San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-03
JEREMIAH'S CRIME.


"Keturah." said jeremiah, 1.-The next
time them boys knocks at orr door Pm
goin' for 'em."
Jeremiah" said |, II couldn't blame
you if you did. They is things, jeremiah"
says 1, shat would make angel rise up
and strike out, and the conduck of them
medicated students is of that sort. Once
in way" says |, 1--WE might put up with
it. But it is constant. Do your wust."
You may think jeremiah and me severe,
but you don't know what we has had to
put up with. jeremiah he was a quiet
man, and WAS a quiet woman. We mad
lived in the same house thirty years, keep
ing our little farm while the village growed
up about us When the medicated college
was built they wanted to buy our land, but
we wouldn't SELL We had what we want.
ed, and we hadn't no children, and we
didn't want to save up for nobody We
was content, and kings can't be no more
So we said they must excuse us, but we
vou''a': sgN They was no doubt plenty
OF folks that would. And our words came
truer than we calculated, for old Uncle
Pierce. he went and sold his ground ad
Timing Gil to ourn, and took and banked
tie money and went and boarded with
Iii, son.
Ii Is well the future is not revelationed
u Us. We didn't think nothin' of his
seliin' at first: didn't seem as eff il would
make no difrentz whether there was a pri
yiiSe house or n medicated college next to
o;:.n, but as soon rs il was built and moved
j;;to then we knowed
When them young men that went to be
learned doctorin' into that medicated col
egs found time for TO study they knowed
orst, Most of their evenin's was spent
chasin' round the village, playin' tricks on
honest folks, stealth signs and pastin' up
bills ito iet,' putin dead cats down wells,
rinGin' the church bells in the middle Of
the nights, .hollerin' fire" aud murder"
kissin' any gals they met alone in the road,
tyin' string to knock high hats off sabber
day You never knowed what they was up
to. They ketched poor Deacon Gravy onct
and male him dance a jig in the middle of
Hooker's woodses. They got out their
scalpnlar,, he said, and got ready for to
scalp him eff he stopped, and seem he be-
lieved quadrilles n sin, let alone ji.cs, it was
hard on him. More,n that, they stopped
old Miss Peechum goin' with basket Of
eggs to the store, where she kinder used to
swap 'em off for things she wanted, and
sucked 'em all. To be sure they paid her
for EN-, but they skeered her more than
the moneys worth.
In pint of fact them medicated students
upset the place more'n herd Of buffalo
run wild could hev done, and when a com.
mittee called on the folks that was head of
affairs TO ask 'em Ia tend to the boys they
jest said that there was no putin an end
to these practicable jokes in none of the
colleges nowhere. II was something fear
full the way they carried on, and our house
being nearest by we caught it wtlss than
others. When Jeremiah made that there
observation with which this here marry
tive commences we had had knocks on
knocks at all our doors and all our windys
mornin', noon and night. We couldn't sot
still for 'em; we'd got to open the door
We couldn't help that-might been
suthin' petickelar-and when we opened il
there warn't no one there. used to say
to jeremiah that if we had been spirituelle
we'd hev been Rochester knockers in no
time, but as we warn't we knowed it was
them medicated students and nobody else
And jeremiah had made up bis mind for
to 20 for 'em, and he had cut himself
real heavy, knobby stick, and there was
revenge into his eye. and the expression of
his mouth was skeerful. a
He sot the cane ag'in' his cheer, while
we was eatiD' our teas SOS to be ready for
EN-, but no knocks came: and when we
sot down Erterward, him TO read the paper
and me to knit his stockings, none didn't
come neither 'Twasn't until O'Clock
one did sound onto the keepin' room door,
and then jeremiah was goin' to bounce
out, but stopped him.
mo, jeremiah" says |, mot yet, not
until they've done il onct or twict. This
may be- a neighbor, and ef so you'd repent
flynn at him as long as you lived.
So jeremiah he allowed hisself 70 be
guided by me, and | opened the door
There weren't no one there
After this. Jeremiah" says |. You kin
do your own way. They hey begun s%'in.
Go into the front parior entry and stand
ae'in the wall They wont expect yU- Cor
to open il quick, bein' we are sottin' here
at the back of the house And, Jeremiah"
says l. "bein you air scoin' to give it to 'em
at all, give it to 'em good" And never
since we WAS folks at all had we felt sech
evil feelings into our hearts We had
been riled up too onmerciful, and Satan
took his opplCcInity Tor TO eusuare us
sot knitting and listening. and at last
| heard the knock come on tie front door.
and the door fly open, and jeremiah fly
out The next minute they was awful
groans. | dropped my knitting and ran
into the entry Jeremiah, be came trem.
bling half way up. He caught hold OF my
hands. his was cold rs ice
whats the mater. Jeremiahg" says L
catchin' bold of him
Fetch a lantern" SAYS he. I've hurt