The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-08-22

and shut my eyes agin the evidence
as long as l could and even arter
knowed hit war 80, | tried not to be-
lieve it. believe, too. that thar is no
man Twin and but one woman that
will 60 furder IN wrongin', persecution
and slanderin' them as knows what
he's done. That woman. fourteen or
fifteen years ago, went over to Uncle
BurrelPs, nigh over thar to Mr.. Bis
lum's, and thar was Mr.. Jim Fran
els thar. Well, Aunt Sally. Uncle
BurrelPs wife, tole about hit and when
she tole the woman's niece she les
vowed in her soul sne'd never 90 to
see her aunt agin; but she
never tole it to nobody
but her own sisters; some a. know
ed it talked with her about it
but she never tole hit to nobody as
didn't know for she was her fathers
own sister and thar was nothiu' ON
sirth more sacred to her than her
fathers memry aud for his sake sue
KEEP her mouth shet; but to her soul
thar is nothin' on earth more loath-
some than that aunt, who, to that sin
has added the three that ALWAYS fol-
low-falsehood, hipocercy and SANDER
Well, when her aunt larut the
stand her niece had took and knowed
she'd stand thar-she was jes that set
in her ways she commenced dOin'
everything ON airth she could agin
her, and you would hardly believe the
little, low, mean things she'd stoop, /
might say crawl, to do agin her all
these years; but thar's bin one COM
fort that she's wrapt hersef in, and
that's thir folks may believe her aunt
for she's q mighty slick tongue, yet
she'll live above mean things so that.
though folks write them agin her
down here, the angel won't up thar.
She come mighty nigh gitten hersef
boxed over a year ago. She warn't
satisfied with a busin Que niece, 80 she
begun talkin' to Mr.. Towers agin an
other; well. she talked an talked, you
know he was always ready to hear that
k ind of talk and that did not seem to
raise muss enough 90 she rit to her
nieces husband agin his own wife
but she was mistook in the pusson.
He jes went to his wife an tole her
about it, an then loaded his pistol and
went tn her husband and tole him his
wife had rit the letter. Well, they
all denied hit, of course; but the man
believes hit all the same, and it would
have bin better for her eff she'd a let
that man alone. He knows how she's
acted afore, and has bin q KNOWN it
for years.
Mary Ann says. "Miss Betsey. N
Mars William better gone long wild
Mars. Andy to Montaner dis summer
an got good cooled off fo' dey starts
to dat long home, kase its scorchin' !
hot down dar, an no gittin' way frun
de fire nudder. No use talkin' bout
folks as ole an rusted an scabby wild
sin as dey is. ebber gitten' better. |
Dey dun sin so long dey lubs it. Eff
dey war tuck up now an put in heab-
en- dey wouldn't stay dar. DEFY can't
bar de presence of good folks here on
Arth an how's dey eber gwyin ter
STAN in de presence of de Lamb an
de angels? 1 know Miss Betsy
knOwed her when she war . gal; but
| amt gwvin ter tell she done things
then that'd ruin her now eft dey war
tole.
Well they all jis spend thar time an,
talons planin' devilment agin some
one, an ter hide thar own. Mrs.
Willows and Mr.. Powers are workin'
on an invention ter gil her
gal an his boy to school together this
fall an guess they'll succeed. They
do. Now, John Irving, |
what l blame myself an all as knows |
these things fur. is a settin' thar with |
our mouths shet, jes' as though We
thought hit all right. Why, eff q
boss war stole or some one pisened. |
An l knowed who done it, do you
reckin I'd keep num-
"No. mother. you'd not. There is
on earth further from all that
IS pure and good than a fallen wo-
nan. They are doing more to-day to
families, neighborhoods and
nations, and are leading more men
Down the broad road into eternal tor
ment than any other one thin and
you who know the game that these
women are PLAYING. and the plans of
this man who has 80 lost his faith in
GOd and bis self respect as to prefer