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

not the efficiency of II modern egg-bcater.
Well. sc see. Mrs. Brown began. pushing
the huge framework of pastc-board and ging-
hams back frcm her face, Nose wife took her
tailor worH hcmc yesterday an got her money
| for it. Ie know Nose use tcarry it, and lie
wouldn't let her hev the money fort. just spent
it jest's he d mintcr, an she and the chill.
dren lad t'go hungry half O the timc-for
Nose nevcr'd br.rg nothing in t speak on
Il know it--and toii her time II ncin she
| was fool to work so nm let that lazy lummox
git hold o her money said Amt Hannah beat
ing her eggs more briskly in her indgnation
| He set behind the stove all last winter and
sing, rhe Lord II pcrviic, and wouldn't lift
finger to rervide for his younguns himself
The hypcrcrit
| We'll, yc see, Mrs. Brown resumed She
lc rnt better n to .ct him carry home any work
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 wouldnt 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, aud yc know Sally's
pretty kinder Sot when she sets out to be- and
Nose couldn't scare her wr:th n cent. She lest
| told him the money was her II, she'd earnt it,
and he shouldn't tech one penny on t. Then
she scz he jest grabbed her Ivy the arm and
throat and tried to git il, and She kickel and
pulled till she got away from him. but her
hair ii come down in the tuSslc and he grabbed
her hy that, and aforc she could get away he'd
pulled out a lock us big as my thumb. Her
head looked just awful when she came over to
ppr h,,,,s tn1l ,
was black and blue where he'd pinched her.
told her ! d 80 straight to Squire Pcasc and
| make complaint against him. And she started
but afore she got there she met Dave Tuttle, an
yc know what high flyer Dave is and as soon
| as she told him bout Nose, Dave scz-scz he
Mrs. Potter. yc jest go right straight back
and get the young'uns and yer clos and if
Nose seq anything jest tell him you vc made
com plant against him and he :asscnt tech We,
ami II git my team an meet ye here i'll half
all hour and fetch yc to my house. and yc can
stay with me till ye make shift some way
So she got the young uns aud ,hings-and
mighty few things there was, too--anI Dave
fetched them home with him.
What did Nose have to say for himself wien
Sally went back?
Never said no,hin', only asked er where she
was goin, and she told him twas where she'd
be better off Than she u ever been with him.
She says Nose hauled in his horns, as if lie was
q little afcared, an he let er 90 without sayin
nothin more
The mean scamp. Lucky for him wasnt
his wife said Aunt Hannah, ferccly. Id q
learnt him whats what aforc this time
Well, yc sec Dave went told them factory
fellows how mean Nose had used his wife, and
they'd aluS he'd kinl Of grulgc aginst him,
and didn't want no better fun n to scare him |
half TO death: so they just rigCcd up in old
clio and turned their cuts wrong side out, an
BACKED their faces 50 lie couldn't tell none on
EN-. Then they got big bag o feathers aud r
kittc o tar All come up there an tried To git
Nose out. But lie smclt at and they couldnt
raise him. They pounded on the doors an told
him they'd break EN- down if he didn't let EN-
in, but he never let on he heard en-: Hmcby
some of en- got the hog trough and threw ii
through the windcr-
Good for en- said Aunt Hannah chucklinc
with delight. That's the most sensible thing
they ever done A hogs trough is the best
thing they could find for such a hog.
They staid round there purity nigh half an
hour, and one or two on en- got in through the
broken windcr and looked high and low but
they coldnt find hide or hair Of Nose. Ar'cr
they'd been gone spell, Iish went over and
hollered to Nose IN told him they Il all cleared
out, nobody shouldn't tech him if lie Il
come out. But he never showed himself and
Lsh lit candle an went all over the house
from garrit to sullcr, bu, he couldn't find
nolhn Nose nowhere hnt lust as he was
a-gon to give 1t up, lie heard Nose call in
kind Of scarf whisper:
Lisl., is it you-Lc they ali gone:
I'm true rs ye live there was Nose down
| on all fours-a crawln' out of a hogshcad way
in under the sullcr stairs. lie was ali covered
| with ashes and dirt, and he shock jest like
popplc leaf. lie was scarf all but Gcatb, an
hung on Iish SO, not to leave him alone.
| that he had to fetch him home with him. lie
put him in the bed up garrit, n never knew
| nothin about it ill morning, there Il a been
| music, yc better blcve. J. Jest made Li,h take
| that are bed out inter the yard. an its there
| now, nobody'd never wantcr sleep ont arter
| that mas ty crttcrd been sleepin in it,.
well. declare fort, AUNT Hannah said
sr;tciully, at the close of the narration. Il
! wish t goodness they'd ketched him. an
| tarred an fcahcred him an rode him on n
rail out o town. If owed the Old Scratch n
dozen sinners an lie wouldn't take Nose Potter
N cal it even, | Il cheat him out o the hull
| ont He the biggest old hypcrcrit that ever
| see.