The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-19
The Sd,ia aiIu Eagle dddmday gHurnime, April 49, 1888.

baugh Tidd an t'other 'uu Uriar.
When they was long about twenty
year old, 'Riar up an ssys;
Here's what dig. outen Sugar
Swamp an hunts Up Twin, An We
don't hear from me till | make 1t SAYS
hs.
AN away he went Prderosugh,
tother twin, looked at things different.
Iha were plenty o room to hunt in
round the Sugar Swamp deestrie, an
he thort that if tina were Twin 70 De
hunted up ne were bout ez likely to
run ag'in IL there ez anywhere else.
An he hunted fer Twin SO well that
fore ne were old enough TO vote he got
married TO little Swiftly Bunce- Swiftly
were nice gal an a pootv one. she
hadn't no relation but her Aunt Hubby
Bean, who lived way over N the Bump
Hill kentry Swiftly were allus goiu'
over to see her Aunt Hubby. but she
never jist got ready TO go, an fore she
did she up an died, leavin Puderbaugh
a sorrerin' widderer
"'AD' now says he, III ucTer see
Aunt Buldr.
"When 'Eiar Tidd dug out from
Sugar Swamp he went straight 20 the
Bump Hill kentry an fell inter Twin
right away. lie want long in gittin'
clearin'. an More'n that he want
long ii gittin' 4 wife. An his wife
were Hubby Bear-little Swifty's aunt
mi vr-f-a
pooty one, too. Now, ez luck d hev 1t,
Huldy's aunt, Sabra Iulipin, young
widder, lived over IN Sugar Swamp.
an | s'pose she were about the snug
gest article o tvo-shill'n caliker that
tha ever was in the hull o that dees-
tric'. One day, long about a year
arter Puderbaugh Tidd got TO be wild
derer, Hubby got letter from her
Aunt Sabra that made her squeak right
out, an she says to 'Riar:
Riar,' she says, VEIN goin' ter
hev a new uncle! she says. Aunt
Sabra's gointer git married ag'in, an
we'm Invited to the weddin'r
Who's our new uncle gointer be9
says 'Riar.
Dunno. says Hubby. Aunt Sebra
unly says he's Swiftly Bunce's widderer,
an never knowd Swiftly had wild
derer.' says Hubby.
Well. says Riar. III hef to go
over an git acquainted with my new
uncle An got some more relations
in Sugar Swamp. too
so, 'Riar an Puderbaugh's Aunt
Hubby packs up an went TO Sugar
Swamp to git acquainted with their
new uncle. An mebbe ev'ry body
want s'prised to see EN-, an to rarn
that Puderbaugh's Aunt Hubby were
his twin brother 'Riar's wife. An
mebbe 'Riar want took back to rarn
that his Aunt Sabra were his twin
brother Puderbaugh's wife! An they
was havin' the shortest kind O. fun
over it, when all Of a student Puder-
baugh's eyes few open an his hair
most jumped outen it's roots
'Gosht'lmighty" says he, "Riar
Tidd, you're my uncle
Then 'Riar's eyes popped open. an
his hair n ost came nigh sheddin' it
self
oCC AA<-Z. Says Ii so Ec you
my uncle, Puderbaugh Tiddn says ne.
Then they both hollered together:
4" An we're twins, b'goshr they hol-
Tered. 'We'm the twin uncles, ez sure
ez a meat AK
AN SO they was, Squirrel An the
news got around SO quick that It got to
BALKAN Bonutt ez he were skinnin' a
cat that had jist worked out Balaam's
idee. An the news must "a got to
Balaam sstarvin' flock o cats bout the
same time, fer when the twin uncIcs
went over to the cIearin' TO hist
BALKAN out they found him down on
The floor, with about twenty starvin'
cats gnashin' away at him. An the
cats had saved EN- the trouble o
h'istin' Balaam out, fer they had
h'isted him outen this vale o tears an
started him onter the road that Holler-
back Tidd had took afore him.
But s'posin' them twins had ben
schoolma'rms 'sted o bark peelers.
Squire? Then tia wouldn't a ben no
facts in this here case, shown that
folks can't be too p'tic'lar bout the
kinder twins they'm haviu', cause tha
hain't no tellin' what's gointer happen,
b'gosh" Ed Mott, in y Y. Sun.