The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-02-29

! AuDt heOecc8 1OOkGu very calm, IN
] don't tn nix she d ten cryin'. But then
that want nothin' to GO by; 'twa'nt
her way. don't believe she'd cried
eff it had been A5ner Lyons. Though
don't know, maybe, il she'd MARI ed
the man she wanted, she'd cried easier.
/ For all Aunt Reoecca was so kind an
sympathizin' to other folks, she'd al
ways seemed like stone bout her own
troubles. don't s'pose eff the barn an
house had both burned down, an left
her without q roof over her head, she'd
a seemed any different. kin see her
now, jest as she looked. settin' thar
tellin' me the story that would hev
illustrated any other woman most to
death. But her voice was jest as low
an even, an never shook. Her hair
was gray, but it was kinder crinklv, an
her forehead was as white an smooth as
young girls.
AUNT Rebecca's troubles always staid
in her heart, l s'pose, an never pricked
| through. Except for her gray hair, she
never looked as eff she'd had one.
''She never took on any more when
she went to the funeral, for they buried
him at last, poor man. He had most
as hard time gittin' buried as he did
gittin' married. Icouldn't help peekin'
round to see eff Abner yons was thar,
an he was, on the other side of the aisle
from me. An he was lookin' straight
at lhcle Enos's colin, that stood up in
front under the pulpit. with the curl
ousest expression that ever did see.
"He didn't look glad RELY. Icouldn't
say he did, but ali 1 could think of was
man who'd been runnin' an runnin'
to git to place, an at length had got
in sight of it.
"May be twas dreadful for him to 90
to mans funeral an look that way,
but natur' is natur', an l always felt
somehow that eff Uncle Fnos chose to do
as he did 'twa'n't anythin' more than
he ought to hev expected when he was
dead.
but did feel awful ashamed an
wicked thinkin' of such things. with the
poor man layin' dead before me. An
when went up to look Mt him LAWN
thar so helpless / cried like baby.
Poor Uncle Enos! il ain for us to be
down on folks after everything's all
over.
"Well, Aunt Rebecca married. Abner
Lyons bout two years after Uncle Enos
died, an they lived together Jest five
years an seven months: then she was
took sudden with chOl ra morbus from
eat.n' Gu, rants, an d ed. He lived
year an half or so longer. an then
he died in kind of consumption.
"'Twa mt long they had to be happy
together, an sometimes | us ID TO think
they wa mt SO hap. yaf err all; for thars
no mistake about it, Abner yons was
awful fussy. l s'pose his Twin alone
SO long made b m so; but l don't be-
licve Aunt Rebecca ever made l.Saf Of
bread. after she was married, without
his havin' something 10 say about it,
an eff thar's anything that's aggervat-
in o a woman, it 8 havin' a man
fussin' around in her XII chen.
But eli Aunt Rebecca didn't find
ANYTHING just as she thought it was
go n to he, she never let ON she was
disappointed.
II declare. Alm'ry. thar's the house
in 81 hit. an the shower has gone round
70 the no theast. an we ain had
speck of rain to lay the dust.
"Well. my story's gone round to the
northeast. TOO: Ain t you tired out
hearin' me talk. Almiry
''No indeed. Mia Green" replied Al
mira, slapping the re rs IL liked to
hear YOU, only it's kind of come to me.
as I've been Il ,tening that rad heard
it before. III last time l took you TO
Walpole, 1 guess. you told it."
:" a'al. declare. shouldn't won
Ger ef | did,"
Then the horse turned cautiously
around the corn'r r. and Stopped willing
ly be'ore the houSe.-Mary E. Wilkins,
~ Harler's Bakar.