The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-12-30
copyright. 1894.

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ys1u see Bill an WIZ jest like BROTH
ers. waz raised ON 'tinis' farms: be WIZ
nsa folks only child. an l WIZ my
folks only one. so. rsatFii Ike. we
graAed up together. iosira' an symIsa-
shizln' with each other. What I
ksaDxed. tod Bill. an what Bill
kuowed, ne told me. an what neither
on RS k.owed--.w1sy, that warn't wuta
kaowln'.
IL hadn't got over my braggin'
days. I'd allow that. fl our time. Bill
an I WIZ Jest about the sparkiness
baaus In the township, 'Ieastssise that's
what the girls thought but. TO be
honest about 1t, there wlz only two Nv
ss.:.as girls we courted. Bill an /. he
conFfsn one an t'other. You see we
sung in the choir, an as our good luck
would have ii We got sot on the So
pranner an she alto, and bimeby--oh.
well. after ieauin' 'esn round spell
q year or SO. for that natter-we up an
married 'era, an the old folks gin us
the farms, JinIn' farms. where We boys
had lived all our lives. Lizzie. my wife.
had always been powerful friendly
with afartily. Bills wife; them two girls
never met up but what they WIZ hug
gin an kissin' an carryin' on. like
girls does for women amt like men
they can't control themselves an their
feeIn's. like the stronger sext does.
I tell you. It wuz happy times for
Lizzie an me and Aarihy an Bill
happy times, on the 'jinin' farms. with
the pastures full Nv fat cattle. AN the
barns full nv hay an grain. an the
twin cottages full Nv love an con
sasstmeiit! Then when Cyrus come
our little boy--our first an only che.
why. when he come. I wuz Jest SO hap
u an so grateful that if hadn't been
man CUES Id have hollesed--lnast,e
criesi-with joJ- Wanted 10 cali the
little tyka Bill, but Bill wouldn't hear
10 notlin' but Cyrus You sac. he'd
bought Il cycIopeedy Tire winter we wuz
aIf MARIE an had been readln' In 1T
NY a great foreign warrior named Cyrus
that tiyed "a long spell ago.
Land nv Goshen, Bit" SCI ]. "you
don't reckon the haby'ii ever get to be
q WARRIOR
well. don't know about that" seq
Bill. There's no tellin'." AT any rate.
Cyrus ketehan has an uncommon
sound for II name; So Cyrus it mist be.
an wen he's year old I'll gin him the
finest Morgan colt In the deestrtck.''
So we called him Cyrus. an he grew
up lovia' and bgin' loved by everybody.
We'll. alolg about TIVE years--or. say,
eaghteem months or scatter Cyrus
come to us q little girl baby come TO
bill an Marisiy. an of all the cuanin'
sweet little things you ever seen that
little girl baby was tn. eunniaiest an
sweetest. Looked just like one Of
shem foreign crockery iiggers you buy
in city steress--aii pink an white. with
big brown eyes here. an a ieeny. Vice.
ney mouth here. an u nose an ears.
you'd have bet they wuz wax--they
wuz SO small an fragile. Never darst
hold her for fear I'd break her. an il
liked 10 skeered me to death to sec
the way Alarthy an Lizzie would kind
nv toss her round an trot her--so--on
their knees or pat her~-ss,--on the back
when she wux colicky like the wimmin
folks seq all healthy babies 10 aferc
they're months old.
You're soin' to have the namln' NV
her. seq fBili to me.
Yes seq Martlry. I'VE made II up
atNeen MS long ago that you should
hate the 1islmim' ny our baby like We
had tho nafnin' NV suurn.
Then. kliat NV hccforia' like-~for /
MS always powerful tease--f seq:
How would cieoiatry DO Tor Il name
Or Vents? / have been readln' the cy-
cioneedy. inyself, Ia have you know
An then / LATED one on them pro-
sekin' iaffs nv mine-oh. tell We. I
WAS the worst fcllca for hectcrin' folks
you ever seen, But | meant il ali in
fun. for when / stlspleionesf they didn't
Ike my fnnnin'. I sex: Bill" sea /.
IAN Marthy. there's only ono name ia
love above all the rest to coll Your lit
sie ianlhi3n'. an that's The dearest
,tanle on earth to nle-~the name uv Liz
xie. ms wife,
That just suited 'cm 10 u r, an al
Ways after that she waz called lestle
Lizzie. an 1t sut oll her. that name did.
luxe It was made for her an she for
II. We made 1t up then--perhapS more
in fun THAI anything elSS~~tliat when
the children grewed up Cyrus ard lce-
fiw lizzie. they should get married IT,
Eetilef, aa' have both the fafHls an lie
happy. an te hlessin' Il, us all in
ctr ola age. We made II up in fun.
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