The Red Cloud chief., 1880-03-11

years ole,@ea2 shs1~es0<fo4a
.aury~ool~or alpacky dress in her life.
30 she ups and tells Abe she don't wan,
70 Iease him vixen he has sickness in the
family, but somethin' 20 cover her she
has gdt 70 have, and II he uent bear no
= Magnhcr, 6he,ugitaplace among
the farmers some'ers and work TN she
gifts hee sons clothes. Abe, hegrowled
taseunde bnt he knew II wuuld never do
- 1st Fssbe -. He sadh was perry
hard fer apoee man like him 60 have 90
tciethe sech sfaanfly a. hik'n sud his SIS
ters besi1ss; and tken b pullsd out and
borrowed FIVE dd1lsrs md give her. You
neser see nobody pieasedef than Rhebe
VIXEN she got thsf money. She went to
the store and paid Tor the linen suit
Jake had give her sssd had charged up
TO her, and got some muslin and calico,
and my girls helped her do her SEWN.
So Phebe, she come out in her new
things and felt spruce. She bought a
straw bat fer sixty-fwo cents, too, and
my giris, they p'suaded her 10 90 to
mseten,
Phebe hadn't gone among the young
folks none around here; she Y had
no time, sud then the boys they was 80
rough. They never had 10 manners.
but would 90 whoopin' and yellin'
round, and on Sundays they'd pitch
horseshOss and play ball and Jump all
day long. NoW, when Phebe got some
clofhes on her-made like the fashions
b nOw~@she uNSnte b~adlookfn' girl.
Some W3mmin c6n look real perry in
calico, and she wasa good-shaped girl,
Phebe was, for all she'dworked so hard
and when she was so little. She was a
big girl, but she had a good color, and
her hair was as brown, 50 il vas. And
1 went and stayed with Abe's woman,
so Phebe she could go TO meetin' after
her clothes was done. and the girls said
they never seed a colt let loose fuller Of
play comm and goin'.
That was the first time, too, that Irish
John war at meetin', and ! do low
them two fell in love with each other
then and there. The girls, Il good
MANY of them, was settin' their caps for
John. He was a very orderly kind of
Teller, and tended right to his W bus
mess. He didn't go much with the
other boys, though he didn't seem TO
feel himself above nobody, but it wasn't
in him o 90 a jumpin' and a howlin'
round. HIS place was stiddy with one
% the farmers all the ycer round. He
lived at North's and nigh about run the
farm, fer ole mar North he put all de-
pendence in Irish John.
Some said he'd only been in the oun
try a year, and some said he'd been
over five years or better, and he'd
worked with a farmer up above kokomo.
or round about Alto sone'rs, afore he
come Ia North's. But he was a very
Quiet feller and didn't have much TO say
fer hissef, and some o. the girls kind q
took n shine to him. He was reel good
fookin', and straight rs a Injun AIRY,
fair-complected kind o, and he carried
his shoulders back and didn'tgo hulkin'
over like lots o. the fellers lookin' like
their nose is hooked 10 their big toe,
and their backs is bulgin' up to sprout.
Fust thing you know, him and Phebe
Carl was goin' together; | thought
il did beat all when | heerd it for Phebe
she never had no beau. Jake an Abe
and the rest had tied her down too clost
fer that. | thinks to myself: "Now,
Phebe is a good girl, but she's never had
no comp'ny, and most likely this fellcrT
turn her head, and we don't none of us
know all about him. He pears stiddy
and well behaved; but he may have Il
wife in the old country, or ever over
here. And Jake and Abe, they's SO all
fer themselves, they wouldn't keer what
trouble Phebe might git into, and the
other boys an the ole man is that ornry
they won't never look out fer her none.
&c." SAYS /, "I1l kind o. keep an eye
on her courtin'."
Well, they didn't git much chance to
court ut Abe's house, 'cause there WAS
Mis- Carl always down, II them hl-
dren yowlin' all over the house, and
they didn't have only two rooms, the
livin' room and the shed where they
cooked. I'd . shook the breath out o
that Sary Jane, so 1 would-that's the
oldest one. "Humph!" says she to
Phebe after Abe had give Phebe the
five dollars, "my papa don't W you
nothin', 50 he don't. xlie pays you fer
your work" The owdacious little rip.
/ goes over to Mis- Car'ls when they
fust begun goin' with one another, to
see how Phebe liked her beau. And L
give her q sly dig or two, and that sat
isfied me. There never was "A changeder
girl than she got to be. | b1ieve my
soul she worshipped the ground that fel-
Ter walked on. And II any body'd speak
about him her faced git so 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 perry, so she did. 1 used to
run in and stay by Mis- Carl good
deal them times, SOS Phebe coAld git
out with her Teller.
Jake and Abe, they done jes' as much
agin' it as ever they could. L low 1t
made 'em mad to think Phebe might
have a home of her own and not have
TO nigger for them no more. They
called him ali the names they could lay
their tongues to, and she'd 60 out where
she couldn't hear, her eyes full and her
face Albumin. Phebe'S spirit was kind
o. slow, but when it was up once it was
up. And onc't when Abe was goin' on
| calm John : dirty low bog-trotter and
an Irish beggar (and fer that matter
Irish John could a bought him out, cash
in hand, then, fifty times over), she jes'
! took her bonnet and come ove to our
place. And Abe ~ had to cook the
meals hisself, and tend to his woman
and the young Ones nigh about a week,
fore she'd 60 back. He came round
and talked mighty mealy-mouthed
'fore he could git her to go. So
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. "a
Fer they got ingaged fore they'd
went together long. They was despt
in love. 1t turned out that John was
ekally as bad stuck Is Phebe was. And
| LIDO low theysda madam awful happy
couple. : bat some ms i cat out fer
trouble, and if they see satisfaction fer a
fttA pears Ike they amt let to get no
hold on to It.
1Phcbe used to come and tell me her
troubles in them days, and I felt mighty
sorry fer the giri, 30 Ibid. But, laws!
she var SEEM satisfaction, too, ferthere
never was a man Anigher crazy over q