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

Laws. that's Phebe Carl. iiaint
Won never seed her? I've knowed Phe-
Re sence she was little thing no big
germ Mis- Bes's baby She used TO
think she had hard time, poor girl.
Well, il K'as kind o. discouragin. Old
man Carl he had a big family, and
Mis- Carl she never had no health, and
Phebe bein' the only girl. the heft o the
work fell onto her. I've seen that there
child, when she wasn't more'n ID year
cid. putin out as big days washin'
az MANY growcd woman could do.
Mis- Carl had the cancer, and she made
terrible sight o. washin', 80 she did.
Then there was six hulkin' fellows, and
menfolkS' washia' amt no light job,
now can tell We, OF course they wore
calico shirts and overhalls, but they was
careless BOYS, all exceptin' Jake Jake,
he was the proudest Teller, an he must
have his starched white shirt for Sun
day and his linen coats in summer, liked
up f. TO kill, Hit didn't do him no
good fer to fix up 50 fine, 50 i didn't
He married the wurthlessest girl Of any
Of the boys, and they didn't none Of
-em Git much fer TO brag on.
Wen. Phebe, she done fer all OF 'em,
and they lived in the shacklin'est cabin
down on that cross road, t'other side 81
the ole sawmill. The roof hit wa
al'ays 4 leakin' and spilin' the beds
and Phebe she'd have to move her
mother round from one corner 70 the
other To keep her in the dry, and then
bic boys loafin' round up az the store
with their hands in their pockets. Some
tines they'd Git days work TO do
chopin or haulin', but giner,iy the,
didn't do much but lay themselves ou
10 sun--and spit. Every one q them
BOYS an The ole man chawed; and thel
didn't have no manners when they spit
and Phebe never could keep her foo
nor her Quilt clean. I've seed that cir
mt out i washin' o. quilts 'twonldreacl
from here TO the mill She was awfu
Industrious, and always a patchln' quilts
90 she was. She made one SNOWFALL and
one settin'-sun a perty a any quilts
ever laid my eyes on. then she haa Two
lor-cabins-One wooden and one cottor
and nine patches --Laws' there VA
no end 70 the quilts that girl didn'
make, But they never done her ns
good. SAC never got none Of them. fer
when Mis- Carl died, the ole man h
married ag'in and jes' kept every thing
He married the trifiin est ole thing 4
The coantrr that nobody didn't thinl
was scarcely decent: and fust thing IN
does i 10 10 and order Phebe out q IN
ho,se. And Phebe she went, and SAT-
She wouldn't 20 back there no more
and nobody didn't blame her.
Two II The boys got married befor
their mother died: and the rest OF 'er
they Jus hung round like they AWAY
done.
But Phebe, there wasn't no han
'ronnd ~ her. Jake told her she Nigh
come and make her home at his houss
ard She did, and, laws. Il they didn
work her, Jake's womAn she neys
lifted finger II she could help y; an
II was Phebc this and Phebe that, yea
in and wear out. The girl never wei
nowhcrcs. and she had less clothes tina
any BODY ever seed. Jake he nev'
cot her nothin' 10 wear. except line
suit onc't that he bought al the stol
and brought home. and every bod
thought Nc was goin' 70 make her
present a IL. But, 10 and behold y
when she left. he ups and makes b
nav fer IL, I'D a-told him: Sinister, II
done your work fer nothin', and y
hain't furnished me nothin' but vittle
and now II you don't pay the stoI
keeper fer this, he kin sue you fer Il
But she paid fer il, and didn't say MOTH
to nobody, out o. the five dollars a
give her after she worked fer him five
six months.
You see Abe's woman was one O. 4
bed-fast kind, like the fust ole Mis- Car
She was reel pleasant woman VIII
she wasn't ailin': but live knowcd h
to lay with the bonc-airysip'lis We