The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-05

The sealin' come on Chewsday, an
that give US but one day ter projeck roun
an see what we cud DO
'All day Monday wuz at Biddy fer us
ter take tn gun an make a eend NV IT, i
lowed didn't See nary bother way outer
hit, an that c'ud take the gun an' shoot
her cheerful, an then myself
"Aw, hush. NAV you poster me- she'd
say, but wouId't let on nary word bout
whut she did aim ter do. III do my way,
an eff hit don't work We kin try the gun
but wen use hit on tn ole man fust,' she
said-Biddy haint got her red ha'r fer
nothin"-with q subdued smoker. 1--WE
wuz powerful quiet family that day.
Neither me ner Blddy spoke TO tn ole man
wunst, an she come in NV room at night
a. slep' with me an tn old man tuck In a
quilt n laid down front or the kitchen a..
"Airiy In tn mawnin' Bidiy got up an
dressed hersef, an tuck her cloee line on
her aim. Come on NAV, mebby We en- hep
me if | need hit she sez, and walked softly
inter tn kitchen.
Hep heri / follerei a trimblin' so l cud
scarcely stan!
"She kueeled down by tn ole man N
picked up the aidge NV tn quilt he wur
| lvn' on an tho we'd hit over him, then she
! brung tn other side over hit an had i'm
| rolled MP neat ez We please an two rounds
Nv close line round i'm fore he began to
wake up m cuss.
".Set down on his head. NAV. hell holler
next sez she, like be wuz 'rageou boss
| never set on his bead, but putt his piller
on hit an hit i'm ez best l cud tell she had
i'm all done up an tied.
"Then she tuck er towill an made a tolla-
bull good gag.
~ kinder hate ter do IN SO bad, SEE l,
whilst she wur u tyiu' NV hit.
Hate TO- saws Biddy, given is head
rap with her knuckles like town folks does
whenst they wants to come III. Il do want
him bellerin' sos't ye kin hyer him ter tn
tabbernickull, an hev them elders down on
us, donchers'
Now says 1 when she got done, les
run
"'Why. maw,' seq she, EFF we go now
they'll send liver by O'Clock ter see why we
don't come to the Sealin house, an they'll
find him an take ayfter us, and Their nain'l
mare train er keer we can git away on till 9
er'clock this evenin.' Pm a-goin' to the
Sealin house now
"Well, | wuz poly, but did need t be
sicher fool ez | wuz. l hollered ami cried
an bsigged her MOTTO go 'monst them
Mormins. Said they'd git her, an lowed |
could't stay in tn house erlone weth tn ole
man done up SO hejous an lookin' like a
corp, nohow.
"Biddy allus wuz a masterful little trick
fun tn time she cud talk-an' afore thet-
an she did what she aimed ter do, but low
she wanted mignty bad to give me a good
beatin.'
"Wel, she come back bout l o'clock
Bein' Uneasy in her min she he'd cried most
er tn time an said she wondered why her
paw didn't come, and they never suspi-
cioned her. She said to 'em she reckoned
he'd furgot, an she thought he wuz doin'
her ecainellous, an' one ole elder lowed he'd
l,axv al tor fp1 oil
man fer n dom her thataway. but she tole
'em she didn't wanter may nary man but
her paw, an finely tn sealin' time wuz over
au she come home.
"We tuck some money twuz in tn house,
laid by ter buy fab n SIGH things ez we
cud grab handy, an lef.
I'VE lief tn doors an windows open T.
look like we 'uz 9 home, an my how skeert
we wus & we'd meet some Ter them elders
an he'd ak us where wuz We goin'.
''But we didn't, IAN when l got on tn
keers | just keeled over an wnz plumb
dead fer an hour. | tell We that skeered
Biddy wuss'n Mormins
I'VE cum right back hyer'n Biddy mayrd
my cousin Jinsey's oldes' boy. She's power
full ole now," she might have been 26,) ian
had heaper chillern, but think she cud
hoop out passed. er Mormins yit."
"Maw thinks that's a mighty fine tale,'
interposed Biddy rather shame-facedy.
She had been listening in the intervals
when she was not attending TO the va Is OF
her numerous offspring, and was evidently
somewhat embarrassed at the position OF
the heroine. ''She tells hit to ever buddy
tn listen t. hit"
"Well, so do l." replied, slipping a quar-
ter with hole in it on red ribbon and
tying it around the neck of the baby, whose
fuzz of hair was so much redder that il
made my ribbon look mink
ALICE MACGowAN.