Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-07-07

eos nenanI got nun OF ms own r0-ms
back. I couldn't never learn 10 sew.
somehow. III tell yer how it is-it's
this way: You take a piece O. cloth. an
you clap button onto one side Of it, an
then you go to work an Try to navigate
through from t'other side with a needle,
an eff you don't stave the point of ev'ry
single time I'll swaller i'll
''Old lady down to Moose island,
where | come from, last winters done
my button sewing for two years back.
an comes kinder rough on me doing Of
it myself. Jim he'd oughter to know
how to sew, didn't he nowi But he
don't. / says to him sometimes, 'Jim,' ]
says, you'd orter be ashamed, big ez
you be an can't sew But don't do no
good, only makes him madder n set
tin hen. Allus does when get foul er
any o. his lacks. But he's good feller,
Jim Is, ony he amt never been brought
up right. 1t makes lot o. difference
to feller whether he's been brought
up"
Fridays critic was spread out at COM
Portable length in his chair, worrying
his fur cap tirelessly as he talked.
81 don't mean that kind O. fetchin up
the big bugs set out to have" hesex.
planned, warming up to a new idea.
my gracious! there's one or two kouses
/ go into sometimes, summer folks down
to Moose island, in town for winters. !
ben to 'em. / know how they donel
Yer can't tell mel Why, 'gwin there
awhile an seems ez ef / should dwup
thro' the ruf, makes me so deuced on
comfortable. So stan up an p'ticler
them kind o folks is, yer can't fetch a
step but what yer come down on some
er their notions. Good Lordl in some
of them rixtocratic houses yer have ter
split bean t eat it. Ell want sunni t.
eat / druther eat off'n the floor than be
so awful slow and mannery. Now,
like to come over here, yer don't have
ter act anyhow.
"Now, I'll tell yer, did yer ever no.
tice," balancing his cap on one fist and
beating it around and around with the
other) ''it's jest this sway-sometimes yer
have an awful sight better time when it
don't cost nothin than ye do when it
does. That's what's the matter. Now
I'll tell yer. Iset out to go to Yarmouth
ON a Sunday to see my cousin, Maria
Collins. an SO ! staid over till Monday.
Well, I'll be blamed eff ever he'd bet
ter time in my life; an do ye believe, the
whole thing didn't cost fifteen cents.
Nor / couldn't tell ter save me what
done, only set roun an LATED, an l dunno
what ] was laff'n at. Maria's tearer
and she makes things human SOS her
children. Terrible nice children.
"Fve ben places where I'd git rid of
fifteen dollars an wisht all the whole
time / hadn't went. There's lots O.
things you pay for that's poor invest
ments, l say-'specially parties and
presents. Now I'll tell yer. l went to
party down to Moose Neck, an me an
mother feller we laid out five dollars for
the two of us, an blamed if it warn't a
clean fizzle. My boots was too small,
pinched awful, an there was too many
girls. Eff there's one thing / hate, it's
zoo many girls at a party. An l hain't
went to another party since. An just
see what ! laid out, now, compared to
Maria's, an didn't get no lastin satisfac-
tionl VI
II guess I'll be goin now. Jim he'll
be cussin an jawin an lookin out the
door ev'ry little while t. see eff Tn COM
in, but soon ez / heave in sight under
them tower steps, he'll in and slam the
door an make believe not know Tn
aroun. Oh, he's a sly one, Jim is.
Well, good night; l guess I'll be goin.
Hope to see you over to my house, some
O. these nice nights. Well, / made q
visit, hain't |, this time! Eff ye stan up
it's call, an eff ye set down it's a visit.
Well, guess I'll be goin. Good nightr'
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