The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-02-05
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We'uns seen the wntin' marster
a comm and nav she jerked the
broom quick and swept up the hath,
and sOt chair in the entry and
axed him to light and come in.
Cousin Pink and me and Gale
dony got back in the shed room
and peeped through the crack of
the door at him.
"What mought your name be n
says Aunt Nancy, "ef | mought be
SO bold as to AK"
"BroOm is my name," says he,
and Cal she Snickered, and whis'
pered, ga new broom sweeps
elean," says she.
He sot bit. then axed:
"Whar do you'uns keep your
driukin' water?" and Went back to
the water shelf, aud after he drank
gourd OF water he tuck a wash /;
and long as he was stranger,
Flurlidy she riz the chist led and
tuck out bran new store bought
handtowel, that hadn't never been
billed, and he scrubbed and scrub
bed, and | know in reason he
mought have been scrubbil' thar
tel yit if Aunt Nancy hadn't tuck
pity on him and gin hlm IL old san
| towel.
"Them as never has tried to dry
ther faces on Que of these here new
stiff store bought towels fore hits
been washed don't know how ag
grevatin' it is" says Aunt Nancy,
| tryiu' 10 be civil hammered towards
him, "Take IL cheer and set down
and be seated"
The minute the FreShourses sees
anybody at our house here they
comes. The old 'oinan come In a
puflin' and a blowiu' TO see who the
stranger was, and the chlllun come
"A tealin across the truck patch
fctchin' in all the mud Oh ther bar
feet. They stood right afore him
with ther eyes aud mouths wide
omen. Some chilluu, you know,
couldn't see wink lessen ther
mouths was open. We gals had
slicked our heads and starched our
faces aud come out, aud was all
standin' aronnd like he was a mon
KEY show. He had omitted his bun
die and was showin' the spessi-
ments of his hand write and all
sorts of little birds in red ink aud
blue ink, some a settin up on quill
pens and some with leaves in ther
mouths. Aud he had goose a
swimmin on the water that he
lowed he made all at Once't with
out takin' up bis pen, and Auut
Nancy she winked at maw-dldn't
believe nair word of it. Flurridy
lowed them birds tuck her eyes,
aud Cousin Pink lowed the goose
took her'n. The little Fresh0urses
'peared like they would jist barda'
ciously climb all over the man spite
of everything if ther nanny had
ut ierked 'em back. She gin Dleky
jerk and lowed:
"Set down thar, Dickey, tie
stranger don't want to nuss you
Come here to me, Becky Ann, you're
too big to do that way, pine blank
like YOU never had saw nothin'
afore in your life; aud you know
your Uncle Josiah Freshours draw
ed bird and a terrapin too oatn
red ink aud blue lux tOo-set down
lore | slap you down, aud unit a
cazin' like you hadn't never saw
nothiuf afore, and which you know
you is"
He wanted pap to let him put
our names down. Pap be was about
half tight, and lowed:
mI don't know as kecr about 1t
Nv folks ken all white tOllerble fair
fsts, leastways they can read u
themselves. But l reckin' they'll
all want to take-they must ingln
nerIy take ever tool thing as comes
along. They buys from all the ped
dlers, and alters gifts cheatedj they
tuck cipherin' lessons from tha
rethmetlc man, aud be was gwint
to larn 'em all so fast how to d'
any sum in the United States IL
two minutes aud a half, and hi
never SO much as laFnt 'em how Z
count six aigs. Then they tucl
singin' from that ar trout-moutl
sauealiu' fiddler that come alOni
here last year latter diggln' time
The fact Of the business is this Who'll
settlement is about half crazy
he never larnt 'em q dimes wort
as l could see. But nevertheless
, howsoever, Notwithstanding singh
YOU know is one thing and writiI
is tother, and while 1 maintains {
/ the doctrine that a pretty han
write haint no sign Of smartnes'
nevertheless, notwithstanding,
never stands as DO stumbling bloc
in the way Of my chillun q larnii
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