The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-06-22
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WEDNESDAY. JUNE %. 1892.
JACK AND HAIDEE.


"Paul, oh, Paul, come here; dor called
out Mrs. Greylock from the cabin door,
as she held in her hand a letter we had
just brought in from the store where the
postoffice was.
Cali right, old woman, I'm a-comin
right along" came in the deep tones of
her husbands voice, as the old man
strobe in from the barn; whats the
row." 2 'gS
Its letter from Haidee, an she's got
boy, an Jack wants it called after
YOU said Mrs. Greylock, all in q breath.
Wa-al, I call that handsome in Jack
Furniss. blest eff l don't. An Haidee's
got a baby-why shot Old woman, yon
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 ms
the story of his daughters marriage as
we sat around the fire in the evening. +,
ITO think of Haidee's hayin 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. liyely,sI tell
you, with their tricks an games SIGH,
but sometimes used to think it 'nd be
kind of pleasant 60 have girl round. i
didn't say nothin of the kind, but the
oldwoman knowed what were thinkin
about, hn j guess thatshe were as glad
as Tbe when Haidee were born.
''The way she got her name were kind
of curious, too, for, as far as / know,
none of the Greylecks nor the old wom-
ans folkses ever were called no such
name afore.1 Bout a month afore she
was born, we were Twin here in Texas
an the country were pretty wild, an a
stranger came along an asked to stop all
night. Wa'al, III course we took him
in, an the old woman she gave him a
good supper IN the lnornin he went
away, hut he dropped outer his saddle
bags some leavesof book. dunno
whit tile book We're, only it were writ
in poetry an it told how some Greaser
(Mexican) called Don Juan were wrecked
ona an. Island, an how he come across
some girl named Haidee, an monstrons
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 ola woman's mind Just got sot on
that girl, so when Haidee were born
nosliin would suit her but nainin the
child for the girl in the book.
I'VE didn't have but two or three
leaves,an we didn't know nothin bout
the Young woman afterwards only jest
how size looked didn't have no ice.
ton tosthe 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 al
strong, an she were just the life of the
house. She were as pretty wa'al, she
were as pretty as she could be; no girl
could be any prettier, an her mother
just Thought the world of her.
Time went on, an Haidee growed uI
to be seventeen, an the young fellers be.
gan to come round the cabin good deal
/ never 'spicioned what they come fol-
more'n mule 'spicions what kind Of
work he's goin to do when you're breakin
him, an used to think they come to
hear me tell stories. The old woman
was sharper than me, but she never let
on; an thar | sot an told them beys
stories, an didn't know no more what
were goin on than coyote do bout poll.
tics. Thar were one Teller in partic'ler,
Jack Furniss by name, who used to
come bout three times week. file
were fine, manly sort of chap, good
frontiersman, q good fighter, tho he
weren't very old, an liked him. Fact,
liked him so much that / always asked
him to come again when he'd get up to
go. Jack were always maxim me pres
ents; he gin me that revolver over thar
an he was everlastinly bringin wild tur
keys or venison or bar meat to the old
woman.
II used to wonder sometimes what Oh
earth he done it for, but then ] didn'l
hage as much sense as lnoccasin snake
in them days. One day Jack an me were
standin out by the corral an he seemed
nervous like, an asked him what were
the matter, when he up an told me he
wanted to marry Haidee. Boys, I'd
,ruther darn sight he'd knock me down
with maui; never had no such turn
in my life. He went ON with long
string bout how he loved her nm how
he'd work for her an dunno what elss
but didn't hear him--I were thinlin o.
Haidee. Last l broke out, You must be
fool'-an | guess / swore some--stc
think of marrying that child Child?
says he; she's seventeen
''Waal, j couldn't say she weren't
you know, an that made me maddel
than ever, do you s'pose, Jack Furniss,
says /, that Tn a-goin to let my little
girl--lny Haidee--marry any such fel
low as you beg WAL, he stood thar
an he said as how he knowed he weren-
good enough for her, an all that, but
that he loved her more'n he did his life
an he hoped I'd let him have her, Hi
life? He didn't seem to think he wer,
askin for my life when he asked FOL
Haidee. Finally, he says somethin bout
Haidee's carin for him, an with that
stepped up TO him an swore I'D shoot
him like redskin if ever ! see him
again. So he went away n a {}G
81 went into the cabin, an thar was
Haidee an her mother SEWN. Scanned
like as tho when l saw her the devil
come into me, an says, says |, 'Haideel
Both her an her mother started when
they heard my voice, it were that hoarse
like 'Haidee, says /, Jack Furniss has
bin tellin me he wants to marry you
Now want you to understand you AIM
never goin to see him no more. The
mean, thievin Injin, to think Of him
takin my darter.' When Haidee heard
me say Jacks name she got red; when
she heard me say she weren't to see him
any more She got white; but when
come to calm him names she bounced
up an she says Daddy, says She, 'yo'
oughter to be ashamed of yourself. HI