Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-04-17

am said he said she wuz Hellun;
and didn't care a derned bit whar frum
that was enough. An shc said
she'd show me me ef didn't care whar
frum, an hull lot more, jawen back
an forrid. An got mad an left the
cabin here where we'd moved In an
footed It of to San1y an got tight. It
wuz Of mornin'. I told the boys
about it, an they said l oughten to take
no sass from her nary time, an ef /
wanted to lick an Eastern man, twas
none OF her business, an l oughter
| know how TO manage woman, an
kinder hissed me on an sicked me u,
till liz out fer home purity mad.
wuz heven' bottle long an KEEP git
tin tighter an lighter. Jist rs | got
thar by them bars you sees thar wuI
feelin' as big as popular log an sot
that was goin to boss my shauty an
any woman that ever lived. SO gins
q whoop an straightens myself ups
wells could fer woblin' an breaks on
a paw-paw stick an inter the cabin
goes. jist thought I'd show her 1
| wuz sot an meant business, so i smashes
her dishes all told her I'd take no sass,
no how. took down the lookin' glass
an Jumped on it, an told her wur
goin' ter be boss all the time tore
up her weddin sun-bon net an told her
ei she want ter be Hellun she
couldn't be one In that cabin, an' II tho
he teacher said it wuE complement
[ could lick him, or her, either, an
started fer her-for by this time wus
rale mad an ugly an things wuz a
spinner. But thar she stood, not sayin'
a word, with her hans or her hips and
her elbow jints stickin' out like jug
hannels, an lookin' straight inter my
face, an hern wuz rs red er that chick.
enc gills thar. l kinder sapled an
stepped back. an stepped right inter
the lookin' glass frame, an my feet got
knotted somehow or other, an | gin .
SWIRL, an when lighted lie on the
bed, on top Oh the new tow linen hum
spun sheets her mother gin her TO git
| married In, with my boots on, an thar
| laid. The next thing | knowed l
wuz nigh slnothered an I couldn't
move hand ner foot. thought thered
been o buryin' an Iwuz the fellcr In
| the coffin, an that sorter sobered me up
a bit. | seed II wuz kinder light like,
an not dark, ez they say graves 10. SO
| yells loud ez / could, Mag" an
heerd her answer, whats the mat
ter?" close long side on me. But her
| vice didn't sound material; IL were kind
er smothered an sot like. ! 'gin 10
shake. "Where am lf'' scz; nn' sho
told me: Yer stitched up In my new
humspun sheets ez my mother gin me,
an you got drunk with your boots on,
an I'm goin ter settle with you."
"Derned if che badn't sewed me up
tight as n sassage, aud with her sayin'
that down came the allfredst whack
on hickory saplin'-a two-hander--
souar acros, nv back. For she'd sewed
me In an turned me. right side up for
lickin' an stitched me down 10 the
trktn light as wax-end sewens. tried
20 roll butit were no use. Up an, down
went the saolin,-Ic can hear Il whiz ylt.
| yelled an hollered an tried to tear
the tarnal hver, but IL were genuine
humspun, an no more tear in II than .
side NV sole leather; au' she'd stitched
me In eood-I hez 'em yIt. Shs kept
| on a latherir,' an l could hear her
ketch her bresthen an come up with Z
run fer a harder lick; an 1 felt as IL
wuz beln' notched an hammered out
| like a boss.sboe nail. Artef q right
smart Bit NV han merin' she sorter
slowed 70 catch her Wind, an began
talkin'. An'-ssz sshe-s,ksepis' on
with the lIckin' but s-nixiu' It up with
her ,alk-.you'll take no sass, won't
your whi1! an your goin, TO be
boss, air your' whiz! Boar Whit
,Bossp whiz! AN you've stamped tho
| lookin' '.glassi' An | b'issve she licked
me more fer that than any thing else,
hu,I a,syetnember N.tg ,An,I Kin be !
| Helm, kin Ir Whs.kf 4 .Yra. I kin.
si,hl .i,hl .You can lick uef Met Kin
vop, Well pll rit in my lIcksn fus,
and then ace ybose eeeo 70 be bon, in
tbI. cabin +, An sbe ken on akin aues.
,iors AZ, n,,sr an m. mi I wu, nIeI,
ds,d ~,,b a,r, an, bo,lsrlo reckon
IN. o,,y ,h,nv t,a, . .boekAd her eng the
..n,.n a,nnsn Tar ouv out Fer bue.
aad on, ,Iowed Ter her % atom an, rim
me nut AN, bollered enough n,ore'n