The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-05-29
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BETSY nAMILTON,s LETTER.
Betsy Tolls OF tho Marriage OF Buck simE
son and Zilphy Ann Dewberry.
atlanta CJnStitutioIs.

He lowed it was like gwine hslhn' ant
gittin' bite, jiSt when he thought he hac
her she'd drap back.
,eIttwasn't her fault. They had thel
pegs sot that night at Aunt MahaIy's al
the candy pullin' to go to the jcstis OF the
piece and git married, but you know how
old Miss Dewberry rid old Mol over thar
bareback, and busted it all up, and headed
'em fore they got off. Buck he had done
bought his license and paid. for 'em in
corn and seed taters, and you zee tina.
was what outed him go. The ole 'oman's
tongue lashin' skeered him off q long
time, and Zilphy Ann she included he
wasn't comm back no more. She
loved Buck powerful, and the longer he
stayed off the oneasier she got, and 80 to
git it off'n her mind, she turned in aud
talked to Mol Freshours about it. Shed
better KEEP her mind to herself, but
that's the way with some gals, and boys,
too. They haint satisfied lesson they tell
somebody. Mol was the very gal she
hadn't orter talked 10, kase she turned
around and told her q whole pack she
hearn that Buck had said about ole Mis-
Dewberry. Zilphy Ann she had the
spuhk to up and cay "Well, eff he's got
the enshorance to use language agin my
Nav I wouldn't marry him to save him
from torment" You zee after Buck
: paid out all that ar corn and taters and
then never got his gal, know in reason
it gouged him, and he must er said sum.
pen agin the ole 'oman, but incourse he
never suspishined it would eyer reich
Iilpby Arms years. IL you turn your
tongue loose agin anybody you may make
shore theirs alters somebody with they
,,yearaand mouth open ready TO listen and
run back and tell all you say and more
pssiias,r and giu yau ,cEesait Tor it all !;
ana asnme iist ups and tells part of what
you say, and its inginnerly the wuss part
;, A dog that fetches bone will tote one
back and glad of n chance, and that's the
way it was with Mol. Zilphy Ann never
knowed she was givin' her bone to
tote back; she drnpt it as uHbeknownst
as the fly goes into the spiders web
Mol she wanted Buck Simpson herself,
and wheeled In TO set Zilphy Ann ngin
him, then grabbed the bone and split il
in two, and jis tpld Buck pnrt OF it !;
lowed Lilphy ann said she wouldn't
marry him to save his life from torment.
Buck he disrememb that he had gin
'Ii!phy' Ann any cause to say it. and 80
he drapt n bone too, he lowed She
needn't skeer herself; thars M good
minners in the spring branch as ever was
ketched out" Then Mol she tuck part
Of it. to herself and lei in to baitin' her
hook to ketch Buck, but he didn't want
no SIGH a,bait, and never bit. Fishes ia
monstcrous SHY aud skittirh when they
see hook sot on purpose TO ketcll 'em.
1t don't alters pny to set your can. Miss
Patience Potter has had her'n sot to ke,ch
somebody for the last forty Years and
haint never kotch nobody yit!
Mol Freshours never made nothin' by
satisfied with what she had done.
They had big picnic mt the bend OF
the creek, aud folks swarmed In from
Owl Hollow clean down to Postum Val
ley, and you never seed the likes OF din.
ner rs they NIL fetched, 'cept some of the
rossumYalley gang. They never had so
much ms billed aig amongst 'cm.
The Dewberrys was thar, and yon may
resk 1t old Miss Dewberry spread out nB
nice chance Of vittlcs as air'n thar.
The stranger from town that flew around
Zilpby Ann at the candy pullin', takin'
dinner with 'em and sot up to Zilphy
Ann in yearnest,
Buck Simpson was traipsin' around
with Mol Freshours, but he sot his eye
on tZilphy Amp, and looked like lie could
or kilt that ar town chap easy as q snake.
i5aoE ne wa= sp.aced Up powerfn! that
day, had on his coperas jeens paritaioons,
and blue check bob.tail coat, speckled
caliker shirt, paper collar and blood red
cravat; and Mol she peared to be mighty
prondto him. iZilphy Ann had on her
bran new Sunday-go' to neetin' hat
turned up to one side with big red rose
stuck on whar 1t was turned up, and her
nose 'peared to be sot up in the air too
as she looked at Buck and Mol with thcr
arms locked q perusin' around the spring
a giglin' and q flingin' water million seed
at one another. She was a waitin' her
chance to 3tesF Rhdk that she'd hearn thnt
he had talked agin her Nav, and he was
layin' of to tell her what he had hearn
she said, 30 you see Mol's smartness In
tryin' to put 'em out and keep 'em apart
was the very occasion Of gitten' 'em to
getliefi1 aBd so it is ma6y n time, 40
brother Cole says. good coniea out'n evil.
Mol got ketcl,ed IN her own trap that
time. fhpSniSSss skjsasisa as:ss ,Dew..
berry aad agin Buck Wan that he was
poor and not able to keep Zilphy Ann
from the wash tub, and she hadn't made
pb9oaes d4 sayih' so.i fOC i4EffI7I.
Old sister Fresholifs made SO shoree>
that Buck wautedA biol, that ske1co,hdn't
keep from crowin oyer Hiss DeNbhrry,
and braggin' Of how much truck Buck,
had, and then lowed: "He's got plenty,
for him aud Mol to hire ,'eu, a niger the.
balance of ther days" Pap lowed shet
was o little previous beforehand" and a
mile or two ahead Of the hounds, but
that's old Miss Freshoura up aud down.
q 1t was the talk around thar that day
that Buck had made speck off'n his
cross.fies, and layed but the money in a
town lot on the Georgy Pacific railroad,
and 1T had ,riz on his hands; and it sot
old Miss Dewberry to thinkin' mebbe
Ste had cut OF :.sE !io1e by set lct,iH' her
gaEtake him. Mol she cluug to Buck all
the mornin', and KEEP him away from
zilphy Ann, and Zilphy Ann she tried
to make herself believe she. didn't keer.
but she did keer and Buck keered top.
He stood 1t long as he could, then he
picked his chance and axed her how
come her TO say slie wouldn't marry him
to save his lila from .lorment, and that
gin her chance to tell him all she had
hearn; and 30 they sot off on big rock
and 1t never tuck ''emgten minutes Ito,
make it all up. Mol sot 6fr lonesome.
like all to herself and watched 'em and
could shave, ,clipGhed q nail, in. two, She,
was sosoatea. G:ThN pleasure of sorrIe
folks isstl,snlsfy ofsiothers; bis,Aiol. /.
fetched 1t all on herself / seed Buck
and buddy and the stranger from town
q jugglin' together. Then the stranger
he taken Zilphy Ann In his buggy aud
went towards the town road, and buddy
and Buck jumpea.on ther critters and of
they nut right after Fem. Old Miss Dew.
harfu svna a fakinJ n liAllo a.uaL. 4. ~ .