The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-05
nov, 80 she crept along easy aud pulled
eside the curtain and struck her head In

80 phe crept along easy h1d pu!!oo
aside the curtain and struck her head In
and satd peep"
"Ard bleps yenr lie" Gays Gal, II could.
NJ hardly git my bead ont 10 save my lie.
l telt like l was plum perrylizad 10 the spot.
The long bed aRin the wall was chuck inii
Of boys; some sound asleep, some wSkin'
up, and Two or three had RI. and was a
shuckin' into ther clothes ns hard as they
could Save, and thar l atood like q Grey
Hooee and couldn't move baud nor loot
'pearpd like l jist couldn't git my head out
lore they could see who l was 10 save my
lie; but when ] did git II out l axed loot
to help body, and lowed I'd run aud hide
whsr they couldn't look out and see who 1t
WIS. &
II said 'p.sp, peep all the way an made
for the session room like a skeered bird q
hyin' ip out'n the storm. I was shore Il was
empty ike It was last year, but we never
knows what a year will bring forth.
/ fell up the ateps, showed the door open
and fell sprawlin' in the middle Of the floor
ssyiug "peep, peep, peep" add peep wss
all | conld say, when | hearn that god old
preacher say: You've coine 10 the wfos 4
place" "pssp, peep, peer" Gays l. whats
/. and I know In reason l was as pale al
white aa.a piller alp. ss a
We'll, what you peepin' in here iol?
saya hs. Peep, peep" Hays l., them boys,
peep, them boys, whal'll they think Of
mr., "Wh,2" Says he, "hays you besn q
peeping at the boys 7" r5I.f ,rII
M. DO, no." sAys ], "yes, no, yes I did
NO, / didn't, yes, yer, l did," says l, try.
n to acrambla up, hut my kneesg .va away
and l fell again. The good old man had
shucked into nus clothes, aud lifted, me up
on my feet. Tother old Teller riz up In bed
and rubbed his eyes TO see what upon the
living yeth 1t all meant, and when l cotch
a sight Of him, If | hadn't already been
Bkeered to death, he would have finished
me-a Hettin' up thar In a red Il innsl shir'
without his wiz and teeth was old Brother
Cole. l wanted to fly, but l wass too veal
to move. a. JsI 4 ttaiI lE .F!i
The good old man helped me down the
steps and l went Or back to the tent aud
aimed to stay thar and not show my face
no more. | know In reason | said "peep''
q thousand times, and the word WIS still
ringing in my head when | rigged ont in q
irock l hadn't wore, and borrowed Nancy
Sttg!eton's hat, and made shore them boye
wouldn't know me. l waited tel the II
o'clock ssraiont and everybody was at tn.
stand and the aiguin' had sot in, Tore
made up my mind to 90; bat alter l 70,
Il ted l made shore they wouldn't know
me, and stepped out and riz my red IN
brill and starred acroes to the staud feeln'
all right when abons o dtzsn little boys
the BIZ, Of Jake Simmons sot in to boil.
lerin 'peep, peep" loud as they could, and
all eyes looked at me.
1t vas all l could do to stand It. IBtart
ed back. but I knowsd that wouldn't do
They had done seed me anyhow, so
thought I'd face 'em and go on to til,
meetln'. r.
We'uns laughed 8! Cal and tormentet
her life putty nigh eut'n her about it.
But Gal gifts into 80 many ecrapes eh,
don't mind it long. m :
All sorts inginnerly goes up thar to III,
Union csmpmeetin'-2ood and bad, hipt
and low, rich aud pour, young and old
niggeIs and white folks, babies and dogs
muteH, horses and steers.
My taller candle has burnt smack dovr
into the socket, and ia a winkin' and
blinkin'. I'll mould come more, and TO
morrow night III ,inish tellin' you abou
the csmpmeeiin'. nj