The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-11-09

went on home as mad ez ar horne I
would ies' go over the mex day and
put some gumption in that gall shead
bout that Teller; his eyes didn't nine
ter suit me. / knowd he wuz W ter
some devilish trick.
Mex mawnin' bout sun-up willie 1
wuz feedin' pigs, seed som6ody
walkin' mighty brisk like downther
road. When he got higher l SEED it
wuz ole Squire Smith. He VIZ ar
cussin' an rarin'. knowd somsthin'
wuz up.
"'Waal, Squire, what's Their far /
asked.
"'That derned soft spakin' felle has
gone off with Kildee AM
II didn't wait fer another word but
threw down Their corn wuz fedin,'
an SEE: Come on, Squire, we'll stch
him or die tryin'.'
'Afore we he'd gone fer we md Die
man Pearson an askt If he he'd seen
them. He sed they he'd passed bis
house Their evenin' afore, but he ddh't
think bout their runnin' away. nut
if they were, faint no use ter " to
ketch them. they hev got sech er tart
an both of UNI knows ther roads,
"Jedge, it war like somebodyhAd
died round hyar arter that leetl fal
he'd left. An sure enough, ole ady
Smith did die afore long. She Ter
set an cry an, cry an say shald
see her chile any more. 'Twan't 30.
many years afore the ole man diedEoo
cause he wuz gittin' ole. 1t got so
lonesome 1 couldn't stan it no lotger,
so l took meself down an tol ole
Squire Carter's gal Their way tvs, an
we spliced.
"You see that rise out yaude, Well
Jedge, one day Iwuz settin' dow there;
it war where me an Bill sed god-bye.
I wuz thinkin'-it he'd been en- long
years since we parted, an hw things
he'd changed round in thatime, an
l wuz wonderin' where BiFwuz now.
Bout that time somethin' slapped me
on Their back. an SEE: "Hee he is
'Laws-a-mercy!' l YIELD, fallin' OF
ther stump an rollin' all DER, What!
you, Bill! o, Mr.. Bill. l rckon l orter
say
"'No, the same ole Bill he sed, with
ar smile.
HE he'd grown so tall m handsome,
at first | couldn't beliew it war he;
but arter lookin' in that ace ar while,
it looked SO kim an goot jes' like it
lister, 'ceptin' it he'd whiskers, l
knowed it war Bill. 'Bill,whar in other
worl' hev you been an how is you?
Come right down an tel me an ther
ole oman all bout it When l sed
that, ar strange look ZONE over his
face. He looked down ar minute an
wuz still. Then he raised his head
an sez: Ike, is Kildee up at her
house? | tried to get back sooner, but
l couldn't; but | knew she would wait
until l came. Let's go up there frs
1t has been ten long years I've been
waiting to look in those eyes again
Come let's find her. A great big LUMP
come in my throat an my eyes bergdn
to water when he sed that. sc11
Teller! he's been workin' all these
years lool1in' forward to comm back
an gittin' his leetle gal-an' now
she's gone, the Lord only know,
where. Bill. l SEE. tryin to swaller
the lump. 'Kildee's gone. She run
away with ar stranger long time ago,
an no one don't know whar she is.
The ole man an his wife, an your dad
too, are in them coli graves in ther
field nigh Big Bar Cave.
'Sech ar look ez come over tina
mans face / never seed! He turned an
afore could say ar word he wuz gone
gone! 3
Il lived on ther same ole mounting
life. Two chilun war given me, a ga
an ar boy. The gal we named Mary
the boy answered ter Bill
"Now. Jedge, bout Kildee. 1t wa
ar mighty long time afore we eve
hearn of ther gal. 1 never thought II
hear again.
when Their Teller run away he tool
her to New York. He made her ar big
lady. She he'd ar fine house an horses
an every thing. She had plenty O
frien's, too, when she wuz ar lady.
want thar, but l knows that leetl'
mounting gal wuz Their puttiest woman
thar when she got on them thar fint
clothes, an them eyes a-shinin' an
that hair a-wavin'. An sometimes she'(
git in her fine carriage an go tel
church. Onct she went to hear thar big
gest preacher thar preach. Thar wui
somethin'. she couldn't tell jes' what
that made her like him so much. An
his face wuz so kim lookin'.
Late one night when Kildee wui
sick in bed, her ole man come in; hi
face was sorter excited like; he wen
over ter whar Kildee was layin' an
tole her he had ter go off on som,
business for ar few days. She didn'
think nothin' queer of that cause hi
wuz ulster doing it. But thar mex
mawnin' when she picked up the
newspaper, 10 and behold, thar WI,
her husbands picture right afore he
eyes, an ar great long piece about him
| He WIZ ar theft He had been rohh;n