Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-21
To be continued.
Aunt Tilda Mt the Hospital.

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Good Lor', Use onny JUS so so, honey
onny JUS so So"
"Why. where have you been?
haven't seen or heard OF you for the
longest kind OF time, Aunt Tilda.
Have you been sick?"
u hes fur er fac, Miss Mary. Use
he'd de grippe free times. Pvt me in
hinder de billy goat cherry time tried
tor git up, long come ole debbil grippe
an mock me down ergin; JUS zackly
like dat-ole billy goat what dun spuri-
enced Nv"
"That too bad. when you are sick
who takes care Of you? Your society
sisters?"
Good Lor'. no, Miss Mary, / Amt
sech err fool. When gifts sick | knows
WHARF ter 60 ter"
Where do you go?"
"Te de charity 'ospital. in course
WHARF else? knows Si-ier Mary.
one oh de white lady sisters what sta..s
dar: knowed her mar an family beIo
her. She Gums OBJ de right Sort she
dus, an she knows me; so when l gets
sick dar>I goes; an. sides dat, when !
gets we'll gets six bits er week from
my s'ci'ty as long es Use sick; so yer see
de Lor' Is good ter poor ole Aunt Tilda.
Oh Lor', how my poor ole bones dus
ache! Miss Mary, chile, yer looks
poorly. Hes yer he'd the grippe, too!"
Eyes, Aunt Tilda, can sympathize
with you"
show did yer git it, honey, wild err
chill?"
eyes"
Jus like me, chile, JUS like me. /
JUS friz all up, an den cum de burning
fire feber, an de misery in my pore ole
bones!''
DO they treat you kindly at the
charity hosipital?"
"Yes' ma'am," emphatically, "dsy
dus. got plenty ter eat, an all my
medicine, an q clean, nice bald, an
eberythin' else all fur muffin"
''Well, that's what the charity hos
pital is there for, but what mean Is.
did they treat you kindly"
Course dey did (her voice breaking
in her endeavor to make me compre-
hend), amt er tellin' yer; Good L0r',
[ got ouainted wild some mighty nice
colored people, an white folks, too; it
JUS made me sorry ter say goOd-by.
Yah, yah, makes me larf L. r think NV
dem yare young doctors, good LOr', de
airs de dus put on, an me ole nut ter
be dar gran nah; dey calls one nuther
doctor JUS 'sif day wua graybeards. |
yuster know de gran mahs OBJ sum OBJ
dem air young chillun. an 1t makes me
larf ter hyare dem Ell talkin'; an my
Lor' but day can talk; day yuses de
biggus wuds, an JUS as Hip as II day
knOwed what day all meant"
II suppose you mean the resident
students?"
'Corse chile, dems de berry ones"
''Well, now, Aunt Tilda,, let me tell
you that there are some very excellent
young gentlemen practicing in the hos
pital now, and they will be famous ply
sicians some day."
"Mebbe so, chile; mebbe SO; don't
wanter 'spute We wud: guess yer is right,
Miss Mary, good Lor' but my poor ole
bones JUS gins me hale curlumbiar.
Dus yer know de prest what belongs ter
de h0spitil?"
"What's his name?"
f'Don't AK me, chile-I dun clean fur
gut it, but he yuster tell funny stories. !"
One day he sed; Oar was wunce or
manic didn't say il he was er white
man er err black man 'specks he
mus hev been or white man. de oder
mus hev been er black man, he was
sech er fool. Well, yah, yah, just lis'n
me, good Lor', furgut dar was two
white men, an day got ter fightin' an
day trew de pots an pans, an
washtubs, an fiat iyuns at one
nuther, an at las one Nv dem
cotched up der kearvin' 'nife IAN cut
often de nose OBJ de oder man, an den he
run 'erway an dar wus dat oder pore
white man wild his nose on de fore, an
de blood jes'er ruunin' er way fur dcah
life; bymeby in Gums er nudder man,
dis yare one mus hav been er black man
he seed de white mans nose on de
fore, an picked 1t up quick, an like Q
fool niger, Topped 1t on de pore white
mans face, and tuck er hanchernick an
tied it on tight, an it growed dar.
AFTER er while de white mans nose it
got we'll, an when day tuck often de
hanchernick, what yer think, Miss
Maryg-yah, yah, de nose wus CROWN
down side UP an cherry time dat pore
white man wanted ter sneeze he he'd ter
stan on his he'd, all er along OBJ dat fool
Niger or pastin' It on de wrong way;
] felt right sorry for dat pore white
man, but den, good LOr', I had ter
larf to think Of him er stand in
on his he'd every time he sneesed-
a-ach cheW-at-at-achO0 ach-er-
what's got In ter ne emmy hOw-gOod
LOr', yHh, yah! GpoSe ! he'd ter stan On