Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-11-28
LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS.
SEIGHBoRLY GOSSIP.

NEcK-oR-NorHm' HALn
KmLxzEaY CoRaERs.
GO n mR. EDTTUR:-It
SN> wus gittin' along
EllZzpNM n Hkndy late In the
[lt 1AM IArfternoon when we
IA k4ftfSTEW Igot to Smanthy's,.
W. %ANz%<zS sn' the widder was
S[AN%4#A afesrd the ole
GNsN batcheldor wud be
= W8%JLA-~ -~out in the feald %
<%-SEz$% SMwor
* " ~ She KEEP q sayin',
W4S.O, / wunder eff I
am goin' to meat
>E my fate at last, an
she ses she he'd always loved batchel-
dors, ennyways; she felt so sorry fur
thare lonely life. Ses she: "The pore
critters mead sum kline, lovin' helper.
Now, / understan' man natur so well /
Good Jest take the best O. keer of him.
o., 1 do hope he's got lovely black
eyes'es ant pare o. droopin' mustaches.
o! 1 do jest dote on sad, sorrerful
mustachep
"You Jest dotes on ennything theti
wares pants" ses William Henery; @ef
you could ware 'em yersef you'd
marry dog fur his pantsi"
She made a grab fur him, but
missed, an only got few stray hairs,
an by thet time we wus there.
"Whare's the batcheldore, She
arsked most the furst thing she sed,
an befoar we'd got chants to take off
our bunnits.
90, he's in the feald to work, sesI
Smanthy, "an' 1 axpect when he finds
we've got cumpany he'll take to the
woods an stay thare, he is SO bashful. ;"
The widders mouth drapped at that.
don't mean it dropped onto the
floor, Mister Editur, but thet it fell
kindly disappointed like. SmanthyI
he'd cumpany. It was Mis- Pattingale.
An my, what talker she wus.
Smanthy went out to git supper
dareckly and the widder went along toI
help her, and thet left Mis- PattingaleI
an me to visit together.
"Ever been out here afore?" ses she
q eyen me threw her silver bow specs.
| tole her no, we never he'd.
"Then you haint nun acquainted
roun hear?" An before he'd chants
to tell her wusn't, she purceeded j
NWell, I've lived here all my life ex-
cept three weaks when I wus over inI
Hooppole Bend visitin. I kin tell
you all about everybuddy here in these
parts, an sum of EN- is shiftless enuffl
to. Now thares Beck Arnold shes toI
good fur nuthin to comb her he'd even,
SO she wares switch" An she sniffedI
rite skornful, "Now I wouldn't be cotI
b warm switch, they amt stylish mol
more, but what does Beck keer fur
style. Now I'm the leeder of fashin|
here, everybuddy dus es I do; they
want no society to speek of when she
fust kim hear, an she tride to sturt
sum but soon shode her thet 1 wus al
running things in this part of the
kintry."
She stopped minnit to pick up a
stitch she he'd dropped, and then give
me chance to say:
II like to see people live in piece"
I said it camly, fur I didn't want to-
rile her.
"Thats jest me-" ses she.
Havin got the stitch picked up she
Good go on agin:
"But I never Good see what use it,
wus fur emmy buddy to put every thing
they make in thare stummiks, like the
Deanes does, an Id jest like to hev you
tell me what emmy buddy on this yarthl
wants to spend $14 an II sents in three
munths jest fur groceries, and 80 and
30 sents of thet wus fur suger, an thare
they aint but only 8 of EN- en- fambly.
Why, that much would last me Life
time almost"
But Jest then Smanthy kim in an
sed tea wus reddy, an we went out to
the kitching. The batcheldor hednt
kim yet, an the widder felt awful bad.
Yourn, HESTER ANN ScooPER.
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