The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1888-02-08


ternite?"
"Not ternite, Kernil," seq i, seek
scuse me; sum uthir mite.
But he warnt ter be skweltched ser
sune.
90, pore lorst sheep-u stray lam
frum the fok-unhappey man, rushin
like the swyne NV old ter distruxun!"
"Sir" seq j, mi duch bein up an me
getten riley, "deown in putnim keown-
ty we raze sheap an lams witch air no
deesgrase ter the staff fare, ownly wen
yew kali me sheap u tired on mi
korns. But, yew ole skalliwag, dror
the line at swyne, an eff air hear awl
alown ithout par lie lik yer eff doant
git"
Mi ever wuz rouzd an I wood hev
sooted mi axons ter mi wurds but the
ole habburgastir axt me ter deezist,
witch l did, mower espeshully az at
thet mowmint viZun Nv bewty waZ
maxim her way threw the ordyance tord
the platform. Meow, tho q batchilur
an neown az grainJur l am bi no
menes impurvyus tew feemail luvliness,
all wuz awl atenshun wen this Zetfur
pint farey begun ter sing. She sang
sew sweatly an with sew mulch ecks-
preshun thet wen she sed she he'd "a
messii frum the lawd fer YEw,"
koodent help but think she ment ME-
an the way she glantzd at me wood hev
meltid hart NV bereer stoan or eye
talyun marbil. Ar, shell nevir forgit
tibet gyurl's singer! meow soft an low
eI the peanimisser tetches Nv er mastir
hand on eholyun harp, rizin agen
ter shril dyerpasun, an anon swellin
ter the full graniur Nv q organ peel.
Frum tibet mowmint wuz hoaplisly in
luv, an moo it.
Wen this picter NV luvliniss got
threw with hur singer wun Nv the
parsing fellers gev owt tibet thare wud
meow be a meatin fer thoze az visit ter
enkwre the way ter heving-s TT Nv a
side-sho in aiasent tent. emalin mi
serp-ize wen wuz aprocht bi the eye
dentekel yung wummun hoo had sung
sew intransenly. i kud withstan hull
trewp Nv theZe we're parsings an men
ecksorters, but kinfess i wuz not prufe
agen the beewichin smilz an string
voyse Nv this spessiment NV femmenine
bewty, an Wen she sed sew sweatley,
Deer friend, kin not help yew inter
the strate an narrer rode, ikud ownley
reply ruther kinfusidly "Mi deer, emmy
help may kondisend ter Civ me will
be hyley valewd"-witch L thort o
very nete speatch fer me.
Vel, nuthin' nd dew but we must
60 orr tew q kwiet part Nv the kamp
groundZ, wear we kud be alown, an
the way tibet thare gyurl torked ter
me wuz serpriZen. the mannir In
witch she shode me mi sinfel waze an
pickcherd heving ter me awlmost
muved me ter teers, an nevir felt
sew mulch like maxim ass NV miself
an sniverlen az did then, in awl mi
life bed; an wen she arst me tew
begin moo life "to pleeze hatr," seq,
seq j, uni deer, i wud go threw hell on
hot brix ter pleeze yew!"
Wei, we torkt an torkt til the small
howers Nv mawnin, an the rissult
wuz tibet felt miself kinverted. Then
she SEE, sez she, "deer bruther, this
yere wurk NV the lawd kinnot be
karrid on ithout flthey lookup; won't
u kintribewt yewer might?"
"Wel," sez, 1--WE ownly got the 10
dolur bill witch par gev me an thets
deoun in mi sok."
"No matter" sez she, "ile turn my
he'd enuther way vile you git it owt,"
an then she seq, wen spoke Nv given
a dolur, "yew KUN up ter the mawnin
praremeatin, an will Civ the
chainge."
With tibet we partid very affeckshun-
Sly.
dror O vale ovur subsikwint vents
at the zeffur pint kamp meatin.
travild bak ter putnim keounty
saddur an wizer man, mynus mi
worterberry an the 10 dolur bill.
But, az stated at the kummince-
mint NV this yere narrytiv, ime no
sukkir eff I wuz horned ithout or korl-
an kin beet the rikkud plowin klay
sile!