Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1881-03-24
MEXICO
MASSEY.

NAsBY. K
Mr.. Nasty Gives IAN Account Of His Fret
Marriage.
CoNFEDERIT x ROADS (wich is in
the State Of Kentucky, Feb. 15.-I
wuz a young man and singerly averse
to work. Work never agreed with
me. My prinsiple employment wuz
to lay under trees all day and COM
mune with Nacher, onless ther wuz
grocery convenient wich wuz liable
to ask the house up to take suthin.
/ didn't feed the need of much eggs
ercise, but wat needed l Good git at
playing seven-up or euker in the gro
sery | hey menshuned. Shuhin and
deaiin keerds develops the muscles
NV the arms wonderfully. Billyards
wuz alluz too much for me.
The time cum, however, when it
becum necessary to do suthin for
livelihood. wuz too yung 10 go in
to politix, and the cid man, my
father. he got to that age when it
wuz all that he Good do to borrer for
hisself. He wuz gittin old and
wuznt as strong ez he wunst he'd bin.
He intimatd to me that the sooner l
shifted for myself the better he'd be
pleased. Wat Good l do? l he'd no
perfesshen that wood enable ME to
live without laber, and laber wood
en't.
| My father solved the problem.
"Marry a widder said he,-''a wild
der with farm, and make her do
the work. You are ekal to overseeln
a farm. Amt yer?'
l remarked that / Good see other
men SWEET without materially fatiguin'
myself, and thet | thot his segestion
q good one. | wood adopt.
HARDLY wuz the Widder Thonp-
son, wlch wuz the owner Of one of
the best farms Nv my secshun. 1t
was 800 akers of good land, well-im-
proved and Well-stocked. She wuZnt
eggsactly wat wood be called a
hanson woman, and wuz Is years
older than myself, but 1 didn't mind
that. What cared ! that her teeth
wuz all out, and she had goiter,
and weighed 200 pounds? What
cared I that she he'd habit Gv going
with her stockings down at her heels,
and that she considered the time
spent in comm hair ez wasted? She
he'd a farm, and that was enuf' ful
me.
| laid siege TO this venerable fe-
male, and to my. delite found her not
ayerse to a second chance at matri-
mony. l wuz a heIthy yung man,
and not bad looking, and looked ez
tho mite run two or three farms to
wunst. She wuz rather lonesome on
the farm, an it cost pile Of money to
hire help, and then they needed s
man to look after them; and, to max
a long story short, she accepted me,
and we wuz yunited in the holy bonds
Nv matrimony,
For few days | lived in elysium,
whatever that may he. | he'd tbs
best of eatin, suthin the Nasty fami
ly did not indulge in, and Mrs. Mas
by wuz as complaisant ez woman
Good be. | he'd cider to drink, tht
late Thompson left a good supply u
terhaker, and things wuz goin e;
smooth AS Good be.
The fourth day Mrs. Nasby re
marked that we he'd had long lon!
rest, and it wuZ time we got abou
our work.
"Pete," said she, "You want e
take the oxen this mornin' and G,
d and break the lot behind the barn
1t must be done to wonst, and shoo'
hev been a week ago, but for thl
marrying bizness. -
"Excoose me, Mrs. Nasby," seq !
going out and layin down under a
apple tree, with my pipe lighted
:, breaking ground is not my bes
u hold. This scots me better. l di
y not marry to break ground"
"What!" she eggsclaimed.
l. lhCIS4t oay L NV GA
ground. My biznis on the farm
u merely ornamental. l am willing
e go and lay down in the field to h
broke and oversee the breaAin, PEI
Ii vided there is shade tree undt
IT which ! kin lay. But ez for takin
% hold of the plow myself, never"
The woman looked at me in
AZ dazed sort of a way, for mint. ST
e had in her rite hand pale Of soal
i. suds wich she was aporln on the roo
Vi Nv a grape-tine near me. Without
word of warnin she histed that bucl
"a ct of suds, hot ez it wuz, all over ~
a and in another second he'd me by Il
oi hair. 1t wus time that ASSERTED M
III self. l made up my mind TO wha
e. her then and there, wGnst fur al
1t and hevin' establish my sooperiorit
TO hey it all my way, ever at,erward.
IT, Assertin ones sooperiority is s
'h we'll enough, but yoo want to
r. shoor about your strength, that be
the main pint in any assertin h'zni
III l riz and grappled her, and fouI
Is that assertin wuz Que thing and e
s. tablishing quite another. In lie
p than minute that infooriated al
muskiler female lied me on my ba
OF and wuz maxim me bald-headed at
OF rate which l never dreamed possibI
=; Ste, tore out my hare by the handf'
10 she peeled my face in mint and
III less than four minits / looked We
'ef much like an old fashioned frigs
IT. after an encounter at short range.
'p- "Yoo won't work, won't ye? we
l guess you will. You'll work
ne this farm, or ye won't eet. Y
,as won't work, won't ye!"
ios And then, ez if that thot incit
eo her to madnis. she tore out wat lit
hair / had left, and knocked the |:
bit Of skin off NV my face and dragg
me out to the lot.
,ee' 'sThere is the plow, there IS
l oxen, and there is the ground. Y
Ire sooperintend I'll do that eend