Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1886-08-20


won't sleep wink tonight 'tilyo'vc told
ev'ry man, woman an child in tho neigh.
borhood.'
81 jest stood there aud hid ON to my
sides Til thought should 20 off, am
when l got so 1 could speak, says 1: 10
siah Jones, you're q picture fer q Comick
Almanack, if ever there was one, entitled
"A hcnpicked husband, tarrcd an fcath-
cred an ridin' on rail- AS mad as he
was, hc c,uldu't help laflin', but he
didn't laif long, for when he got kinder
gcthcred up, an began to pick off tho
feathers, an look at himself, aud take
kinder of an inventory o. things, his
countenance fell rod, It'll yc. But if
you'd ben there, as WAS, nm seen the
molasses and oats drippin' Off his trow-
sers-legs into tho tops of his shoes, his
hands all paint nm sand, an his stove
pipe hat all stovc in on ono side, with
big gaub O. putty, you'd n thought the
specimen o. humanity was the wust you
ever see. Ho went round nm begun to
pick up things, an says I: Josiah,
what's become o. that cud o. tobackcr
yc put in yer mouth jest as yo started
Off
"Goshl Samantha, 1 must hov swal-
Tered it,
'Yc oughtcr seen his eyes when ho
said it. Ef it had pizencd him then and
there, should have laughed to seen that
scarf and melancholy look on his faco
as soon as reminded him ont.
"'Swallercd itT says I.
"'Ycs, swallercd it, I guess II YOU
had been jounccd out of that cr wagin tho
way was, you'd a-swallcred yer tongue,
nm l declare 'twould been a good thing
for me Of ye had'
Jest as he said that, looked down
the road. What should SEQ a-comin,
but Sam Pcase's team, nm if yon had
seen Josiah Jones and them feathers
a-strcakin' it through that corniicld yon-
der, you'd thought the Evil One was t
his heels.
"As Sam como along up, says he:
"'Why, Mis- Jones, what's the mat
teri Did ye git split outp"
"'No,' says I, Ih'aint, but cv'rything
else has,
"I should think So says he. Has
everything gomez"
Yes, even to Josiah.'
| GO tlUo, lF. Tz..
"IIc 'cas, but he amt now;' an 1
laughed agin, as thought how that corn
must be fcathcrcd out by that timc.'
Cant help ye to right up things n
little2'"
"'No,' says I; Il guess Josiah'll be
back pretty quick
"Then he didn't git hurt, did her"
ooh, mol guess he'll ken out ont
all right says ], but 1 KEEP up terrible
thinkin' all the time, wonderin' how he
was gittin' out ont without me there to
help him find his shirt nm things; for
tho I've lived with that man goin' on
twenty-five years, an alias put his shirt
in the same place, yit he alias come to
me saying:
Samantha, where's my shirt2"
oval, Sam he histcd the waein
round little so't he could git by, an
he picked up some O. the things, an he
drove along. By-an'-by 1 hccrd the
bushes kinder crackin' behind me, nm
looked round, an there was Josiah
mcachin' along, pcckin' through the
bushes, an whispcrin':
+" Samantha, is anybody round thcrc2'
No. says 1. What yc 'fraid on 2
h'aint yc got rugged up YETI
"'Yes, the best could. can't cit
it all off my hands, nor out o. my hair
an l don't want to see nobody till we
get out o. this scrapc. For goodness
sake, Samantha, wish you'd scratch
some dirt over that paint an stuff there,
so 'twon't look quite so destructive. Sich
consarncd luck, anywayl mother time,
Samantha, I wish you'd stay to HUMP
"'Good land o. liyini what hcy I
donca Didn't tell ye not to take this
roadp
F" wal, mother time, set in tho wagin,
then, an not be a-pilin' out jest fer lit
tic hill
"'Jcst fer II little hill l should saw
sol You'd jest like ter had me avail
lcrin' round in that mess, too, wouldn't
yea Itell yc what tits, old man, 1 don't
care to feather my nest in that way
WAL, feather yer nest or not, VIC
shall have to work mighty hard to make
up this ere loss; an that amt all, Pm
thinkin' nuthcr. That jouncin got an
the run through tho cornfcld has shook
my dinner down, an 1 shall be mighty
| glad to git hum an git somethin' t'eat.
''There he was, ben through what he
had, an mournin' over all he'd lost. an,
yit the fust thing he thought on when he
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