The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1893-04-07

WIN tetitu }ou hb eNtI fhuuDu away
misdoubt somebody's telled you sump'in'
er nuther about some or my capers and
cuttin'.ups when were more younger and
frisker than kin say am these present
moments OF time, which the rheumatism
in my back and the mizry in my iints is
putty nigh laid me out time and ergin,
though with the reckermens OF Squair
johnson been a-useing Of his wife's lint.
ment and llniment a-rubbin' OF my jints
and backbone o my spine, as you may say,
though bedoubt much use, seem like to me.
amt a layin' Of 1t on to Sister Johnson,
for pleasiner and more sympasiziner
oman than she Is | don't know where
you'll find her. And uint no msd0ubts
that the liniments and 'ntments she so
good as ter perjuce aud reckermen', and
what she been a-usin' in her own family
gwine on thirty years, hand runnin', Is
good for some sort o. mizry and ailments,
If 10 he they aint a-doin' Of mine much re.
leavement.
And though here ! be, a-acheln and a.
groanin'. and a-havin' Of tribulations and
pains what | reckon come natche with old
folks-gi'n peoples special, ter pay 'em
back for some o. the bedevilment they car
ried Oh in they young days-they WANT a
livelier young buck nor me, and nobody up
to more dedevilment than | were in the
whole county o. Lee, which the same Is
now called Sumter, the part where have
my present residench, and is a-been alvin
in for iifty year and more.
Yes, street. were high flyer in them
days. and knowed ever gal in the county.
Not ns there were 40 mighty many Of 'em
in them days, lack what tits ut the present
times, when 1t all settle up with folks
a.eomin' from foreign parts, and gals Is
thick most AZ niggers in town Of n circus
day. But what they was Of 'em ! knowed
'em, and may say bedoubt contradiction
or a-stretchin' of the blanket, as the sayin
il, that co'ted about half Of 'em ut that
Yes, SRA feller in them days WANT no
where lessen he went to see gal ever
night In the week, and all day of Sadday
and Sunday throwed in for good meas
ure.
Ihad one o. the puttiest little nags you
ever th'owed your leg acrosst and sht
knewed ever road In the county, and they
amt many hitchin posses she amt had /
nibble at, II 80 be she were 10 unfortnit tt
be OF stump suckin' habits, which I'm o.
opinion, and knows as well as knows my
own name, she wa'nt. And as for pacn'
she could do 1t the puttiest you ever seen
and hold her own agin any in the count,
or the whole state o. Georgy, though sh'
did have the habits Of a-buckin' and a.shy
in. special when strange pusson wer
a-straddlin Of her, or she were bein rid o
"a road what she WANT use 10, And l
were that same bad habits--if 30 be yo,
mought a-called it er habit which it wan
80 mighty freckwent she done it--what go
me into pcrdickerment, and bamfoozlet
me out'n the puttyest gal in the county
which might a-been married to her a
these present times, ana she a-settin Ii
that cheer a,list'nin' to me, or out in tn
yard a-feedin o. the chickens, air one, 9
80 be she were my wife, 'stid o. bein' Tob
jenkins.
For 1t were Mrs Tobe Jenkins-Poll
Ashley as use to be--what amt mis-
doubt you hyeerd o me a-runnin ava
with.
Old man Ashley came from Cherokee
when the Injins were fust driv' out N thi
country, and he settle way up on Mucku
lee some'ars, where Flat-hole settlemen
now Is. done most forgit the lay o. th
land In them parts, 1t been so long since
been up about there can't say for she
wher'bouts the place is-they's been 8
much Of clearin' up and changin' of line
fences and roads, But amt afeerd te
bet, II 80 be were bettin' man, which
amt bet on a hoss race nor rooster fgh
nor nothin' else, lol these many year
since jned the Baptistes--l amt afeer
to bet, II | had that same eycdentercal na
which been a-speakin' Of, all I'd have +
do as to elk. clk clkl lack that, sir, an
she'd strike n tr0t, and never stop tell sh
hit the same eyedentercal spot where
use' to light when, of u Sunday or a weel
day night use to go to see Polly Ashley
Yes, sir; she knewed that road lack
book, II 80 be hoss animal kin be said t
know book, case she travel 1t 80 freek
went--two nights OF week, and ever
Sunday too, when were agalivantir
round Polly Ashley, and a-spectin' som
time or mother to ast her II II be her pleas
nres to be jinded on to me in the holy ban
o. matrimony, and Of her bein named q
the names of Beasley Std o. Ashley.
And amt a misdoubts that she don
middlin' well when she got Tobe JenlSini
though when she married him 'robe neve
had a ngger TO his name, which the sam
had two, and $500 layin' up to git anott
erin with
Now, 1t seem lack all the time were 9
galervatin' roun' Miss Polly, a-gwine wit
her TO sugar billn's and candy pullin's an
corn shuckins and quiltin's, and a-seeiI
Of her home from Salem meetin house q
apreachin' Sundays, and a,gittin' Of mysel
ready to pop all that time, and all III
beknowns to me old man Ashley was jus
predigist agin me lack snake p'ison.
1t were all 'caseo his havin' morgidg
agin' old man Handy's Niger Ned, what
bought at the sale, and he had been a-gwin
roun' tellin' that Ned had fits, SO be wer
hopin' nobody wouldn't bid on him, and 8
he'd git him cheap. hyeerd the tale 8
gwine roun but knewed 81 want 81
case ! knewed the nigger ever since b
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