Rock Island daily Argus., 1888-11-15
A YANKEE LOVE STORY.

an depend onl Week days it don't matter
much; can kinder keep straight by the
actry whistles, Well, it'll gave us a chance
or step inter the graveyard A good many
the monnyments have been put up sense
Tou was here They're mostly alike, all 'cept
I'D Cap'n Broadus'-he was bound ter have |
different. He picked his'n out |
nisseit, an had it put up fore he died, ter |
make sure there WANT no mistake bout it. |
That's his'n over there-a female figger
holdin' urn. Some folks would have it
twas goblet, an said considerin' he'd KEEP
a-standin' round with glass
ready for him all his life, he might "a dis
pensed with it when he come ter be dead;
but he was dreadful peculiar man, an he
didn't have many friends. Didn't you ever
hear how he sarved his darterl Law, now
we've got time 'nough, we'll Jest set down
on TINS bench, in the shade an I'll tell va
bout it, while we're waitin'; the fust bell
amt but jest rung.
how pretty them moss pinks look. grow
IN over there on Myra Pratt,s gravel win
rogers planted em there. He was keepin,
eofnpny with her when she died Folks said
ne was most distracted; but land, men cit
over sieh things he's goin' ter marry Fanny
Scott next week. He's bought the Dnnn
tarIn an they're goin' to set up-Here,
but was tellin' you bout Capn Broadus.
ne was great, rough, red faced, black
vearued man, with a voice ike q clap O,
eaahder. He was cap'n o. one o the big
steamships runnin' out o New York, an he'd
oil IN sallln' vessels fore that. He'd bin in
Tue Chiny trade, an don't know what NOT
ned bin all over the world. but wherever la
Went he bore the same character--a dreadful
rough man an dreadful profane. | shouldn't
thlnk twas right ter tell sich a story on the
Saboath eff there want sich lesson be larned
oy IL,
was Gurus ter see the cap'n an his dar-
Ter together E5~i never a thought they
was was reiates, t4t but she took after her mother,
s.'7sr' when she was born.
ell you'd s'pose, pretty as Alice was,
an rich as the cap'n was knowed ter be,
there'd be no end O fellers hangin' round
her, ike bees round honeysuckle; but the
truth ont was, they was all so scarf O. the
capn, an Alice herself was so took up AIRY
III. ter please him, an keep him from gettin'
mad ct folks while he was home, an when
he was gone a-tryin' to get braced up an
ready for his next visit, that she didn't have
no time ter think o nothin' else Ef you
never see the cap'n, you can't have no idee
the sort o man he was. He'd stan an swear
I'LL he was black In the face when anything
put him out
But the young men got the idee that Alice
Jssss stuck up, an felt herself 'bove 'en count
o her money an eddication; for the cap'u
SAID he'd 'complish her. an he did-she
played on -he pianner beautiful But they
didn't like it cause she never noticed 'ern-
stead o bein' thankful, as they orter bin She
had queer, slow way o liftin her eyelids,
as eff her long black lashes was SO heavy she
couldn't hardly get 'em high 'nough ter see
from under; but when she did get 'em up
well, she RELY did have the sweetest ewes
ever see in a girls face, an they had such a
innercent, appealin look s'pose she got 1t
tryin' Ser pacify the cap'n. But she never
needed to try it twice on nobody, an one
young feller found it out to his cost; but
twas all the cap'n's fault it happened.
HE was home one Sabbath, uglier,n us1,al
swearin' at everybody an everything. high
an low, an he KEEP it up all the mornin, till
he was fairly in meetin'-he alters went ter
meetin-. rer'lars could be.
Well he sot there in his now his eves
rancin' round. spin ont suuthin' ter find
fault with. whs,, all ter once they LIGHTED on
Stan Purdv-Suuire Purdv's son. Won know
He'd bin off studvin' ter be a doctor. an had
Jest come home for a little vacation fore
he begun ter practice. He was a good lookin'
Young Teller,
''Weu. he was settin' there lookin' too-an'
it Jest shows how folks git into trouble when
they spend their time starin' round stead O
pawn 'tantion ter the minister.
"Bur Stan. he'd bin lookinr at the csn'n an
thfnkinr whar n crlrus old crittar ba vas an
how mis- darter didn't look ruuch like him nm
then, as was nat'ral, he looked at Alice. an
his ewes hadn't fairly lighted on her wher
the capn turned an caught him. It seemed
ez eff that was wbsr the Old faller'1 hin wsitin
for He riz ri,b- m in his seat his ava.
rolIin' in his head. an he took Alice bv tn,
arm an he marched RIGHT down the aisla
out o, mac,in,. un' as he nassed the Pnrdv,
nev, he r,,,rad sn S+en +bor,h+ he, ,,,, r,oi,
Ter have a fir an, di,In.t LnoD h,- rryras hi,
dootv Ter folIer AM tend ter him. brt ,,xa,
lest as vel he didn't,
tsTbe cap'u made STRAIGHT for borna main
most awful language, He said he knove,
now why Alice was allus so anxious to 90 to
meetin' An 'tva'u't no use for her tn tel
bim-vbat was the livin, trutb-tbot sb
didn't know Stan Purjv from Tom Nol,as
and hadn't never sr,+ avas on him He ,vouldn,
blieve her.
He had ter 70 ter the CITY that NIGH,
lucky for her. for she was cIeer yvora ont
,,ohut We couldn't hlar,a bar that ,,avt ssobbo+ n
she did look over ter tha purdy's raIr te
500 who twas rba c.r,n made s;ch q fn,
bout; an Stan, rememberin' how the can,
had acted the week afore, looked cross at he
jest as she looked at him
"Well. I'm tOoold a woman ter 90 inter a
the particulars o that par- of the stnr,
Young folks will be Young folks to the end
time; AN we all know how twas with ou,
selves. But ef Alice had had hard tin
afore. she had wus one now; twas bs
enough ter have a hot an hasty old fathe
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