Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-09

to skin us, and so it goes on. first and La
Leon never opening his head. only when b
gifts right tired he sometimes does say: Paw
and NAV are you all done talkingT and gifts of
that way"
But what do they do when they are i'll, any
Of them?''
I'll? He ain't bit i'll to her or to him, it's
the peacefulest family you ever did ben in.
Il mean sick" Miss Brainerd amended. re-
calling the southern Interpretation Of the word.
We'll. Mrs. Armil answered, rehectively,
they amt ben much sick; worst was when
Hetty broke her arm; that was bad. fou see
Hetty and me was raised together and 1rst
cousins and all like we be; we think heap OF
each other; so I'm over there all the time can,
and was there that day. Yes, ma am, L don {
looked marching into the room with Leon In
her poor arms and one of them plumb broken
and Leon all bloody. The way OF 1t was. the
bull run at Leon-he want only five then and
puny as puny-never believed they could raise
him, and he want much hurt, but he fell down,
that was how. and bloodied himself and looked
the worst in the world. and she'd made o run
for him and wropped the bulls head up in the
cloth, and Lord only knows how she done it
she got him back into the barn not hurt a bit
and picked up Leon and carried him into the
house-he made kinder mess on the cyarpet
tracking in, you know, and someway Seth got
word and come q flynn. First he lowed twas
Leon He seen Hetty a standing calm as calm
by the stove and the arm 'twasnt
broke being toward him. he didn't think of her.
Leon! Leon. Is Leon hurt badY was all his
word. For Gods sake. Esther, tell me, says
ne, won't never ask you to say another wore!
But she didn't say one word to him, jest calls
IN queer, choked up voice, Leon, come on
here to your father Then L said Leon was all
right. it ben Hetty that had broke her arm, and
gave him the whole story kinder peppery like,
for 1 felt riled to see him going on about the
wrong one. knew Hetty didn't like it. neither.
But he felt bad enough when he got at the
rights of the story. He hilt Hetty arm when
the doctor set it. She never made a lisp
didn't take ether or nothing. and the drops jest
rolled off his face-looking on. But she never
spoke to him. He waited on her night and day;
he Is a right good nurse.
Nor she didn't speak to him the time the
news came that he was elected. He walked
into the room. He's a mighty pretty man,
only he's got q mouth for all the world like
Icons and he's light Completed, with kinder
red cheeks when he gifts excited, but he didn't
have a spear of color about him. She looked
at him and could see she was as worked up as
him. Leon says he, tell your mother I'm
elected. Kinder queer, kinder queer, do
say"
But, Mrs Armil, "what made them do that
way In the first placer"
We'll, it's a longish story. but we're q right
smart from the house yet. 1t come about like
this. Hetty is from Arkansas, born and raised
tutre, out ne comes from Kansas. lie come
down our way and settled down in the gum
woods to make his fortune; but he fell in love
with Hetty. Arkansas girls is pretty. and
Hettv was the prettiest kind of a Arkansas
girl-hair blacks q buzzards wing and real
snappity black eyes and white little teeth, and
lashes long enough to put in curl papers, and
jest rs slimber and graceful like young fawn-
that's Hetty Senquins. But Hetty-they do
say there's Injun way back in the Senquins
anyhow there's French and Spanish. and Hetty,
though she was jest as good a girl as you'd
meet the longest day in the year, she was
kinder bearing-malice critter. laid things up
and stored them by So tnats how it ben; she
had a liking for young Robinson, who had
all-sorts store at the cross roads, and he was
waiting on her regular, so twas when Seth
asked her to marry him one night going home
from playing games at the Wilder Packards,
for you see we was all professors and didn't
hold by dancing. Where was L? Oh, yes; he
asked her and she said no mighty prompt, and
he was dreadful taken down. He knew well
enough what made her."