Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-05-25

side of the rifle, would not have been
five dollars. l expected to hear the
woman begin the usual 'nagging" after
bit, and the man TO start oil with ex-
cuses, but nothing OF the sort took place.
On the contrary, as soon as had been
furnished with bite of cold fried bacon
and cornbread, and washed 1t down with
a summer tonic made Of roots, we went
out for smoke, and Hines inquired:
"low ar ye findin' the people along
the roadf'
'Mueh discouraged.
"Over what2'
"Oh, the weather and go on"
"Thats jis' like 'em, the emery, fault
findersi When it isn't one thing it's
another. Stranger, kin ye expect to lind
better weather than this outside of
Heavenl"
Hardy"
CHATS what say. Ye found most
"Yes."
"Well, it's nobody's fault but thar
own. Things don't look very peart
around yere, do they Z"
"Well, no."
"Thar's reasons fur 1t. In the fust
place Pm squatter. Can't tell when
Pll hev to pull up and git. Tharfore, ye
can't expect me to rush things. In the
next place we hev 'nufT 10 eat and war,
and that's all we want. We is pore
folks, and we is satisfied to be-"
'fhere are very few that way"
"'Zactly, stranger. and that's what ais
this nashun. Thar hain't 'nuT philo6o-
ply about common folks. Now, then,
'sposin' the President should pint me
postmaster down at Red Bridge can't
read nor write, an l can't talk grammar,
an I'd list ieel emery mean all the time.
'sposen that Jay Gould should send ms
down kerridge an hosse7 as u free gift
Hev l got ary place to stable them bosses
an put that kerridgel How would /
look rid n round these yere parts in
thousand-dollar rig P'
"Thon you don't want to be richP'
eyes, do, but faint fur me When
got growed up TO 81, an found myself
pizen pore, an homely, and long-shaDked,
an !gncrcnt, l knowed figures an ri hes
wasn't fur me. cut my sticks acordin'.
1hlt's jist the way With Jen, too. Jen,
come out yere an talk"
Tue woman came out, lighted her pipe
and sat down, and her husband con-
tinued:
"Jen, he'uu thinks 1t mighty quare
that we don't yarn fur buziness an
riches. Tell he'un how you feel about
it,"
"You was plzeu pore an igIerent,"
she said as she looked over TO him, IAN
YVES all that billed down an mo-, too.
kngwed right on that riches wasn't fur
us, an so didn't yarn fur EN-"
dol"
Pooty nigh, stranger; pooty nigh. If
| had hull pound Of stxty-cent tea an'
Il We pounds OF brown sugar in the cabin
all to once / wouldn't trade places with
any woman In the State"
eye see, it's like this" said the hus
band as he dug up the soil with q stick.
at we was WantiL' we'd hev to heva fine
house. Then we'd hey 10 furnish It an'
git Hired help. Then we'd hev to hev
watches an diamonds an sich, an good
clothes, an go TO the theater, an travel
around, an keep dressed up, am talk
sweet, an so whar' would the comfort
come inl It's too much to put on pus-
sous shoulders"
lie 'un Is jist right" added the wife.
ives pore an can Kit no better oil.
What Yves got ives got. What we heven't
got don't hurt nor help u.s."
A couple of men, going to mill with a
few bushels OF corn In cart, came along
just then and stopped to get drink OF
water and 'ohitter" with us.
"how's Mandy, Jim2" queTied Hines
OF one.
"Pore-very pore"
CLOVIS craps2"
"Powerlul bad shown fur caaps this
year"
"IIow's ger own feeliu's, Jim?"
only sorter. llav bin chilling (having
chilli mo- or less"
''An' how's the chiidren?'
"Jist fairly k!ckin', thank ye."
"Waal, now, jim, yere's stranger
from the north, an he can't make us out.
Do you want an offisP
"shucks, mop
"WaLt gold watch,"
"Hul Wizard keep III"
"Want horses All kerridges,"
'shoo! Tom, but you ar funniu'
mel"
"Wart ter quit yer squat up thar,
which ar about the same as mine,
an git rich and big an live in grand
"Why, Tom, how yer blabl" Gasped
the astonished man.
"What | want to know explained,
lis If you are content to live as squatters
-nevlr getting aheaj-ueyer seeing any
better time Z"
"Look-a.yere, stranger" said Jim
as he sat down TO the pipe and tobacco
l gave him, "thls yere kentry would be
better oil if thar wasn't so much
yarnin' an mo- common sense. We
cam all be rich and big. Somebody has
got to be pore an backwards. 1t each
one of us WAS found to be rich-it we
was yearnin' tur silks and satins and fine
hosses, somebody would hev to be pulled
down to help us git up. herd be Jist so
much mo- tussiug. An s'posen we got
OF it?"
"'rhey say it's nice to be rieh," I re-
piled.
"Taal, Debhe its, bat don't banker
We've got meat, an meal, an sugar, an
tea, and it seems to me we ortsr be purity
well satisfied"
"But there must be someti ing b yond |
some ambition to he gralilied. 1vu
are not going to live This way TO the day |
OF your deathi
"No, stranger, l haiRt. Ny ambishun |
is to git this grist to mill an home agin, !
and Pm sort o. calkerla,in' to leave my 1
squat in the fall an rum down ycye |
alongside o. Tom, so our wives kin make I
soft soap IN the SWINE kettl. am use one .
wash board bctwiXG EN-"
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