Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1885-03-09


silver mine under thar, an the mon
ey's in thar yet, eff anybody'd try to
git hit out; but | don't sposen any
body ever will /; hit nd cost sight O.
money"
"You'll have to make your sweet
heart find it for you some day." said
the blue-eyed young lady wickedly.
"My sweetheart! Lap said Mar
tina Jane, with chuckle at her own
wit, "he's busy putin In gold and
silver, not gittin' 'em out. He's tooth
dentist, he is-leastways my princi-
pal sweetheart ls-an' he lives in At
lanty. He's comm up here this
fall, '-glancing up coquettishly with
her dark. close-set sparks of eyes and
wrinkling her thick dark skin in
smile that brought her lack of front
teeth into painful prominence. "He's
dead in love with me, he is. Last
summer he put four gold plugs into
my mouth and never charged me
cent-did hit all for love; an he's
goin' to take out these yere snags an
put in some front teeth for nothin'
when he comes. He's made me
real handsome offer but | amt give
him no satisfaction yet. He an me
has ben sorter courtin', though, three
or four year; he wrote me two letters
in six weeks oncet."
''And are you going to give him
satisfaction p asked the girl, as Mar
tina Jane paused for breath and turn
ed her head to one side to take in the
effect of the twists.
"Now, | amt goin' to tell you
that" she said with another coquet-
tish glance. II amt never goin' to
git married. I've got seven sisters
married-sisters an half-sisters to-
gether names Kirby, an ma
was widder with fo' chillun when
she married pa Smith. He was an
old young man, pa Smith was, an
ma thought he would do better by US
un eff he was younger an pearter;
an he's done we'll; he's a mighty
good man.
''But you started to tell us about
your sisters
"Oh, yes. Well, I've alters ben a
poor little sicklY, doucey thing, an
they all say | ought not to git mar
ried; my husban might put too many
hardships on me; an la eff he amt
the right kind you'd be ruined forev-
er an eternal a man takes all, you've
got no right to the quilts you pieced
with your own hands, or the sun bon
net you wove yourself. No, sir
My sisters all 'dvised me never by
no means to marry-nothin' but
trouble an mindin' chillun, an can't
say when you'll work or when you'll
rest-allers "a man to boss you-an'
eff he's pernicketty maxwell !"
"But did you always think so bad
ly of marriage2 Didn't you ever en-
courage anybody" queried the
preachers wife as Martha Jane evi.
IDENTIFY waited to be drawn out fur.
ther.
"Well, eff | did twas no harm
done. never did promise anybody
yit in cold earnest. I'd tell 'em
had a scatterin' mind, an might no
stick. | amt goin' to court nobody
can tell you But I've had some
pow'rful good chances-amazin
good; three on 'em was really above
me. The men all says I've got secl
a way about me they cam t resist. On'
feller told me not long ago HI
thought / had the most pow'r 'rful out
fiatterin'es' tongue he ever did see il
airy mortal woman's head. That
what he said-jes' the out-fatter
ines"
| ss md who was that I''
"Oh, a school teacher up 'tothe
side the branch. He's hansum maj
he might suit some people, but me
la, he can look at me, an that's jes
about all. | tell Meatsy she can he
him."
"Who is Meatsy!"
"She's one O. pa Smiths an ma
gals. She's my half-sister. Ma, sh'
give me an my sister Susan Mari
good plain names, an then she sort
er branched out on Pa Smiths chillul
an made up names out of her head
Thar's Delphy Paralee, an Geman
thy Magnoly, an Jacony Agnes, an
Dinksey Caledony, an Meatsy Lava
ny, an ever so many more; ma jes
got 'em onten her head. An M
heads fixed up, is it? Well, eff tha
ar tooth-dentist was here But neve
mind. I'll do it this way when hin
an me goes to Atlanty next fall"
"Then you are going to MARI
him ?"
"Marry who? Me? that tooth
dentist? | amt seed the man L,
marry yit. He's jes' goln' to Civ
me trip to Atlanty to see the sights
All the gals goes up here. Geman
thy Magnoly went with Bill johnson
that's her husban' now-an' b
took her to Athens an spent nigh OF
to fifteen dollars on her. She had /:
real good time, an so did Susan Ma
ria. She had three or four feller
a courtin' her at oncet, an one on ZEN
took her to Athens, an they were ev
cry one on 'em jes' up for taking he
after that, an each feller tried to Sc
which could spen' the mos money an