The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-12-12

William Henery he he'd jest set his heart
on it. and SEES he to me, Hester Ann,
they amt not another purson here to
the Corners tibet kin write letter emmy
ways near you, fur you always know
everything that's agoin on, an then you
tell ii soswell an the schoolmarm she
SEES that's what"
Our schoolmarm is dretful proper
spoken gal / must say. An that's what
L tole Angelina Biles the other day,
but Angelina she ups and SEES. "Mis
Scooper, l don't reprove of ennybudy a
usin slang languish," SEE She, IAN
You know Jest as well as l do, Mis-
Scooper, that that gal do use an awful
site of slang"
"Now, see here, Angelina" sesI, I'd
Jest like to know what you know
about it, ses l. "Now, tibet dear blessed
lamb of a gal hes bin stayin at my
house nigh onto year, an | guess L
know more about it than you do. An
L must say tibet she is smart gal an
noes what's what. Why, Angelina, I"
8es /, "her granmother come from Bos-
ting, an you know the Bosting folks
noes thing or too SEES /; "some OF
my forefathers come from there, an L
reckon L ought to know if ennybody
does" An / Jest give her to under
stan that / want goin to listen to
ennything retrodental to the school
marin, an not take it up, an Angelina
she went Oft in a huff; but, law me,
she'll be as frenzy as pie next time L
see her.
L was over to Jonathan Blodgers'
yesterday to see the twins, an my o!
you'd think they WIS the fust an the
last twins tlet was ever agoin TO he
created, Jonathan is that tickled over
EN-. Sairy Jane she is Jonathan's
wife-her maiGe on name WIS Sairy Jane
Timllins, an a rite likely gal sha WIS,
too, an she makes n rite good wife -lny
boy, John James, he used to think
,Sairy was all the gal in the world but
he found out different when he met
Martha Raymon, so he married her
.sted If Sairy. But as / WIS a sayin,
Mr.. Editur, Sairy Jane is gittin along
rite pealt, an thinks shell be up a dom
her own work in week more. e
We'll, an while | wus over to Sairy
James, Susanner Hopper she comes in,
an She tole us tibet Susan Roper, she
tibet wus Susan Giles, an he'd to work
out fur a livin I II she married Squire
Rogers son Peter, an now she is so
fine she keeps hired gal all the time
to do the woik iur her. But, as l WIS
a goin to say, Susanner she sed that
Mis- Roper had got herself spick an
span NV black ridin cote, an now,
Mr.. Editur, what in the world does
Susan want with a gose to ride? l
spose she has herd they was the stile,
but laws tibet cote Was never borned
tibet could carr Susan on his back.
An she, l mean Susanner, tole us
Ghet ole Zeke Jackson was a maxim a
fortune out of some kline of lard tibet
he made out of ded colera hogs. l al
ways new old Zeke was mean, but
4 never thought he WIS 50 weekid.
OH, yes / come neer furgettin TO tell
YOU thet George Eumbul an Sman-
tina CT lthers hes made up their fuss,
an looks es though ther WIS a goin to
be we'd lin at the Corners.
The Wilder ' an Dykes little gal is
awful sick with the infiamaroomy tory
ISM. You know the widder-she as
got mad az the schGolmarm, canse the
.schoolmarm cut her out with Jerry
Wilmer, and wouldn't let her little gal
go to school at the Corners emmy more,
hut sent her oyer 10 Sackville, an she,
little Emmy, wus TUX sick over thar.
Susann, was tellin me the strait
story of the fuss that the Parsonses an
'Cronks area hayin. You see the Par
.sonses turkey fouls went over to
Cronks, an they Parsonses couldn't
keep en- to home, an now the Cronks
want hat of EN- fur the keepin, an they
are havin an awful time
Susanner tole me a hull lot more, but
] must quit an darn William Henery's
socks, for he is plumb sock bariutted.
Yourn fur knews,
HESTER ANN ScooPER.