Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-02-15
The Cap'n's MONUMENT.
My Gather was a Spanish merchant.
and before he went TO sea,
HE told me to be sure and answer
Ma DO all YOU said to met

He told me to be sure and answer
Ma 30 all you said to mer'
Well eff we amt here too early,
saxfter all That's what comes o. Twin
so FIR from the meetin' house. an
iA&San' no clocks you can depend onl
Eesk days ii don't matter so much;
xca2 kinder keep straight by the
sReEzrE ~histles, Well, it'll give us
&esRnce ter stepinter thegraveyard.
a good Enany O the MONUMENTS
azxse been put up sense you was here.
they're mostly alike, all 'cept old
SzRaS Broadus'-he was bound ter
Azvs something different. He picked
hfxz cut hisself. and had it put fore
AsGss1, ter make sure that there
wzfn=t no mistake bout it. That's
AxH over there-a female figger
Aak4M' a urn Some folks would
xxHxe Is twas a goblet, an said con-
ssFsh~En' he'd KEEP somebody a-stanin'
ruzzd With a glass ready for him all
hsEse, he inight a dispensed with it
Sxz=z he come ter be dead; but he
zxaz d dreadful peculiar man, an ne
~sfzsR't have many friends. Didn't
yuU never hear how he served his
-sisExsgri Law, now we've got time
zRuwh, veil jeJt set down on this
&seaEA, an the shade, an I'll tell We
sElsszrs Il, while we're waitin'; the fust
zsE .zanat but jest rung.
HSw pretty them moss-pinks
8ssssks CROWN over there on Myra
Watts gravel Win Rodgers planted
eza there He was keepin' comp'ny
'uszsa her when she died. Folks said
xte Eas most distracted; but landI
zszzz git over sich things!-he's goin'
aw Eaarry Fannie Scott next week.
Hes bought the Dun farm, an
2EREre goin' to set up there. But
Ewas tellin' you bout Cap'n Broad
HA-
He was-a great, rough, red-faced,
EE~Sk- bearded man, with voice like
zEGzzp o. thunder. He was capn'n o.
saz@ u the big steam ships runnin'
-aEaSlo' New York, an he'd bin in sail
Ia' VESSELS fore that. He'd been in
FAe Chiny trade, an l don't know
EfatnOt. He'd bin all over the
SEssz1d, but wherever he went he bore
the same character-ad dreadful rough
azuan an dreadful profane. Ishould'nt
'snznk twas right ter tell SIGH sto-
Ey the Sabbath eff there want SIGH a
sOod lesson to be larned by it.
Twas Gurus ter see the Cap'n an
Bias darter together. You'd never "a
'fAssDght they was related; but she
took after her mother, I've been told,
'axEsO died when she was horn.
DO you know them little delicate
fzDEers we find bout the middle o.
May GROWN in sheltered corners, I'M
Fsssr the rock an bushes-pure white,
FAST streaked little sometimes, with
psnk ON the edges?-they have little
SLENDER stems, and they tremble and
sFssver at the 'leastest thing. Wecall
sHn wind flowers in our part o. the
country, an | never could look at
Alice Broadus without thinkin' on
Tenn
Well, you'd s'pose, pretty as
Alice was, an rich as the Cap'n was
kaowed ter be, there'd ben no end o.
SHOWS hangin' round her, like bees
xUund a honeysuekle; but the truth
: ont it was they was all so scarf o.
The Cap'n, an Alice herself was so
took arp a-tryin' ter please him, an
fasep him from gettin' mad at folks
@hiae he was home, an when he was
g1ns a-tryin' to get braced up an
xEady for bis next visit, that she
~thfnit have no time ter think o.
xzOfhin' else. Eff you never see the
&ap'n, you have no idce the sort o.
mzan he was He'd stan and swear
: &af heVwns black in the face when any
thing put him out.
But the young men got the idee
slant Alice was stuck up, an felt her
self 'bove 'em count o. her money
IAN essdication, for the Cap'n said
he'd 'complish her, an he did-she
EdkaEed on the pianner beautiful. But
ahey,aidn't like it because she never
noticed 'enl-'stead o. bein' thankful,
=axTkhey'd orter bin. She had queer,
show way o. liftin' her eyelids, as ef
sler long black lashes was SO heavy
:sshe couldn't hardly git 'em high
Ss0ngh ter see from under; but when
she did git 'em up-well, she RELY
did have the sweetest eyes / ever saw
5s5n a girls face, an they had such an
aHnercent, appealin' look. 's'pose
she got it tryin' ter pacify the Cap'n.
Bszt she never needed to try it twice
$sm nobody, an one young Teller
aslund it out ter his cost, but twas
.=aIlEhe Cap'n's fault it happened.
HE was home one Sabbath,
ngTcr'n usual, swearin' at every
body an everythin' high an low, nm