Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-11-01

/ on, ana l came cl"ae up TO en-, wlthou
maxim any noise, and heered her say:
''Mr. Jones certainly admires Rosetta.
Nobody couldn't help it, seq Criah
! But Cecilia is the prittieSt." " says III,
widder.
Neither Of EN- is as han n'some a. then
ma, seq Uriah.
"0h, g away! You don't think 50; you'rp
just hattering, sc2 the widder
"Ef WIZ single bachelor yon'd Sect
seq my husband.
Now I'm cooled Gifts a couple al
years wouldn't swear into coart oi
justice that Criah was going 10 Kiss the
sidder, and as Christian l must allow |
carn't say for certain she'd have let him.;
but things appeared to me like she would
at that minute, and I off with nv sun
bonnet and gave her whack over the head
and him another, maxim remarks which
prefer not repeatin' if remembered EN-
ell which | don't She screeo he'd. the gals
ran up, Uriah took hold of me and the rest
of the hoarders started like cows
Il reckon you'll know me the next time
You see me, seq |: "l.a,- -,-o,,--------a.~--
me for quite spell. To-day ends conduct
such as this; you can git--all of you!
There's an early train to-morrer, and I'll
see that yon take it; so pack your trunks
tonight! The help will give you your
teas. As for for me, | shan't set down
with a character like the Jessamy; I'm
disgusted by heyin' ever done it,
Madame, what do you dare To insinu-
ate2" SEE she.
THAT you was ngoing to kiss my hu7-
band, seq l.
Then she struck. and the other ladies
struck, and 1 finished off by grabbin' her
false front of curls off her head and
THROWN it into Uriah's face Then I went
home and went to bed
The boarders all went before breakfast
next mornin and all day long me and
Uriah quarreled. | said I'd get q divorce
from him; he said he'd get one from me
for bein' shrew.
And marry widder Jessamy," seq l.
at would be change for the better"
sez he.
Hammer and tongs, hammer and tongs,
we kept it up until all of a sudden | turn
ed faint and didn't know any more for
quite a spell. Then I was in bed.
Well, / must say Uriah nussed me like
a woman, for all l kept tellin' him I'd live
as long as I could to spite the widder Jes
samy, and when ] did get better he car
ried me down stairs and set me in the
great rocker on the porch and put pillers
under my head and knelt down alongside
of me-
Nanny" sez he, ''y"ure getting well
now"
'Wish wuzn'tl' sez T. What's the
usef Nobody keers fer mel'
"Aint nobody" says he.
"You!" seq |. ooh Uriah! you was a
goin' to kiss her-l saw you"
Il wasn't" sez Uriah 'fNancy Pottle
ton, I'll swear that on pack of bibles. 1t
was this way The city felers was all pay
ing compliments, and I didn't want tn
seem like a country punkin, so | paid 'em
tu. / couldn't talk tn the gals, so | talked
tn the widder"
"AhG" SEE |, you had no thoughts
about me, fryin' and stewin' in the kitch
en-"
Did | want you tn do iti" sea he,
Wasn't it agin' my will that you took
boarders' Didn't say there was no know
in what unpleasantness might come of it,
wall you did, ~ SEE l.
'Nancy Pottleton," sez he, "lots have
come of it. I've got character; for the
help went and told that l acted shameful
with the widder, and you found me out
which is hard, for wuz only putin on
good manners. You've been sick-mighty
sick you've been-and what should | do
without youf I've got big doctors bill tn
pay, crops is pannin' out poor, the board
ers have cost nigh onto five hundred dol
lars altogether, and we've fell out. That's
the wust--weve fell out! made skeer-
crow of that there tennis suit the other
day, and hung it among the squinch trees,
wishin' it was me. It's like bein' done
with life to think you and me has fell out,
nanny"
'No we amt" sez l. Anyway, we've
made up"
And we kissed each other as ef it was
old eourtin times-me and Uriah. Fire
eide fOnuuuiou