Alpena argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1893-1909, 1893-08-16
river and the dim Kentucky hills be-


river and the dim Kentucky hills be-
yond.
Eyes" said Uncle 81, presently, as II
continuing IA conversation that had
been recently broken off, Johns
married and he's got nice little wife
too, II do say IL myself"
Where did he find her?" I asked,
thinking had been laboring under a
mistaken idea and rather at sea.
Right here in the neighborhood,"
answered Uncle ST. "You see IL was
one of mothers plans, an allow she
never had one on 'em work out to the
better satisfaction o. the parties inter-
ested than this one did. Mothers
master hand at gettin' up matches an
she's sort o. proud o. her rec ord In that
direction. Long in June there was a
mighty fine gal came up from Cipcin-
natl TO stay spell with Nellie Bradley.
The Bradleys have connections in Gin
cinnati an thit gal, whose name was
Jeanette Herbert, was one of EN-.
She was calculatin' to stay all summer,
an Nell brought her over ono day to
introduce her to us. I'd heard o her
afore she come over an supposed she
would be sort o. uplifted an carry her
head pretty high while she was in this
neck o. woods, but she was just the
incest little gal ever laid eyes on, an
mother nearly fell on her neck the first
thing. We knew her father was rich
as mud, an we was considerably sur
prised when we found that she could
cook an do any other kind o. work as
well as IL she had to work for Twin.
"'Twasn't week afore mother be-
gun to hint around that Miss Bradley
would make n mighty good match for
our John, and | knowed he was good
enough for anybody, for he's had a
good deal o. money spent on him a-giv-
in him an eddication up to Lebanon,
an to Delaware, an it did seem as II
he orter get wife from the pick o. all
the gals in creation. John amt my
boy, you know, but seem ! never had
none o. my own, / set good store by
him an wanted him to do we'll; so
sort o. fell in with mothers plans, an
when / see that the two on 'em was
a-gittin' along mighty well together, l
kind o. patted myself on the back over
the way things was a-goin'. Nellie an
John had allus been good friends, an
it wasn't long afore the boy got to go
in over every whipstitch on some err
rand or other, an mother an me we
knowed the thing was rs good as set
tied an made our plans accordin'.
about this time John got letter
from an old schoolmate tellin' him that
he might look for company any
day, an sure enough in a few
days along comes as fine a-look-
in Teller as you could wish to see.
When he first came he allowed he'd
stay week, but he KEEP lingerin' along
till finally mother she said she believed
Phil-Phil Hunt was his name-was
more'n half in love with our hired gal.
I'D noticed myself that he was sorter
hangin' round where she was, but bless
you, hadn't mothers keen scent for
that sort o. thing, an never gave il a
second thought Nellie Bradley an
Miss Herbert seemed to have great
likin' for the gal, too, an very fire.
quently they'd run over an talk to her
in the evenin' an then John an the
gal would go home with them across
the fields, an / never see lot o.
young folks get along more friendly
together, an when young Tom Hark-
ness come home an begun to pay a
good deal of attention to Nellie, mother
was Jest wild for there was a chance
to make three matches to once, an you
might say, kill three birds with one
stone.
Mother said our girl would make a
splendid wife for anybody, and she'd
been real scared that John would fall IN
love with her, cause no one on airth
could say a word agin her, an she
wanted John to marry little higher in
the social speer than to take farmers
daughter. Mother, you know, is a
leetle inclined to be aristocratic on
some p'ints.
"Wall, things went on in perfectly
satisfactory manner for more'n a
month, an mother an me had it all
fixed, how we was a-going to set John
up in business. He had little prop
erty from his father, an mother she's
got quite passed. o. money one place
an another, an I've got little down to
the bank at Ripley that Cashier Shoe
maker takes care of for me, SO
putin this an that together we could
gather up right tidy sum on pinch.
Gas was a-sayin', things was goin'
on ut a merry pace. John an Phil an
the hired gal they went over to Brad
ley's every night, or else Nellie an Miss
Herbert an Tom they come over here,
an mother KEEP me awake half the
night every mortal night tellin' me how
ticlxled she was that John was a-goin'
to do so we'll, an she even got up a
| plan to have three weddins all at one
time in the church down to Ripley, an
she lowed that she would do the best
she could with the hired girl, whose
mother was a wilder an not very well
off in this worlds goods. Phil wasn't
very well fixed himself, only his eddica-
ton an his position as a book-keeper
in Cincinnati to keep a wife on, but the
gal was a good housekeepcr, an savin',
an jest the gal for Phil to L. She
calculated on givin' her n good settin'
out, for she thought sight of her an
her mother before her, and she was so
tickled to think that John was not
goin' to marry her that she felt pretty
tol'able liberal toward her.
II listened to mother so much that i
swow got interested in the business,
an most of the time was a-workin'
some scheme or mother TO help her
along"
Just then Aunt Furbay came out on
the porch and Uncle 81 settled back on
his chair and began to stroke his whisk-
crs in meditative manner.
NVAp,d haitian Hniuh thu ctorx, 1vA
been tellin' Harry" he said to her, as
she bestowed herself in a capacious
rocker.