The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1888-05-03

We wuz married / tuck her ter my cabir
an er bright light fell on my hearthstone
She wanted ter hep me in my wuck o
'swadln' folks ter do right. 81 know" she
said, "dat folks all er round us will be max
i'm mo- money den we is, but money doar
water de flowers o. de heart, nur broader
de 'joyment dat comes ter de soul" lubed
her deeper after she said dat, fur seed dat
her natur want vain nur her heart set upon
de flesh pots o. de world.
doan know wuder preached better ur
not, but know dat wut / said gunter hab
mo- 'fluence, an dat folks gunter come FUN
fur erway plan ations ter yere me. My
wife's folks moved away, and wen / axed
her eff she didn't feel like she aughter go
| wild Fem, she smiled at wut she called my
| foolish joke, put her arms erround my naiS
an said:
Dave, wen goes erway fun you I'll be
toted twixt men dat will walk slow"
Two years passed erway-two o. de hap
pies years o. my life. One day dar wuz
some bills stuck up 'nouncin' dat Andrew
Hennifen, err colored politician dat libed in
town, would on de naixt Friday make err
speech ter de folks. Err campaign wuz on
ham an greet intrus, wuz felt in de outcome.
Wen de day come de weather wuz so show
cry dat da couldn' hol de meetin' out dos,
so some o. de men come ter me AM axed me
Of da mout meet in de church. l didn' much
think dat it wuz de right sorter meetin' ter
be hell in de house o. de Lawd, but seein'
dat da wuz all so anxious, tole 'em dat da
mout. Den da axed me ter go ober an lis
sen ter de greet speech wut de generman
WIZ gwine ter make. didn' like de idee
o. settin' in my own church and lissenin'
ter de skussion o. de erfairs o. dc worl'. Den
Frances spoke up:
s'W'y Dave,r she said, "If we air gwine
ter lib in de worr we mus take some intrus
in de crfairs o. de worr. Eff de man hab got
any thing with yearin, doan see wy we
aughtanter 90 an lissen ter him. Ell we
finds dat wut he says amt fit fur us, WY
den we ken come erway.n
"Wut you says is true, Francis" l replied,
FAN you mus scuse me ef is holdin' you
back in any way. Err ole man loves wild
jest ez much wa'mth ez or young man docs,
an it is err pity dat he doan Tub wild ez much
Judgment
ssYou mustn't talk dat way, Dave,n she
said wild err laugh, ssfur in lovin' me yo'
Judgment amt made no mistake.n
Hennifen wuz er tall, yaller man, an wuz
much younger den 'spected ter fine him.
| In his speech he used or good deal o. strong
talk, an called err lot o. folks dat want
present, liars an thieves. didn't like dis,
| but or man dat set naixt ter me tole me dat
it wuz all right an dat ef de speaker didn't
do dater way de folks would think dat he
wuz erfeerd ter ,nounce his principles.
After de speakin' wuz over, de speaker come
| up ter me, hill out his ham an said:
.Mr. Summers, has often hearn o. you,
sab, an takes dis 'tunity o. shakin' hams
wild you'i
Wen had shuck hans wild him, he said
SIS dis yo' daughter wild you"
'sMy wife, sob, said l.
nAh, Use pleased ter meet de lady,"
| We walked on outen de. house, an Hen
nifen wuz so busy talkin' bout de greet prin-
ciples o. his party dat he didn't seem ter
notice dat he wuz walkin' erway fun de
croud wild u.s. After vile he stopped an
said dat reckoned he better go back.
HWon't you walk on home wild usln my
wife said.
II thanks you kindly; blebe will he
answered Il would like ter see de inside
o. my stinguished 'quaintance's house"
maxim err sideways motion wild his head at
me, '.an' sides dat Use got err little bizness
ter talk ober wild him"
ssYou will see er lowly household" said /,
| ''fur amt been gagged in gederin' de
shinin' goods o. de yeth, but at de do you
will see er vine dat is watered wild truth an
dat blooms in contentment.n
"Dar amt no reason why dar shouldn' be
some o. de shinin' goods o. de yeth in yo'
house, said he. ''De TACK dat da is o. de
| yeth doan meek 'em none de less de Lawds,
an bein' shiny doan' meek 'em de property
| o. Satan.'l
seed my wife look at him wild er quick
glance, an l lknowed dat she proved o. wut
he said. seed mo- den dat--I seed wut
until dat time had escaped mel seed dat
de man wuz good lookin'. / felt err pang O.
oneasiness, an cleared my froat deep ez eff
/ would rasp de pang outen my bosom.
Wen we got ter de house, he set down in
er roclzin' cheer an made hisse'f look freer
an easier den had cher felt in any house
'cep' my own. Frances went inter de little
shed l1itchin dat fined de house an cooked
dinner 1t struck me dat she tuck er heep
o. pains, specially wen she fotch out er
table clof dat didn't know she had. After
dinner Mr. Hennifen, said dat he would git