Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-08-25
cRoFToN, Ky.
AUGUST, lG 1885.


nodiscd letter mt by cuzin Bill
Rogus in one of yer isshoos not long
sense. | inferred frum it that he had
made Il ass OF hisselt at DOrsing. Bill
is the degeneratedest one of the Iio.
guses, an don't care if he is. lliz
wive, Malindy, use TO wash an akl
sort OF watin' made fur Susan Skin
ner, who is soon to be mi wust hall
Il never aknOlege emmy boddy's got
Il better hail than me) au she allus
lOued as she wuden't had Bill but
he sed he'd kill hisself if she didn't
While wuz goin' 10 see Susan |
maid II startlin' deskuvery. | seed
that MaIindy wuz in luv wild me. Mi
hansun fase an polished demeener
had got in thar work ann one day
when drapped in kind of sudden,
the pore gal who was irnnin BUSH
ell fur Susan, drapped her irun an
turned reddcr than the plase on the
busscll wher Susan had sot down Cn
pan NV cherries an the juze must a
worked inwerd. Wuu da | told her
she he'd better hav Bill-that she wuz
of a different elk irum me, an that
Bill wud di ef he didn't git her. She
sed Bill spelt nifty bad in the letters
he had rit her, but as he had Brite's
dizcase of the liver in hiz ankul, ma
by he wudcnt last long any way an
she wud hav him.
Bill has disreprezentid Dorsing in
sum thaings. wuz thar miself
while bak. l wuz buzzy all the time
tryin' to kill all the water (strdte)
that | cud. Unkul Billy O'brian had
the best water thar. He KEEP it bot
tied up an yu had TO pay fur it. 1t
wuz the growinest wateryu ever seed,
When poored out it KEEP glttin too big
fur its briches till it got klare out NV
the glass. l nodised AL. Clark Il
drinkin' anuther kind NV water what
they had at same place. 1t must
bin orful gud fur he luked plrezed
an told anuther anekdote after takin'
AL. aXed me to take sum and I'd a
done it but when him an DR.. Culum
wunk at one anuther an sed SOM
thin low about some kind oil they
was goin to put in the glass, unbu-
noins to me, 1 kalkulated | wudn't
tax any an told 'em l wuz six and Il
feered to drink.
That ekoh (Yu nodis he disspelt it
e-c-h-o-) wuzn't varmint at tall.
thot every body node ekoh wuz a
burd on the orded NV the guse. 1t is
derived frum the Latin wurd "ekoS"
which means peculiar kind NV guse
seen in Coles sirkuss. l wuz thar
when Bill am Malindy KUN. Yu'd a
dide when Bill Civ that niger boy a
dollar to let him alone. The nigger
had been put up to take Bills grip
SAX by sum boys. When they got it
bak Malindy sot down on the platform
an went thro its kontents to see if it
wuz all thar. The boarders all krowd-
cd roun' an sot up Orful gigglin
when the fust thing Malindy hauled
out wuz lot NV winners under
klose too tegus an unmodest to men,
shun. Next kun bottle NV soothin
surrep an som feller mistakin' it fur
i water yelled "here's luck" an made
fur the bottle. While him an Malin.
dy wuz skuillin over the bottle a
dogon niger slipped up an got par
Of Bill's walnut dide yarn sox, a
checked linsy shurt an tuth pix, an
wuz maxim off with 'em when Bill
seed him an Civ chase. Thay had it
nip an TUX till thay got up near the
Summit House, when the marshall
kummin along, arrested Bill fur chas-
in lilly respectable niger with an
intent to rekuver wurthlcss an obser-
lete goods. The court fined him next
day an reprlmanded the niger fur
evea runnin frum sich feler as Bill.
1t wuz orful when Bill axed EN- at
the Sandusky House if Ella Vator
wuz thar. lie sed he had seen in the
papers where Ella Vator went to most
of the hotels, an tux the bOarders up
to thar rumes an he wanted to git er.
quaented with her.
Bill went to the ball one mite an
yu'd dide to soen him a tryin TO
git a paydner with his klaw hammer
kote a salein in the breeze kreated by
the breath of the dansers. Ever time
theyed git set ready Bill wud yell
to em to "hold on an he'd soon hav
pardner an thay wud duble on the