The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-01-05

the grave the name given her when she WIZ
born.
'fCaDn Warsaw's wife died the year afere
an Elviry begin settin' her cap for him the
mint she heared that Mis- Warsaw Wuz sick
At the funeral she wore all the deep mournin'
she could b0rry on the Criek, an her sympa-
thy with the b'reaved husband WIZ somethin'
techin'.
al really never felt sich pity for any mans
misery said she TO Jerushy Ann, my wife, ez
/ do for Brother Warsaw's- It's jest terrible
for a man who's had a wife's s'ciety to comfort
an cheer his home, to be deprived of it at his
time o. life. When / think O. his goin' back to
his lonely Preside, an settin' there on one side
a-smekin' an sWearin' at the dogs, with no
woman face to face with him on the other side,
/ kin skeercely keep back my tears
go, we'll said JeFushy Ann, eonsolin' like,
he'll not be lonely long. Some o. these gals
III snap him up afore you know it. I see Betsy
Hoskins loOkin' at him in church ez ef
she'd
eyes noticed the bold, impeTdent thing
maxim eyes at him, myself said EIviTy, mad
dim up in mint The way that gal acks is
positively shameful. She'd better let Sister
Warsaw git cold in her grave afore she begins
Iayin traps for her husband. jest 'spise a de-
signin' woman, an specially such a loW-d0wn
eritter ez that Bets HOskins. Think o. her
snNrin' Brother Warsaw an loadin' him down
with all her ornery tribe
"'They say said Jerushy Ann, that the
Lord in His wisdom, made many kind o fools,
but when He wanted to make 'taTnal fool He
made q widower. / never see one on 'em in
my life that warn't added over young women.
Somebody III have to look cut for Brother
Warsaw, or Betsy HOskins II yank him UP in
the twinklin' of an eye, like a turkey with a
gFasshopper'
90 I'll make that my dOoty,' said Elviry, Sc
verely. It's dooty / owe dear dead Sister
Warsaw
"Cap'n Warsaw'd never been much of a hand
alter women. The women didn't take much
stock in him nuther, for he wuz jinerally frol-
ickin' round the country with a crowd O. tough
disciples; an it tux a powerful sight o. ter
hacker an new whisky to keep him gOin'. He
wuz forever tellin' how him an Jineral Taylor
licked the Greasers at B-youny Yisty. Elyiry
herself used TO say that she didn't know why
Jineral Taylor didn't drive the Mexikins outen
the country by putin Gap'n Warsaw out where
he could talk TO 'em, an sputter terbacker
loose over 'em ez he talked.
Now she begun to show powerful interest
in the Mexikin war, an Cap'n Warsaw's fitin'
at Byouny Visty. She'd AK him to tell her
bout it whenever she met him-ani she man
aged to meet him purity frickwent. Though
she knoYed by heart-years agO-all that he
wuz gWine to say, she'd Iissen to everything ez
eff it Wuz the readin' o. her fathers viii; git
breathless an white bout the gills when he
| described the Mexikin lancers comm on q
| charge; scream when he told bout his men
bein' moved down by pizened copper bullets
| ez big ez his fist, an then bust into tears an
| keteh hold o his hand when he come to where
| he wuz tho only man left standin', and wuz
| attacked by i've lancers at once, an shot two
/ of EN- with his boss pistols, an run his sword
| through the balance.