Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-10
THAT YANKEE GAL"
A "Quare Story All Mixed Up
Amongst Two Families"

Amongst Two Families"
"Tnever hain't liked them Yankees much, -
observed the veteran as l sat beside him in
front Of his little los cabin, il the cool OF
the evening.
''No, never hain't liked 'em much sence
they killed the best breedin' sow had when
that feller Wilson come through with is
cavalry, an jest Iat'ly tore up the yea'th.
But | tell ye, pard, Their mus be some good
in 'em, or lcastways theirs some w 'eul
that's Dove the averidge.
DO you see yOn house on the hill to the
right: Now, iook across ne level toward
the left, an you kin jest diskiver the chimb-
leys NV another. Thems both Yankee
houses, or leastways they're ha'f an ha'f
Captain McAlpin lives to the right, and
Colonel ImbOcen lives in the other one.
Now, there's Il quare story all mixed up
amongst them ere two families.
''Ah, how well richollect the fust time |
ever seed lmbodcn's wife. We'd gone down
toJonesbOro to market, ne an some o. the
neighbOrs, an while we wer' a knockin'
round the grocery we seed old man limbo
Ccn 5 carryall driv' I'D TO the station, an
when the train came we seed Mr.. Imboden
go round an hunt up a little Slip NV gal
an put 'er in the c2rryau an drive off
towards the settlement.
THAT can't be the new schoolteacherg
says Bill Jennings to ne.
No. says ], faint nOways likely, Bill
But sure 'noUgh il WIS. We foUn' that
out mex day when old man Imboden come
round an aXed Us how many children we'd
sign fur the quarter.
'''N hos to be the teacher' saws l.
go, my little Yankee gal says he
Didn't you scc'er down at the depo' t'other
dayp
We'll, yes, s'pose Gid: bat rally, Mr..
1mboden, you're a-jokiI', haiG't you: That
ere gal looks if she'd better be a-gwine to
school stiddier a-te&cnin'.'
80, she's all right SAYS he, alaughin'.
'GOu know she's 4 Ganaee gai, an they gifts
grown quicker'n other gals. They're like
young pa'tridges. Soon's Their wings air
cry they're ready to sniff fur t eirseives'
We'll, the school WIS made up an the
Yankee sal come out fust rate. The chill
dren all Jest nat'ly dotted on Miss Marian
Marian McAlpin WIS the way She signed 'e,.
name. So when the spring quarter wus on.
we jest put in an made 'er Up another school
fur the fail. This was long in 80. an times
wer' rayther ticklish EVERYBODY WIS
strangers. This created some preivdices
ag'in' Mis- McAlpin. an although I WINS a
leetle that way myself. l wus satisfied ter
'ards that wus mistaken. All we knowed
'bout the gal WIS that she wus a leetle
peeked-lool1in' thing with great wonGersome
Iookin' cyes-biamed = l ever did fin out
what color they wer', and long brown hair
what wus caution TO look at. She wasn't
extry purity, l didn't think R'aly. she
want as purity as Carrie Weldon. the old
man Neldon's gal, what used 20 live over
Won way, in that t'other house You see the
eluon and lmboden places fined lands |
an both on EN- were well OF. an both had |
Plenty NV niggers to tend 'em. Jack Imbodeu |
vas the only child old man Imboden had:
an he had set his heart on Jacks marvin |
Carrie Weldon, beca' Sc that would fetch
all the prop'ty into one BODY Carrie WIS a |
good gal, too, an her n Jack 'ud bin sweet
hearts all their lives.
Jack wus off at colidge when Miss Nc
Alpin cone to the settlement an he never
saw 'er tell winter. when he come home to
vacation. dom know : he'd a-se,,d Ter
then, but when her school WIS out Mr.. I'M
boden aXed Ter to stop 81 his house an rest
tell the holidays wus over, an promised 'er
that c. we could ford it, we'd try to git Ter
Up another school WY, sir, l never seed
childern Farm so n all my 5orned DAYS as
they did under that little Yankee gal Nv
Jane, what didn't know tie fus' letter in 'er
book when she started, went clear thr'uCh
an thr'ugh in the fust three months. an,
besides she farnt 20 say the one ones, too.
'Iher WIS sump'r' bout the gal that we
couIdn nm erStan. She claimed TO de rom
fenhsylvany, an said she wuz an orphant
4 1Trra.f .s-L > |
an that She had 4 brother sev,,r'I wears
older than she WIS, but she C:sn' know
wher' he wuS. He'd went OFT West afore
her aCnt died, an size hadn't hr,-,, Dotf,i,,,
Tom i'm in live year. That's t-.s, ,ale she
told, an it turned Clt 20 10 TIDE. Da;,ye ba,i
our s'picions then
well, jest as soon as Jack laid eres q,
tn at gal he seemed to be possessed Haios+
hung round FER all the time he wus there q,
an when re started OF to finish his eddica'
ton at colidge, I've hearn sence Their, was
3 right smart w didoes cut I'D be;wixt ,em ,
Seems he wanted FER 10 promise him. an, She
Jest right out m out an plainly told sim thar
she wa MT a-gwinc 10 do it. She seed how {
the Engagements WIS 'twiXt Jack an, Miss f.
carrie, an she wus Jest determined NOT IN 9
have nothin' 10 do with il. Alter Jack vns !
gone her an Carrie got to be putty thick Y
together. Old Mis- Weldon wus er naughty $
DID soul, but she WANT overbearin', an she G
EST made the little Yankee sal feel at home a
here. I've hearn 'em say sence that Car 4
ne used TO show Marian the letters Jack
writ er f'om collidge, an that she even S
oked at 'er bout SIGH questions as he'd AK I
bout my little Yankee gal, an so IN. S
AT last times got so hot they want no [
'oohh' 'em, an Jack come home fur good, v
m they begun to talk bout war, en- cali a
ur volunteers, an kick up their heels gin '
srW. Wv cc'se school broke up an Miss \
Marian packed up to leave, Shed bin 4