The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-25
A NICE FAMILY.
What M. Quad Tumbled On in Ten
neSSee.
From the Detroit Free Pres

From the Detroit Free Press.
Just on the divide of a Tennessee noun
tain the hind wheels of the blackboard
dropped into rut, the axle broke with a
smash, and, after spending ten minutes in
solemn thought said:
"Well. I'll have to get the consumed
thing down to Tompkinsville for repairs,
and you'd better stay all night at yon
cabin"
perhaps they can't accommodate me-"
There's no perhaps about it. Folks as
has got house are bound to keep folks as
has broke down"
| went over to the cabin, which was a
rude log structure, aud the only one within
four miles. The woman saw me coming,
and stood in the open door. Her husband
saw me coming and sat down on a log. The
five or six children saw me coming, and ar
ranged themselves along the opening in the
brush fence which answered for gate. As
came up | approached the man and ex-
plained the nature of the accident, and
asked to stay all night.
stStranger, if it depended on me, I'd say
yes.n he replied, as he crossed his legs and
tried to put on an injured look. but it
don't depend on me. l don't amount to
shucks around yere no mo-"
'tNow, Ezekiel, what dye talk like that
furg' demanded the barefooted wife as she
came down to the log "Who's said you
wasn't boss? Who's tried to take the lead
"You hev, an right afore the children,
tool You said l wasn't fltten to drive
hogs" .
was extravagent."
tsOhl yes, l begun it 1 allus begin
every thing! Nobody else never begins
nuthin', and nobody else is never to
blamel"
"But this ERE stranger wants to stay all
night. It's coming night, and we can't say
no."
"Well. I calkerlate he kin stay. A month
ago could hev taken him by the hand and
told him to make my house his nome, but
now l hain't got no more right around yere.
I'm only a sighpher now"
The wife took my satchel into the cabin,
and sat down on the log with Zeke and
offered him a cigar. At the same time the
seven children came and stood in a row be-
fore u.s. and called out as in one voice:
1.-THE Teller has dun gin pap cigarw
"Yes. children" said the old man, as he
scratched match on his starboard quarter
and lit the weed, ''your pap has got cigar.
It's the fust cheerin' thing that has come to
him fur twenty-one years, and it's proof
world. What are ye standin' here lookin'
at' Whar's yer mannersp
"Hain't got nom! p called three of them at
once.
mo, 1 s'pose not and can't blame ye-
not a bit Children as come up without
any father can't be s'pected to hev manners.
Whar we from, stranger|
bristol"
Fright smart hubble, I've heard, but I've
never bin thar. Hear 'em say anything
about me|
"No"
mot Well, s'pose they'e heard of me,
but didn't want to say anything to
n stranger. I'm the man who had forty two
biles on his back in one winter"
You didr'
eyes; and I never got the least sympathy
from my family. I've also had rheumatism,
lung fever, lame back, fever-sore, consump-
ton and yellow fever. Not one of the fami-
ly shed tear"
sis it possiblep
"And I broke my leg, lost a 5000 mule by
nizen. had my barn burn up, lost a farm on
a mortgage and buried two children"
"Well, you have suffered"
"Sufferedl Stranger. excuse these tears;
hit YOURS are the first kind words I've heard
since the war closed"
"Pap is bellering map shouted the chill
dren, as they ran for the house. ana the
woman presently rushed out and said:
NOW. thar, Ezekiel, you git, and you
thar. stranger, come in TO smack"
"Didn't / tell you sor exclaimed Ezekiel,
as he made bolt for the woods. I'm the
discouragedist, downtroddenest, unfortu-
natest man in all creation, and pm going TO
hang myself"