The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-05
1t Was Very Sad News-He Could Hope-A
Narrowing Insinuation-What
Was the Reason?

nave never Sudk0u IL OIL.
Some time ago, while riding through
The Muscadine neighborEood, l came
upon a man sitting on log near the
roadside. He was sallow and lean, with
sharp knob cheek bones and with hair
shat looked like soiled cotton. The day
was intensely hot, but he was sitting in
the sun, although near him a tangled
grapevine cast most inviting shade.
"Good morning." said I, refining up
any horse.
eli"
"You live here. suppose"
''Jest about"
"Why don't you sit over there in the
ihade?"
''Will when the time comes"
''What do you mean by when the time
somes?"
"When the fever comes on"
Having chills, are your"
"Sorter."
Glow long have you had them?"
'Forty odd year"
GLOW old are your"
Forty odd year"
"Been shaking all your life, ehT'
"Only half my life; fever was on the
1ther half"
"Why don't you move away from
here?"
"Becaze I've lived here SO long that
I'm afeerd might not have good health
aowhar else"
Gracious alive, do you mean to say
that having chills all the time is good
health?'
"Wall, health mout be wuss. Old Nat
Sarver moved up in the hills some time
ago, was tuck down putty soon with
some new sort of disease and didn't
i've more'n a week. Don't blieve in
swappin' off suthin' that I'm used to
for sutliin' l don't know nothin' about.
Did fashioned, every day chills air good
enough for me. Some folks, when they
git little up in the world, mout want
70 put on airs with dyspepsia and bron-
kichus, and CHAMBERS and catarrh; but,
as 1 lowed to my wife the other night,
old cAills and fever war high enough
FUR us yit awhile A chill may have its
drawback, but it has its enjoyments,
Eoo."
''Idon't see how anything about chill
;an be enjoyable"
F'Jest OWN to how you air raised, as
The feiler says. When 1 have chill it
does me a power of good to stretch, and
tell you that fust rate stretch when
Teller is in the humor amt to be sneezed
1T. I'd leave watermelon most any time
10 have a good stretch. High-o-hoo"
He gapSd, threw out his legs, threw back
his arms and stretched himself across the
log. Its sorter like the itch," he went
On. THE itch has its drawbacks, but
what power of good it does man to
scratch. Had uncle who cotch the itch
In the army, and he lay thar and
scratched and smiled and scratched agin.
In order to keep up with the demand of
the occasion he sprinkled lot of sand
in his bed and tuck off all his clothes, so
that every time he turned he'd be
scratched all over. He KEEP this up till
The itch killed him, but he died a-scratch-
in and a-smilin', and reckon he was
about as happy dead man as ever lived.
Wall, my fever is comm on now, and l
reckon I'll git up thar under the shade"
He moved into the shade and stretched
himself again.
How long will your fever LAST" l
ashed
'WaH, I don't know exac2ly; three
hours, mebby."
''Then WHAT"
"WaI, I'll funter around while, chop
up q little wood to git 4 bite to eat with,
swap boss with some Teller, mebby,
and then fix myself for another chill"
"Have you much of family"
wife and grown son. He's about
The ablest chillcr il the country; wy,
when he's got a rale good chill on he can
take hold of a tree and shake of green
persimmona Wy, he wins all the
money the niggers have got, shakin'
dice. Wall, have you got to go:"
eyes"
"Wait till my fever cools down little
and I'll beaten you outen that nag you're
ridin'."
'sNo, I don't care to walk"
"Good-by, then. When you git tired
Twin up thar among them new tangled
diseases come down here, whar every
thing is old fashioned and honest. "-Opie
P. Reed in Arkansaw Traveller.