The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-07-09
JACK AND HAIDEE.

rlgnJ along, came III the deep tones OF
her husbands voice. as the old man
strobe in from the barn; whats the
row."
"It's letter from Haidee, an she's got
a boy, an Jack wants it called after
you" said Mrs. Greylock, all in a breath.
"Wa-al, l call that handsome in Jack
Furniss, blest eff l don't. An Haidee's
got baby-why, sho! Old woman, yol
and is grandfathers. Hoop And the
old man fairly jumped off the ground in
his excitement
After the letter had been read and re-
read by the delighted couple and COM
mented on during supper, Paul told us
the story of his daughters marriage as
we sat around the fire in the evening.
"To think Of Haidee's havin baby |
began the old man; "why, it don't seem
but yesterday when she was baby her
own self. You see, my old woman there
had given me six boys, one arter another,
an nice fellers they was, too, if do say
it, They kept the cabin lively, / tell
you, with their tricks an games an sich,
but sometimes l used to think it 'ud be
kind of pleasant to have a girl round, l
didn't say nothin of the kind but the
old woman knowed what l were thinSin
about, an l guess that she were as glad
as l be when Haidee were born.
"The way she got her name We're kind
of curious, too, for, as far as l know,
none of the Greylocks nor the old won-
ans folkses ever were called no such
name afore. Bout u month afore she
was born, we were livin here in Texas
an the country were pretty wild, an
stranger came along an asked to stop all
night. Wa'al, in course we took him
in, an the old woman she gave him a
good supper. In the mornin he went
away, but he dropped outer his saddle
| bags some leaves of book. l dunno
what the book were, only it were writ
| in poetry an it told how some Greaser
| (Mexioan) called Don Juan were wrecked
on an island, an how he come across
some girl named Haidee, an a monstrous
likely girl she must have bin from the
| story. 'Cordin as the book were writ,
she were the prettiest girl you ever see,
an my old womans mind just got sot on
that girl, so when Haidee were born
nothin would suit her but namin the
child for the girl in the book.
"We didn't have but two or three
leaves, an we didn't know nothin bout
the young woman afterwards, only Jest
how she looked. | didn't have no 'jec.
ton to the name, an so our baby were
called Haidee, an were baptized by a
Methody circuit rider named Rawson.
l don't remember no great much bout
him 'cept he were a terrible man to eat,
an he rode the poorest critter l ever see.
Wa'al. Haidee growed up healthy an
strong, an she were Just the life of the
house. She were as prettv-waal, she
were as pretty as she could be; no girl
could be any prettier. an her mother
inst tboupbt the world of her.
"Tine went on. an Haidee growed III
TO be seventeen, an the Young fellers be
gan TO come round the cabin a good deal
/ never 'spicioned what they come fol
more'n n mule 'spicions what kind o
worl, he's poin to do when you're breakit
him an I used TO think they come II
hear me tell stories The old woman
was sharner than me Int she never le
ON. an thar 7 sot an told them bey
stories an didn't know no more wha
were goin ON than n coyote do 'bout poli
, tics. Thar were one feller in particler
lack Furniss bv name. who used t
come ,bont three times a week. fl
were fine. manly sort of a chan. a GOO
y frontiersman GOOD fighter, tbo' h
!; weren't very old. an liked him. Fact
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