Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-08-17

lonesome place MAKES you rrlplu,eus nm,
cross. Is that rightys
"Befo' the Lawd it ar'l NV own daddv
couldn't hev put it better"
"Well, now, let's reason bit. You
have always been poor"
Pore am shHckless am unfitten." sir
You never had q better home. nor
better clothes, nor moro to eat than YOU
have now!s
Never. f-tt -tA
Wen, then, You must have got used
to 1t. It isn'tas II you had been rich and
lost all.
mo, / spect not.
You are pretty comfortable for poor
folks. can find many worse Off within
ten miles Of you. "
"You KIM" she exclaimed In great
surprise. .S@A = q . -.
Certainly. That's the best calico
dress I've seen in two days"
Stranger she gasped, springing up
in her excitement, ANSWER me honest
Andrewl Ar there folkses wuss of nor
we 'uns?"
Heaps of them"
Right yere in this stateg"
Eyes, and all around you"
"Then. Jim. l hain't got another
whinny (complaint) to make. I thought
we'uns was tho downest of ALL Let's
mako up and shet."
threw in another plug of tobacco and
q card of shirt buttons to bind the bar
gain, and as ! moved off they sat ON the
log with their arms around each other
and their tears falling together.
Two or three days later, thirty miles
away, came TO pretty thrifty looking
farm which had about thirty acres in
corn, potatoes and cotton A white
woman was welding hoe In row close
to the roadside, while four or flvoe olored
people were beyond
"Man homer" queried, as halted.
mot IL my eyesight Is good, and
reckon kin see as fur as most anybodyr
she replied.
"Ah! Excuse me. You are a widow
Sorter."
Crops lock thrifty" %
"Sartin. The sile 10 all right II you
keep tho weeds down. Come up from
tho Co'ners?"
eyes"
"Stop to smack"
81 don't want to mako you any trou-
ble." dr1
Reckon you hadn't better want to!
Come in"
1t didn't take long to discover that
she was strong minded and "sot" In her
ways. She put on dinner, and as wo sat
down 20 the table she thawed out little
and said:
"You were AKIN IL the olo man was
home. He's dun got no business around
zero no mo-. I'm a-speakin' of the last
one. I've had three" s+
"Ahi" was all dared reply. tHpi
"The fust one died. Right smart good
thing that he did, as he was tryin' to be
preacher and was agin 1t and hxih'
to stop him. Second one played ON the
fiddle and hunted fur bars. / stood It
fur about var and then hunted fur
him. When freed him ho had to cum
down" -a aaa7 tftt iii
''How?9 asked. as she waited for me
to say something. ll.,si. l,,s .,..-.r
walked him out and jumped him off
tno DsAiiK ONef yaIip anu ueB Junpcd 30
fur he's never got back. Went down
into Kintuck and fell dead one day. He
was too lazy to be sick like other folks"
"And the third, madam
"He was great on tradin' mules and
raisin' dogs. When he got his TO mules
traded down to sick heifer and tame
fox logged him. Didn't meet up with
anybody back thar who looked like him,
did yer" GIL. t4 snel
"How did he lookl" -lt
"When he went arter yer he was tryin
to fly, hair on eand, eyes bulgin' out and
his breath comm shortly. That was five
months ago. He may have got over his
skeer by this time"
Sand so you are running tho farm?"
That's IL, and don't want any helpr
"Of course not"
II don't go fur TO confess that all men
are shuckless and Improbable, but the
hcft o them hain't wuth 2-y'er-ole 'taters
No mo of 'em fur me, I'm dun gwine to
go it alone from this out. Through
Gwine? We'll, short miles to you Two
got to blow tho horn and git them mig
gers into rations."-M Quad in Detroit
Free Press.
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