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

couldn't paid fer il Fl they had got
iit-workin' by days works. and not al
WAYS havin' Z Job; and they had three
children, % they had, and - sassy brats
Is ever went unwhipped. Abe's wife
couldn't do nothin' with them; and
there was the family to do fer, and no.
body 70 do the work
So Abe he ups and goes fer Phebe
when his woman gifts 80 bad she cant
help herself no more. And nothin'h
do but Phebe must come TO his house.
He made such a pitiful mouth that
Phebe. poor thing, she couldn't say no.
And that made Jake and his woman
mad, now l tell We, They'd been 50
used 10 have Phebe at their beck an
call. that il sot hard for any body else
10 cit the use of her. Jake he did be-
have scand 'lous, so he did, He cussed
and ripped around at her. and tole her
she needn't look to him fer home no
more. She might 60 70 the porehouse
Ter all o. him.
Pore Phebe, she felt mighty bad, but
she tole him she guessed she wouldn't
never 90 onto charity, fer she'd always
been able to work. And his wife
wouldn't say good-by 70 her, and he
cussed and swore till she was out OF
sight. She didn't have no pleasure at
Abe's house, now l tell ye, never see
SIGH sassy brats Is them was, and All OF
'em onte Phebe from mornin' 10 night
Ii nigh about tuck the life out o. her.
But she tuck care o. Abe's woman and
done sight o. work, and things went
on fer about six months; and then the
psre girl was clean out O. every thing to
wear. She was jes' a nigh naked fer
all kinds o. clothes as You ever see.
Phebe was awful keerful of her things
or she'd never made her mothers old
things last her so long. But old Mis-
Carl didn't hev but few calico things
herself. There was that girl nigh %
years ole, and she'd never had
Atwood or alpacky dress in her life.
So she ups and tells Abe she don't want
to leave him when he has sickness in the
family, but somethin' TO cover her she
has got to have, and if he wont bear no
; i'll will agin her, shell git a place among
the farmers some'ers and work till she
! gits her some clothes. Abe, he growled
i, around, but he knew il would never do
TO let Phebe 90. He said il was perry
hard fer a pore man like him to have 10
Z clothe sech a family As his'n and his sis
n tiers besides; and then he pulled out and
borrowed five dollars and give her. You
J. never see nobody pleaseder than Phebe
when she got that money She went 70
!. the store and paid for the linen suit
Jake had give her and had charged up
}, 10 her. and got some muslin and calico,
e and my girls helped her do her SEWN
: SO Phebe, she come out in her new
}, things and felt spruce. She bought q
y straw hat fer sixty-two cents, too, and
!, my girls, they p'suaded her TO 60 to
mceten'.
= Phebe hadn't gone among the young
!, folks none around here; she never had
y no time, and then the boys they was 6
= rough. They never had no manners
but would 60 whoopin' and yellin
!, round. and on Sundays they'd Pitcf
= horseshocs and play ball and jump al
: day long. Now, when Phebe got some
4 clothes on her-made like the fashion,
Z is now-she wasn't a bad-lookin' girl
! Some wimmin can look real perry II
i calico, and she was good-shaped girl
q Phebe was. for all she'd worked 20 hare
y and vixen she was 20 little. She was ;
big girl, but she had 4 good color, ans
Z, her hair was AZ brown, 30 il was Ans
I, went and stayed with Abe's woman
Z 20 Phebe she could 60 TO meetin' afte
ncr clothes was done, and the girls sale
Y they never sesi colt let loose fuller Q
: play comm and goin'-
L That was the first time, too, that Irisl
4 John war at meetin', and | do 'lov
4 them two fell in love with each othe
" then and there. The girls, COOS
I, many Of them, was settin' their caps -
= John. He was very orderly kind Q
: teller, and tended right TO his own bus
!, mess. He didn't 60 much with tn
y other bows, though he didn't seem z
= feel himself above nobody, but il ~asn'
in him to 90 a-jumpin' and howlin
= round. HIS place was stiddy with on
!, a. the farmers all the yeer round. III
\ lived NJ North's and nigh about run til
!. farm, fer ole man North he put all dc
h pcndence in Irish John.
y Some said he'd only been in the conn
NJ try wear. and some said he'd bee
"A over five years or better, and he
! J. worked with a farmer up above Kokomc
or round about Alto some'rs, afore h
~ come TO North's. But he was yer
n quiet teller and didn't have much 70 "a
~ fer hisscf, and some o. the girls kind Z
took shine to him. lie was reel goo
~ lookin', and straight n Injun arr,
M fair-complected kind o., and he carrie
Z his shoulders back and didn't 20 hulkir
~ over like lots O. the fellcrs lookin' lik
~ their nose il hooked 10 their big to-
IA and their backs i bulgin' up TO spron'
Ar Fust thing you know, him and Pheb
~ Carl was gOin together; | though
"A IL did beat All when 1hecrd II. for Phet
Ser she never mad no pean JAKE an az
~ and the rest had tied her down too clo
prp Ter that. l thinks 70 mNrcI. - nov