Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-06-14
LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS.

LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS.
NECK OR NorHnz HAIL.
KnKES1gX CoRNEBs.
n TR. EDTTUR: 1t
e MI do seam jes es
- - a Il tho I he'd to tel
- sumbuddy about me and
William Henery a hevin
kt4 secha big argynaint about
ffoestsA him a iinin the DIasons,
?hffA an no you won't tell, so
- I'll tell you awl the fax
&SsSss about it.
E&Nse Arfter William
E.F&SeS . -. Henery he'd di-
= - s5Vided the mummy
PS>~s5 an Civ me hat, he
kindly thot I orient to say nothin more
about it, but I did, fur hat the mummy
belonged to me emmy way. We argyed
an argyed an we cOOdn't agree, fur he
wer bOun he wood jine an 1 Wus bOun
he shoodn't. I fin1y sed:
swell, William Henery, eff you Good
take the wife of your buzZum along
with you it wood be differnt; but who
ever herd of a Mason a takin his Sife
to the lodge with him ?"
WINNING hes side degrees" ses he,
es glib as you please.
What be side degrees? I'd jes like
to no? ?" ses /.
@Sumpthin jes to classify the
grumbly ones, he ses.
I seen thet I'd hev to Civ in, an so I
ses spurmIy:
William Henery, you no thet you
never did Engage in emmy thing with
out my hOlp thet ever turned out we'll;
an 1t do appear to me thet ridin ole
gotes and climin greecy poles may do
fur young min who want little fun
Onct in a while, an hev no plesent
homes an diverted wives like you heV,
but for a ole man, crippled with cOrns,
rumatism, an lumbago, and who hes to
be rubbed with st. JacOps lie an tur-
pentide, an rolled up in hot fannin
Almost every mite, ses I, a lOolcn ct
him reel spurmly threw my glasses es
i continued: 1T seems to me fur sech
a man to go thare an caper arOun onto
an ole cote an make hisself redickerIus
tryin to cline a greecy pole, 1 say it es
all out Of resOn, an then to hev to pay
fur the privileg of dom it es what I
cant understan."
"Thares a heap of things you can't
understan, Hester Ann, jes a heap"
ses he, es chearfuI es Good be, an so ]
only sed:
30, well, go your own way, William
Henery, but jes recolec that I hev
warranted you an eff you cum home
crippled don't blame me"
mo, 1 wont, Hester Ann, but you
don't RELY objec, do you?" he asked
kindly anxious.
William Henery," ses I, caImy, "I
don't wish to be contrary, an eff I Good
only go along, but es I cant, jine away.
But you mark my words fur it, you'll
be sorry you ever went an dun it" ses
L sort of progressively.
"ShOOdnt wunder, Hester deer,
shoOdnt wunder; but jist you hev my
close reddy fur to-morrer mite is masons
mite. IL like my billed shirt eff it makes
no differents to you, ses he es pIesent
es a baskit of chips.
1 tOle him it made no differents to
me-, "Only," ses I, "Im afeerd you'd
git 1t tore a standin on your he'd, or a
ridin ole gotes, or a climin greecy
poles, or sum other fool caper, an so
I'll set up an keep a vinegar poItis hot
fur you, fur I spect you'll cum home
with bruk bones or rumatiz," ses I.
All but thet, ole woman; I'll be
spry es cricket, you bet /"
An afore I he'd time to improve him
fur his slang he he'd gone out an
But law sakes, thares them pesky
chickens rite slap into my inyun bed.
So no more ct present frum your
trew fren, HESTER ANN SCOoPER.