, 1891-07-01
MR.. n MRS. HAWKINS.

Mr.. Hawkins he left the appintin' OF
our weddin' day 10 me. and ! set it for
Sunday When you come ter think ont,
there don't seem to be many days suit,
able for gittin married in You see
Mondays washin day, an Tuesdays
ironin' day. and Of course nobody would
be married a Friday. and Saturday.
bHkin' and %cleanin' up day, so there's
only Wednesday and Thursday left, and
mother'n me wanted that much time for
extry odds and ends Of work, and to
turn round" in, as you might say. So
| set it a Sunday mornin' before fust
service.
Now, to begin with, | must tell you
that Mr.. Hannibal Hawkins, the man |
WIS ,1in' ter marry, was what you'd call
odd. 80 that, although we'd been keepin'
comp'ny tergether for some time, and
I'd had every chance ter git acquainted,
yet ! felt morlly certain that il would
be a good while fore I'd know him all
through Not but what he was "A likely
man-more, tcw for he was a church
member in good and reg'lar standin'.
and he nlwers had the name o. bein' a
good husband to his fust wife. and a good
peryider and all that. but. as said. he
was odd
Wall, he came over the Saturday
mornin' before the weddiu. SOS ter be
'on hand, % he said, and kinder dew for
me and mother We hadn't no men
folks in the house 'cept Caleb Jones, the
hired help, and he want much depend
euce Mt such n time.
1t was bout I o'clock in the forenoon
when Mr.. Hawkins rived. and an hour
or tew later gotta letter from his daugh-
ter Carliue.
It was marked private" and read
thus
DEAN Miss RoRurss that's me. Ruth Ann
Robbins, ys kuowl-l write to caution you
about par. / feel awful 'frnid the clo'es he's
took with him 10 be- married In amt right. All
To once no WIS struck with one o his odd
streaks, and insisted on packln' mis- bag him
self. a thing he never hone afore In his life. and
the Lord only knows what he put into 1t; |
don't You must look him over real sharp
-IgEo 10 goes 10 WHERE Lle MlAh--fm E7TrT
lcaul como To The wcddin'. but / cut my bangs
yesterday aud got 'em so short that l look just
lew hQCpus for anything. I've cried myself
most sick, I'm 30 disappointed, and par says
I'm silly ter stay away on account O'the hangs:
but can't help H. ia ruther die than go and
show myself srCh "a fright to all them tolks-so
there 'tisl / send you my love, and hope
/. Sim ofroR mr. hDs ,nal oII - nns,.
Look out for lin.
laughed when | read that letter il
didn't trouble me much Of any Thinks
! ter myself, He is old enough to pack
mis- own bag, less he's n gump and a
fool, and if he is IL gump and "A fool the
quicker We find 1t out the betterI" |
felt the wust because CIr1ine want
comm to the weddin'. 1t worried me to
think she was so sillv "bout ihcm honps
Wall, come Sunday morniu,. when it
was time to dress ourselves. Hannibal
took one room and another and we
begun. I'd Just got nv hair all down
when Hannibal hollered few me and
said he;
Ruth Ami / wish You'd bring in.
your needle and thread and dew n little
job o SEWN for me. / find my vest is
all split out behind. though odness
knows how it come so. never wore il
but once in my life. It's n bran new
one"
/ thought then of Carline's letter md
when | see the vest | knew in a minute
that he'd took the wrong ono bnt i
sewed the old thing NJ as Wells conld-
a pretty lookin' vest il was TO he mar.
ried in-and Went hack 10 my roor
feelin' a good deal distarbed and any.
ious.
His next perlickermnnt WINS ,vnss va,
This time he smoke 10 mo so binder NIL
and sbarp tbat knavv II yyns so,rstbin
serious was lest r,ttir, nv r. a.,
nv bend bpt IdidI,t staat haIF 49,,
il mn. hurried in tsr 500 urbat ,roa ~,
mattsr now When oneraJ ~ a.
there stood Hannibal in H. njddio -
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inonirin, nj two oId b6ots"yor anrrSn,
call 'em a nair for Lnew he nin,ta
set ewes ON ,a,n tLat H. botS baian@.
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