The Iola register., 1882-03-17
A BREAKFAST STORY.

A BREAKFAST STORY.
$50 yer done fremember me? Wal, I
amt SUI prised; bein's my names what
it's now; but when I tell yer-Lemme
see; sixteen an ten an four-you've bin
gone fifteen years"
..Yes, it was fifteen years ago this
month that went West"
sYou an my Emily was bout of an
age. She died when she was sixteen;
father died ten year arter, jest four year
ago mex week; and you went off the
year afore Emily died. Yes, she'd bin
thirty this fall. Law, I'm CROWN old !!
but"
"You must refer to Emily Benham;
strange did not recall you,"
The last speaker was tall young man
of thirty, with large, black, searching
eyes, full beard, and hair of that inde-
scribable tint, neither red nor brown,
but with rich golden sheen, auburn,
perhaps it would be called, curling tight
1y about a well-shaped head; dainty
mustache, half concealing a finely-cut
upper lip; and withal such bearing of
dignity and self possession that one un-
acquainted with his early life would have
little suspected that his boyhood had been
passed amid the surroundings IN which
we now find him.
Il thought yer'd remember Emily.
Beg yer pardi4, but didn't know one
spell but YOU two make match! Fool
ish I know twas tew;-w'y you was
nuthin' but children; but most ev'ry
day you'd leave ther boys down't ther
corner an come up 'roun' ther bridge by
ther mill an go cross-lots, you'n Emily
ter school. Father n I used to talk
bout it some, an your folks liked Emily,
tew; but you got Uneasy, an wanted ter
see more O. the world afore yer settled
down, an then ther mex year Emily
took sick an died; s'pose she studied
rather hard, or somethin'. Some brain
trouble, ther doctor called it.
80, yes, l well remember Emily:
She was good scholar, and often helped
me solve knotty problem. In fact, l
believe she was the only girl in the
school that could count up more head
marks than I. The last year, while
studying botany, we often went cross
lots, as you have said, and gathered
specimens for the class"
..Wal, four years ago father died.
allus called him father an he called
me mother cause Emily did, I s'pose
and when Mister Meachem come over
here, year or SO arter, an told as how
he b'lieved he an me could make good
livin' together-yer see, 1 had a good
place here, an he had ahout ten thou
sam in money, an had bin in the hotel
biznis down to Portsm' th-w'y without
MANY ifs an ans we was married, an
we fixed ther house all up, an built a
new barn, an there's lots o. city folks
comes over ter ther Cap'n Sander s
place ev'ry year, an a good many on
'em comes out here, an with ther pos.
Office we've made conf bic livin' but
1 dunno how 't'l be now, sence the
Cap'n's places foun' an owner; p'raps
nobody'n come this summer.
ssBut yer mus want yer breakfast. Biz
up ter the buryin' -groun', did yer say
Wal, it's a nice mornin' fur walk
S'pose yer see the gre't monument OF
Cap'n Sanders lot, an the stun flu
James, who was killed in the WARP
hain't seen EN- yit, but I hear they'rt
dretful nice, only they say that James
stun don't say nuthin' bout his bein' .
rebel. Some folks think he want, an
6lieve ther message he sent ter the
Cam was true. an others don't b'lievt
aword ont. Fur my part, l don't se'
how a man can be made ter fight 'nles
he's a mine ter; leastwise, he needn''
shoet at nobody; an l dunno as jaime
did.
s.Now, come, set light up ter the
table an help yerself; yer oughter hav
an appertite; yer must "a walked fou
or five mile this mornin'. Husban' salt
yer went out jest as he was a-lightin
ther ffre-'bout four o'clock, I spos'
twas.
..Of course you remember Cap'n San
ders, an how his son went of an 60
married ag' in his will, an how he dis
owned him an told him never ter darker
his door ag'in."
"Yes, do remember some things ahou
the Captain, but I was only q boy, 70!
know, and seldom went up on the hill!
FL remember rightly he kept himsel
shut up nearly all the time for two Q
three years before he died. Repented
didn't he, when it was too late? He die
the year before I went away, and left al
his property to James or any of his heir:
provided they were found in fifteen years
Il not, it was all to 60 to the town. An
Inght?'
.sWal, yer do remember perty well; bu
FORGOT how fast time slips away. Ye
don,f remember James? He went o
scme time afore ther war; yer couldn'
"a bin more n seven or eight year ole
an :.
..Now, do help yourself. won't yer? T
warrant yer don't fine any better blu,
fish nowhar; an if them Graham rol
amt good / dunno whar {ern m
better. if I did make 'em. Have mol