The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-03-09

mo indeed, indeed l never heerd a
breih about it."
"You ddn' why he's been Goa tin
fore dece. { respectable girls THAR and
he's ebgaged--tboush I OFTEN to tell
you, as understand be comes to see
you too."
sOa you must Sally Ann, now you
NUT tell me. Il yotre as good friend
as you say you are, you ort to tell me.
I'll do ennything in the world for You 4!
jist tell the that"
snow Softer" says / seein she was
purity neer a cryin, "Mose has been q
coartin you, and r. all l know you're
engaged to he married, i'st like them fore
girls in the Hossins settlement; and II
you are, its no use for me to tell you;
or f you low t. let him keep on coartiu
you. it amt proper for me to say emmy
thing about It. But now So6er, I'll do
this; il you'll prouis to not have moth
in moe to do with the ornry wretch,
and will sack him the iust time he comes,
as you ort to by all means, Ill tell you
all of bis ornry doius "
We'll Sally Ann say she. snfffln
like, 'if he's what you say, I wont never
keen cumpny with him agin'.
No. that you won't said old Mrs.
King IF them things is all true, Nose
Phillips shall never stick his he'd inside
that dore agin, can tell you that
dident iist like the loocks Of the old
woman; kind Of thought she dident
bleve what was savin. Blu. MP and
told 'em a string OF stuff that though.
couldent help but set 'em aein Nose, /
told 'em that he went to town every week
and got drunk. and had fights and swore
around and eambled and cut up like a
crazv man, and how be told the crowds
of drunk fellers how he could carry on
with Softer X Kng, and how thay LATED at
her. told lots aud lots of si,ch stuff,
and oh, but Softer did cry and the more
she cried the more l told her, till her
mother acielly invited me to stop.
A goiu home was tickled thipkin
bow Mose would be sot back when be
went to Kings next Satterdav night, and
she'd start him home faster than be come
Thinks I Softer King you aint quite
smart enuff to cut this child out, and il
you git Nose Phillips it'll do you good.
! Satterdav evenrn went down along
the road tosris Kings and hid in the
weeds in fens corner, to see II Nose
got sacked, jisi a; dusk seed him comm,
fixed up the incest kind. / coodent see
the door of tue house from where ] was
a set,in, but jist about aginst be had time
to git there, heerd the dogs begin to
bark and heerd somebody hollerin
sic, sic, sic,' and the dogs pitched out
and heerd them comm. as II thay we're
tearin somebody to pesces / ducked
down close 10 the fens corner, and lated
till thot lde die. The dogs went q
past and on up the road like all possest,
| LATED and lated, thinkin / seen the
dogs a grabbin at his cote tails. Thinks
l they'll tear then wors than Softer (I
most know it was her said did
Thinks | that's the last time Softer ever
ct, to pull Nose Philips. Tuen when
/ | thot how esv ide fooled 'em l com.
mensed latin agin. Jist then the dogs,
thure was three Of them, jist then thay
wss comm back, and the sheep killing
suaeks seen me 10 the fens corner, and
tvery one lunged al me IiKe tigers, | clim
on the fens right qaick and screamed
AID hollered. skeert neerly to deth, and
them a jumpin at me and yellin all the
tim. 10 bleve tbaved tore the fens
down and ct me up il old King haden,
a come out and driv 'em off. He said
one OF our dogs had come to his house
and thayd set their dogs after 1t to drive
it home, which was the way he sposed
thav cum tn take after me, was &C mad
and tripdated like coodent say much,
but put for nome.
A few days after that Kings dogs all
took sick AMI died, Kings foxes lowed
some mad dog had bit 'em.
didn't hear how Nose and Sofer
made it for some time. 1t was 10 the
hard workin part of the year and there
is not generally much chans Of heerin
things. was afraid to 90 to Kings to
inquire. because / thought thay might
enI believed all told 'em about Nose,
and then dident j'st know what thay
might think about THAR dogs dyin. /
asked all the nabers | seen but 'hay
dident seem to know ennything about
it. It's s,rsing that some peple haint got
no curiosity.
writ long letter to Nose, and told
him how Softer had been tockin about
him, and told him all the pack had told
Softer, and laid them sll on her ! told
him that she said ihst the reson that she
let him keep cumpny with her was be.
cause Nose ovid her pap. and che was
ateerd if she sacked him that he'd never
pay it; and that as soon as that was paid
# he said beans TO her she'd spit in his
face and had the letter full Of sicb.-
Nose ansered this letter, which was the
irst that he answered. This is the way
the answer was writ:
Miss Sally Ann I receaved your letter
to-day and sevre'l others some time ago,
haint time to write much but will say
this, that your kindnessin writing things
to me aud saying things TO me that none
OF mydother friends ~ould, shows thai
you are friend indeed. The KIM in
terest YOU have took in me shall he re
warded as it deserves MosEs PHILLIPS
reckon I red this letter fifty times, il
done me so much good; though lie a
ruther he'd sci "Dear Sally Ann
the commencement, and "y,nrs az deth
at the end, as it was his first letter !
could forgive him.
That evenin happened to go down
to Phillirses for somethin, | don't jist re
collect what / hadent been there but
little while till Nose come in lookin
smilner than ever seen him. He seem
ed wonderful lovin, and afore bed been
ther Eve minutes he asked tor the pIesh
ure Of my cumpny home. though it
wasenl sundown yit, l septed his cum
pany and No otarted uoin aiouo I