Daily Republican., 1881-03-09
NAsRY'sFIRsr MARRIAGE.

VenyenI, WniCh was hapt0 " ooN 49,
house up to take sushin. l didn't iael
the need OF much eggssrcise, but wat l
mead Good git at playin' seysn-up or
suksr in the grosery ! have menshuned'
Shuftiin and deslin kesrds develops the
NV the arms wonderful. Bill.
Yards wuz allul too much for mo.
The tins cum, however, whom 1t be
cam necessary to do suthin for live
lihood. | wuz too young to 60 into
and the old man, my father,
20, TO that age vixen IL wuZ all that he
Good do to borrer for hisself. He Wuz =
sittin old and wuza't ez strong ez he
wuust he'd bin. He intima.sd to me-
that the sooner shifted for myself the
better he'd be pleased. Wat cood l
dot | he'd No perfeshen that wood en-
abs me 10 live without labor, and labor
| wooden't.
My father solEsa the problem
Mary o widder," said hs--"s wilder
With o farm, and make her do the work.
You are ekal to overseein farm. Amt
yer ?"
remarked that I GOOD sea other men
sges without materially fstiguin my
salt, and that l thot his segestion q
good one. wood adopt 1t.
HARDLY WIZ the widdes Tonpaon,
wich wuz the owner nv the best farm
nv the seck5hun. 1t wua TIVE hun
dred akers of good land, we'll Improved
and weil-stcckad. She want egg
saokiy wat wood be called handsome
woman, aud WIZ Etesn ysers older
than me, but l didn't mind that. Wat
cared shat her teeth wug all out, and
that she mad q gbiter and weighed two
huudred pounds Wat cared that
she he'd habit Nv going about with
ner stock,ns down at her heels aid
that she considered the time speat il
comm her hair eZ wGstids She he'd o
farm, aud that WIZ enuf Tor me.
laid siege 20 .nis venerable female,
and to my de.is hit found her not ayrrss
10 q second chance at masrimony. |
wuzs heithy young man, and not bal
iookin, and looked as tho | mits run
Two or three farms to wunst. she wuS
rather Lonesome on tas farm, and 1t
cost q pile nv money 10 hire help, and
thes they needed man TO look ater
sn; and, 10 make long story short,
she accepted mo, and We @uZ yooni'ed
IN the holy bonds Nv matrimOny.
For few days lived in q elysium,
wa.ever that may b.. he'd the best
nv ea.in, suthin the Nasty family did
no. indulge in, and Mrs. Nasty wus "a
compisisapt ez q woman Good be.
he'd cider to drink, the late Tompson
left a good supply Nv tereaker. and
things wuz q goin eE smooth 90 Good
be.
The fourth day Mrs.. Nasty remarked
that We he'd he'd long rest, and it Wus
Tins we got about eur WORK.
"Pete," said she, "Yoo want TO take
the oxen this mornin and 60 and break
that lot behind the barn. 1t must be
done to wonst, and shood hev bean
week ago, but for this marrying bpsi'
ness"
"Excoose me, Mrs. Nssby,' seq
goin out and laying down under sp.
pie tree, with my pipe lighted, "break,
in ground is not my hes! hold. This
scots me better | didn't marry ia
break ground"
"Whst," shs eggclaimsd.
NEARLY say shall not break ground
NV biznes on farm is asarly orpa
mental. l am Wlllin TO 80 and lay
down in the field to be broke and over
see the breakin, perVided there is
hade tree under which kin lay. Blu
ez for takiu hold Nv p,ew myself,
never"
The woman looked at me in dsze6
sort nv way, for mint. She had il
her rite hand pale Of soap suds Wict
she wuz q goin to pour on the roots o
q grape vine near ne. Without q word
of wsrnin she histed that bucket Nv
suds, hot " it wuz all over me, and In
another second he'd me by the hair. II
was time Iwuz ASSERTED myself.
made up my mind 70 whale her then
and there, wuDBt for all, and hevin es'
tablished my sooperioEity, hev it all NY
way ever afterwards.
Assertin ons's sooperiorjty Is all veil
enuff, but 700 want TO be shoor about
yoor strength that bieD The main pint
in sny asseriin biznis: / rig and crap
pied her, and found that assertiA wa
one thing and estsblishen quite
another. In less than mint that In
fooriated and muskerlsr female he'd
neon my back, and wuz maxim me
bald. heidi al q rate wich l never
dreamed possible. She tore cut my
hair by the handful, she peslsd my
face in q minet, and in No less than
four minits / looked very much like III
old fashioned frigsts after an en-
counter at short range.
"Yoo won't work, wor's yer we'll,
guess you will YOGI work OF thit
farm, or ~ won't sst. zoo went work
won't yer"
And then, OF Of the thot inctdid he
to madnis, she tore out whas little hal
I'd left, and knocked the last bi. n
skin of nv my face, and dragged no
out to the lot.
"Thsrs ID the pillow, there is thI
oxen, and there is the ground. Yo'
sooperintsnd III do that eend u,
the biSnis. Git to work 700 broot
en-"
saw she wac in earnest, and yoket
them oxen meekly and went TO wort
in the hot sun, and she sot down undel
q sh ado tree, and KEEP. me att withou
minit's rest, till mite.
Her soopremaoy wuz ASSERTED auc
established: Whenever / dare to muir.
muir she wood exhibit lock NV my
hair which she kept by her aud tha'
was snuh. dared not question he,
authority.
Two mizerable yesrs spent On thai
fsrm-two yeers nv agopi2in labor
When she died, diskivered that the