Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-01-19
BRO. WILLIAMS GIRLS.

BRO. WILLIAMS GIRLS.
My brother he lived in the city, an
| long bout harvestin' time, when my
man he was terrible busy, he come to
see us. He sed he wrote first, but We
don't hardly ever go to the post Office,
not havin' many correspondents;
We've talked it over, an both of us
thought that no news was good news,
an them as didn't write no letters
wouldn't git none; an SO we didn't
| go to meet him, and no walked four
miles to our house.
1 got him good dinner an after
ward we talked long time, an finally
he sed to me:
Rachel, Iwant to ask favor
All right, ask it, William, says I.
My two girls has got to get out OF
the city for couple of months or so,
an want 'em to come hero. Now,
will you have 'em? Daisy is lovely
| girl, an won't trouble you mono, but
Mildred will. She don't mean no
harm, but she's an awful careless, I'M
lucky kind o. girl. She's only seven
teen, and if she gets down here run
min round she may get along awhile
without fallfn' over somethin'. I've
got to go home this evenin an I want
to know if they can come
Well" says I, William, my
man, he is in the far field a-workin'
and 1 don'tjust like to say, but this is
Wednesday,; next Saturday he'll be
Send them down il you don't get no
letter sayin' not to. If Dan'l amt
willin' We'll send you word"
didn't cav notbin' To noOsl t;lI bo
an the hired man was through sup
per, then told him.
:" don't want no city girls cavortin'
round here, ridin' my horses to death,
an upsettin' everything, an 1 won't
have it" says he.
They're my nieces-my brothers.
Children
Il don't care whose children they
are!" he snapped
BE was in n worse temper than
usual; the biscuits were little heavy
at supper.
Wen, says I, "I'n write an tell
'em not to come"
81 reckon L can write my own let
ters," he says. "You just hunt up
the material, an I'll show you that
I'm somethin' of a scholar yet"
One o the hired men he had a bottle
O. red ink, that he used to write love-
letters to his girl, an pen. When
Danl seen that red ink it seemed to
put him in u better humor, an he
took the family Bible an the album
often the table an worked round till
he got himself settled, an then he sct
down to write.
He wrote a little while, spellin' out
loud as he went:
T
SORRY, b. ut [ -
seemed pestered. Lookin' up at me,
he says;
Rachel, how do you spell druther?"
"What?" says 1.
Druther," says he. 81 want to
tell him that Idruther they wouldn't
come"
II don't think" says l." there's
such word"
I didn't know nor care whether
there was or not; it amt, in my opin-
ion, much of n word, an, especially,
If it has mot" after it; and morethe-
more, ] wasn't goin' to have no part
in that there letter.
Then Dan'l he got mad, an says
he:
ct knew there are such word it
may be druther an it may be drether
an it may be drather; but 1 amt GO
in to have them, nor you neither,
sayin' can't spell. l won't write the
letter." says he; "lct 'em come. 1
hope you'll get huff OF en-"
l didn't say nothiu'. l seen he was
tired an would BIO ashamed OF hisself,
an 50 KEEP quiet, an no letter was
wrote, an they come.
,t-I,On aaaT, Sor,
the wagon, which was Daisy; she was
pretty girl, with blue eyes an pink
cheeks au' curly hair, but something
| about her mouth 1 didn't Just like.
An what nameI just as soon Yer
bena or Heliotrope WAS my name MS
| Daisy. When Mildred she went to
| git out she fell, an then got up sud-
I den, blushin' all over, an loolrin'
| kinder skeered at Daisy. seen Daisy
give her quick look, sort o. like u
| flash o. litnin' dartin' long in black
cloud, an gone so quick that you
amt hardly sure you seen it at all.
'Twarn't long before the town folks
! got to visitin' of EN- an invitin' 'em
out. When the girls was lookin'
for company Mildred she always went
in the parior an sat down long before
time for 'em to come, cause, she said,
she'd be pretty sure to stumble over
| somethin' or other.
Pretty soon two young men got to
comm regular an always together;
they was great friends, though very
different; one of 'em was DIR. Chance
an the other Charlie Dwyer. DIR.
/ Chance had sight of money an was
| a fine-looking man, about thirty years
old. Charlie was likely boy, but no.
SO Study.
DR.. Chance he sung well an so did
Daisy, an they sung and danced an
talked; but always just before leavin'
he would set down an say few kind
words to Mildred. an she never
seemed SO awkward to him about what
she had read an everythin',
One eyenin' they come unexpected
". Daisy was a-sitting out on the
porch, an Mildred was in the house
| p1ayin' on the organ. I never had
heard her sing before, an afterwards
| copied the words, for her voice was