The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-10

he said. an things got 50 bime.
by that Coriander begun to gil
worked up over it, an said that If
folks didn't look out he show 'em one
O. these days wuther he didn't tell the
truth or not. Iusety argy with folks
and tell 'em they was wrong, cause
know'd Coriander want the ali-per-
vadin' liar they said he were, an they
actu'ly got to sayin' that the fust thing
they know'd they'd be 'spectin' me o
st-etchin' things. The folks that had
fuss set everybody ag'in Coriander was
Jepthy Hibbly an his OF aunt Mandy.
They was in the storekeepin' business
an so were Coriander, an Jepthv had
crowd up with the reputation O bein'
man ez couldn't tell lie. he said he
was setch. an folks somehow had got
in the habit O. b'Eevin' him, an 50
when Coriander Tugg started in the
storekeepin' business in Sugar Swamp
Jepthy give it out that Coriandey
couldn't tell the truth, an folks had to
b'lieve what Jepthy said. So things
went kind O tough with Coriander, an
one day he come to me an says:
'Sile,' says he, Pm gointer turn thia
here deestric' topsy-turvy.' says he
s. 'Coriander,' says l. 'how?'
s. Size says he, ! kin out-bewitch
the witchin'est witch es ever lived
when it comes to bewitchin' things,
says he.
'Coriander,' says I, I never know'd
ye could. says 1. but if ye say 90 I
know tina hain't no doubt ye kin
'Sile,' says he, .ye kin bate yer
boots fer ten generations that kin,
says he. An wat do ye s'psss I'm
gointer do?' says he.
Coriander,' says l. 4 dunno'
'Sile, says he, you know, and 20
do 1. that Jepthy libby is the biggest
liar on the face O. the earth. an 50 II
his Aunt Mandy says he
- Coriander.' says l, If tha's any
thing do know, it's that says l.
"'Sile,' says Coriander. I'm gointer
bewitch Jepthy's store things SOS he'll
show all his customers what . durn
lynn Teller citizen he is, an yit he'll be
a-tellin' them the truth all tho timeg
says he. 'Ye couldn't de much wuss to
Q chap than that, could ye?,s says he.
'Coriander.' says 1, 'b'gosh 80
couldn't
$50 Coriander he tells me to 70 over
to Jepthy's store mex day an hang
around. / did. an ev'rything looked
jist ez it allus did, till in comes Of Sis
ter Duntubbs, q p'tic'lar friend O.
Jepthy's an Aunt Mandy's. She or
dered q pound O. pork an . yard O cal
iker. Jepthy weighed out tho pork,
an ez he done it upI see that Sister
Duntubbs looked kind O. starey at Jep-
thy. Then he measured OF tho caliker,
and Sister Duntubbs says:
Brother Hibbly,' says she, 4 said
q pound O pork an yard o. caliker.'
Ives, Sister Duntubbs, says Jepthy,
that's wat heerd ye.'
But ye only give me half q pound
o pork an half . yard O caliker.ss says
she. "a ~ :.
, g oh, nor says Jepthy.
oh, yes!' says Sister Duntubbs.
''Then Jepthy weighed the pork sser
ag'in. 1t weighed pound. He meas
ured the caliler. II measured . yard.
- 'There!' says he. That's right, sis
ter! A pound O. pork an Q yard o CALI
kerr
It's no setch thingl' says Sister
mad. It's only half . pound
an half yard'
"And then Aunt Mandy come an
jined the chorus, an pooty soon there
were the liveliest kind of q quarrel GO
:n'on, an Sister Duntubbs hustled out
O. the store, yellin' that she'd never
come in setch cheaty place ag'in.
witchin' were workin' fine.
The pork were a pound an the calIker
were yard, but the store were be-
to Sister Duntu IBIS, and she
could only see half a pound and half .
yard. An SO it KEEP on goin'. Folks
came in an ordered things, an Jepthy
weighed an counted an measured 'em,
but they never came out right, an
ev'rybody bimeby got it into their
heads that Jepthy were an OIL cheat an
a liar arter all So they quit his store,
an had to do the mex thing, which
were trade at Corianders store, an
when they found that he could tell the
truth about ez well ez anybody, they
KEEP on tradin' there. Sure enough,
Coriander had turned tho deestric'
"Well, sir, the conscience were that
Jepthy an Aunt Mandy had to pull up
an leave the deestric'. an they'm rec
omen bered there now ez the most
On blushin' liars ez ever lived, an it
were tellin' the suggest kind O
gospel truth-sumpin' they hadn't done
afore-that give 'em the reputation.
An so, Peleg. were sllus glad st
az in folks buildin' me up q reputation
for bein' one ez couldn't tell lie.
though they know tolable well that 1
Eight shy O. doin' of it. An I'm glad
that thar hain't nothin' in that story
bout the little hatshet an the cherry
rec, cause now kin look folks in the
ACE when they say TO me that me an
George Wash'n'ton d made a match
team, an kin slap 'em on the back an
'ay:
Right you are, b'goshl Ne an
George d make that team, now,
o'gosh, matched to q T, an sound In
u of an when. Ed Mott, in n. Y.
sun.
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