Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1891-06-26

and he say: Bully for you, Boney You
bring the gal to my house, ana III have
the preacher there, and all the young folks
in the neighborhood, and my wife'll git up
plenty O. vittles, and Ill give you a big in
fair"
We made it up a-tween us that I were to
wait out by the cowpen next to the road,
where there were some scrubby blackjacks,
with two hosses-one for me and one for
Polly
After supper Polly were to make some
'scuse to slip out'n the house bedout raisin'
of a rumpus. They eat supper by yearly
candlelight, and soon after it begun to git
good dark, and the moon were a-risin',
seed Polly a-slippin' thoo the shrub'ry IN
the gyarden, a-comin' todes the cowpen.
where were hidin' 'mongst the blackjack
bushes
I gin soft whistle to let her know Iwere
a-waitin' for her. he'pt Polly en- the lit
tie nag and le'pt on tother'n, and then we
put off down the road todes Cousin Zeke's.
Hit were ever bit O. ten mile we halter go,
and we were jist a-gwine down the road
clipity- clip, when all It once the nag gin to
shy lack she seen sumpin', and Polly she
screech out and say she skeerd. Then the
nag she stop, and wouldn't bulge inch,
y
a-shinnyin' around.
Polly say, For the Lawd's sake femme
git off'n this critter." I say, "No; gwine
to make her take you to Cousin Zeke's,"
and 1 gin the nag bunch in the belly.
Then what should the little devil do but
hump herself and send Polly a-shootin' up
in the air, and come down kerfiunk ASSET
tim in the middle of sand bed.
/ le'pt OH'n my boss and run to hep her
up, but Polly say she amt hurried none.
and she druther be a-settin' there on the
ground than on that all fired nag O. mine,
all be them want her prezack esspresslons.
When I see that Polly want hurt none
she look so funny a-settin' there in the
middle o. the road 1 just bust out a-laugh-
in fit to kill myself, cease I thinks it
pearten her up some not to be takin' of the
sitiwation solemn lack.
Polly asst what I laughin' at and say
her, cease she look so funny when the nag
bucked and thode her. And she said she
never seed nothin' to laugh at, and COM
menced to cry. asst her to let me hep her
up, SOS we could go on. She she want
a-gwine no further. Then I asst her to git
up, and less go on up to Cousin Zeke's,
ease they all be waitin' for us, and if we
didn't git there putty soon they III think the
old man cotch u.s. sho'.
Polly lowed she didn't keer what they
thunk; she WANT gwine to nobody's Cousin
Zeke, and she kept on a-boo-hooin'.
were agittin mighty put out bout the
oudacious way she were a-gwine on, Asset
tim there in the middle O. the road, and
a-malkin' no inducements to'des gittin' up
and a-gwine on to Cousin Zeke's and a-git-
tim married.
Then say, "Miss Polly, amt you gwine
to Cousin Zekes with me?"
And she say, "No, amt"
Isay, "Ain't you gwine to git up from
settin' down there in that sand bed?"
She say, mo, amt"
| say, ''You gwine to set there all night?"
She say, sNo, amt"
Wal, were plum stumped. If she want
a-gwine to Cousin Zeke's, and if she want
a-gwine to git up and if she WANT a-gwine
to set there didn't know in my soul what
she were a-gwine to do, SO just waited to
see. But she jist kept on a. boo-hooin' and
a-cryin' tell I got tired, not to say dis
guessed, at the way she were a. gwine on for
crowned ,'oman.
When I say, miss Polly, if be your
pleasures and desires not to go no further
with me tonight, it is impossible of me as
gentleman of characters, if I may so say,
and respects, to go away from here and
leave a unprotected female a-settin' there
all by yourself in the middle o. the road
this time o'night, and it amt the most de-
SMALLEST sitiwation for persons, males
and females, to be a-spendin' of night out
here in the middle of the road, and nobody
a-knowin' what's become of 'em, and if SO
| be it is your pleasures and desire to return
| onto your pas residench I'll take YOU
home"
Then she got up. That argument
fetched her. She wouldn't git on the nag,
but walked all the way back to old man
Archer's, nary one of us a-sayin' word,
and me leadin' of both bosses.
When we gifts to the gate she turn round
and say: "Boney' Beasley, you's the biggest
fool I ever did see in my life. If you
hadn't a-laughed I'd a-went on to your
| Cousin Zeke's and a-married YOU"
And that's the upshot O. me a-runnin'
away with Polly Ashley.-Charles r.
Hardy in Times Democrat.