Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-12-07

well, twas the old story. Her
folks got word somehow or mother
bird IN the air'll carry sech matters,
We know-that she was keepin' com
pany with Mister Poll Shattuck, a
Boston Teller; and Lab Mills he was
mad. Ge see, he hadn't no great faith
in city folks. Their was some hard
ones come up summers to the noun
tains, under the idee that amongst the
woods, where Their wasn't no great of
folks, they could do as they was a
mind to, and they did and 'tw'nt real
good behavior, now tell ye! So Lab
got sOt against that sort, and when he
heerd Nancy was keepin' company
with Shattuck, he rared right up.
"And he did the most onpolitic
thing he could He whlsked up to Mis-
Marcy's, and he tore round like all
possessed, and fetched Nance hum
quick as he could bundle her clothes
up, and kept her tight as a string night
and day, asettin' his shotgun close to
the door, and forbidden her SO much
as to think of that cityfeller ag'in.
Mis- Mills she cried night and day.
they said She felt for Nancy, We see,
and she knowed that Lab was the
kind that never let up on nobody.
| Well, the up-shot was, that Nancy,
after tellin' her mother she was goin',
ran away one dark night; ran with
Poll Shattuck on a blackboard down
to Plymouth, and so was off
She sent word to her mother that
she was married, and | heerd after
ward that Mis- Mills got it; but she
/ never heerd from Nancy again. Not
but what Nancy writto her, for Lily
! Manu-, whose pa KEEP the postoiiice
down to Conway, told afterwards that
there was letters and letters come for
Mis- Mills from Boston but quick as
Lab took 'em out, he'd step round
into Mann's kitchen and chuck 'em
INTO the fire.
"Well, Mis- Mills she grew peaked
all the time Shed been a real good
lookin' woman, full-faced and slightly;
| but she was as thin as lath before
fall set in, and Lab KEEP tellin' her
Nance want worth cryin' for. Sized
married apoor beggar against his will,
and was like enough scrubbln' for
/ bread now, and served her right.
Now Nancy did not do Jest the
right thing in leaven' her home With
out tryin' the better to convince her
| father that her beau was worthy of
her. But 'Iiab ought not to have
ma de that the occasion Of torturing
| his wife. 1t was hard case any
way, but the poor woman was not to
! blame Come fall Of the year next
after that when Nancy went, it did
look us though Mis- Mills would give
up the ghost, she was so weak and
| feeble; and fin'lly 'Iiab seemed to see
| it, and he rot a doctor down from
! BARTLETT and Mis- Marcy fer to nuss
her and Lurany Mann she come up
| To do the chores.
Now, Nancy had not heard a
word from her mother all this time.
for Mis- Mills didn't know where to
write to, SO Nancy she'd writ now and
agin to Lizy Mann, and hcerd from
her jest ho;y things was agoin' on up
! to MiliSeS'
''Whcn twas along about the
third week this November, Lily had
let her know how her ma was, and
what the doctor sailor didn't say
and what queer spells she had. I'D
hecrcd of Nancy from some folks
down Boston, who came up that Sep
TENDER to Conway to see the turned
leaves and got set back, for they said
! they want nothing To look at com
pared to the woods about Boston. |
/ don say they was: but Boston folks
we'll mabby you're Boston wOm-
ang"
laughed and he went back to his
! story.
Them folks bcin' ON my beat, |
made bold to ask 'rm if they knew
one Poll Shattuck. And land. they
couldn't have said much more about
| him if he'd ben the 'Postle Poll. They
/ told how we'll off he was, and what Il
bio house his folks had They said
| he'd fetch home Il beautiful young
gal from the mountains, and put her
right in his mothers house, for to be
taught music and scch, and had mar
ricd her, and what a lucky girl she
was, and how clever he was, and no
end of talk. tell y"u was glad
To hear Nancy wasn't in no trouble.
"Wcll, come the day but one before
Thanksgiving, | was down to Ply
1. -. Il
rn ,' ,,; 10, , ,hnrn,d l., Iii,
,vnothor and ,noI,hc - h,rd NH nmd
| was goin' through the notch up to
Crawford's; we'll what do you think?
who should come up and get into
the stage when | was ready next dov
hut Poll Shattuck and Nancy
II l,uowrd her in = minnit thouoh
she was all done up in fur and velvet
like a dolly. hui them ewes and cheeks
was Nancy Millscs' for certain; and
he made of her as though she was
clear SUGAR and they was hoppv as
two birds
.,,,,o J;,4,,,, t.,,,,- n,,. e., ,.
f,I" , ','m " ,",hor ., ,., ."t E, WIS
wv ~ " -, ,''Sii ~ ''"'
fntrhrd anyboJy to ,I;oh Miss
Tho main rnad rnr t,ntLnr S;dn of
Sorcn md his fam, had , h,,don
tnt
.,R,t I won ro,,, Z, toll bor tn.t
FL Lrrrrd that Nis, Nils was rnai
low ol,arrG naws is snn,atI,;n, lila
,,ty.,r,l ,.,,,-;,.., ,,,,,.;.,l1,- - -. l,,,l
news. Besides, | had enough to do to
tend to my own business, for it begun
to snow thick an fast. and it saew
and blew at such a rate after we'd