The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-08-22
Written for the Sunday Morning Bazoo.
AUNT POLLY'S VISIT TO SEDA-
Liza.

Written for the Sunday Morning Bazoo.
AUNT POLLY'S VISIT TO SEDA
LA.
"Moees, I'll be glad if you'll kinde
see arter that yaller-necked hen under
the board pile beyond the ash hopper
She's setten on them Plimith Rocl
eggs the doctor gin me. He ses they'r,
q mighty nice sort of a chicken an
don't want nothin ter poster her."
Eyes, I'll see arter her, Polly"
Gan eff you git sick, er want me
home afore the time, jes let me
know an Ill be back on the fust cars
that1l fetch me-"
''Ef 1 git sick I'll let you know, Pol
~, for l haint bin sick these forty
years withouten you by my bedside.
As ter wsntin, you home, l want you
home now; but 1 want you to 60 too,
an me an Mary AnnIl see roun' arter
things es nigh like you es we kin.
Now. Polly, eff they act kinder cool
towards you an pear like they don't
wont you thar with them grand fixed
up folks, jes come right home ter
Moses Lambert he haint seed the day
when he didn't want you roun."
"Lona Irving is Moses Lambert's
gal. an too much like her father ter
take any Of them tom-foolely notions
eff she hes marrird rich an bin ter
Eurip. She'll be jest as glad ter see
her old mother as eff she'd a married
Joe Smith an lived in a cabin. John
Irving has aIus bin rich, ner it haint
the fust nor seckind time nuther that
he's bin ter Eurip. He haint never
treated me the least mite amiss yit an
1 don't low ter sespicion him tel he do;
but eff"
"All aboard" called the conductor
on the Narrow Gauge. Two pairs of
stranger eyes. though scarcely awake
at this early hour, saw the tender kiss
the old man gave his wife ere he
handed her and her grip-sack into the
coach.
The lips of Harry Ellsworth curled
with scorn as he muttered more to
himself than to his companion some
thing about Noah's demonstrations be-
fore strangers. A whistle, a Jerk and
they were fairly started. Clar-
ence Lee leaned his head on his hand
and soon the name "John Irving"
and the tones of the speaker, that
wondrously familiar to him,
mingled in his dreams with visions of
his own fair bride and Italian skies.
81 say, Lee, wake up there, old fel-
low, and don't be so uncivil as to leave
a man with no better company than
his own miserable thoughts. Wake
up and say something to body to
help pass away the time. If life was
as enjoyable to me as it seems to be to
you, l should to-day be a different
man. How the deuce do you manage
to draw honey even from poisonous
flowers without getting the poison
too |"
"Life is largely what we make it,
Harry. and if we spend our means,
time and the best energies of the soul
in self qualification, and often in way
that we are ashamed for the good to
know. we shall be as miserable as
Harry Ellsworth, and get only poison
from plants that are rich with honey"
''Truly, Lee, you eclipse Talmage
With your eloquence. Did your girl
bride teach you this truth, or was ii
irst brought to light by your own
master mind 7"
my mother, with bible in hand,
.aught me the lesson; my wife helps
o keep it fresh in mind, and Harry
life verifies the truth"
cit is a sad pity for mankind, Lee,
hat you did not study for the minis
ny. You would have persuaded
many to try climbing up the marrow
way;" but am afraid you are vast
ng your eloquence this time. IF 1
was your wife | should be afraid to let
1ou get this far from me lest "cha-
lot Of fire" be sent and you be taken
,p like Abraham of old and not get
even as kind goodbye kiss as father
Noah gave Mrs. Noah this morning."
81 think the pleaders for the Lar
'ow way are fewer in the ranks of the
awyers than perhaps any other; and
may do some good sowing if I will,
md the seed will not all fall by the |
vay-side. But, Ellsworth you have
he wrong man in the chariot. Abra-
ram is not the man. You are as bad |
q Ingersoll in his Mistakes of Moses.
You had better read up on that point. |
indeed, l believe that ignorance is the
of most of our scofing
81 have often wished Harry thaf |