The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-11-13
From the Atlanta Constitution.
BETSY HAMILTON.
SFI Il TELLS WHAT SHE DID
AND SAW IN TEXAS.

Copyright 1884. All rights reserved.
When we'uns fus landed thar IN
Dallas City we was terrible beset
about what TO do and whar TO go.
Cousin Jake he had got of'n the
kars at Hutchins, ten miles this
side, and left us to weed our own
row, and / kuowd then we was in a
bad pickle. He lowed he'd come on
to Dallas ueXt day, but what in the
name of common sense WAS we'uns
gwine to do TIL he got tharl We
wasn't acquainted and didn't know
nobody.
He told pap he'd better stop at
the Grand Windsor. Grand whatP
says pap, sIim not gwine to stop
no whar but Dallas.D f.Thea Cou-
sin Jake be lowedihe Grand Wind
s0r was a hotel iu Dallas. s1IiPs a
fine hotel,T says he; "the Saul
Jaciuto aud tue lie Grand hotels
was jined together with high
bridge that ruus across the street
and they cali it the Grand Wind-
sor, andlt belongs to a man nauied
w. Il. Haghes, aud he owns the
FREMONT in Galveston too" II
cant help what he owns,0 says pap,
s'Im not agwine to no hotel I'm
not agwine TO no Le Grand, nor no
Grand Windsor, nor no grand moth
iu', nor nothiu' that's grand. Hit
takes TOO much money to be a
gwine to grand places, and tell
you Pm not a gwiHe to nothin' that's
grand Pm gwiue to tiud out
whar my kin folks, the JohnsOns,
lives, aud go thar"
"Sposen," says Cousin Pink,
''sposen your klnuery is grand,
too 2"
sGYou'uns bad better stop at the
Grand Windsor says Cousin Jake ;
they'll treat you mighty well and
give you a plenty that's good to
eat" | seed by the cut of Cousin
Pink's eye that she was high up tor
gwiue to the Gland Windsor, kaSe
if ther is anything Counsin Pink do
love on this yeth hits sump'n good
to eat. Pap he had kinnery thar
IN Dallas, and Cousin Pink she had
kinncry, and old Miss slack she bad
kiuuery not fur from thar, but none
of 'em wasn't lookiu' for none of
we'uns, and wouldn't er kuOwed
nary one of us if they had er
saw US, and when we lit Out'n the
kar thar at the union depot we was
in a big city, aud did't know no
body anu no body didn't know us,
and didn'tipear to want to know us,
and we did't know what to do nor
whar to go. Pap, be grabbed our
grapsacks aud lowed we'd walk
around and keep a gwine and hud
out whar the JOhnsons lived and 90
thar-them Johusons was kin to
hun, not much kin nurther, but we'd
go to ther house anyhow. "Come
along Miss Slack" says pap, "yout.
aus can 90 10, aud hit'll save yOu a
hotel bill,7 aud We all started ont
like q passale OF hounds on the trail
Of a fox-a huuiin up the Johnsons.
I felt plum foolish aud / knowed IN
reason Cousin Pink did too. "Them
JohnsOns,n says pap, Sc0me here
when Dallas wasn't nOtbin but a
blacksmith shop and a grocery, aud
1 hayeut saw Johnson sence be WIS
a baby, but 1 know in reason I'd
know him from the favor OF bis
daddy. Can you tell me0-says be,
ketclIin a man By the shoulder,
0whar the JOhnsous livesr s'No,
sir says the stranger a iookin like
be didn't know and dinnt keer. Bot
IL never s0t pap back a bit, be axed
ever man be met il he kHoWed the
JobusOns, and found out thar was a
right smart chance of Joonsons
aud Smiths too liviu IN aud around
Dallas bat kuoved IN reason they
couldn't al be a kin. "Havc a
hack, sirf Have a hacki Step