Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-04-25

mlao, coming III JtSt then after DRINK
OF swcetened i~nscr.s by jingo, Sits
hot.' Summers got here in aitncst.
must hoe that iiye-acrc patch of corn to;
morrow. Aud the skectcrs has got
round as thick as hasty pudding! Never
see the beat of EN-. so airly in the year"
There wasn't nothin for mcrtosdo but
to make the best of it aud get ready for
our expected visitor / didn't cook up
much, becnusc Gustayus warn't no cater,
and 1 put off the soap billing, and Jcrc-
miah he postponed the hog business, us
Lily Ann scd, sign die. Mr. Dc We're
arrived Monday, afternoon. Lily Ann
had Spentgthc whole forenoon in getting
ready for him, and She had cpmbed her
hair so that her head looked rs large us
half-bushel basket, and she was
powdered rs white rs the statoo of
General Jackson in the public liberty ut
AllcuvilIe. 20 IS $50 .s,fs-
Mr.. De We're was, tall and lunk and
drab. He looked rs if he had been born
tired, and hadn't got rested, and he put
mcin mind of that old green calico dress
OF minc that didn't wash well, and
tao color of it all kinder run into one
luther and gin il 4 homc:sic& look all
over.
d, lie couldn't seem to talk plain, and he
wore gold-bowrd eye glasses that kept
continerly falling off his nose and kept
him busy the helt of the time a-roscuing
'em from dcstruction ~ l.i :.
| dint say nothing about cnting till
supper time. seeing. us De We're want no
eater to speak or but good landt when
he had got filled up my table looked rs
if n full grown cyclone had swept acrost
it, an throwcd all the vittlcs into the adj
joining township! 4 No appetite, indeed!
A boa constructor couldn't have cat any
more. No, not even if he had sot up
nights, and put in eating hours. Lily
Ann WAS ms happy crittcr as ever you
see, and she and MIR. De We're talked al
together in words of six syllablcs; and
they sung some operate music and
scared our dog Towscr so that he quit
the house and didn't come buck for u
week and the two cats that was asleep
in the clothes basket in the wood shed
f,izzed up the hair on their backs and
tails as they listened, and then they give
one terrible war cry and whiskcd out of
that basket in a iiify and scootcd' under
the wood shed, and nothing could in
ducc them to come out. Dc We're and
Lily Ann walked together by the brook
down i'll the calves pasture, and they sot
out on the piazzy nights and stared at the
moon, and he harncsscd up the old mare
to take ride. and he put the brecchins
~ over her head and the breast plate on
over her tail, and then jeremiah lie came
to the rescue and sot her agoing right
end foremost. sf
Our hired man, Jonas Bangs, he
hitched up the oxen and went down to
our 'tothcr farm. after load of mcddcr
hay, and rs soon as Gustavus see him
getting ready he WAS bent to 20.
sit will be so swcetly pastoral to ride
on the new mown hay" sed he, feeling
OF the spot where he expected his mus
tachc would be sometime in the vast and
onsartin' future quito like poem"
az dunno's you'd better risk it," scd
Jeremiah, "thcm air cattle is kinder orn-
cry critters, and they hain't been used
for quite n spcll-and Jonas hain't over
and above keerful"
Bat De Ecre and Lily Ann they
wouldn't hear to nothing, aud they
mounted into the cart and went off. He
held her perrysol over her head with ono
hand and chung for dear, life to the rail
of the cart with 'tothcr. And Jonas he
jabbcd the brad in the end of his goad
into the oxen and sot en- off int cantcr.
ai I was busy trying donghnuts, and after
that team had been gone about long
enough to get back L hecrd M, awful
rumble, aud | forgot all about my billing
hot fat OH the stove, and rushed to the
door with a lump of dough in my hand,
and good gracious there was them oxen
tearing down the hill ut the buck of our
barn on the dead run, and Mr.. De We're
and Lily Ann bouncing about on the top
OF the load Of hay and yelling like wild
critters. His Int was gone. his eye
glasses bobbcd out behind him, aud his
long hair streamcd back like banner in
p the breeze.
Rite down the hill went them oxen
rite through Il board fence that was
round the cabbage patch, straight into
into Il swamp that lays a-tween our
farm and Deacon Bridges. There the
cart stuck fast and come to such sud-
den standstill that it upset, and De We're
and Lily Ann upset with it. L see en-
bounce up into the air like two injy
rubber balls, and jest that mint hecrd
MI awful swish and sizzle from the
kitchen, aud rushed back to find nv
doughnut fat all afirc and the room so
full Of smoke that you couldn't see acrost
it. l ketched the tongs and throwcd
the kittlc out doors, and jeremiah he
came in from the barn with two horse
blankets and buffalo, and VIC made out
to save the house.
Jonas had got round and fishcd Lily
Ann and her admircr out of the water,
and the neighbors come maufully to the
spot and helped git out the oxen.
My soul and body YOU'D ought to
have seen Do We're! He was spectacle,
and no mistake! We washed his head
out in the watering trough, and put him
into some ovcmlls Of Jcrcmiah's, and |
gin him rum sweat to keep the cold