The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-06-25

You dassn't, and you know you dassn'tr
shouted the wife.
You dassn't hang nuthing," added tht
Children
While l was eating smack the woman
stood before me. arms akimbo, and the
children completed the circuit around the
table.
From furp queried the woman as
starter
From Bristol"
Hear 'em say any thing about mep
II don't think son
You orter, fer I'm known all over the
state as the distressedest woman in it."
And haint't we distressed, toof' indig-
nantly demanded the children in chorus.
"Of course, but I'm the distressedest, be-
ing wife and Il mother"
Amy particular cause1n asked.
"More'n ten millyon particular causes,
stranger! No human being will ever
know what l have suffered in body and
mind.
And we've suffered, too!n chorused the
children.
eyes, some, but nothing in comparison.
I've had toothache, earache, pleurisy,
quinsy, chills, fever, shakes, jaundice and
bilious fever, and through the hull of it
there has not been one human being to feel
sorry for me-"
10 ~ BOoolOl6g
And l haven't relashun as will speak
to me. on account of my marrying Ezekiel,
and If L was dying tomorrow not one of
EN- would come to lay me out for my
eoffin!"
That is indeed sad"
stranger, them is the first kind words
I've heard for twenty years, and you must
must"
And mann is bellering, tool" shouted
thn oh ~ ~. |, l.. L.
eyes.
Presently Ezekiel came creeping in, trying
to look careless and indifferent, but he had
scarcely entered the door when his wife
jumped up and said
Didn't say you dassn't hang yerself2n
And hain't you threatened to pizen yer
self dozen times overl
And we want to die, tool" howled the
children.
Stranger" said the wife, as she began to
clear up the table, take good look at that
thing over there as calls hisSelf a man.
You'll never set eyes on such an ornery,
shiftless, good-for-nothing specimen of
manhood. He hain't fit fur bears to chaw
on"
Give it back to her, pap" shouted the
| oldest girl.
stranger, replied Ezekiel, as he spit out
the bark he was chewing, you hain't
Dllnu. on KIN see as well as me, and YOU
kin now realize why | am the downtrod-
denest, mournfullest man in Tennessee. I've
| either got to hang myself or go on in this
way"
Don't you believe himr appealed the
wife. "Its all owing to him, and l kin
prove if. If any body is downtroddenest
it's mel"
They dasn't pull ha'r and claw" OBJ
served the girl to me in strict confidence.
l was about to try and effect a reconciIia-
| ton when the teamster returned, having
hired a vehicle a couple of miles away, and
as l loft the house Ezekiel left with me.
mo you DON'T" exclaimed the wife
you want to take advantage of me, but
you can't"
She put on her bonnet and walked out
with us, and the six children brought up the
| tail-end of the procession. AS got into the
vehicle Ezekiel began:
stranger, I'm sorry we hadn't sun
thin better, but, as l told you at the
start, I'm the mournfullest, downtrodden-
est"
Don't you belive him, stranger" inter
| rupted the wife eff anybody has suffered
| more'n another it's"
They dasn't fightIr yelled the children.
And as we moved away over the rocky
road Ezekiel made another bolt for the woods
to hang himself, and the children were
clapping their hands and shouting:
Come back here, pap, and be manr