Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-01-03

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AA spose you
A 4'1 think 1 begin
MN "A my Letters
Nk5bN w.. kind a funny,
MfV2[AsMIWNk but the school
(NRil1|E3IX4vjM marin she Sc.
N22 N .IMXXN to me when she
MIEN>. M .| I' l6l&z.NZ fust come to
NEN$S$2 <I3NkW stay with rs,
WE$%ZKWD sez sho, mis-
z<N ~, Scooper, VIII
" ~ don't you name
your lovely
h5m ?" sez she; "it's all the rage now
lays to give your country Willie O
name" "Lawsp sez /, Il never hearn
tell sech thi ,g, but if it wus the
site, why, recond we'd hev to name
it If William Henery wus agreeable,
and he wus-he mostly is when he
thinks he is goin to have q chance fur
som ,thin to eat or to hev some fun
with the g..ls, bat laws me, / aint
Jealous. not bit, fur / know
t is only his way; but utter
we had agreed to name our
house, why William Henery nor me
we couldn't think O. emmy name We
liked, an Sd we arske tho school
marm TO tell us one. She ssd she thot
"Neck or Noth;n" Hall would be too
p, riectly lovely fer ennything, and o we
named it that, an Eal a big dinner an
invited in all our fr,n3. The school
marin sed that was the way, an / tell
you we he'd hifierous lime, anWillam
Henery he wus 1yin around amongst
the gals as ch.rk 8 you p'else. and he
got to runnin after Melinda Rogers,
tryin to put big bug en- her
he'd, an they run an run, in
William Henery he run rite pump into
Eliza Roper. the sluire's wife, an over
they W, mt rite on to my clean kitchen
floor, an she was carryin q plate o
lie pickles to set On one the tables,
fur all the wimm folks they to X q
holt an helpt me cook the dinner.
Well, as wus sayin, when I
seen the beet JUICE q runin over en-,
tholght William Henery wus Plumb
busted, an screeched out an run to
help him, an when 1 seen what il wus
Jest took holt of him an helpt him
up an into the bedroom an give him
some clean close. 1t didn't hurt nairy
one of EN- q speck, an Mis- Roper she
got up o latin, an sed, "Axidents
viii happen to the lest of people," al
she wiped the beet juce frum her face
an faults frunt. An then We he'd din
nee pretty quick. There wuz Squire
Roper an his wife, an Peter Roper an
his wife, an Mary An Roper IN her
man, Joshua Miller, an Alice an Mag
gle Roper, who amt married, an ther
wus Uncle Job Biles ON his wife an
fore single sons an one thet married
Angelinee Gleesun, an Mariar Biles an
her husban Samuel Jinks, an then cum
the Hopparses IN Gileses an Blod-
gerses an ever so menny more, not
a countin oar own children, five
cept Benjamin, tn, bsby, an he is
twonty-one comm next oath March.
Well, as / sed before, we finally all got
our dinner ct, an then we he'd some
approbrious exercises, consistin OF
singin an speech maxim, an the school
marin she red piece of poetry; it be-
gun somethin like this: "The roses
red"-no thet want IL; lem me soc, oh,
yes, now / recomemEer, il was, I'VE
meet meath the sounding rafter." i
furgit the rest Of it, but it wus highly
| eddyfying, tho school-marm sed.
Next we oil wrote our names in an
empty bottle-well, not the bottle.
| but on q piece of paper. an put il
in the bottle, an then the Prcsbeterian
| preacher he sed.a few words an then
bruk the neck o the bottle off on the
corner of the house, an then put the
bottle in q lit lie hole under tho front
door St sp, an that's how we come to
call our place Neck or Nothin Hall.
The bottle had nothin in it an VIC bruk
the neck off, an that made Neck ol
Nothin Hall--see? / had intended tC
tell you lot O knews this time, but
got on the wrong track, an, as William
Henery ses, got goin an couldnf
stop.
Thet wus I m;stook tole you las
week about ole Zcke Jackson makir
lard out of colera hogs, fur he jist buys
the hogs an makes a sure cure hoe
colera med cine out of em.
Yesterday / seen the Widder Var
| DYKE agoin past here with some fel
ler, frum Sackville, spose, fur he wa
stranger to me, an she, the widder
he'd on a hat fur all the world like th
men folks have. The school-marm seel
her, and ses, What's the matter witt
hat? but / could see she wus awfu
disgusted with the widder, an lie be-
she1 cut her out agin fust chance sh'
gi5s. o yes, there is goin to be apoun'
party over TO Ropers to morrcr nit
fur the benefit of the preecher. w
air q in il William Henery is all
an gu .ss he will be, fur he mostly j
redy to go If he thinks he will g:
somethin good to eat. Everybody lie
to take box with supper enuf fur t., s
Imust quit an make some gingerbread o
things to take in my box. Yourr
truly, HESTER ANN ScooPEn.
/ N. B. It warnt cote to ride the
Susan Roper got, but one to ware
The good land only knows WHARF she
ware it, though We seen sum win
men thet looked like they wus q cal
ryin q cote on ther backs. But 1 spos
, shell ware IL tomofrer. Good lawsl
do hope il won't git Loose an go to bu
tin around. IL. A. ..
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