Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-03-02

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| VA ses it want no rat de-
.A terminator tibet her an;
l.tEA Mandy give Hiram, but
| HsikA jest seventy five cents
@ksNAworth of lobelia an TWEEN
s3SNe ty-five cents worth
| Mc>t. of epikak, an re-
| 0A<e@s solved in sum al
Sssl~<WS skahol; but they
| ~ tole Hiram it wer
tat pisin. An, ses she, Mis- Scooper,
ct ever you seen a scared man tibet man
wus Hiram Dayton, an we amt never
tole him what it wer he drunk, nuther:
an he amt never fetched no whisky
sence.
An ses she, @Mis Scooper, did Won
ever heer how Nose Parsonses wife
noses him aroun."
I tole her didn't nose I he'd.
An then she ups an tells me how
Elizabeth, tibet is Moseses wife, she
tibet wus Elizabeth Marvin, henpicks
him aroun. SEES she:
Elizabeth she makes Nose fetch in
all the would an water, git up an bid
fires an fill the teakettle, stir sars when
she wants him to, peal pertaters, tend
the children, and onct when he wusn't
agoin to wash out sum of the baby's
dnrty close tibet she he'd tole him to,
she ups with a pale of bilin suds IN
throwd it over him ON TUX the broom
to him an scrubbed him an hammered
him tel he promised to al'ays do es she
sed.
I tole her felt sorry fur pore Moses,
fur he wer al'ays SIGH q good-natured
boy an so willin, to.
Mis- Cronk, she sed she thot the Par.
senses wus the lowest down people she
ever seen; SEE she, "They air ell of EN-
q durty, lazy, misable lot, an fur hur
part she wer glad Nose he'd got wife
tibet made HIN step aroun."
William Henery, he's most dun his
corn shuckin. an then he wants me to
hev q quiltih, and he will hev o wood
chopin, but - jest seems es eff want
able to cook fur it, but I spect I'll hev
to, fur the schoolmarm an Ben hev
tuned up fur me to, an to hev party
in the evenin. I spose I'll hev to agree
to it or I won't get minnits peice.
Mis- Roper, Peters wife, she wus in
yestidy, an she sed tibet they wus q
goin to hev might sciety meet to the
church before long, an hev supper ther,
an hev q soshible afterward, an tibet
the committy wus o goin to write names
of all the people Their on to keerds,. an
give one to eech member of the sciety,
an tibet persun I'D hev to talk to every
buddy thet Their name wus on to the
keerd tibet they held. SEES size. give
bin aroun q little an saw how other
people dun" You know, Mr.. Editur,
tibet Peter an Susan they went out to
Califurnia State las. winter an Susan
thinks she nose thir or to sense she
got back, an she is bound tibet the
folks at the Corners shalst be behind
the times emmy e. she kin help it.
The school marin and Mis- Roper was
talkin over startin Litarry Sciety
here to the Corners, when the men
folks git ther corn all shucked.
Mis- Roper ses we OF to hev sumthin
of the kyand heer to the Corners fur
the benefit of the risin gineration.
The school marin BED she thot it nd
be more fun than q "ban wagging" to
hev on started, and so spose they'll
kerry it threw, fur they air both awful
determined when they set Their beds.
Iwus over to Mis- Hopperses tother
day an she wus tellin me about the
fuss the school marin an the Widder
Van Dyke he'd one Sunday rite in the
church house.
You see Mis- Van Dykes little gal
Emmie he'd fit and scratched Mis- Hop
perses little Erminnie, an Erminnie
she went an tole the school marin, an
the school marin she arsked sum Of
the other younguns about it an they
sill sed Emmie wus to blame,
an the school marin she hit her
three ticks over the han with stick no
bigger than o straw, an on the mex
Sunday she goes fur the school marin
about it rite in the church house be-
twixt Sunday school an meetin. It was
one Sunday when William Henery he'd
to stay to hum on account of thorn he
he'd run into his nee when he wer q cut
tin down thorn tree, an I stayed with
him.
The widder went an sot down in the
seat with the school marin an says she
awful hateful, so Mis- Hopperses WIS q
tellin me, School marin, whot did you
whip my little Emmy fur on Fridy
last? ?"
Simply beksws she needed it," ses
The schoolmarm.
"Wal," ses the widder, madderD
hops, @why didn't you whip Min Hop
pers, to-"
"Simply bekaws she didn't need il, )"
ses the schoolmarm, as cool as cow
cumber. An they he'd quite . lot more
xords about it, an the schoolmarm fin
lily tole the wilder
But, good grashus, eff ther amt
tonothan Blodgers acomin drivin fit
% kill. spose sumpthin is rong with
little Horrowson or Marolson, en- he'll
want me to go over rite off, So good.
by. HESTER ANN ScooPEB.
A French Bill Sykes.
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