Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-05-25
WILKINS SET O GALS.
Ehe Reason Why He Is Not Going
to Kansas.

OOU w llhln was ~ dDOub Hlby
years OF age, strong, robust and rugged
His sunburnt and weather. beaten face
reminded one of unkept stock. l was
the new school-teacher in his district
he was the director. l remember on
one October afternoon just as the sun
was setting. | approached his old-fash-
toned log cabin. He was standing in
front Of the house watching his boys
feed and put up the stock, and also my
approach down the dust-laden lane.
The weather was yet warm. Mr..
Wilkin had no coat on his broad back.
His body seemed to be held together by
one broad home-knit suspender, which
supported pair OF dusty, gray, jeans
trousers. His coarse, colored cotton
shirt, ornamented with heavy porce-
lain buttons, was open at the throat
and displayed skin as red as turkey
gobbler's snout | approached close to
the bars, for his front fence did not en-
joy the civilized luxury of a gate, and
accostod him with a pleasant good after
noon and the question; lis this Mr.
WilkinP"
That's my name. Who mout you
beP' He looked at me as at horse he
was buying of Gypsy.
MY name is Smith I'm the new
teacher who is employed to teach the
Block school,
He looked at me more closely than
ever
"Yoo'rc not marriedp'
mo sir. :"
"Whare We frum?"
Maxwell
''Eny kin to Billy Smith,
"a distant relative"
Know Doc. SlavensPn
Eyes, sir; he is my neighbour"
HE cured Polly Jeemes Of the jan.
ders"
Mr.. Wilkin re'apsed into study
which gave me an opportunity to count
thirteen children, six of them young
women; all were gazing at me from
respectable points of observation like
cattle when they first sight an ap'
preaching object
you'll want some place to stop"
YES, sir My business is to ar
range for boarding place for the win
ter
oval, I'll try an 'commodate ye for
the night" He turned and hallooed
toward the house: Amanda Jane, si
mother plate. This is the new
teacher"
There was a hustling from the one
window, the open door and other points
OF observation as we directed our steps
toward the house. Disappearing calico
dresses and faxen heads could be seer
in almost all directions. just then I
large cur dog of. the color called ''yaI
ler," which is by no means yellow, bu
a muddy white, came up shifting at IN!
heels. Mr.. Wilkin kicked the dog anC
exclaimed; "Coon. We rascal, this i
the new teacher!"
Take a cheer" SAID Mr. Will1in, ant
he placed for me his best chair which
was covered with brown sleeps skin
"I'll see bout supper"
He left me to my thoughts. As tn,
door opened into the kitchen SAW
very long room filled with dodgint
faces, then the door swung to with
machine-like action. The white hiclS
ory latch, like asingle jawbone OF SOM
extinct reptile. caught in the notchet
groove, shook like it was trying its owl
fastening powers then stopped salts
fed.
Seveld al children were now peepini
IN at the front door One OF them hi
large hound, which rushed into tn
house with a spiteful whine, went T.
the warm hearth and shut himself Vi
as neat as a coiled rope. could hea
the sound Of subdued voices from th
rear room, the rattle Of pots and pans
then there fell on my ear an unearthl
sound, a rafting Of chains, bump
bump, bump OF some solid body. then
squaking sound like an old wagon, al
ter this the sound Of pouring water
The old man opened the kitchen door
Come in tur supper, Nancy, brin
the cheers
! arose. a large, very pleasant-look
Ing. modest young woman entered an
took the chairs. two at time, into tn
Kitchen ard placed them around til
high troueh-lilxe table
This was the only introduction ] re
ceiYed thai day. The dog limped o.
81 three legs yet I could see he "a