The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1894-07-19
MANDY JANE PENSTOCK.
A Tale of Love and Love Charms
in Pennsylvania


in Pennsylvania.
One time when I was up in Penn
svlvania Hemlock belt I was going
from Overmans Hook to the Barley
Run Cross Forks when heard some
one whistle off to one side of the road
Looking in that direction saw man
peering cautiously from behind big
hemlock tree. He motioned for me tC
stop,'and did.
Say" said the man in a suppressed
voice, ''l1in We sec fur behind ye, down
the road?"
The road was straight behind me for
a mile. and could see taat far, told
the man.
AS nigh as We kin ,aake out. tina
hain't nothin' that looks like a tall
woman in red callilSer dress an a
green sunbounet nowheres betwixt
you an as fur as We kin see, is tha?''
asked the man.
No." said |, there iss1't."
"Ie hain't color blind, be YEP
wasn'..
Then a woman in red calliker
dress an green sun bon get wouldn't
be liable to look to you liks one in a
waller dress an blue sun bonnet,
would she?"
She wouldn't.
''Tha hain't no raisin' O. dust no.
where's that looks as if it mowt be riz
by woman in a red calliker dress an
a green sun bonnet comm this way
pooty fast, is thar
The road was entirely free from any
thing of that sort.
"Ye hain't noways nigh-sighted, be
ye?'
Quite the contrary.
Then if tina was q raisin' O. dust
setch as that. not mOre'n q hundred
yards down the road, ye wouldn't be
liable to take it fer haystack q mile
away, would YEP
Entirely out of the question.
The man came out from behind the
tree, and with a big sigh of relief sat
down on stump.
"'Cause, ye see I'm leetle anxious"
he said, "fer it ye'd seen woman
with red calliker dress and a green
.unbonnet comm. or a-raisin' O dust
that looked as if it mowt be riz by
woman with red calliker dress and
green sunbonnet, that'd ben Mandy
Jane Penstock. an I'd had to take to
the woods"
whats the matter with Mandy
Jane?" I asked.
The man mopped his face with his
sleeve and famed himself with his hat
aud said:
Ibid ye ever have have a hankerin'
fer a gal that didn't seem to keer to
banker fer YEP"
didn't know that 1 ever had.
"Jis' keep yer eye on the road, Cap"
said the man, IAN if ye see any of
them signs O. Mandy Jane jis whistle,
will ye?"
said would.
~'Then I'll tell ye sumpin'. If ever
.ye take shine to gal an she won't
banker, take boot owls gizzard,
dry it, an grind it inter a powder.
Then, unbeknownst to the gal, git
some of it in her lemonade or sumpin'
fore she drinks it. an ye've jist as
good as made four shillin' for the
squire, for she can't never say No
agin when ye asst her if she'll be yourn.
Tha' hain't no red an geeen loomin'
up yit twixt you an the horizon. nor
no shakin' O. dust that mowt have red
an green inside of it. is tha?'
mot yet"
If ye'd ever know'd Sallie Magomp-
ers, over to the Hook. ye'd hankered,
I'll bet We! 1 took to hankerin' fer
Sallie more'n a year ago, but tina didn't
seem to be no use. Sallies jest turnin'
twenty, now, and mebbe she hain't a
caution fer pootiness! Pictur's hain't
nowheres 'longside O. her. But some
how she fit shy o. me. So one day I
says to myself: All right, my lady! If
it's got to be left to hoot-owls,'
says. 'hoot-owls it'll be- an went a
Runnin' fer hoot-owls. But hoot-owls
hain't so durn thick in these here
woods, an gunned, an gunned fer
pooty nigh a year fore draw'd bead
on one, an you bet l was more'n tick
led when tumbled him often his
roost!
8 Gals that kin banker an won't
banker must be made to banker!
says, an 1 hung the hoot-owl's gizzard
up to dry.
zone O. these days. when hear that
Mandy Jane Penstock has passed over
Jurdan, I'm goin' back to the Hook an
lest as like as not thump the life outen
Sam Brace. Sam an me worked on
the same loggin' job, an after I bagged
the owl says to him one day:
"'Sam,' I says, me an you won't
bunk in together much longer says.
"'How's that?' says Sam.
".I'm e oin'ter marry Sallie Magom-
pers next week. says.
''Nov says Sam, 'Sallie's give in, has
she2'
IS Not yit,' says, 'butshe's goin' ter.
I've powdered hoot-owl's gizzard, I
says. Jis' shoot yer eye down the road
aRin, Cap. If tha's anything mussin'
M