Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-08-19
TIE WILLING WIDOW.
II 10 Dangerous to suy complimentary
ThblEs Indiscri minnteIy.

a. AZ dangerous 10 Sny complimentary
Things IndisoriminateIy.
A rowing scribe Of the New York
Herald writes from Posey County: A
score of us were sitting in the shade
of the depot building waiting for the
train, which was an hour late, when
yoke OF oxen attached to queer.
looking old cart turned the corner.
They were driven by a woman about
80 years of age, who was barefoot and
wore a mans straw hat.
"Git up thar, Buck" she exclaimed
as she laid the ''gad" on the off OK
with n resounding whack "You
thar, Pete, what you skitishun round
that way fur? Whoa, now Both OF
yous STAN still"
She turned them up to the platform,
threw down some hay taken from the
cart, and came up among us to in.
Quirc of the depot agent about a
barrel of salt. lie was busy just then
and she was waiting around when the
smart Alcck of the crowd, who was
. travelling for wine house, remarked
in tones meant for her to overhear:
81 have always said that if l mar.
ried at all I'd marry a woman who
could drive oxen.
us that meant fur me?" she asked
as she walked straight up to him.
''Are you Il widow, ma'am?"
81 am. Bin a widder ever since a
sawlog rolled over Jim nine years
ago"
"And you'd marry again if you had
the opportunity. would your"
81 would. When Jim lay dyin'
in the house he told me to marry
again If l had Il Show"
"Ahem!"
ut runs in our family to love. We
begin airly and keep it up to the
grave. What's your proposition? Pm
pain woman, full O. bizness, and
never do. any foolin'. If you've got
anything TO say spit il right out afore
'cm alp"
I'll don't want to marry Just
now," he stammercd,
Don't eh? Then what's the use
OF getting me on my tip.tocs about it?
You man, you jest the same as asked
me tn have you, and / jest the same
as accepted you!"
'Oh! No, no! merely made
some inquiriesl" he replied
''Them inquiries was about love,
sir, and my hearts a thumpin' away
like all get out l said I'd marry
agin, and 1 will. We are engaged.
When do you want me to be rcady?"
Madam, you have totally misun-
derstood me-" exclaimed the young
man as he turned all sorts of colors
and appeared to grow small. 81
asked you n few questions out of
curiosity"
"Mebbc the jury will call it curl
osity, and mebbe they won't!" she
said as She set her jaw. 'They don't
allow no foolin' round in Posey
County. When Teller goes rs fur as
you hev it's a hitch or damages.
ppm a tremblin' all over like a girl,
an my hearts tryin' to jump out.
It's regular love or don't know the
road hum. You don't leave here
young man till this case is settled"
But, ma'am, you see"
81 don't see nuthin' but marriage
or damages You've asked me to
have you. l said / would. Will you
marry or settle?"
"How-how much?'i he gasped, as
ne looked around and failed to find
any sympathy.
"Wall, Saginaw salt is dollar and
n quarter a bar'l," she replied, as she
glanced at a row of barrels down the
platform. 81 guess the oxen can git
hum with two bar'ls. Make it two
and I'll call it squar"
Everybody grinned except the
young man. He realized that he was
done for and got out of the box by
planking down $3.50 to the agent.
The cart was driven around to 1he
spot, the barrels loaded up, and then
the woman came back to say to the
young man:
'I've settled this case and the salt
is in the cart, but / jes want to re.
mark that if you happen this way
agin, and You happen to feel so
awfully cunnin' that you can't hold
yourself you'd better go slow on wild.
ders. Thar's sixteen OF us round here,
an we all drive yaller oxen hitched to
carts, an we all go BAREFOOT in the
summer and sigh to git married agin.
The regular flgger is three bar'ls of
salt and a pound of tea, but OWN to
your youth and that thunder storm
comm up I've let you off easy, Good
day bub; good day, all"
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