The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-06-22

my dooryard I'll erbout break his blamed neck,
that's what ri do an that's the word with q
bark on It,"
Old Abe Pitzenberger delivered himself of the
above quoted remarks as he sat one summer even
ing on the little back porch of his cabin, smoking
HE pipe while his daughter Mary, whom he was ad-
dressing, was busy washing the supper dishes Ashe
concluded his speech and resumed his pipe Mary, a
comey lass of nineteen, with hair and eyes black
as a ravens wing and a complexion as fresh and
beautiful as the roses that bloomed in the front
yard, stopped her chatter with the dishes and look
ing her father full in the face, replied:
Pap, you're older'n / am, an spose know
more bout everything; but tell you Jets as nice
or young teller as there is in this settlement He's
homes an stiddy, an has good team an farmin
things sides some money he's saved"
Don't make no difference" answered the old
man promptly, chow homes an stiddy he be,
don't like none o. the Waymire set an amt goin'
to hev any truck with any of 'em, much less havin
of 'em in the family"
"rd like ter know what you got Agin 'em, or
what harm any of em, speshully Jet, ever done ter
YOU" queried the girl and then, she hung up
her dishpan behind the stove and pushed back the
little supper table she continued 1.-THE Waymires
are bout we'll off an bout well thought of as
we are, an II Jet wants ter come here to see me
can't see why he can't, that's ALL"
"See here, Mary" said the old man, wrathfuly,
ne TO MS feet, "don't get sassy, now You're
mighty nigh Q woman grown, but as long as you
stay round this house you've got ter mind me or
take the consequences"
"Pap," broke in kindly voice, "don't get hus-
trated, now" 1t was old Mrs Pitzenberger, who
had just come into their presence and who had q
way of cooling her husband down whenever he
took of his tantrums, she called them "Pap,"
she continued "Mary is gittin' old enough to know
her own mind an 'twon't do good fer either of
us to go opposin' of her. Ef she an Jet are boun
ter go tergether, they'll put erbout ter do it.
know girls bettern you do, pap so take my advice
and don't poster Mary now"
But his good wife seemed for once to have lost
her influence with Uncle Abe for instead of needing
her words he usually did, he turned fercely on
her and told her to mind her own business, and
added
GAS long girl of mine stays round my house
she'll mind What tell her, Pl strap her, don't
keer of she's as old as Methuseler an as big as err
mountain"
AS for Mary, seeing now that her father and
mother were in for a somewhat prolonged discus
sion and in which she we'll knew her lnother would
not come out second best, she put on her hat, and
gathering her milk pas quietly left the house for
the COW lot, which was situated at the edge of a
large pasture field some rods distant AS she
walked along the path that led down the HILL by
the little spring house at its base, and the
branch on the other side of which were the pas
ture-bars where the quiet faced cows waiting
for her, she was hot and angry. And very beauti-
full too she looked in her wrath her eyes glittered
like stars in summers sky, while her cheeks
flushed crimson, beside which the peoples in her
own little garden would have hanged their heads
in shame. If Jet could only have seen her then
But Mary was evidently thinking less of him than