Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-02-06
HE WAS MARRIED---RATHER
Deacon Eastwood Falls In With
q Mormon and IL More Than
Half Converted.

~ 49,
q Mormon and IL More Than
Half Converted.
"While was a settin' in the bal
room, pickin' my teeth with o boss
shoe nail" said Deacon Eastwood,
"a saddish-lookin' young Teller KEN
along and sot down alongside of me
and began to chat AS neigbborly as
though he wanted to borrow somethin'.
I'm alwuz ready to meet anybody half
way in %sociability, and SO it wasn't
long afore ] tole him where l lived,
what | was wuth. and how much n day
it cost me to kitter around. That sort
o drawed him out a little, and be told
me his name was Elder Brisket, and
that he averaged about three in a hill
amongst his neighbors when he was at
home. He said he lived right smart
furder west, and was here on buzness
fur the church. We hedn't been talkin
many minutes afore we discovered that
we was both troubled with several
kumplaints that was purity nigh SINH
lar, and some others that was most
identically the same. Frum that we
got to talkin' about crops and family
matters and SO on, and | seq
"YOre a married man, l reckon, ell
derP"
'.Well. yes,' seq he. "ruther."
(Which of the wimmen | saw you
with is yore kumpanyunp" sez /. re.
ferring TO several wimmen who had
followed him into the dinlng-room.
'All of um," seq no, sighin' as
though he was in meetiD.'
WHAT seq |, jumping up with q
jerk that snatched Oft 3 gallus button.
You don't purtend to say that YOU
are married to all Of them wimmsnP''
"Well, yes," seq he, ''ruther." and
he said it as sollum as gravel fallin' on
a coffin.
land them children" seq I; ''are
they all yournP"
well, yes" seq he, "therur. Least.
ways | puryide for nm"
"Are you a Morluonp" seq I, with a
stiflin' sort of gasp that purity nigh
choked me. for | must say TO look Al
the mans face he 'peared good anuf
10 lead a class meetin', and | was
afeared he mightent like the question,
hut ne sot thar as kan as cold beans,
and seq he:
We'll, yes--ruther."
/ don't think | was ever overcome sc
complete about anything sense l 90,
religion as | was just then. You
could a knocked me down with a
feather.
As soon as | could ketch my breath
| proceeded to rake him over the Goals
purity lively. but he didn't seem to care
II smuugin for anything | said, aud |
didn't rile him n particle. He Just
sot thar as uDmoved as a stun fence,
and never got his dander up onest. |
told him that hs was q mizrable wurm
of the dust. but he said he knowed it.
thought he stuck up to it that he was
tryin' to do the Lords will the best he
knowed how, and q Z Their kalkerlat-
ed he would keep on m .rryin' as long
as he had a hair left.
And from that we got to argyin' the
matter, and You wouldent believe, my
darlin' what a mOnsus sight of sckrip-
ter The elder cud kote to show that il
was right for a man to marry when.
eyer more help around the house was
needed. instid Of hirin' and THROWN
away money that might be kept in
the family jest as we'll as not. l must
say that he made it pear SO dreadful
reasonable that l waseut nigh sc
much sOt aginst HIM as | was afore
Purity nigh all the good men we read
about in skripter follered this plan
of keepn' down expenses, but !
never looked at it jest that way till he
pointed 1T out to me. 1t dident take
him more than ten minutes to show
me that il was a preshus sight easier &c
marry a hired gal durin' lard times
than it wss to pay her cash.
1t sometimes happened, the elder
.sid, that he would lose a turbud. good
wife just as the spring work was y
comm on. and AFTER he'd been to the
expense of winterin' her; but luck in
marryin' was purity much the same rs
it was in raisin' pork-sumtimes thel
was proffu: in it and sUmtimes the1
want. Howsumever he wasent the
man to make his eyes sore in weepin
about what cudent be helped sc long
as he could find an able-bOdied woman
i'm the neighborhood who hedent beI
bespoke. and so in such cases he gin
rally put on his blue coat and naukeer
weskit and married again as soon a
he could pop and gi. the gal 70 {
preacher.