-; he speaks about
their all dyin' of, and says he wants his'n 10
lVe-a-fyin In the face or Providence, as We
may say, for we all know folks die 10y the dis
pensatlonS OF Providence. and mortal man
can't say, why do ye sou 10 the Lord: but L
cont know but what Brother Bezy thinks he
can; he sets dreadful loose 10 religion specially
doctrines an sech; says he wishes Z Parson
zine Wouldn say Sech lot about lection, an
neil, an DEGREES, an more about mercy an
loyin- Kindness. Land! want 10 know how
you re goln 10 fetch hardened old sinners like
some ye could mention CT ye was a min to-an'
guess We'll all know who they be without
namin OF 'em-inter the Kingdom. ef ye couldn't
scare EN- out OF their seven senses a-shakin' OF
en- over the pit, as We may say. They don't
mind nothin' but real scare. and they don't
mind that no great feel 10 wonder real often
why such folks Is spared to"