People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-16
More Trouble.


(for that is his name) he comes in
an he ses to me, ses he, has that boy
got any better clothes than that +?
lookin' strait at our boy Harvey
Thomas, for that is our boys name.
Says l, yes; our children is poor, ses
/, but | alers try to keep one little
better suit for them to wear to Sun
day school. Ses he, bein' as there's
no school thot Ide let Harvey
Thomas 60 along, SEES he; he's get
ting to be big boy and ought to see
the ways of the world. Good idee,
ses /, SO l just sot the children to
washin' and cleanin' up a little and a
putin on their Sunday close, when
in comes John Fabulus Christy a
lookin that surprised you had just
Ort to seed HIM why, in the name
of goodness, ses he, what are you
fixin' up that girl for? Why, ses /,
thout you wanted to take 'em along
to see some Of the ways of the world,
ses [. Not that girl, ses he. What
do you suppose folks would say? a
lookin' strait at me and his eyes a
buggin' rite out.
Now, if | do say it myself, I am a
powerful reasoner when I do get
strung out; some times our nearest
Majors can hear me reason mighty
plain so ses [, John Fabulus Chris
ty, in the name of all that ever was
or ever will be, what have you been
a dom all your life; can it be posi-
BILE that you have been votin' and
a runnin' to places too low to take
you wife and children, and a tryin'
to make believe that votin' was a
mighty serious thing and should be
carried on solemn like, and now up
and tells me faint no place for girls ?
Now, ses /, Mr.. John Fabulus Chris
ty, when the Lord Almighty made
Harvey Thomas he made him with
as pure a heart as he did Pheoby
Jane and just as big eyes to see dew
ilment and bigger ears to hear what
he hadn't ort TO hear, and not bit
more sense to run away from where
he hadn't ort to be than Pheoby
Jane. Now, ses I, if election haint a
fifteen place for Pheoby Jane to go,
Harvey Thomas don't go. Well but,
ses he, mother Che always ses mother
when ne wants to coax me up a bit),
SEES he, mother, was just readin'
in Georgia paper tother day where
two OF their CRATE men, big speakers
at that-Major Black and Kernel
Livingston-sed the Lord deliver
them from ever SEEM wimmin a
votin' and q goin' to Elections and a
putin in about politics. Now, you
see, that was the last straw that
broke the cancels back so | up and
ses l, J ohm Fabulus Christy, may the
Lord have mercy on you, have you
lost all the sense you ever had, or
did you never have none? Is them
fellers what you call CRATE men, who
not two months ago was a runnin'
around clean all over the country
with drunken, cussin', howlin', muir
derin' mob hung to their tails, and
givin' them money for their votes,
and tryin' to beat man that didn't
do none Of these things? Now, SEES
/, once for all, let me tell you if that
is what you call great men an want
to be a raisin boys that way, you
rails no more now jest set that
down sir. When them fellers die
and Peter goes to open the gate for
'em and axes 'em, did you train up
your children In the way you would
have 'em go, they haint goin' to
look rite strait at Peter and say, why
-yes-why-but we did make a
little difference in their teachin', bein'
as some of 'em was boys we did sor-
ter let them go places an do things
the girls hadn't ort to; SIGH as
smokin' an a cussin an a drinkin a
little bit, but we never wanted 'em
to do it, and alters told 'em not to,
but they got with them lection fell
lers an learnt it unbeknown to us.
Lad sakes, you jest orter a seed
John Fabius Christy tryin' to slip
outen doors, but I hadn't sed it all
out yet, so ses, SEES |, Mr.. John Fab
CHATS what l call him when Pm
little bit riled up), ses l, if you want
to be a fool and a runnln' after them
puriered devils down there you can
lest go down there and join their
crowd, but you can't rails my boy
that way, for [ shall make Harvey
Thomas believe a mean, dirty trick
in him is jest as mean as in Pheoby
Jane, an when he reads a newspa-
per and studies politics, Pheoby Jane
does it to, If she wants to; an when
he gets a wife and children, if cleo
ton places haint fifteen for him to
hitch mp an take his wife and chill
dren along, why hit ort to be; hit
ort to be solem and nice as a meetin'
house, an tend to teach Pheoby
Jane to have greater aspirations than
cookin' dinners and rasin babies, an
if them fellers down there don't want
to see the like l am jest goin' to help
sin out little by prayin' the Lord to
Jest lob their eyes out or send the
fool killer and kill 'em both. So, by
this time, he had got out an gone,
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