Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-03-29

heerd on. N tell We, an then v start of
on sumpin' th't hain't got nothin' TO do with
humly folks, n end up by quar'lin'. You
But hol' on. Squirrel the Old Settler
interrupted THE Tidhts did hev sumpln
to do with humly folks Il were gist gointer
asst v. wien " went off flynn on 81 Golfer
N the six-prong buck, if y ever know d
Ketury Ann Pepperwell!"
MOP snapped the Squire.
"Y' missed agood deal, Squire, sald the
Old Settler, smoothly. "She were acorAer'
The Squire grunted,
s.She were some kind of a relation or
other to the Tidfits. N had clearin' with
a heap o. money over on ROuzer Run. Me
m Young Pete Tidft was workin' the
woods together one fall, n Pete says TO
me:
"sMv cousin. Ketury Ann Pepperwell's
comm down to visit US fer spell, Sile'
saws he She's got durn snug clearln'
mn on Of Rouzer,' says he. " better take
TO droppin' round our way now n then n
'casion'ly.' saws he a-winkin'.
II hadn't took 10 goin' with Mriar VII,
n not havin' any gal in my eye list then, l
toll Pete b'gosh, th't I'd drop round MS
way some evenin', n / winked ez hard ez
Pete had. ! hadn't never seen hetury
Ann. n nobody didn't seem 70 know her
round Gallus Ridge, that bein' considerable
outen her bailiwick. To drop inter snug
clearin' want sumpin' th't were turnin'
M ev'ry dav. n / thort 20 myself th't II |
KID ketch Ketury's eye n settle down on
her place on OF ROuzer Run I'd Iist be
about liked, n the fust think ! know'd
mebby I'd be shurff or sumpin' n who
knew'd but the Legislstur' mowt sail
round my way. / had an idee Ia ike 70
20 10 the Legislator in them days, but
KNOWN wat know now, an seem wat
see I'm kinder thankful, b'gosh int my
posterity won't hey that ag'in EN-.
IL were chuck full o. Ketury's clearin'
n. Shurff n the Legislator the AFTERNOON
started for Tidft's TO make my fust call
on Ketury Ann. 'Twere long late IN the
fall. bout the time punkins was in season,
m sauir'ls was getherin' in their last stores
fer winter, n bars had their heads all
p'nted to'ards their cold weather dens.
For all th't il were late in the fall the
weather were warm-one o them deceivin
kind O. days th't makes v wanter put ice
in yer LIQUOR. Wen | got 10 Tidft's clear
in it were good n light yit, but DRAWN
on to'ards night Jist outside the house
two or three rods little Johnny Tidft were
settin' on the ground with punkin. He
had hellered il out, n had cut face in II
fer a Jack lantern, n he'd made leetle
the all-firedest ugliest-lookin', mug of ii
had ever see. Pete Tidft n his nanny
sot out on a log nigh the door | walked
up N spoke, N we was talkin' n tabberin'
away, wen ! looked to'ard one O. the win
ders, it being up.
wWull, says l, 4 thort Johnny out yen
der were buildin' about the humliest look
in Jack lantern | ever see sass, but who-
ever made that un in the winder yender
has beat Johnny's fer humliness more'n q
p'ints II hain't anyways nigh ez big ez
his'n,' says, but ieewhizzr | says, wien
it's lit up it'll skeer the OF boy hisself inter
fits, l says.
Esquire, v kin imagine my feelin's VII
see that jack lantern in the wlnder jerk
itself n walk away turned m looked al
Pete m his nanny, skeert like. Pete were
stuffin' his coat tail in mis- mouth, and hi:
nanny were Dustin.
"'Siler said Pete, soon ez he KID make
out to speak, that were Cousin ketury
Ann Pepperwell!
81 d'know how l got away from that'n
back hum, squire, but | think | mus
ha'took wing But, say, squire Goshtl
mighty Wat a match Ketury Ann n
Nosey Frazelpeck's Uncle Jake would ha
made, wouldn't they'"