South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1883-04-13
Training a Husband.

he used Nancy, his fust e. Wall.
I'll tell yer all about it.
You know Dan'l leHg mo pretty
poorly off. I had two children. an
what ter dew didn't now. The
mortgage was to run out bout year
an a half arter he died. Ill cent the
children down to brothe Johns ter
so to school. Brother phn wanted
me to give them to him. md he'd do
well by 'em. am was n16ditatiup on
it, orful 10th ter dew it. But what
else could l dew with th( n when the
old farm was took away from mes
One day when the time was near
eout, was hoein' the beans side of
the fence jinin' Caleb's corn6eld. l
tell yer, Hannah, never felt bluer i'm
all my born days. l'1-atlors lived
an worked OH farm, an, couldn't do
no other kind of work; so what was
to become Of me / Didn't know.
Purity good hoeiu' fora green hand,
SEE somebody over the fence.
Yes SCI /, I've done enough of
it since | was left alone. Practice
makes perfect. we used to write in
our copy books when we were chill
dren.' an | couldn't help heaving q
Sigh.
Wal, Emmeline' SEE he. 'you'n
seem to be in tue same fix. You
need a man to do your hoeing and
sicll, an i need woman TO see ter
my house, an if you're agreed we'll
hitch horses aud work in double har.
ness. | can't find any hired help
thatll do as Nancy did Thinks I
to myself, and You'll never lind ano.
,her twill, either) 80 what d. e say,
Emmelinc?'
P'rhaps | didn't think o nothin' for
the mex few minutes. 1t all flashed
over me IN second, what an untcel.
in man he'd alters ben. Pooi Nan.
cy had tcw dew all the house work,
am Il good dea! belonged ter him ter
dew, ar he was singer thar an old
niscr, tew.
L knew he was a smart man ter
work, WAS torehanded aud was able
ter live in good deal better shape than
he did, an you know, Hannah, that
poo? Dan el was just the opposite. lie
was norful clever man, was Dan ell
out kind O shililess AN easy, an it al
ler5 Worried me so much tew hey
{ things going so slack. SEE ter my
self, a body can't hcv everything
there's aIlels some eOuts, an' poor
mans bct:er'n hone. So | speak
right rp an SEE:
Caleb, we've been Majors for ma
ny a year. know your failn's, an
s'pose you know mine, an so, eff yor
say SO, all right, p'r'aps We both NIGH
. DO wuss.'
. We'll, ter make q long story short
, we agreed to hev the business dur
right of. Caleb said If was stylish t.
60 on wcddin' tower now a-days
and as he wanted ter go down to Ban
COR to see about selling his wool, an
lis Sarah Jane Curtis (who used t.
work for h:m) lived about half way
am we could stop there both ways and
: not cost US any thing, he thought WEE
better go. (His niece, Rebecca Gil.
man, yer know, lives there, and We
could make her visit at the same.
Brother John lives there, tew. you
know, an I'd made up my mind tina
I'd Just bring home the children.
An 80 | did; but Caleb he was or
tul sot agin 1t. but Sod 'of course they
can come and make visit an | LEI
him think so, cause | wasn't quite
, ready to have words with him yet.
I'VE stayed about week, an 90
home along in the afternoon all right
Their next mornin | woke up purt,
airIy, an / sez to myself: Courage
3 Emmerliue, now or never / ken
still, Ter Caleb was still n snorin'. bu
bime-by he fetchet an on arthIy snort
that wake't himself up, and when he
see at it was gettin' daylight, he
nudged me and SEE he
wake mp. Emmerline. Emmer.
line, it's broad daylight, come git up
we shan lev any breakfast ter.day.
| was orful hard ter wake. but af
ter while | managed few, an Will,
: | was rubin my eyes | SCI Got
) good hot fire, amt We Caleb?'
Fire said he; mo never builC
any fires. Nancy alters built fires
Did size" seq /, az cool as a Gu
cumber. 80 did Daniel
i turned over and went to sleep a,
gan-or, at least tie thought | did.
Wall, he wiggled, and turned and
twisted, an he didn't move to cit ur
Cor abont an hour, an when the sur
rose and shoue inter the bedroom
vndcr, he got mp and built the fire
i here wasn't no Ilindlin's nor n stick
o wood an lie had to squirmish a.
ronud lively and get some ia.
Arte- he fire got 20 cracklin' in
good shape. [ git up | didn't hurry
none, let ne tell you. [ was .most
deal lyin' abed 40 long, bat SCI [ "a
myself III probaly hev to dew il IN
cold weather, and | won't dew il for
an man
lie was pretty sulIen all day. but I
didn't take any notice OF him, an he
got over IT, The next day he was ter
d.. rin Jorf,' on h.fI .,.