Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

LETTERS FR0H THE C0RNERs.
We Arxye he Q1sstsea.
NECK on No1uN' HAxx.
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Henery about the herbs
"a he'd in the garnet, he jis
,ESA kindly grins an ses.
J..E But Hester Ann, they
E.NA help the pore, sick or
S4:N pade no intention
M. to tibet remark,
k,EA<Lb but arsk ed.
e.0e~N(What do it cost to
o. jine-nothin 2"
wal yes it do cost sumpthin" ses he
es bold es brass, @but forty or fifty
dollars, I reckon, wood take q teller
rite slap clean threw the hole con-
sarn."
My breth wus plumb, cumplealy-
TUX away at this bowled faced state
mint, so I jes gashed out, "Forty or
fifty dollers, man. I'd jes like to no
whar You air to git forty or fifty dol
lers these hard times. Hear ONLY las
weak you wus reddy to pack the hull
KIT an Doodle of us off to the pore
house cause of the tite times an failur
of craps, an now you want to give forty
or fifty dollers to jine sciety YOU no
nothin about"
Yes" ses he, @but eff jine EN-
will no sumpthin about EN-, wont II"
Il doubt it, William Henery," ses /,
mildly. Its my opinion peple don't
alays understan everything thay be-
long to-"
I do act1y beleave William Henery
he'd jes bin studyin fur munths to
overcum all of my injunctions, fur he
knowed 1 wer hart an sole imposed to
all secret scieties an sech things.
When he didn't hev anser reddy he'd
jes hop off on to sumpthin elts, es he
did in anser to whot I he'd jes sed.
SEES he:
Pears to me, Hester Ann, es tho it
cant be nothin very bad, seein es the
preacher belongs. He's good preacher
an good man, to-"
Good men an good preachers to
sometimes stray into furbidden paths"
ses l. "These secret things tibet won't
bear the lite of day he'd better be lef
to purish in the darkness that begot
them" ses I, quotin Scriptur.
well, Hester Ann, I do want to
jine EN- anyways" ses he, an I seen
it want much use to say ennything
furder, so I jes arsked, kindly camly,
Il jes like to no where the mummy is to
cum frum"
I'll raise it" ses he, confidently.
But there is nothin to SELL" ses I.
I'll hunt up enuff," ses William
Henery, a scratchin his he'd with a
corn-cob.
well, I think you mite tell me
WHARF its to cum frum," ses I.
"Wa-al, I've he'd tibet money lade by
a long time, mos year." tell you,
Mr.. Editur, 1 were jes hoppin mad
when he sed that, an I spoke rite up
and ses sturdy, william Henery, you
he'd mummy when wanted tibet washin
machine tibet only cos two dollers."
"Sorry to say I he'd, Hester Ann,"
ses he meakly.
"You he'd mummy when I wanted
three stone jars to put the apple butter
in" continual.
@Tm afeerd I did," sed he kindly
sheapish.
"Yon he'd mummy an never tole me,
the wife of your buzzum," an I looked
him threw an threw.
"Never tole nary word" sed he,
lookin awful sneaky.
You better beleave was Intended at
him, an I talked purity plane to him.
He finally sed he'd Civ me hat the
mummy to say no more about it, an so
I TUX the mummy an tide it up in
to an ole stockin an hid it into the rag
bag, WHARF no burgler man wood ever
think of lookin.
It air awful nice wether fur maxim
gardin an sope an sech, an am tolable
bizy. So good-by.
HESTER ANN SCooPER.