The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-02-27

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H. when he'd TO quit OFF an
IA mend William Henery's
E.A pantaloons, about tn o
f..lA dinner. We did hev an
e.iErA awful good dinner of do
4:& say it myself, 9
1Ns.. Mis- Squire Roper
EvA@C~an Mis- Cruthers
~s:.ecH. cum the day af re
~s an holped m o
with the cookin. We he'd billed ham
ON Liled beef, an rosie turkey an
prest ch cken. an hverworst an
turnips, an beens an pertaturs, IN
pasnips an cabbage, an pise and cakes,
an cookys an ging rbred, an donuts an
appe butter, an pee h marmyia d an
quinch preserves, an plum sars, an lots
OF jelly, and, dear mel / can't begin to
recomember oil we did hev.
/ he'd borryed Mis- Roper's 2 big in
tention tables, an my own 2 made 4,
an the wilder Van Dyke brot hern, an
so we Good sete most everybuddy cept-
in the ones es waited onto the tables.
wus a hop'n thet William Hcnery
wood git threw his dinner without emmy
tussel, but it p airs tibet it want to be,
fur when they wus passin the beat
pickles he made grab at Lizzie
Blodgers to ketch her, an she Civ q
screach an jirked the dish to one side
ON tipped all the pickles of, an they
went all over him. Ons OF 'em went
down his back inside his standin collar,
an he got sum vineger intu his eye.
Hester Ann" he hollered, Il am
plumb drownded intu river o. beat
juceP
tole him it sarved him rite fur a
pesterin the gals. Well, an arfter he'd
got the vineger wiped often him an the
beat fished outen his back, he ct his
dinner in silents-es the sayin eZ.
Ar.ter eyerybuddy wus threw eatin,
Mis- Purdy and sum of the gals wus a
holpin with the deeshes, noticed
William Henery a squirmishin aroun
amongst the wimmen folks, an, thinkses
/ to my self, you amt got enuf OF your
foolin yit. 1t do seam, Mr.. Editur, es
tho William Henery an Mis- Purdy air
alays gittin into sum sort of serum
mage; but / thot they WIS goin to
git along tibet day without emmy, fur he
he'd been a tusselin aroun amongst the
gals, an / thanked my stars tibet it he'd
bin so, fur gal amt so apt to destract
a pussen as ole woman is. Els cum
out of the suller frum putin away the
cowcumber pickles tibet WIS lef frum
dinner, heerd awful screachin out
into the yard / thot slmbuddy WIS
plumb killded, an / run up out of the
fnf 30
seen wus William Henery chasin Mis-
Purdy all aroun the yard, amongst the
gals, an her holdin up 2 turky guz-
yards, an takin a bite often one of
EN- every whoop stick.
Every time Wi lam Henery wood
run in amongst the gals they'd veil
an holler an try to hole him. but he'd
scr mble away agin, an off he'd 90
orfter Mis- Purdy. All TO onct h
grabbed her an got holt of guzzard,
an she give him push tibet sum how
underbdlanced him an down he cum
rite smash into big toboccy pale tibet
we he'd filled full o. slop.
But he hel on to the guzzard, an
there he jist sot rite smack into the
slop- pale an ct the guzzard. Sum or
Us got holt of him an pride him outr
the pale. He sed he he'd hurt his back
awful william Henery is trub lee
with week back. He wus a goin tc
go into the bedroom an change Iii
close, but he dreslt so awful j wouldn'
let him, but give him his close an sen
him 10 the house to change.
An now 1 mus quit an eileen then
ponta1oons n his n They mir n site Il
look at. Yourn mutchy,
HESTER ANN ScooPER.
Chicago Ledger.