Evening journal., 1891-06-01
BONEYS ELOPEMENT.

B0NEY'S EL0PEMENT.
who telled you at ever runned awayi
misdoubt somebody's telled you sump'in
er nuther about some er my capers and
cuttin'- ups when were more younger and
frislzier than kin say | am these present
moments Of time, which the rheumatism
In my back and the migry in my iints is
putty nigh laid me out time and crgin
though with the reckermen's Of Squair
johnson been a-useing OF his wife's int
ment and liniment, a-rubbin' Of my jints
and backbone o my spine, as you may say
though bedoubt much nse. seem like to- me
amt a layin' Of il on TO Sister johnson,
for pleasiner and a more sympssi2iner
oman than she is | don't know where
you'll find her. And | aint no misdoubts
that the linimeuts and 'intments she SO
good as ter perjuce and reckermen', and
what she been a-usin in her own famblv
| gwine on thirty years hand rinniu', IS
good for some sort o. mizry and ailments
/ II 50 be they amt a-doin' Of mine much ne
| leayement.
And though here I be, a-achein' and "a
groauin'. and a-havin' OF tribulations and
pains what reckon como matched with old
back for some o. the helevilment they car
ried on in they young days--tbey want
liyelier 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 | have
my present residench, and IS a-been alvin
in fer fifty year and more.
Yes, sirree--l were a 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 It's 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 ciresls
day. But what they was OF 'em | knowed
'em, and may say belouht oontradictin'
or astretchin' of the blanket, as the sayin
is, that co'ted about hah of 'em at that
Yes, sir-a feller in them days want no
where lessen he went to see gal ever
night in tho week. and all day OF Sadday
and a Sunday throwed in for good meas
ure.
had one o. the puttlest little nags you
ever th'owed your leg acroest, aud she
knewed ever road in the county, and they
amt many hitchin' posses she amt had a
nibble at, il so be she were 50 unfortnit TO
/ be OF a stump suckin' habits. which I'm 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 az a-buckin' and a-shy
in, special when a strange pusson were
n-straddlin' Of her, or she were bein rid Of
a road what she want use TO- And il
were that same bad habits-if so be you
mought a-called it er habit which it want
so mighty freckwent she done it--what got
me into a perdickerment and hamfOozled
me Out'n the puttyest gal IN the county
which might a-becn married to her al
these present times and she a-settin in
that cheer a-list'nin' to me, or out ia the
/ yard a-feedm' o the chickens, air one. ef
SO be she were my wife. Std o. hein' robe
jenkins
For it were Mrs Tobe Jenkins Polly
| Ashley as use TO be-what ] amt mis-
| doubt you hycerd o me a-runnn' away
| with.
Old man Ashley came from Cherokee
when the lnjins were fust driv' out n this
country, and he settle way up on Mucka.
lee some'ars, where Flat-holc settlement
now is. done most forgit the lay o the
land IN them parts it been SO long since
been up about there ! can't say for sho
wher'bouts the place is--they's been 50
much of clearin' up and changin of line,
fences and roads But l amt afeerd teI
bet, If so be ! were bettin man, which
amt bet on a hoss race nor rooster fight
nor nothin' else, lO these many years
since ! iined the Baptistes-I amt afeerd
TO bet, if had that same eyedentercal naa
which been a-speskin' OF, all I'd have e
do as 10 elk, clk clki lack that, sir anc
she'd strike a trot, and never stop tell sh,
bit the same eyedentercal spot where
use to light when, OF = Sunday or a week
day night, use 20 go To zee Polly Ashley
Yes, sir, she knewed that road luck
book, II SO be hoss animal kin be said &
know book, case she travel il so freek
went-two nights Of week. and ever
{ | Sunday too, when | Were a-galivantin
round Polly Ashley, and a-spectin som
! time or mother "a est her II It be her pleas
nres 70 be iinded on to me in the holy ban
o. matrimony, and Of her bein named q
the names Of Beasley Std o Ashley.
And amt misdoubts that She don
middlin well when she got l'obe Jenkinl
though when she married him Tohe new
: had a nigger to his name, which the san
, | had two, and $500 layin' up 70 git anotl
erin with.
Now, it seem lack all the time were
galervatin roun' Miss Polly, a-gwine viii
. her 70 sugar bilin's and candy pullin's al
corn shuckin's and quiltins, and a-seei
OF her home from Salem mee<in' house
a preachin' Sundays. and a-gittin OF myse
, ready TO pop all that time. and all u
beknowns 70 me odd man Ashley WAS ju
predigist agin me lack snake p'ison.
l II were all case o his hayin' a morgid
J agin' old man Handy's nigger Ned, wha
- bought at the sale, and he had been agwi
J roun' tellin' that Ned had fits, so be We
hopin' nobody wouldn't bid on him, and
= he'd git him cheap l hyeerd the tale
gwine roun', but / knewed it wan't
case l knewed the nigger ever since
: were boy, and knewed he were a migf
good hand at the plow or the hoe, air o.
I2 but his looks were acin' him, for he h
n the habits Of GRIMM that made him 10
10 lack the devil befo' day, as the sayin'
= So run up the price, aud outbid old m
Ashley, and the nigger were knocked do
n to me
N Old man Ashley got his money out'n
A. morgidge. but wanted that nigger migl
bad. He never said nothin' bout his {
appintment, but he neyer got over it. N
Polly and me we had jist about made
m out, allowin' of the 'spression, and wv
ia, ter see the old man fer 10 ast his conse
Im and reckermen's on my maxim Miss PC
will Mrs. Beasley.
Tn Old man Ashley never did have much
for what you might call swashability ab
The him, and when named TO him the desi
his OF my heart, out hind the boss lot VII