The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-14
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make of Hezikiar--he sot up as straight
| as a lightnin'-rod, an he SEE, sez he:
..Mehetabel Virgins, if we don't shet
yer blab the whole town'll know yer
from the back townships. Ye want to
let on yer used to this levity all yer
life"
Doubtless yer right" sed I. "but
furnishin' a buggy in this style is
leetle more'n Christianity calls for.
We couldn't hev as luxurious cushings
for our best rockin' chairs; but, then.
I'll shet my blab, as We say, Hezikiar. "
So / jest sot an looked out O the
winders-Philander's buggy hez win
ders-an' watched the million O. folks
a-scootin' in all directions till Won
dered would / sec more human bein's
on the judgment morn?
Well, Philander's folks live in high
style, tell ye. An the gorgeousness
of Jemimar's best rooms jest outdone
my exceptions; she has two best
rooms, with a range O. doors atween
'em that slides back like Deacon
Hermiker's granary division, only
huff 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 Hezikiar warned me, an | SEE to
Jemimar, SEE L: us it probable you
kin work that machine?"
She blushed like skuleboy an
Topped down onto q cheer without a
back, which alters stood in front O
the pianer, an fluffed out her dress
till she looked like a brown holly
hook, an she SEE, sez she: II b'leve /
kim"
BY the time she'd got through the
fust set o notes il seemed to me that
Heaven orter topen'd side door
sum'ers an let Jemimar's piano songs
in. 1 jest shet my eyes an let that
mess O tunes preambulate my whole
sole.
But Hezikiar-I wuz so provoked at
Hezikiar-he sot there q squintin' at
the kyarpet figgers as unconfounded
as If it 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 'sted
e karsene; no greasy lamps for Je-
mimar to poster with, We 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 l limited as much to Philander
he LATED clar out all sense, an sed:
THE heat Gums up through the reg
isters." an he pinted to gratin' inter
the floor.
I had noticed them contrapshuns;
but l thought they wuz handy places
for the hired girl to sweep dirt down
into, though l didn't tell Philander so.
But want to speak O. the conserv-
alive they hev 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 'em wuz
simply stunnin' to a furriner.
Inever see the like in my life; not
even in the Swamp Holler mashes
An Jemimar showed me sumthin'
she called night-bloomin' serious
but | couldn't see as it looked any Sc
riouser than the rest of 'em.
She sed it bowed out in the middle
O the night an wuz ekswisite.
didn't say a word; but l thought I'd be
a bigger fool than wuz then afore
I'd coax up a weed so mean il
wouldn't show up when honest folks
were awake.
But Jemimar had the funniest way O
calm Philander to dinnerye ever see.
She jest pounded on brown sassel
stuck onto the wall, an hollered into a
depressment in the middle; then she'd
clap her ear to it an mediate. AFTER.
bit she'd say: "Philander IL be here in
a mint"
mover impressed my opinion, but il
looked to me as if it wuz as nigh the
'black art as over cared to cum.
/ axed Hezikiar about it, an he free
up an sed, sed he: "Why! it's teller
fone, you old sinner" AFTER that
jest let things rip, as if I war used tc
brown sassers bein' pasted onto all tn.
walls ever see.
Jest afore we cum away-Hezikia
an me-Jemimar give party for us
An of all the disgustin' bees ever Sc,
in my natral desistence, that getherin
wuz the beaten. / jest sot down in
byway an watched 'em.
Sum O. the wimmin cum without an,
was ties to their dresses, so to explain
wimmin old huff to know better
too-an' jest riz right up an sot GU
onto the stairs.
An Jemimar sed: "Air you ill
mother?" mo. Jemimar," sed [, "rn
not sick; but l am 'shamed O. then
wimmin' what forgot to put on thei
basks afore they cum"
Then Jemimar got red in her face
an'she sed, sed she: why! that's style
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