Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1889-10-25

! IO1giuF swung on MS baCk. NJ Dei
begged ME ter e" too. but /
led Ho, ia stay an take Lcr
Of ther ole folks, and keep my eye ou
Kildee fer him. He didn't hey no min as
ter har be war goin', hut sed he war goin'
I'll he found al city When he sed good
by We e"uldnt tell why, Int ther tears BE-
gun ter sprout in our eye. Bill srd. Ike,
keep good keer Of kildee til come back.
We may be growed up then, bat We uns
viii still be thcr same ole Ike an Bill
After he left me an Hildee KEEP up
/ our lrolic, but 'tWarn't like it ustcr be.
| When we'd think bout Bill the tears 'ud
bergin to come ter Rildee'5 eyes, but she'd
pull up the corner of her apron, wipe them
erway an say. Never min, he'll come
back afore many years an then we'll he so
happy again
Bout al year arter there come past
here some men what called themselves
Surveyors. They went up ter Squire
Smiths an asked to put up ar few weeks
"Kildee war bout IS then, nigh e. / re
call, an pulitzer OF pearter gal never slap
ped foot On the ole Blue Ridge. Thar wuz
ar young buck in ther gang what wore
shirt an talked soft an putty like. From
the fust he 'peared ter like Lila-.---'rs-'
ask her Tar 20 long ..-h-Ir---1-ds MS ole
chain. Every time I'd go ter see kildee
she'd be gone done ther ravine or some
Shar with that that feller. One day ez !
was goin' home l thought l heard some
body talkin' soft like up among the bushes.
I stopped listened, then went up sor to
whar / hearn they noise. Thar set hildee
an that ieller. He he'd his arm round her
an was talkin' mighty intrusted like. An
every now an then Kildee's eyes would
shine an she'd laugh an say, Yes, yes
I stood and watched them for ar while but
didn't say ar word, | went on home a.
mad ez ar hornet would je5' go over
the mex day an put some gumption in that
gals head bout that feller; his eyea didn't
shine ter suit me- I knowd he was up fer
some devilish trick
Mex mawnin' bout aun up, while |
was feedin' pig, | seed somebody walkin'
mighty brisky like down the road When
he got nigh l seed it wuz ole Squire Smith
lIe WIZ ar cussin' an rarin | knowd
something wus up.
Wal Squire, whats the fnnf' !
asked
e That demed soft spakin icller has
gone off with kildee an
Il didn't wait fer another word, but
threw down the corn was leedin',' an SEE;
Come on, Squire wen keteh him or die
a tryin''
"Afore We he'd gone fer We met ole man
Pearson and askt if he he'd seen them. He
sed they had passed his house the evenin'
afore, but he didn't think bout their run
min away But if they were, 'tain't no
use ter try ter ketch them, they have got
such er start an both Of nm knows ther
roads
"Jedge, ii war as if somebody had died
round hyar arter that leetle gal he'd left.
An sure enough, ole lady Smith did die afore
long. She uster set an cry an say she'd
never see her chile any more. Twan't so
many years afore the ole man died too,
cause he wuz gittin' ole. II got so lone
some | conldn't stan it no longer, so |
took meself down an tole ole Squire Car
ter's gal ther way twas, an we spliced.
"You see that rise out yanderi Well,
Jedge, one day wuz settin' down there; it
war where me an Bill sed goodby l
wuz thinkn'-it had been ten long years
since we parted, an how things he'd
changed round in that time, an | wuz
wonderin where Bill wuz now. Bout that
time somethin' slapped me on the back,
and seq: Here he is
q" Laws-a-mercyp I yelled, falln' of
ther stump an rollin' all over What!
You, Bill Oh, Mr.. Bill | reckon | orter
say
- No, the same ole Bill he sed. with
ar smile.
"He he'd grown so tail an' han some, at
first couldn't believe it war he; but arter
lookin' in that face ar while, it looked so
kin an good, jes' like it uster, 'cepiin it
he'd whiskers, knoNd it war Bill. Bill;
whar in the worP hev you been an how is
your Come right down an tell me AN
ther ole oman all bout it, When | sed
that ar strange look come over his face.
He looked down ar minute an wuz still
Then he raised his head an SEE: Ike, is
Kildee up at her hou5e9 tried to get back
sooner, but | could not; but | knew she
would wait till | came Let's go there
first Ii has been ten long years I've been
waiting to look in those eyes again. Come,
let's find her \ great big lump come in
my throat an my eyes bergun to water
when he sed that. Poor leller! he's been
workin' all these year loOkip' forward TO
comm back an gittin' his leetle gal-an'
now she's gone, the Lord only knows
where Bill ! sez tryin' TO swallow ther
lump, .Eildees 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 col
grave in ther field nigh Big Bar cave
"Sech ar look ez come over that mans
face never seed! He turned. an aiore |
could say ar word he wuz gone, gone!
al lived on the same old mounting life.
Two ehilun war given me, gal an AZ
boy. The gal We named Mary, the boy
answered ter Bill
''Now Jedge, bout Kildee. 1t war ar
mighty long time afore We ever hearn of
the gal | never thought I'd hear again.
wv hen ther ieller run away he took her
to New York He made hor or hig lady.
She he'd ar fine house an everything. She
he'd plenty of frien's too, when she wuz ar
lady. | want thar, but I knows that
leetle mounting gal was the puttiest
woman thar when she got on them thar
fine clothes, an them eyes a-shinin' an
that hair a.wavin'. An sometimes shed
sit in her inc carriage an 60 ter church.
Onct she went ter hear the biggest preacher
thar preach. Thar wuz somethin', she
couldn't tell jes' what, that made her like
him so much An his face was 81 kin
lookin'.
Late ono night when Kildee wuz sick
In bel, her ole man come in; his iace was
aorter excited like; he went over to whar
Kildee was layin' and tole her he had to go
off on some business for ar few days. She
didn't think nothin' queer Of that cause
he was used ter doing it. But ther mex
mornin' when she picked mp theg news
paper, 10 and behold, thar wps her hus-
hands picture right aiore her eyes, an ar