Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-13
THE BUCkWHEAT STRAW PRIN-
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counter of the Froggleton grocery, and
getting fair range for the wood-box,
'it's mighty queer how things work on
this yearth, so it is. One chap without
lookin' aroun' at all gifts the very gal he
wuz intended fur another gifts left so bad
that he's most distanced, vile another
II hunt aroun till he's on the wrong
side NV forty, meetin' half-a-dozen gals
durin' his RECOMMENDATIONS ez is too good
fur him (but d hev' him all the same).
an finerly fastens himself onter one ez
II comb his har with the broom-han'le.
Rely it don't matter much how it's
done. Go inter crowd NV gals an grab
with yer eyes shet, an in all proberbil-
ity yer'll git ez good a wife ez yer would
eff yer skirmished aroun' fur ten years.
It's just the same on the other side.
I er II see jest ez many good, hard-work-
IN critters NV women tied ter gOod-fur-
nothing, whisky-drinkin', lynn loafers
NV husban's ez thar is good men tied ter
jawin scandal-mongrin' lazy wives. Some
gifts taken IN through no fault NV their
own, but jest ez often it's the other way,
an ag'in it'll be through pure cussedness.
They seem to know what's ahead NV 'em.
but nothin' III turn 'em back. Sich is life.
snow, boys, thar wuz Almiry Sharples,
ez is now known ter perlite sissiety ez
Mrs. johnson. Eff I'm thankful ter heay-
en- fur one thing more'en another it's Jest
this, tibet wuz the means NV gittin' that
gal a good husban' wen she seemed ter
be full set on marryin' good-fur-nothin'
shyster,
"ler see, she wuz just seventeen at the
time, an of course, ineXpe fenced in the
ways NV the worl'. but ez tidy, good look
in, well-handed a gal ez oughter in the
natur NV things git a fust-clarse husban'.
But jest obsarve, instid NV givin' a show
ter Tom johnson, stidy, handsome
young chap, who nuther drunk whisky
nor gambled, she Civ counternance to
Pete Munson, a critter who had fust-
clarse diplomer from the arch-enermy ez
one NV his shnin' lights.
"Pete wuzn't bad-lookin, could tie
knot on his mustache benin his head, an
could run, jump, throw the stone an
play the fiddle better'n four out NV five
NV the boys aroun'. Them wuz his good
pints. On the other han he smoked,
chawed, drank more whisky, an told
more lies than anyone within a radius NV
ten mile frum Froggleton. Ez fur moral
character, a microscope couldn't hev'
brung it inter view. Yet this wuz the
chap ez Almiry preferredIto Tom johnson.
Ctranro o;n,t ito vii 90 T ;i -.
now ho ,vmzn.t bod. ,oni,in, as, I'd 81
rlih an, nori;to tono,,a - c. n 49,. GO
pressed inter his sarvice.
"Things hedn't persceded very far, but
the old man seen how they wuz shapin'
an it made him feel bad kin tell yer.
So one day he took me inter his confer
dence, an aXed my advice.
Bill, said |, jest try the buckwheat
th;ngs ont s1,nara
IS 3Tba hnnI,,,hoot strou n.;nsor,,,os.
said no .What Gy.er p,eans,
g last tbiS . s,id ne vor how. lots
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s ,m o' dou.+ iost ,ono, ~! e' nil !.
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s"on.i var sot dow tor hroai,fmst sorra
nn pots Nnnson hnt nraiso h;,', ., ,,,,,oh
az ver kin an. run down Jobmson 10
tho son,a ar di'no, ,,, oo,,,a r. ~
scratch smith. at ron Min, var don.t
honin. roo snddont Wi, ~, 800 81
90 FER sneal, Then wan Pate co;nes 70
the house. smother YER feelin,s an, Give
him , heartily weIcome Make him feej
that var hev' hnr;ed rho hatobat dnu,n
Jaen ;nter rho siio +, for Johnson ;ost
he n lettle COO, ar fust then a trifle cooI.
or iii ar ,arSt ver Kin order him ont w,
the house ~ he comes rom sarenadin,
AImirv lest load the old Shot.gnn with
nnudeyr' IN ,u, chase hin, fur all rar worth
Set the doro on him roo ef ver lika
An. min. ver. ali the time sarve nm PETE
o. sarse an, entree an, desert Keen II
m STRAIGHT ahead an finerlv keen YER
own connsei let tbe tbino rest atween
the two nv ms. an, marx nv words
tha,.il he IN erlonment afore lang an
ef the narties Interested ain,t AlmirT and
Ton, I'm n t.tar hng.
swell hovs the Gid man did lost as T
told hin, RI 40 an. fur Six months or
tbarahouts he'd the bigoest time ont a.
watcb;n' the nerseedins The old man
49, rho th;nir tor tba l;fo Ofan nv, q
nigbt Two heen rousad nm bv bearin,
hioie W $500 'o~SSS> ~ ~ ANN,>.'A