The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19

Cordin' to which," said the Old
Settler, Il guess you never heerd of
OF Hollerback Tidd O. Sugar swamp"
Never heerd or him. exclaimed the
Squire. WHY, / recomember him durn
veI.''
'Recomenber himl' said the Old Set
tier, looking disconnected. why. gee
whizz, Squirrel Hes ben dead these
eighty year an bettsri'
Don't keer." said the Squire. That
hain't ny fault. l kin recomem Der
folks that's dead. can't l? Tha haint
no law ag'in il, is tina? Hollerback
Tidd! Why, it don't seem no rnore'r
yistday senca me an Hollerbaek usety
gauyvant together. An nice. clever
chap he were, too! Hist'ry hain't never
did Hollerback Tidd iestice yit!"
squirrel" said the Old Settler, sternlv.
Make fun o hist'ry. Il ye waGtsr. but
don't make fun o facts, Hist'ry kin
stand II, but facts is siseerce an strur-
Gin. ar orter be inkerridged! dunno
what iiist'ry r.owt = did to Hollerback
lid or what mo-tn't did, but the
facts in the case is that he want nice
clever chap, not by jngful! Tha
want nobody ez ever got along better
ez TO lletchin' holts' things ez come his
way than Hollerback Tidd did, an tina
want nobody ez ever could hold on
to ON faster arter he ketehed hold
onter EN-, ruther. He had the name O.
bcin' the fnesnest man that ever sot
down in Sugar Swamp, less it mowt
ben Balaam Bonutt. and BALKAN were
Hollerback's mos p'tic'lar friend. He
said he liked Balaam, cause Balaam
had the right idees o'thinss. Balaam's
leadiu' idee were that cats was made
jist a-purpose to ketch rats an mice,
an fer nothin' else, and that eonse-
kently if they didn't ketch rats an
mice enough 10 keep EN- alone they'd
hef to starve to death. To carry out
this idee o his'n he allus KEEP lot O.
cats shet up in his cabin, an ez tina
want no rats an mice az thort so
mean o theirsclf cz to hang around
Balaam Bonutt's Of cabin, the cats had
ter foller out Balaam's chee-in' idee
an starve. Then ez fast cz they'd
starve Baiaam d sell their hides an
their bones TO keep hisself in rum an
pork, and then he'd lay in more cats to
keep his idee a-wcrkin'. Even arter
Hollerbaek got narried-fer, mean ez
he were, he got married. Seems TO ME,
b'goSh. that the meauer a man IS the
more he wants to get married. He
treats his bosses mean, an he treats
his dog mean, but that don't suit him.
He wants to git sumpiu' that he kin
treat little meaner than he kin his
hosses or his dog. an so be hunts up
wife. An the curiosest part o. the
hull business is, he kin allus git one,
an generly good III. So Hollerback
Tidd got one. She were a Blazer
phint an had Il clearin'. She were d
gal that We're allus afeard she'd do
sumpin' an folks wouldn't like il. One
day Hollerback Tidd stopped at
Phillesy's cIearin' an says:
I'm out loolzin' for a WIFE,
Yes?' says Phillesy.
Yes says Hollerback. You're
; bout the right heft, says he, TO pull
in harness with me. Come along he
says.
"PhiIlesy were 'feerd HollerbaclI
wouldn't like it if she didn't, an so she
put on her things an went along an
married him. But she didn't pull in
harness with him, or at leastways Hol-
Ierback didn't pull in harness with Phil
lesy. She pulled single, b'gosh, and Hol-
lerback druv.
80 even arter Hollerback got mar
ried him an Balaam Bonutt was ez
thick ez ever, an he usety hang round
Balaams cabin an argy the cat idee
an other iGees similar.
Durn it. Balaam,' Hollerback usety
say. Cattle gifts along fust rate on
cornstalks an buckwhit bran,
an it's cheap fodder. What's the rea-
son folks can't?'
They could If they only thunk So,
says Balaam.
"Hoilerback died pooty student one
day, an some folks alias thunk that
he'd ben tryin' to work out that idee o
hisu bout cut corn stalks an buck
whit bran bein' good enough fodder for
human folks ez well ez cattle, but 9TH
ers thort not, cause if he had. they
said. he'd tried it-on his wife. These
folks thunk that Hollerbacl died cause
another idee o his'n hadn't worked
right. If tina were anything more'n an
other that he were dead sot ag'in it were
young uns- An more p'tic'Iar ag'in
twins
"A young IN. Heller back usety say.
Is wass'n snifles in sheep. An twins,
be says, is wuss'n holIer horn in cattle
An in them days of Sugar Swamp
snihies in sheep an holler horn in cat
lie was wuss'n the plaques o Egypt
Twin brothers. Hollerbacl usety
say. Al twin sisters! An twin
brothers and sisters.' he usetv say.
What is tina to EN-, anyhow? Now
saws he, If some on EN- would only
fetch along a couple o twin cousins or
twin uncles, he says, larfn, 'zif that
we're one o the best jokes anybody
ever heerd. -tha'd be sumpin' in it. an
I wouldn't mind dicl1eriu' for en-.
Twin rncles,' he says, d jist tickle me
to death, But don't let nobody come
round me taillin' about jist twins Jist
twins, he says, wants to keep shy o
Tie"
so when Phillesy up an fetched q
~ouple o twins to HolIerbac1 one day,
.ain't likely tina were ever d madder or
! rampagesn er man than he were. An
he KEEP = gitt;n' madden an ram
oageiuer every day fer month An /
.hea he took sick, an fore long folks
leerd that Philesy were q wilder. An
KEEP up his rampa-eia' |
after he were dead, fer in his viii he
give PhiIlesy the orfullest kind o fits (
Ter fetchin' twins jist Z purpose cause I
she know.G lie were dead sot aCin g