The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1880-02-06

livin' room and the shed where they
cooked. I'd shook the breath out o.
that Ssry Jane, 50 would-that's the
oldest one. :. Humphi" says she "a
Phebe after Abe had give Phebe the
five dollars, my papa don't owe You
nothin', 50 he don't. He pays You fer
your work. The owdacious little rip.
goes over TO Mis- Car'ls when they
fust begun goin' with one another. 70
see how Phebe liked her beau. And !
give her sly dig or swo. and that sat
isfied me. There never was changeder
girl than she got 10 be- b'lieve my
soul she worshipped the ground that fell
Ter walked on. And IL any body'd speak
about him her faced git - red.
Him and herd take their walks along
the railroad Sunday afternoon, talkin'
kind o. still and comf'terble together
like old married folks. And that girl
got reel perty, SO she did. ! used TO
run in and stay BY Mis- Carl agood
deal them times, SOS Phebe could git
out with her Teller.
/ Jake and Abe, they done jes' as much
agin' il as ever they could. low il
made 'em mad to think Phebc might
have home Of her own and not have
Ia Niger for them no more They
called him all the names they could lay
their tongues 20, and she'd 60 out where
she couldn't hear, her eyes full and her
| face Albumin. PheDe's spirit was kind
o. slow, but when il was up once Il was
I'D. And onct when Abe was goin' on
calm John dirty low bog-trotter and
an Irish beggar (and fer that matter
Irish John could bought him out, cash
in hand, then, fifty times over), she jes'
took her bonnet and come over 70 our
place. And Abe he had 70 cook the
meals hisself. and tend to his woman
and the young ones nigh about week,
fore she'd 20 back He came round
and talked mighty mealy-mcuthed
fore he could cit her to GO &c
Abe he kind o. shut up after that.
Only he acted like as if John was dis
gracin' the family BY wantin' to marry
into it.
Fer they cot ingaged fore they'd
went together long. They was desp'i
in love. Ii turned out that John wa.
ekally as bad struck as Phebe was And
do low they'd made an awful happy
couple. But some folks is cut out fel
trouble, and il they see satisfaction fer !
little. pears like they amt let 70 get NJ
hold on 10 IL.
Phebe used TO come and tell me he
troubles in them days, and felt might,
sorry fer the girl, 30 Ibid But, laws
she war seein' satisfaction, too. fer Their
! never was a man higher crazy over |
} girl than he was over her, and sh'
| thinkin' the world an all II him. JOIN
, wanted TO git married right off. An'
, that stood him in hand, fer he had tw'
hundred dollars saved, and ole ma
: North nd give him house-room on tn
! place, and let him farm on sheers, ant
Jump at the chance.
D But Abe's woman was gettin' wors
all the time, and Phebe, she hated I
: leave 'em on that account, and sh
1 hadn't no way Of gettin' nothin' 70 b
, married in. n0how. John, he offere
|. her fifty dollars down TO buy her thing
with. But, laws, she hung of, and
b didn't blame her. If her own. fathe
4 and brothers wouldn't do nothin' fe
e her. after workin' her as hard A. the
: done, she felt kind o. TOO proud 10 z
|. onto the man she hadn't married yit f.
a clothes to marry in 50 John, whe
|. he's in Kokomo, he gifts her As pretty
4 cashmer dress-pattern a. You eve
a seed, and takes 1t 70 dressmaker. an
tells the dressnlaker it's fer his wife
i then back he comes and gifts one Of m
|. girls to measure Phebe on the sly, an
r sends the measure in letter job
4 could both read and write, and they "a
Il he figgered. Pretty soon here come
the dress all made, and directed to Mr.
h John Cragln.
y Phebe, she comes flying over to o.
r place to show her dress and try il OF
a and, ii you'll believe me there wasn't
II wrinkle in il, and you never seed AZ
# thing 80 becomin'. She looked like
: LADY,. so she did. The cashmere was
Y soft and fine, and made her look 90 iii
q and white-skinned. Only IL was blac
4 .Oh. Phebe,'' says my Mary, 81
i orient a got black weddin dress; i
e unlucky.v
e sits the pcrtiest thing ever see
e says Phebe, smoothin' il with her han
: And she war that tender bout John,
do b'leve it hurt her fer Mary 70 saytl
l. dress he bought was onlucky.
n Well, il was only two days after III
a that a man come ridin' down fro
}. North's like he'd kin the horse, fer
le doctor to come and see John Cragin.
y was thrashin' time, and he'd g
y throwed in among the machinery son
D way, and bout killed. Iwon't say whct
"A er II war the machinery or the horse
:, some says one way, some says anoths
"a l low Il was done % quick and skeer
n them all 80 they didn't know what ha
re pened. For he was out before al
e, body could help him, and walked alol
I. q few steps white and laughin', and tn
,e he fell down and begin to bleed at I
~ month