The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-05-12
THAT YANKEE GAL"
A "Quare Story All Mixed Up
Amongst Two Families"

'Inever hain't liked them Yankees much, ~
observed the veteran as | sat beside him in
front of his little log cabin, in the cool of
the evening
mo, never hain't liked 'em much sence
thcy Killed the best breedin' sow had when
that Teller Wilson come through with is
cavalry. an jest natly tore up the yea'th.
But tell ye, pard, Their mus be some good
IN EN-, or lcastways theirs some Nv 'em
that's 'bove the averidge
'Do you see yon house on the hill to the
right! Now, look across the level toward
the left, an you kin jest diskivert the chimb-
ieys NV another. Them's both Yankee
houses, or leastways they're haf an half
Captain McAlpin lives to the right, and
Colonel lmboden lives in the other one
NOW, there's quare story all mixed up
'mongst them ere two families.
"Ah, how well | rickollect the fust time
ever seed Imboden's wife. We'dgone down
toJonesboro to market, me an some o. the
neighbors, an while we wer' a knockin'
round the grocery we seed old man limbo
denis carryall driv' up to the station, an
when the train came we seed Mr.. Imboden
go round an hunt up little slip NV a gal
an put Ter in the carryall an drive off
towards the settlement.
HAT Cdn De the new ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
says Bill Jennings to me.
"'No,' says l. faint noways likely, Bill
But sure 'nough it wus We fOun' that
out mex day when old man Imboden come
round an axed us how many children we'd
sign fur the quarter.
"'Who's to be the teacherp says |.
go, my little Yankee GAL says he.
Didn't you see'er down at the depo' t'other
day3'
"'Well, yes, s'pose did; but rally, Mr..
lmboden, you're a-jokin', hain't you! That
ere gal looks if she'd better be a-gwine to
school stiddier a-teachin''
so, she's all right says he, a-laughin'
'You know she's a Yankee gal, an they gifts
grown quicker'n other gals. They're like
young pa'tridges. Soon's Their wings air
dry they're ready to shift fur theirseves
"Wel, the school wus made up an the
Yankee gal come out fust rate. The chill
dren all jest nat'ly dotted on Miss Marian
Marian McAlpin wus the way she signed 'ef
name. So when the spring quarter wus out,
we jest put in an made Ter up another school
fur the fall. This wus long in 80, an times
wer' rayther ticklish. Everybody wus
spicious Nv everybody else, an specially
strangers. This created some prejydices
agin' Mis- McAlpin, an although l wus a
leetle that way myself, wus satisfied alter
ards that | wus mistaken. All we knowed
bout the gal wus that she wus leetle
peeked-lookin' thing with great wondersome
lookin' eyes-blamed # l ever did fin out
what color they wer', and long brown hair
what wus caution to look at. She wusn't
extry purity, l didn't think. Rally she
WANT as purity as Carrie Weldon, the old
man Weldon's gal, what used to live over
yKray in tbat lothian bC,,co ho
Weldon and Imboden places fined lands,
an both on 'em were well off, an both had
plenty NV niggers to tend 'em. Jack Imboden
was the only child old man Imboden had
an he had set his heart on Jacks marryin'
Carrie Weldon, becase that would fetch
all the prop'ty into one body. Carrie wus a
good gal, too, an her n Jack 'ud bin sweet
hearts all their lives.
'JaclS wus off at coolidge when Miss Nc
Alpin come to the settlement, an he never
saw Ter tell winter, when he come home to
vacation. dom know IS he'd a-seed Eel
then, but when her school wus out Mr.. I'm
boden aXed Ter to stop at his house an rest
tell the holidays wus over, an promised lei
that eff we could ford it, we'd try to git lei
up another school. WY, sir, l never seed
Children Farm so N all my horned days as
they did under that little Yankee gal. Ny
Jane, WnaJ ulun' I KNOW Ine JUS leJUer III 'el
book when she started, went clear thr'ugt
an thr'ugh in the fust three months, an
besides she l'arnt to say the one ones, too
''Ther' wus sump'n bout the gal that W.
couldn't nnerstan'. She claimed to de f'on
Pennsylvany, an said she wuz an orphan
an had lived with Ter old aunt tell she died
an that she had brother sever'l year
older than she wus, but she didn' know
wher' he wus. He'd went out West afor'
her aunt died, an she hadn't hearn nothin
f'Om i'm in five year. That's the tale sh
told, an it turned out TO be true, but we hat
our s'picions then.
''Well, Jest as soon as Jack laid eyes OF
tn at gal he seemed to be possessed. jes
hung round Ter all the time he wus there
an when he started off to finish his eddica
ton at collidge, I've hearn sence Their wa
right smart NV didoes cut up betwiXt 'em
Seems he wanted Ter to promise him, an sh
Jest right out m out an plainly told i'm tina
she want a-gwine to do it. She seed HOY
the arrangements wus 'twiXt Jack an Mis-