The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-03-05

fork, with which she was doing the work, had
not the efficiency Of n modern egg-beater.
| well, ye see,' Mrs. Brown began, pushing
the huge framework of pnste-board and ging.
hams back from her faco, Moses wife took her
tailor work home yesterday an got her money
for il. Ee know Nose use tcarry It, and he
wouldn't let her hev the money fort, just spent
it jesrs he'd n minier, IN she and the chill.
dren had tgo hungry half O. the timc-for
Nose never'd bring nothing in L speak on
Il know it-nnd told her timer agin she
was fool to work so an let that lazy lummox
git hold o her money, said Aunt Hannah, beat
| ing her eggs more briskly in her indignation.
| He'd set behind the stove nll last winter md
slug, the Lordll pervide, and wouldn't lift n
| finger to Pervide for his younguns himself.
The hypercrit!'
We'll, ye see,' Mrs. Brown resumed, she
le'rnt better'n to let him carry home my work I;
so Yesterday she and Jane took big bundle out
to the city, and when she got back, Nose told
her to give him the money, an she wouldn't do
it. lie was mighty high over it, and threatened
what he'd do if she didn't let him have it-but
she'd got her back up, aod ye know Sally 8
pretty kinder sot when she sets out to be, and
Nose couldn't scare her wuth a cent. She Jest
told him the money was hcr'n, she'd earn't it,
and ho shouldn't tech one penny ont Then
she SEE he jest grabbed her by the arm and
throat, and tried TO git it, and she kicked and
pulled till she got away from him, but her
hair'd come down in the tusslc and he grabbed
her by that, and afore she could get away he d
pulled out lock Ms big as my thumb. Her
head looked just awful when she came over to
our house and told ont, and her arm and throat
was black and blue where he'd pinched her.
told her I'd go straight to Squire Pea.e, and
make complaint against him. And she started,
but afore she got there she met Dave Tuttle, an
ye know what high flyer Dave is, and as soon
as she told him bout Nose, Dave sez-sez he ::
Mrs. Potter, ye jest 60 right straight back
and get the young'uns and yer clos and il
Nose seq anything jest tell him you've made
complaint against him and he Gassent tech ye,
and I'll git my team on meet ye here in half
an hour and fetch ye to my house, and ye oan
stay with me till ye can make shift some way
So she got the young aud things-aud
mighty few things there was, too-anI Dave
fetched them home with him.
What did Nose have to say for himself when
Sally went back?
Never said nothin', only asked er where she
Was goin, and she told him twas where she d
be better of than she 4 ever been with him.
She says Nose hauled in his horns, as if he was
o little afeared, an he let er 60 without sayin
nothin more.
The mean scamp Lucky for him WASH /
his wife ! said Aunt Hannah, fercely. I'd q
learnt him what's what afore this time.
Well, yc see, Dave went an told them factory
fellows how mean Nose had used his wife, and
they'd allus he'd kind of grudge aginst him.
and didn't want no better fun n to scare him
half to death; so they just rigCed up in old
clos and turned their cuts wrong side out, an
blacked their faces SOS he couldn't tell none on
EN-. Then they got big bag O. feathers and =
kittle tar an come up there an tried to git
Nose out. But he smelt at and they couldn't
raise him. They pounded on the doors an told
him they'd break em down if he didn't let ON
in, but he never let on he heard en-. Bimeby
some of EN- got the hog trough and threw it
| through the winder-
Good for EN- said Aunt Hannah, chuckling
with delight. That's the most sensible thing
they ever done hogs trough is the best
| thing they could find for such hog.
They staid round there purity nigh half an
hour, and one or two on EN- got in through the
broken winder and looked high and low but
they coldn't find hide or hair Of Nose. Ar'er
they'd been gone spell, Lish went over and
hollered to Nose an told him they'd all cleared
out, an nobody shouldn't tech him if he
come out. But he never showed himself, and
Lish lit a candle An went all over the house
from garrit to suller, but he couldn't find
| nothin O. Nose nowhere but just as he was
| a-goin to give 1t up. he heard Nose call in q
kind of a scarf whisper:
LisL, is it you-be they all gone?
AN as true as ye live there was Nose down
| on all fours-a-crawlin' out Of q hogshead way
| In under the suller stairs. He was ell covered
with ashes and dirt, and he shock jest like .
popple leaf. lie was scarf oil but death, an
| hung on Z Lish so, not to leave him alone
| that he had to fetch him home with him. lie
put him in the bed up garrit, m never knew
| nothin' about it till morning, or thered q been
music, ye better b'leve. Ijest made Lish tak Q
that are bed out inter the yard, an it's there
now, nObody'd never wanter sleep ont arter
| that nasty critter'd been sleepin' in IT,
'Wcll, declare FORT Aunt Hannah said
| spitefully. at the close Of the narration. u
wish Z goodness they'd q ketched him, an
tarrod an feathered him an rode him on a
rail out O. town. If owed the Old Scratch q
dozen sinners an he wouldn't take Nose Pot.e,
n call it even, I'd cheat him out O. the hull
ont He's the biggest old hypercrit that eve,
| I see.'
| There, there, Hannah i Uncle Joel inter.
posed mildly, coming cut Of the pantry, where