The National tribune., 1882-09-28

/ Well, dldn t fall down III q SWoOn and faint
dead away and | didn't scream once don't
) - tIstood very quiet and still for min
hen the sausage begun to sizzle again
up the pan very careful and slowly
gravy and all-over the top of my
custard that stood on the stove; and
Us think it was lucky that jim hap
,onle in just then or I might have
baby, bein' in such confused state
,aH But, as it was, l threw myself into
# screamin, We're mil lee on aires
mil-lee-on-aires !"
excited as me, can tell you, when
d Joos telegraph, only he didn't
plain. But his eyes shone like stars
put his arm round my waist, and
hug as he gave me! And then we
the baby, and the tears run down my
asst as ever they could, and Jim gave
ood blow and said he reckoned he'd
of that sassage," if he avas mil
~
... says, as [ was cooking him some
!ge, "may | have a silk dress, all
.3 ith velvet and lace and fringe and
.a-yf everything?'
ii consider on it while"
A, of them brown fur sacks and gold
a-i- I'd gold chain as thick as your
u know | never had no jewels, jim,
he gold ring you gave me when we
az a d."
nearly three years ago, amt it,
ou didn't think that day you'd ever
a e-on-airess, did you?"
n | put my arms round his neck and
as many as five or six times.
I'd you was poor, Jim, when we was
you can't never say married you
for oney."
M mighty glad I took you when I
ID notwithstanding that now I might
ick, as it WERE"
the baby must have new capin
ou got him one only last week.
can wear that for every day now
oa ave a lace one, Jim, all blue silk and
'l chain for his neck. Do you think
tie to wear chain, Jim?"
Is on the size of the thing. If you
H as big as the one you were talkin'
o I'm afeared he could hardly stagger
ea h it on but nice fine little chain
1 u- doubt, be highly becomin' to his
uty."
ra lat shall we ever do with it ALP"
aa referrin' to that there sassage, I'll
yen dispose of the most of it. Did
yoe think mil-lee-on-aires never got hungry
eowsapn folks? Pm nearly half starved
and there you stand stirrin' that sassage round
and round as if it was puddin or mush Steady,
there! That's the third spoonful of sugar
you've put in my tea. Ifyou'd a done that last
night I'd thought you were goin' to ruin me
sure, but, as it is l reckon l can stand it.
See here, mil-lee-on-aires always eat bread
with their sassage! Just cut me half dozen
slices or so middin' thick, will you? l amt
gOin' to eat no thin slices of bread after this. |
can tell you!"
"Jm, we'll perscribe for the New York
Ledger right off,"
Subscribe, you mean, don't you?"
well, subscribe then. Your gcttin' mighty
particular all of sudden. And we'll take the
Fireside Companion too, Jim. There's lots of
mil-leo-on-aires in them stories, and we can do
just as they do, so we'll be sure to behave right"
What do you want to behave any different
for? dom see but that you look to be about the
same kind of woman rs you was last night,
only that pink in your cheeks is so mighty
becomin."
/ am pretty, amt I, Jim?"
Fair to middlin'. If you hadn't been, 1
shouldn't have married You"
And I'll look like a real lady when I'm
dressed up in silks and satins and everything,
won't l. Jim?"
Shouldn't wonder"
We're as good as any folks now, aint we
Jim?"
Always was, to my thinkin'"
And nobody II look down on us now will
they, Jim?"
Well, some of 'em may even yet. You see,
were not very edicated, and, as they say down
IN Pennsylvany, we havn't no grandfather"
But it amt our fault if our grandfathers is
all of 'em dead!"
Their ben' dead doesn't matter. The
longer they've been in that mournful condi-
tion the more they're worth in the markell"
jim Miller, amt you ashamed to talk so of
your poor diseased grandfathers?"
Deceased, you mean. That's the second mis-
take in grammar you've made already this
evenin'"
Well, you contradict me- Jim, and I'll con-
tradict you, so we will learn to talk proper
But you oughten to speak SO disrespectful of
your grandfathers, jim"
u didn't mean to be disrespectful. was
only referrin' to the account we make of 'em
down in old Pennsylvany."
Don't you suppose western folks think
heap of their grandiathers, too?"
Not in the way mean. They don't cal,
you nobody in Pennsylvany unless your gran
daddy was pretty respectable sort of gent" |
Couldn't we go back there to live, Jim ?"
" Not if know myself"
Why y-w why why wasn't your grand
father respectable, Jim?"
Course he was He and my grandmother
stood in the market sellin' their potatoes and
beans and squash and such truck every Satur-
day mornin' for nigh twenty years, and I'll be
bound they didn't cheat nobody one blessed
cents worth, neither. Most respectable, nice,
quiet folks as ever you see, if do say So myself"