The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-07-14

an felt morally sartain he couldn't do
no more work in a day than ten-year-
old boy. Then he smoked cigarettes an
! knew his days were numbered, for /
hold the Lord hain't no use for q man
who smokes cigarettes
As he said this quietly dropped my
cigarette case back into the pocket
from which / had withdrawn it, but too
late, for my companion said:
"What brand o. cigarettes do you
smoker" a
Straight cuts" replied, humbly.
"Waal excerpts them, he explained,
an as clean forget my pipe will
take one Il you have it to spare"
This matter being amicably arranged
ne continued his story.
"Waal, the next day the young TELLER
hc come to me an said, ser he: Mr.
Fuller'-Fuller's my name, Adonijah
sFuller-sez he: Mr.. Fuller, like your
place exceedingly, an II your good
woman could keep me should like to
stop with you few weeks. What
d. We say?'"
II didn't know what 10 say but finally
told him to ask mother about it, for !
thought IL she could stand it I'd try to
git along, tho them kind o. cigarettes
he smoked was awful bad smellin'.
Now ! amt one o. the kind o. people
who is over-nice an turns up their nose
at every little smell that comes along,
but there is kinds OF cigarettes what
makes me think o. burnin' rope, an
them's the kind he smoked. But every
body to their taste, as the old woman
time when I was young Teller scootin'
around an gittin' into all kinds of
scrapes, lot Of us went down to Wood
ruff's to bussin' bee. Woodruff's folks
was sone~distant- of my
mother whose grandmother married a
Woodruff for her third husband an had
four gals by him an every one of them
I've heern tell was mighty likely gals.
know one of 'em had son who got to
be mem Der. of the Indianny legislator
an got rich. Another one O. them mar
ried into our neighborhood, an was
Twin right next to us when the war
broke out, an"
Here got word in, and as | was
not particularly interested -in-the
genealogy of the inhabitants Of Indiana,
inquired:
"Did. your wife consent to keep the
young fellow you were telling me
about2p
sob, yes" he answered, as placidly
as if he had never got off his subject.
''The young villain offered her ten dol
lars week to keep him an of course
she took him in. If I'd a-had the least
suspicion what was goin' to happen. I'd
a-took him an his quill wheel an
throwed him over into the road in a
jiffy."
"Girls got mashed on him, did they?''
l vcntured.
You've guessed it to a IT, he an
swered, slapping my knee with a vigor
that raised blister "He want there
two days ontil the girls an the old
woman an all the neighbors was ready
to run their feet off at his beck an
nod. Even the dog got SOS he'd fol
low him around an not pay no atten-
ton to me at all. was so goshfired
mad that | could a-bit ten-penny nail
for no one ever see nicer behaved boy
than he was. He allus said yes, sir
an mo sir, to me as if | was a major
ginraI, an he took his hat off to the
old woman an the girls as polite as a
basket o. chips. l didn't care SO much
! for that, but the women folks felt aw-
full tickled to be treated like ladies, an
it made me riley to see 'em so tarnal
foolish about it.
\ HE telegraphed up to Chicago an
got hull trunkful o. the incest clothes
an he put on clean shirt every blessed
day o. the world, an II he had one neck
tie he had dozen, an I'm mortal sar
tin they cost as much as a dollar
apiece. He was allus a-brushin' his
clothes an a-scrapin' at his finger nails
an he washed his hands an face half q
dozen times a day, an every time he
jest shattered on the soap. 1t made me
tired to see his finicky ways, an more'r
once ! was on the pint o. tellin him he
the pinch my heart failed me. He
knowed more than you'd although t.
look at him. too. One day Teller come
along an offered me solid gold bricl
for a quarter O. what it was worth. II
got the bargain all made. when the
young Teller come out an he gin the
man what had the brick look an hi
said: Hello, Tusker, when d'you gi
out?' The stranger lowed he didn'
know what the boy was talking about
Wall, sez he, 's'pose you travel on an
| H., f.l1
cut whip to his boss an driv down tn,
road swearin' like trooper.
After he was gone l asked oul
boarder who the Teller was an he sale
he'd be blessed if he knowed, only h,
didn't like the looks O. him an though
he'd give him bluff Then Iup an
told him he had knocked me out of d;
good thing, an told him what it was
an you orto a-seen him laugh. wa.
purity mad that day but when heert
the next day that he had went over an
sold the brick to 81 Burt for clear
thousand an 81 had found -out that i
was nothing but lead plated with gold
! felt better resigned to what the fellel
done.
"Twan't long ontil begun to motto,
that the young Teller had got in a, no
ton of hangin' around our younges
gal, Kittie, a good deal. He'd go will
her after the cows, an help her pu
away the milk, an all such things {
Teller does when he is head over heel,
in love with, q girl.
1T was all right, ,td'have the ten dol
lars week for his Board but when il
come to maxim up ITO one O. the girls
that was a black hor7e Of another color
an jest set my foot down to the ole
woman an told her to set him adrift
q She said she wasn't goin' to drive hin
.efaway jest when he was gettin' little
color an enjoyin' hisself, because wa.
fool enough to git Jealous of him be
cause he was polite to her an the girls