The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-08-16
But H%ezikiar-I didn't know what to

1t But Hezikiar-I didn't know what I
Il make OF Hezikiar-he sot up as straigt
as a lightnin'-rod. an he seq, seq hi
"Mehetabel Virgins. II We don't she
yer blab the whole townll know We
: from the back townships. Ye want I
: let on yer used to this levity all We
n life"
Doubtless yer right" sed |. ''bu
tu%rnishin' a buggy in this style is
l. leetle more'n Christianity calls for
We couldn't hev as luxurious cushing
Tor our best rockin'-chairs; but, then
I'll shet my blab, as We say, Hezikiar.
So | jest sot an looked out o tn,
winders-Philander's buggy hez win
t derS-an' watched the million O. folk
: ~a-scootin' in all directions till ! won
dered would | see more human beiu'l
q on the judgment morn?
Well, P~hilander's folks live in high
style. ! tell We. An the g~orgeousnes'
Of Jemimar's best rooms jest outdont
my exceptions; she has two bes'
rooms, with a range O doors atweer
EN- that slides back like Deacon
ll%ermiker's granary division. only
'nuff sight finer finished.
But the doors didn't stump me like
the grand cuttings an picturs, an the
big pianer that wuz stuck into one
corner with a velvet quilt over it to
keep the dust off. That kinder stag
gered me, but | toned down my narves,
as Ilezikiar warned me, an ! seq to
Jemimar, seq I: rs it probable you
kin work that machine?"
She blushed like a skuleboy an
Iloppcd down onto a cheer without q
back, which alters stood in front o
the pianer, an huffed out her dress
till she looked like q brown holly
hook, an she seq, sez she: II b'leve !
kim
By the time she'd got through the
Heaven ortcr ,open'd Il side door
sum'ers an let Jcmimar's piano songs
in. | jest shct my eyes an let that
mess O tunes preambulate my whole
sole.
But Hezikiar-I wuZ so provoked at
llezikiar-he sot there a squintin' at
the kyarpet fggers as unconfounded
as il ii had alters bin him. 'sted O me,
that wuz down on planners.
But, then, nobuddy mortal kin under
rate Hezikiar, anyway.
They burn gas at Philander's 'stcd
e karsene; no greasy lamps for Je-
mimar to poster with, ye see. An
they burn coal, too, so there's no dam
ger o Philander forgittin' to split wood
O mornin's.
But what got me the very wust wuz
they burn their coal away off down
sullar where nobuddy kin git any good
O the fire.
When | hintcd as much TO Philauder
he LATED cl'ar out ali sense, an sed:
The heat Gums up through the reg
~isters.n an he piuted to a gratin' inter
the floor.
| had noticed them contrapshuns;
but thought they wuz handy places
for the hired girl to sweep dirt down
into. though | didn't tell Philander so.
But | want to speak O. the conserv-
ative they hey hitched onto one end o
the house. They keep the city Styles
in posies there; an the vines an
things that he'd blossoms onto EN- WIZ
simply stunnin' to 4 furriner.
never see the like in my life; not
even in the Swamp Heller mashes.
An Jemimar showed me sumthin'
she called a night-bloomin' serious;
but | couldn't see as it looked any Sc
riouser than the rest of 'em.
She sed it blowed out in the middle
o the night an wuz ekswisitc. !
didn't say a word; but | thought I'd be
a bigger fool than | wa2 then afore
I'd coaX up a weed 80 mean it
wouldn't show up when honest folks
were awake.
But Jemimar had the funniest way O.
calm Philander to dinnerye ave see.
She jest pounded on Il brown sasser
stuck onto the wall, an hollered into a
depressment in the middle; then she'd
clap her ear to it an mediate. Alter
bit she'd say: ''Philander II be hero in
a mint"
eve impressed my opinion, but it
looked to me as if it wuZ as nigh the
BLACK art as | ever cared to culn.
axed Hezikiar about it, an he fired
up an sed, sed he: "Why! it's a teller
fone, you old sinner" AFTER that l
jest let things rip, as if | war used to
brown sassers bein' pasted onto all the
walls ! ever see.
Jest afOre we cum away-Hezikiar
an me-Jemimar give a party for us.
An Of all the disgustin' bees | ever see
ia my natral desistence, that getherin'
WIZ the beater. jest sot down in a
an watched EN-.
Sum O the wimmin cum withoutan any
was ties to their dresses, so to explain
-wimmin old huff to know be-, y
too-an' ! jest riz right up ! sot out
onto the stairs.
An Jemimar sed: All, you i'll,
mother?" mo, Jemimar,' sed I, I'm
not sick; but ] am 'shamed o them
what forgot to puU on their
)asks afOrc they cum"
Then Jemimar got red in her face,
sed. sed she: why! that's style,
mother; it's full dress"
''Lord!' sed |, ''if that's full dress,
"hst would they dissemble II they con-
to skimp their wastes sum?"
But she OILY Uttered a leeIe as il
The Ditind me Sum. and then went off.