Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-27
ANNAPOLIS MD, SATURDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 1890
Es Used ais wife Isad, but Coald Shoot
Pretty wela.


Pretty Well
Last week gentleman who had &C.
casion to visit Possuin Ridge was watt
ing at Hicks store far the arrival Of tie
weekly mail, when an old man ap-
proaced him and quired:
~Starnger IN these parts, air YEP
Yes, sir.
-Ah. huh. What mout yer name Be.
mister 2.
~My name is Brown. sir.
~'Tis, eli? Reckon you amt no kin 10
old Hiram Brown that lives over on
Coon Run Creeki"
No, suppose nok
sDon't know Hiram, do YEP
.@No, sir, have never seen him.
AUh. huh. Reckon you an him is of
different breed. though you favor 8
right smart Guess yer wouldn't keer
bout claimin kin with Hiram, nohow,
il yer knowed him
@Why soi"
sHe's so pizen mean.
ais he9
"Bet yer pelt.
@In what way is he meant"
@Jest about ever way, low :
SIS he dishonest ?"
"Wal, / dunno how you mout look nc
It. Lut last year he had mutton every
day, and he sold wagon load o. sheep
skins, an yit he never owned a sheep
in his life We lowed that looked
sorter suspicious
Rather.
Wouldn't yer think it kinder shabby
in er fellow to turn his cows in neigl-
bor's corn field, an then turn around
and sue the neighbor for damages on
account of his cows gittin foundered ?"
II think l would
"'Pears like that wouldn't be right
strictly honest, don't it. ]"
at does, certainly.
"Wal, old Hiram done thet very trick.
But say, whar his worst meanness
comes in is with his wife,
"Indeed?
"Bet yer skin. You see, every blamed
bit O. land. an stock, an everything
else he's got, belonged to his wife afore
he married her, an now he won't let
her have cent Of il. "
sPshaw"
mo, sir. an thet amt the wust He
makes her do all the work Almost, mn
then she has to take in washin' o nights
to raise money to pay her board
~Tnt, tut.
"Thet's the truth, stranger Thet's
jest what Hiram does 1t seems like
he carries the thing leetle gain too
fer, don't it?"
Il should say he does.
%'Pears like if his wife ten Is to the
house, hoes the garden, gifts the wood,
an plows the crap she ort to hey'er
board free, don't it?
Undoubtedly size should" /"
@Thet's the way we figgered it out up
yere, an we lowed Hiram want doin'
just right
He must be beasty.
%Wal. dunno bout that Bat look
yere. what 'ud you think of feller what
whipped his wife fer ketchin' the
measles?
@Think he was downright brutal.
@Wal, old Hiram done that An then
when she tuck the ager, blamed il he
didn't tie her in the erick for two solid
hours. Now it seems like thar went no
call fer thet, don't it!"
Certainly it does.
~But thet went as bad as tyin' her
out to q tree one cold winter day TO
freeze the pneumony fever out Of 'er.
was it?"
"Did he do tIat?1
aYes, stree, he did He kept her tied
up thar fer three long hours. an
whipped her because she didn't git well
o. the fever. Pears like thatwuz carry
in things right smart too fer, don't
you think?p
@Why, such treatment is awful.
%That's jest what I thought, stranger.
A feller what treats his wife in any sich
manner is purity doggoned low down
mean, amt he?"
"He's brute, and ought to be severely
punished
@Jest what we've been a sayin' fer
more'n 10 year.
@Then why don't you people do some
thing with him?"
"Wal, we've figgered on il several
times, but we've always put it off. We
lowed to go down some night an take
him out an neturly whup tile hide often
him, but we amt never done it yiE Yer
see ther tarned old cuss is so blamed
mean bout shootin' that we air a leetle
grain skeery Of i'm. He's pizen mean,
stranger, shore. an reckon he'd pop
teller full o. lead jest as quick as wink
II he fooled with him. Thomas 2.