Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25
ELIZA AIMS ADMIRBR
III cLAnA A.:ursrN.

Ann, did you? Shes my Oldest darter.
and If do say it, you cant iind Il higher
dedicated girl in Kcnboro'. M She's cddi-
Gated clca: up to the top notch. .Jcrc-
miah, that's her pr, sell t, me about
three years ago, srd he: "Algirv. I've
20! an idcc." r+l
"lIold on TO it," sca I, ''till You get
another one to match up whit. or you'll
lose it, it'll be SD lonesome.
jeremiah wuz a-puliug off his boots mt
dhc time, and ned been moving in the
mcddcr aud they stuck TO his stockings
and rilod his temper i5Nr4f'
"Drat them boots" sed he, cz he stood
on one foot and pulled away fer dear
life on 'tothcr boot, az wish the man that
Invented boots had to cat 'cm!"
'LIc'd have to wear II liver pad all the
rcst Of his life," sell I; and looked ut
my husband with my earnest smile, the
one | use when my minister calls and
when I'm attending the weekly PRAYER
meeting, and l addict: '',Jeremiah, ut
your time of life you should not let your
temper run away with you. pcrfanity
don't go we'll with gray hairs qa0
"What kind of hairs does it 80 we'll
WITH" snapped Jeremiah, and he gave
that off leg of his Il sudden jerk that
made him lose his balance, and dowa he
went rite on to an ottoman. where Lily
Ann had sot couple of pic-platcs thai,
she'd painted some long legged rusters
and some bushes and water on, and he
smashed them plates all to flinders.
where's your idcc!" Sed to him
when he'd got up and wiped the blood
from the finger that he'd cut on that
broken crockery OIL to tho white bed
spread. ," "i
81 was a-going to say, Agiry," scd
nc, ''Lat thought our Lily Ann had
better go II few terms to thr fcmal sem
'ernary. 1t kinder poishcs Il gal oil and
learns her how to act when she's into
company. Now there 8 Mullisan's daugh-
Ter, see how she's got finished off since
she went to that Boston school,! WHY.
the crittcr says more dictionary words
than our minister, and she sings en-
round rs if She wasn't afraid of cm. and
as ii there was plenty more of EN-, too -
'Seems to me, jeremiah, scd i,
.--t'that Lizy Ann had better learn how to
cook and sew them to 80 to wrestling
with Greek and Latin This ere paint
ing craze that Shes got is enough to
drive anybody into the lunytick hospital
Shes painted almost everything in the
house. and Yesterday she began on the
bean pot. and had got two screech owls
and the new moon lnubed onto it aforc
seen her." f'H -t''F
Blu! jeremiah he was dreadful soft.
The Paplcys is an awful sot family, take
sottcsi of en- all. So Lily Ann was sent
off to the semernary, and got Polly
Dlarali Jones to help me with the house
work i<titA' q.
Lily Ann stayed ut the scmernary two
year, and then she come home to live.
Mebby You don't know what it is to have
an dedicated female dartcr in the house
It's worse than having the measles anil
mumps, or almost anything else that ever
COME acrost. p. ffo.
Lily Ann she wouldn't get up to break
fast because it made her head ache. She
couldn't cat billed cabbage for dinner
because it disagreed with her digestive
organs. She couldn't walk anywhere be-
cause she he'd the spincs in her back,
and high heels on her shoes, and there
didn't seem to be much of anything she
could do, except lay abed and read
novels. You see, the fact Of it Sas she'd
Jest gone to work and dedicated all the
brains she had clean out of her. r.
But her conversation was something
worth hearing. She would sit down and
talk to her pa by the hour about tho
whichncss OF the whatsoever, and the sur
vival of the fittest, and the hornithologi-
cal pleasantly. and the evolution of inc
4 snus homo; and her pa would cross his
legs and stare Mt her in admiration, and
once in while he'd drop his under jaw,
and exclaim: 81 want to know!" As
for me, / didn't understand her talk, and
didn't pretend to. and kept right OH
a-biling, and a-frying, and assembling,
jest as if Lily Ann warn't a-talkng. Sh,
got Il letter one day, pcrfumcd so that ii
scented the whole house, and she CONF
out into the, Kitchen with it, where mt
and Polly Jones was a-pickin' over dan
dclion greens, and sed shc
"1Ia, have just received some very
delightful intelligence
"Haye your" says l, s'what might il
be1" III I,n1lo
"Gustavlis We're De We're thinks he will
favor us with visit"
"Thc land sakc!" says I, "when i. he
going to favor2" b fl4
Next week." says she. %
''Good gracious, sed I, "what ever
made him think of coming next week
That's the time sot to bile my soft soap.
aud your pa is going to kill that crooked
legged pig: and Polly Jones sot out to
have the heft of her. teeth pulled Gut
and the hens is all asserting, and VIC can't
git no eggs to speak Of, and the spare
chamber carpet is up, and the old mares
lame in her hind leg, and Uncle John
he's got bile coming, and it's kinder
atween lay and grass in the vegetable
I line, the old taters is strong and the new
: ones hain't oot aJonry ~