The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-24

perzack iaagwidges, bat If may so say, he
used sech langwidges as folks whats lind
ed to the church don't use common lack.
special Sunday. and he want nealy-
mouth about sayin' of it. nEsher.
asst him if he mought be so reasable as
to 'xplain TO me what ncught be his objec-
tons Then he flowed He'd be dumfuz-
zlei il It's any O. my business; I want
gwine ter git her, and that's enough"
/ telled Pol,y that it 'peared to me from
the suckumstanches that so be if we want
ed to git jinded we have to run away.
Polly she hUr,med and hswed about it.
and said she were 'fraid of her pa: but
after awhii,. she give her consents, and we
sot night 70 run.
| went to Cousin Zeke Bascom, wha;
were livin' up in Marion, jinin' the county
line, and telled him what Polly and me
were a-progikin ter do, and asst his advices,
and he say: Bully for you, Boneyl You
bring the gal to my house, and I'll have
the preacher there, and all the young folks
in the neighborhood, and my wife1l git Up
plenty O. vittles, and I'll give You a big in
fair"
We made it up a-tween US that were &c
where there were some scrubby blackjacks,
with two Losses-one for me and one for
Polly.
After supper Polly were to make some
'scuse to slip out'n the house bedout raisiu'
of rumpus. They eat supper by yearly
candlelight, and soon after it begun to git
good dark, and the moon were a-risin', i
seed Polly a-slippin' thoo the shrub'ry in
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where were hidin' 'mongst the blackjack
bushes.
gin soft whistle to let her know were
a-waitin' for her. | he'pt Polly en- the lit
tie nag and le'pt on tother'n, and then we
put off down the road todes Cousin Zekes.
Hit were ever bit O. ten mile we halter go.
and we were jist a-gwine down the road
clipity-clip, when all t once the nag gin &c
shy lack she seen sumpin, and Polly she
screech out and say she skeerd. Then the
nag she stop, and wouldn't bulge a inch,
excep' to begin a-shyin' and a-prancin' and
a-shinnyin' around.
Polly say, For the Lawd's sake lemme
git off'n this critter." | say, mo; ewine
to make her take yor to Cousin Zeke's,
and | gin the nag a bunch in the belly.
Then what should the little devil do bat
hump herself and send Polly a-shootin' uI
in the air, and come down kerfunk a-sct
tin in the middle of a sand bed.
l le'pt off n my boss and run 10 hep her
up, but Polly say she amt hurried none
and she druther be a-settin' there on the
ground than on that all fired nag o mine,
all be them want her prezack Expressions
When | see that Polly want hurt none
she look so funny a-settin' there in the
middle O. the road just bust out a-laugh.
in fit to kill myself, case | thinks it
pearten her up some not to be takin' of the
sitiwation solemn lack.
Polly asst what | laughin' at, and / say
her, ease she look so funny when the nag
bucked and thode her. And she said she
never seed nothin' TO laugh at, and com.
menced to cry. | asst her to let me hep her
up, SOS we could go on. She say she want
a-gwine no further. Then / asst her to gi;
up and less 90 on up to Cousin Zeke's,
case they all be waitin' for us, and il we
didn't git there putty soon they II think the
old man cotch us, sho'
Polly lowed she didn't keer what they
thunk; she WANT gwine TO nobody IS Cousin
Zeke and she kept on a. boo -hooin.
l were -gittin mighty put out bout the
oudacious way she were a-gwine on. a-set
tin there in the middle o. the road and
a-makin' no inducements to'des gittin' up
and a-gwine ON 10 Cousin Zeke's and a-git
tin married.
Then say, miss Polly, amt you gwine
to Cousin Zeke's with me'"
And she say, mo, amt"
| say, "Aint you gwine to git up from
set.in' down there in that sand beds"
She say, NO | amt"
! say, You gwine 10 set there all nightS'
She say, mo, / amt"
Wal, | were plum stumped. IL she want
agwine TO Consin Zeke's, and II she want
s-gwine to git up, and il she want a-gwint
to set there didn't know in my soul what
she were a-gwine TO do, so just waited to
see. But she Jist kept on a. boo-hooTn' and
a-cryfn' tell ! got tired, not 70 say dir
guessed at the way she were a-gwine on for
a crowned oman.
When / say, Miss Polly, IL be youf
pleasures and desires not 10 90 no further
with me tonight, it * impossible of me az
q genterman of characters, II ! may so say,
and respects, to 20 away from here and
leave a unperteeted female a-settin' theirs
ali by yourself in the middle o the road
this time o'night, and it amt the most de
sirablest sitiwation for a persons, males
and females, TO be a-spendin' Of night ont
here in the middle of the road, and nobody
a-knowin' what's become Of 'em, and II SO
be it is Your pleasures and desire TO return
onto your pas residench III take you
home"
Then she got up. That argymeni
fetched her. She wouldn't git on the nag
but walked all the way back 20 Old mar
Arcber's, nary one of US a-sayin' word
and me q leadin' OF both HOSES.
When we gifts to the gate she turn rouno
and say: "BoEey Beasley, yous the biggest
fool ] ever did sss IN my life II you
hadn't s-laughed I'd a-went On to your
Cousin Zeke's and a. married you"
And that's the uIehot o me a-runnin'
away with Polly Ashley.-ChaTles Il
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