Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-19
LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS.

LETTERS FROM THE CORNERS.
The Litanny soiety.
NECE OR NozHUss HALL,
KEIKEE1yX CORNERs.
IN #ii HR4 Hs95sz
= a Il an me we fnly got
Aroun TO the Litanny
Sciety thet I was tellin
you about the school
marin q startin.
They meat ct the school
house.
When We got there We
~ $3.50 foun h e b Gus
- - plumb, jam full,
q .ss.@1f ssbut we got a seat
~ by the side Of
Uncle Lige an Mis- Purdy.
Letisha Wus a tellin me tibet Sam
Howard an his woman had an awful
row las weak (they amt in our set and
are kindly low down ennyWays, so L
don't no mutch or care about em). He
cum home drunken a fool an Wus q
kickin the furniture aroun an a maxim
his self genallY Obstroperus.
Well, Mis- Howard she list TUX him
in han, an es he is little an wus drunk,
an she is big an wus sober, she got the
best of him, an TUX him an hel him In
under the pump spout an he'd Billy,
he's the Oldest boy, to pump water on
to him til he Wus sObered down consid-
ably. Then she TUX him into the house
an Civ him good spankin. They say
he amt bin drunk sense. Mis- Purdy
like to hurt her self latin when she
tOle me obout it. By thet time the
Prusidant of the s'cieby called the
meetin to order an the axersythes be-
gun.
They all sung a song, an then the
schOol-mRrm she spoke q peace. It
he'd sumthin into about sailin on to a
ship called State, an she spoke it
awful good. jerry Wilmer spoke a
peace in raw Dutch; it beginned: ST
rise uppe NIT der painful veeIin off q
Logger beer glass down side uppe." It
Wus awful funny, an every buddy LATED
fit to kill. Arfter thet fore or five of
the school children spoke peaces, tibet
che schOOl-marm he'd Iarnt 'em.
Then they he'd more singin an a
1ialOg, thet he'd sum awful deep folks
ntO it, an then they he'd resess fur ten
minnits.
Every buddy fell to taIkin fur deer
life.
Mis- Hopper wus aroun invitin us to
five o clock party to her house mex
weak.
I toIe her want rite shore we Good
go, but we wood eff William Henery
didn't git the rumatiz fore the APP
pinted time.
60. you mus be shore an cum, Miss
ScOOper, " ses she; an then she whis-
pered: "I'm a-gOin to show sumbuddy
thet sumbuddy elts kin do things up in
stile eff they haint never bin to Cali
forny."
The bell rung then, an 7 wus a-Iookin
Rroun fur William Henery, when I
heerd the awfuIIest screaching, an we
all run to the dOre to see what it wus.
I couldn't see nuthin at first; but purity
quick, when I he'd got arOun the cor
ner of the house, I beheI a site tibet
made me purity huffy at first.
There WIS about dOzin of gals
holdin on to William Henery an a
stufin snow down his back an a scrub
bin his face, but afore I Good git to him
to help him emmy, he he'd scattered
them gals in to every direcshu2 an
Wus holm on to Lizzie BlOdgers an a
scrubbin her face good with snow.
Well, they finally got brew squirm-
ishin an 7 swep William HenerY off
with the broom, an digged the snow
outn his back, an then we all went in
an I give my intenshun to the a1er-
sythes.
Thay he'd jest begun ther rebate an
the Wilder Van Dyke wus up a Iayin
it off right and Ief. The scnoolmarm
wus on to the other side. I tel you,
Mr.. Editor, they he'd a awful hot time
of it, but mus quit an git dinner fur
the min, es William HeneEy is a hevin
his COW critter reformed to-day.
Tn a goin to hev choking an
dumpIins fur dinner Yourn,
HESTER ANN SCoOPER.