Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-05-26
OF NO IMPORTANCE.


III" Felt He Had No Mission IN Fu,atI
a number of men were sitting in
'front.' of clearinghouse in Hot
springs discussing the governments
right to own the hot water, when a
strange-looldng old fellow, who in
silence had been "walloping. his to-
oacco about in his mouth, remarked:
Il reckon you nachully expect my
opinion on this subject, gentlemen, but
want to tell you befo' hand that IL
wouldn't be with settin' fire TO and
ournin' up. amt a man of no impor.
lance whatever never done nothin'
IN my life that caused folks TO talk
ABOUT mo, and don't reckon that ever
said nothin' that was worth repeatin'.
why, you don't know how fur behind
in this world am, gentlemen.
Lived out here in Montgomery county
Tor forty-odd year and amt shot
nobody yit. Hain't even drawed gun
on man nur had fight. My wife
often tells me that If ever expect to
do anything in this world it's time
was at it, but somehow or nuther
things never did come my way like
they do with some folks. Seed a man
IN thar jest now talking through that
telephone, and it nachully struck me
at the time that nobody would ever
think enough of me to talk through
one OF them things. Do you know
what's fact? never did get letter
In my life. One time at the post office
the keeper of the place flung out one of
these here postal cards to me, and after
got over the shock I gut on my old
mar and rip home in lope, wavin' the
thing as | went. jumped off the
mar and run into the house without
hitchin' her, and my wife she come a
runnin' into the room, wipin' her hands
on her apron, and she looked skeered,
she did. And then, seem that want
shot nor stobbed nor nothin', she sol
right down and says: Pap, what on the
face of the yeth is the matter?"
Mother says l, 'look a here, and
/ hilt out the card. This here is fun
Inc, and / reckon it has come fifty
miles
" oh, not that fur, sholy, pap she
said, steppin back and wipin her hand,
as If she was afeerd TO tech it.
Yes, says |, it has come fifty miles
Why, wouldn't be afeerd to to bet il
has come sixty
oh, pap she said, with sort o.
tunin' up shake in her voice, and ther
beein' afeerd that was playin' on hel
feelin's too much, sot down and said
Cam yo'sef, mother, and we viii
see what the thing says
"'I do wush Sister Liza was aliv,
to help us read it, mother said, and
lowed: Yes, SO do l, but we can't al
expect to be alive on occasions like
this here. Now, let me see, says I, put
tin on my glasses and lookin at the care
strong enough to bore hole through
it, and bless yo' souls, gentle
men, whut do you think I found
/ found that the thing want fur me a
all. My wife twisted her apron ant
didn't say nothin', but seed that he
Disappointment was keen and s'archin'
took the card back and stood m,
downfall as best | could. No, gentle
men, amt of no Importance whutever
and my opinion of this hot waite
wouldn't have no weight. But I've go
a brother over in Pulaski county tina
could settle the matter mighty soon
He's gittin' so he don't count posta
cards, fur he gifts a letter every yea
or so, and it do seem that if it keeps OF
comm his way he'll git a telegraph
dispatch after awhile. "-Opie Read, il
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