The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-24
BONEY'S ELOPEMENT.

Who telled you AT / ever ruined away?
misdoubt somebody's telled you sump'in'
er nuther about some er my capers and
cuttin' ups when were more younger and
friskier than kin say am these present
moments of time, which the rheumatism
in my back and the mizry in my jints is
putty nigh laid me out time and ergin,
though with the reckermen's of Squair
johnson l been a-useing of his wife's int
ment and hniment, a-rubbin' of my jints
and backbone O. my spine, as you may say,
though bedoubt much use, seem like TO me-
amt a layin' of it on TO Sister johnson,
for a pleasiner and a more sympasiziner
'oman than she is I don't know where
you'll find her. And amt no misdoubts
that the liniments and 'intments she so
good as ter perjuce and reckermen', and
what she been a-usin' in her own family
gwine on thirty years, hand runnin', is
good for some sort O. miZry and ailments,
if so be they amt a-doin' of mine much re-
leavement.
And though here 1 be, a-achein' and a.
groanin', and a-havin' of tribulations and
pains what reckon come matched with old
folks-gi'n peoples special, ter pay 'em
back for some O the bedevilment they car
ried on in they young days-they want a
ivelier young buck nor me, and nobody up
to more dedevilment than l were in the
whole county o. Lee, which the same is
now called Sumter, the part where l have
my present residench, and is a-been alvin
in fer fifty year and more.
Yes, street were high flyer in them
days, and knowed ever gal in the county
Not as there were so mighty many Of 'em
in them days, lack what its at the present
times, when it all settle up with folks
a-comin' from foreign parts, and gals is
thick most as niggers in town of q circus
day. But what they WIS of 'em l knowed
'eIn, and may say bedoubt contradiction
or a-stretchin' of the blanket. as the sayin'
is, that co'ted about half of 'em at that.
Yes, SRA teller in them days want no
where lessen he went to see a gal ever
night in the week. and all day of Sadday
and Sunday throwed in for good meas
ure
had one o. the puttiest little nags you
ever th'owed your leg acrosst, and she
knewed ever road in the county, and they
amt many hitchin' posses she amt had a
nibble at, if so be she were so unfortnit to
be of stump suckin' habits, which Pm of
opinion, and knows as well as knows my
own name, she want. And as for pacin',
she could do it the puttiest You ever seen,
and hold her own agin any in the county
or the whole state o. Georgy, though she
did have the habits of a-buckin' and a-shy-
in, special when a strange pusson were
a-straddlin' of her, or she were bein' rid of
a road what she want use to. And it
were that same bad habits-if so be you
mought a-called it err habit which it wa MT
so mighty freckwent she done it-what got
me into perdickerment, and bamfoozled
me out'n the puttyest gal in the county,
which | might a-been married to her at
these present times, and she a-settin' in
that cheer a-list'nin' to me, or out in tn.
yard a-feedin' O. the chickens, air one, eff
so be she were my wife, Std O bein' lobe
Jenkins.
For it were Mrs. lobe Jenkins-Polly
Ashley as use to be-what / amt mis-
doubt you hyeerd o. me a-runnin' away
with.
Old man Ashley came from Cherokee
when the Injins were fust driv' out u this
country, and he settle way up on Mucka-
lee some'ars, where Flat hole settlement
now is. done most forgit the lay o. the
land in them parts, it been so long since |
been up about there l can't say for sho'
wher' bouts the place is-they's been so
much of clearin' up and changin' of line,
fences and roads But | amt afeerd ter
bet, If so be were bettin' man, which
amt bet on boss race nor a rooster fight
nor nothin' else, 10! these many years
since jined the Baptistes-I amt afeerd
to bet, il had that same eyedentercal nag
which ! been a-speakin' of, all I'd have to
do as TO elk. clkI clk lack that, sir, and
she'd strike trot, and never stop tell she
hit the same eyedentercal spot where ]
use to light when, of Sunday or week
day night, / use 10 90 to see Polly Ashley.
Yes, sir; she knewed that road lack a
book, if so be . hoss animal kin be said to
know a book, case she travel it so freek-
went-two nights of a week, and ever
Sunday too, when l were a~galivantin'
round Polly Ashley, and s-spectin' some
time or mother TO asst her if it be her pleas
nres to be jinded on to me in the holy bans
O. matrimony, and of her bein' named o.
the names of Bessley std O. Ashley.
And / amt a misdoubts that she done
middlin' well when she got Tobe jenkins.
though when she married him lobe never
had a niger TO his name, which the same
l had two, and ESQ iayin' up 70 git anoth-
erin with.
Now, il seem lack all the time were A.
galervacin' rom Miss Polly. a-guine with
her TO sugar bilip's and candy puiiin's and
corn shuckin's and quiltin's, and s-see.n'
of her home from Salem meetin' house Of
q preachin' Sundays, and a gittin' Of myself
ready 70 pop ali that time. aud all I'M
beknowns TO me old man Ashley was just
predigiss aein' me lack snake p'ison-
II were ell ease o. his havin' a rDorgfdge
agin' old man Handy's niger Ned, what
bought at the sale. and ne had been s-gwine
roun' telIin' that Ned had fits, 80 Ire were
hopin' nobody wouldn't bid en- him. and Sc
he'd cit him cheap. / hyeere the tale a
gwine ruun', but / knewed IL want 20.
case / kpewed the Niger ever since be
were 9 boy, and / knewyd he were . mighty
good hand at the pillow or the hoe, air one,
but his looks were sgin' him, for &c had
the habits Of GRIMM that made hin look
lack the devil befo' day as the sAyir' Is
So run up the price. and ou:bid Old MAJ
Ashley, and the nigge. were Knocked down
TO me.
Old man ASHLEY got his money out'n the
morgidg-, out wanted that Niger mighty
bad. He never said noshin' bout his dis
appinrment, bot re never got over IL Miss
Polly and me we had jist about made j.
cut. allowin' OF the 'spressicn. and ven;
ter see the old man fer 20 asst bis consents
and reekermen's on my maxim Miss Polly
Mrs Beasley.
Old mAa Ashley never did ksve mach o
what you might call suxshahili;F about
him. and when / named 70 him the desires
Of M heart. %: hind the hoes io. where