Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-05
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NECK OR EScTHIN HALL
kILKEsl1TT CORSERs.
3 III leave s'it xn Il JEST ia a
q A gOin to tell you,
81 when I he'd TO quit of an
- mend William Henery's
f pantaloons, a bout tn G
sssEs4 dinner We did hev an
s(AA awful good dinner eff I do
- say 1t myself
9 Mis- Czonk a
EheeSo Mis- Squire Roper
SA22 ~ an his Cruthers
q y. - : cum the day afore
EaJ a holped m G
with the cookin. We he'd billed ham
an billed beef, an rosie turkey an
prest chicken. an hYerWoEst an
turnipz, an bsens an pertatUrs, an
pasnips an cabbage an pise and cskes,
an cCOkys an gingerbread, an donuts an
apple butter an peech marmyiald an
quinch preserves, an plum sars, an lots
of Jelly, and, dear me! 1 can't begin to
recomember all we did hev.
I he'd borryed Mis- Roper's 2 big in
tentiOn tables, an my own 2 made 1.
an the wilder Van Dyke brOt bern, al
so we Good sete most everybuddy cept-
in the ones es waited onto the tables.
I wus a hopin thet William Henery
wood git threw his dinner without emmy
tussel, but it pears bhet it want to be,
fur when they wus a passin the beat
pickles he made a grab at Lizzie
Blodgers to ketch her, an she Civ a
| screach an jirked the dish to one side
an tipped all the pickles OFF, an they
went all over him. One Of 'em went
down his back inside his standin collar,
an he got sum Yineger intu his eye.
Chester Ann" he hollered, Il am
! plumb drownded intu a river o beat
! juce!"
I toIe him it sarved him rite fur a
/ pesterin the gals. Well, an arfter he'd
| got the vineger wiped often him an the
beat fished 0uten his back, he ct his
dinner in siIents-es the sayin ez.
Arfter eyerybuddy WIS threw eatin,
| Mis- Purdy and sum of the gals wus a
| holpin with the deeshes, I noticed
William Henery a squirmishin aroun
amongst the WINNER folks, an, thinkses
7 to my self, you amt got enuf of your
fOolin Yit. It Go seam, Mr.. Editur, ea
| tho William Henery an Mis- Purdy ali
alays gittin into sum sort of a serum
mage; but I thOt they wus a gOin to
! git along thet day without emmy, fur he
he'd been tussehn arOun amongst the
/ gals, an L thanked my stars thet it he'd
bin so, fur a gal amt so apt to destract
q pussen as a ole woman is. Els cum
out of the suller frum putin away the
cOWcumber pickles tibet WIS lef frum
dinner, I heerd a awful screachin out
! into the yard. I thOt sumbuddy wus
! plumb kilIded, an / run up out of the
/ sulIer skeerd most into fits. WhOt
seen wus William Henery a chasin Mis-
| PurdY all aroun the yard, amongst the
| gals, an her hOldin up 2 turkY guz-
yards, an a talzin a bite often one OF
en- every whOOp stick.
| Every time William Henery wood
run in amongst the gals they'd veil
an hoIler an try to hole him, but he'd
scramble away agin, an off he'd sc
Orfter Mis- Purdy. All to onct he
/ grabbed her an got a holt of a guZZard
an she give him q push thet sum how
/ underbalanced him an down he Gun
rite smash into big toboccy pale the
/ we he'd filed full o. slOp.
But he bel on to the guzZard, ar
there he jist sOt rite smack into the
! sIop-pale an ct the guzZard. Sum or
US got a holt of him an pride him Out'E
/ the pale He sed he he'd hurt his bacl
! awful CWillam Henery is trubbleC
! with a week back. He wus a goin Il
! go into the bedroom an change hi
| close, but he dreept so awful wouIdn'
let him, but give him his close an sen
him to the hin house to change.
An now [ mus quit an eileen then
! pantaloons O. his'n. They air a site t
look at. Yourn mutchly,
HESTER ANN SCOOPER.
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