The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1892-12-03


one OF mothers plans, an allow she
never had one on 'em work out to the
better satisfaction O. the parties inter-
ested than this one did. Mothers q
master hand at gettin' up matches an
she's sort o. proud o her record in that
direction. Long In June there was a
mighty fine gal came mp from Cincih-
natl to stay spell with Nellie Bradley.
The Bradleys have connections in Gin
cinnati an tbit gal, whose name was
Jeanette Herbert, was one of 'em.
an Nell brought her over one day to
introduce her to us. I'd heard O her
afore she come over an I supposed she
would be sort O. uplifted an carry her
head pretty high while she was in this
neck o. woods, but she was just the
incest little gal ever laid eyes on. an
mother nearly fell on her neck the first
thing. We knew her father was rich
as mud, an we was considerably sur
prised when we found that she could
cook an do any other kind o work as
well as if she had to work for Twin.
"'Twasn't week afore mother be-
gun to hint around that Miss Bradley
would make a mighty good match for
our John, and l lknowed he was good
enough for anybody, for he's had q
good deal o money spent on him a-giv-
in him an eddication up to Lebanon,
an to Delaware, an it did seem as If
he orter get wife from the pick O. all
the gals in creation. John amt my
boy, you know, but seein' never had
none o. my own, / set good store by
him an wanted him to do we'll; SO
sort o. fell in with mothers plans, an
when / see that the two on 'em was
a-gittin along mighty well together, I
kind o patted myself on the back over
the way things was a-goin'. Nellie an
John had allus been good friends, an
it wasn't long afore the boy got to 60
In over every whipstitch on some er-
rand or other, an mother an me we
knowed the thing was as good as set
tied an made our plans accordin'.
about this time John got letter
from an old schoolmate tellin' him that
he might look for company any
day. an sure enough in q few
days along comes as fine a-look-
in Teller as You could wish to see.
When he first came he allowed he'd
stay a week, but he KEEP lingerin' along
till finally mother she said she believed
Phil-Phil Hunt was his name-was
more n half in love with our hired gal.
nd noticed m yself that he was sorter
hangin' round where she was, but bless
non hadn't rroxhor,o Eoeu ccapt fo,.
that sort O. thing, an never gave it a
second thought. Nellie Bradley an
Miss Herbert seemed to have a great
likin' fer the gal, too, an very fire.
quently they'd run over an talk to her
in the evenin' an then John an the
gal would go home with them across
the fielas, an 1 never see a lot o.
young folks get along more friendly
together, an when young Tom Hark-
good deal of attention to Nellie, mother
was Jest wild, for there was a chance
to make three matches to once, an you
might say, kill three birds with one
stone.
Mother said our girl would make a
splendid wife for any body, and she'd
been real scared that John would fall in
love with her, cause no one on airth
could say word agin her, an she
wanted John to marry little higher in
the social speer than to take a farmers
daughter. Mother. you know, is a
leet1e inclined to be aristocratic on
some p'ints.
"Wali, things went on in a perfectly
satisfactory manner for more'n a
month, an mother an me had it all
fixed, how we was a-going to set John
up in business. lie had little prop
erty from his father, an mother she's
got quite passed. o. money one place
an another, an I've got little down to
the bank at Ripley that Cashier Shoe
maker takes care of for me, so
putin this an that together we could
gather up a right tidy sum on pinch
LAS was a-sayin'. things was goin'
on at a merry pace. John an Phil an
the hired gal they went over to Brad
ley's every night, or else Nellie an Miss
Herbert an Tom they come over here.
an mother KEEP me awake half. the
night every mortal night tellin' me how
ticlsled she was that John was a-goin'
to do SO welt, an she even got up
plan to have three weddin's all at one
time in the church down to Ripley, an
she lowed that she would do the best
she could with the hired girl, whose
mother was wilder an not very well
off in this worlds goods. Phil wasn't
very well fxed himself. only his eddica-
ton an his position as book-keeper
in Cincinnati to keep wife on, but the
gal was good housekeeper. an savin',
an jest the gal for Phil to r. She
calculated on givin' her good settin'
ont, for she thought sight of her an
her mother before her, and she was so
tickled to think that John was not
goin' to marry her that she felt pretty
tol'able liberal toward her.
II listened to mother so much that
swow got interested in the business,
an most of the time I was a-worlin'
some scheme or mother to help her
along"
just then Aunt Furbay came out on
the porch and Uncle ST settled back on
his chair and began to stroke his whisk-
erS in a meditatiye manner