Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-03
A DISCUSSION ON MEMORY.
Uncle Ethan Iaolsett aforalizes ON the Fro.
voklng Defects OF a Neighbour.

Uncle Ethan Hnolsett aforalixcs ON the Pro-
voklng Defects OF a Neighbor.
II reckon IL a man Is matfe ithont any
mem'ry wuth mentiouin faint much use
fer him TO try to patch 1t out with fust one
thing an then another remarked Uncle
Ethan Hackott sobcrly. whats the trou.
bic over TO Cyrus nowin inquired Aunt
Sabriua, "for, take II, it's Cyrus you're
refcrrin to-" "Yes, assented Uncle Ethan.
~ he'd Cyrus in mind, hevin Just come from
there, as you re lsnowin to. You see, Sister
Marthy hes beer. tune fer npards OF a week,
an cal'lated 'tNs>s about time rid over
an see how he was gittin on .an found him
in apeck o. trouble, | ken tell5e.h
81 should think Marthy was clean de
mented TO 80 on an leave him alone fer that
length o timer exclaimed Mrs. Hackett.
We'll, pursued Uncle Ethan. ''Marthy
went OH leavin everythln in apple pie order,
an enough cooked up to last him, ixceptin
bread, that one o. the noighbots was to fetch
in to him, dnd,all the cxtry doors locked, so
he wouldn't hcv nothili on his mind.
There was only Jest one thing, she
charged him with, an that WINS wnterin her
pink an white geranium. You know what
a slightly bloom that hes. an he promised her
faithful he'd see to it Whilst she was gone
We'll, IL appears t be couldn't seem to
rec'lleetit nownys, Except jest when he was
where he couldn't tend TO II, an one night,
when she'd been gone four days an that
plant hedn't bed drop o. water, It come
into his mind jest MS he was gettin into bed
so he says TO himself, IN Jest fix things
SOS | shall do 1t fust of tomorrer morn.
in Gn aecordin'ly he yanked the big rockin
cheer tibet hes allus set way of in the cor.
faat ,sffr1tt futar h.. - IL
where his eye would light on 1t soon as he
woke up, an he cal'lated that would put
him in mind O. the gernnium.
"Well, as I happened, he woke up in the
middle o. the night with a grumblin tooth.
ache an he got ont o. bed to fetch some o.
the stuff from the mantel closet tibet he
uses Mt sech times He started Off kind o.
spry, an fust he knew he come against the
rockers o. tibet cheer with all his might an
main an then fell over i'll
u dunno how in tunkett he managed II,
but some way or mother he twist his an
kle an he laid there groanin fer quite
spell fore he was able to git back TO bed
when mornin come, hcwas scursely able
to move, but he made out to crawl TO the
winder, an he set there till one o. the neigh
bors went by, an then he opened the win
der an yelled
THE man come in--lucky Cyrus he'd for
got to lock the front door, ca usu'l--an see
what the trouble was, an then he went fer
the doctor
Il found him settln up in big cheer
with his foot all bound up an lookin pooty
disBerrldged this mornin.
'l.e said he'd callated to send word over
to us today. lie he'd jest reelected the
reason he set the rockin cheer in the middle
o. the room, an he us d me to take n look at
Marthy's gernnium. She's comm home to-
moTer mornin. lie wouldn't let 'em send
word to her that anythin allied him.
81 persume . say may hev seen plants
look parch'der than that geranum," said
Mr. Haclett ca lously, "but can't rec'l-
lect where nor wnen.
You know it's been powerful cold fer
the last week, an that plant hes been settin
in bleak spot where Cyrus put it jest after
Marthy went of, thinlSin twould kctch his
eye easier-an-well, there tits, an there's
his foot an ankle--wcll, Cyrus lowed to me
he shouldn't ever burden his mind tryin to
remember anythin again long as he lived,
an 1t wouldn't apparently ease up things
fer Marthy much ef he did ,"-Eouth's Com.
panion.