The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-11-04

about the wilder.
\ { "A year ago, now says the chap
this want the Wilder Pudgecracl
clearin', cause tina want no Wilde
! Pudgecrack then, an tina want n.
clearin The Wilder Pudgecrack cher
were jist plain Tabithy Ann Flint, e,
! teached theWild Gander deestric school
| Tabithy Ann were gettin' to'ards the
time wen it want no trick at all fel
her to recomember back fer forty year
an better. an the chances was that
lshe'd be Tabithy Ann Flint when she
passed over Jordan. But Sampson
Pudgecracls kim along about then, an
thinlin' Tabithy Ann mowt be savin
sort of q wife to tie to. he asst her. an
Tabithy Ann didn't waste her time a
sayin' no. Sampson he bought this
here land an put up that air cabin yen
der, an him an Tabithy Ann sot dowr
in it Sampson he buckled in like q
house afre an cleared off the brush.
an by the time the snow went Off he had
cleriin' that nobody could sneeze at.
He sowed it to rye an he plowed il
fer Eaters, an left room fer corn an
buckwhit an setch.
'Jist ez Sampson got things in that
kind O. shipshape he were onconsid'rit
enough to leave Tabitha Ann wilder
with all that clearin' an things on her
hands. 1t want iist the thing fer
Sampson to do, an when later plantin'
time an corn plantin time kim roun
sumpln' had to be did Tha had to
somebody to tend to them things, an
so the Widder Pudgecrack done tl,e
bes' thing she could, an married Pot
phar Bubb Potiphar he pitched in an
got in the corn an taters, an mad
the garden, an sowed the buclzwhit a.
got a pig to fatten, an things was NOV
in incest kind Potiphar cut the ry
an the hay an got it in, an then VIA
did he do but foller Sampson an leav.
the Wilder Pudgecrack clearin' with
out no head ag'in.
This were hard on the wilder.
Course the rye were cut an the hay
were in an the Eaters an corn an
buckwhit was planted, but what O.
that? The Eaters had to be dug, tnc
corn had to be cut an the buckwhit
harvested and thrashed. Somebocs
had to do that So the wilder didn
raise no objections wen Job Sapricc
said he'd be willin' to do that for her
an she changed her name to Saprider
Job were shorter to work, an h,
KEEP things runnin' right up to til,
handle He dug the Eaters and 20
'em in, an cut the buckwhit an
thrashed it. an gethered the corn az
shelled 1t, and got in the garden true
and stowed everything all away snug
an proper, to injy it dulin' the winter
But Job didn't hev no better Judgment
than Sampson and Potiphar had, an
wat does he do but go an leave the
widder wilder ag'in, an she jist a
her pootiest on having some
body to cheer her up wen the winter
winds begun to heller!
"'This is tough on mer said the wild |
Ter; this is pooty toughl'
Job had stayed long enough to git |
he pig good an fat, an if he'd waited |
! week or so he coul killed it for the
vidder, but he didn't, an so she had to
it it killed, an cut up, an packed
way in the cellar herself But win
err were comm an she were lon esome,
ID SO. long about Thanlsgivin time,
ven Shadrack Biff, that druv team fer
he tan'ry, took pity on the wilder an
Of her that she needn't pine, cause
ed make it a pint to cheer her up
he were SO thankful to him that she
aid yes, an she quit bein' the Wilder
aprider an begun bein' Mrs. Shad-
lck Bif. But her joy were too sud
ent, guess, fer two weeks ago she
uit bein' a wilder or anything else
lis vale O tears. l think, says this
chap to my Uncle
nebecker, that TOT we awhile ago
rat she were in, didn't 1? An that ye
'owt run ag'in her one O. these days /:
e were good, stiff Hardshell Baptis'
a didn't backslide? Wull, that's
here she is
IAN wat did the wilder do but
ave to Shadrack all that clearin' an .
l the rye that Sampson PudgecracIS ,
wed, an all the Eaters an corn an
and garden truck that Poti-
lar Bubb planted, an that Job Sap
der gethered an thrashed an slowed {
way SO snug, an the pig that Job
tened, and that the wilder packed y
way in the cellar. all fer Shadracl to = =
it lay to this winter an in'jy an feel
'od overl An wat do We s'pose Shao- I
ck's gointer do mex week? Why,
IS gointer get hitched to the snappy
tie Wilder Bly,, O. Lost Crow Barren,
jist sit her down on the Wilder Il
ldgecrack clearin' to help him inj'y q
EN- blessin'sl Now wat do ye think 4 !
Shadracl1 Biff?' says the mushrat- a
innin' chap, larfin' like hyeny n \
in. D
. I think he orter be tarrcd an feath- Il
I'd an rid outen the kentry on raill II
Us my Uncle Snebecker. AN I'd like a
be the one to do it, b'goshr says he /,
No. says the chap, droppin his q
Ishrats. Wull, says he, I'm Sbad- Q, Of
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