Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-11-22

1865 you've got, FUR you
'Ss~~Szzzzzzz hain't never had
no experience, but L tell you William
Henery air one in thousan, an I ort
to no.
Good Iawsl I she'd think she ort,
fur she hes he'd fore partners an is
lOOkin around right smart fur number
i've, an eff I were to die she'd try her
pest to keteh William Henery, but
thank fortune, Pm pretty tOlab1e
helthy an there haint no wilder of fore
men goin to take my place rite off
no, not anyways soon, they won't.
So when she were there reddy to go
long, 1 was a 1eetle mite cool, not
clear cold and hotty, but Jest moderate
cOOl-hke.
were a 1eetIe bit nervy fur feer
the keers would run often the track,
or sumpthin else desperit I'D happen.
I want no ways cumfertible at furst,
tallkin to q cuppIe of slick IoOIin
strangers I was afeard he'd git into
sum sort of a scrape.
An he did.
Sally hid notised the strangers to,
an she hunched me an whispers:
"Sake's alive, Hester Ann. amt
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jest to hevingly fur emmy thing; an
look, they air cumming over this way.
L feel thet I hev met my fate Is my
hat on strait, an dew I look Jest sad an
sOrrerfuI enough fur one thet hes ben
resently bereeved? ?" ses she, all of a
tWitter. I tOle her she looked all right
es fur es 1 Good see, and then William
Henery he kim up an ses he, tickleder
an a little dog stuffed with taller:
Hester Ann, I'll bet you KANT tell
me who them two fel1ers is.
1 looked the men camIy IN the eye,
an 1 see thet they were dressed fit to
kill, an I see thet I didn't know 'em,
neither. At first L thot one of 'em
might be Lemuel Martin, but I see his
ayes wus black, while LENS WIS gray.
"NO," ses I; "I don't no 'es I've ever
seen neither one of 'em.
well thare old frens o yourn,
though you hayn't seen 'em sence they
were chiIder. This one IS Sam Muir
ply, an this one is Lemul Martin"
cOodn't make it seem material, but I
didn't like to say nOthin' es long es
Sally and William Henery wus so tux
up with i'm.
Well, purity soon LemuI says: "WelI,
Mr.. ScOOper, les hev a little game of
guess, ses he, like button-bOttOn, ;"
an he takes out three little boxes and
a button, an continues: "NOw, I'll
put this button in one of these boxes
an the rest of you kin guess which one
it's in, an the one thet guesses it may
hev q five dollar gold piece, an he laid
one down.
"Pu bet So I kin tell, ses Sam.
can SOIL I" ses William Henery,
though tired on his toe an shuk my
head at him.
"AIe too, ses Sally, a simperin; an
when they guessed why William Hen
cry he gessed it an then Lem sed he'd
bet twenty an they bet twenty all
arOun an me a trampin William Hen
ery's toe an a shakin my he'd at the
wilder Well they didn't nobuddy
CESS it thot time, an I jest rose up an
colIered Lem, an ses I: "Drap that
MUMMY" an he drapped it. "Now, ses
I sturnIy, shakin him, 'you haint no
/ more Lemul Martin than I be an you
no it. You gitE'
An ye got.
Yes, Mister Editur, he went as fast
as he Good an William Henery an the
Widder Boggs wus purity thankful I
wus thare.
! 1 reed the papers, L do.
Well, an we got to Matilda ARA
/ bellas that mite. So no more at pres
/ ent. HESTER ANN SCOOPER.