The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-01
MANDY JANE PENsToCK.
a Tale of Love and Love Charms IN
the Pennsylvania Hemlook Belt.
From the New York Sun.


One time when was up in the Penn
svlvania Hemlock Belt l was going from
Overman's Hook to the Barley Run Cross
Forks when l heard some one whistle OF
to one side of the road. Looking in that
direction I saw a man peering cautiously
from behind a big hemlock tree. He mo-
toned for me to stop, and l did.
Say said the man in suppressed
voice, kin We see fur behind We, down
the road"
The road was straight behind me for
mile, and | could see that far, told the
man.
AS nigh as We kin make out, tha'
hain't nothin' that looks like tall wo-
man in a red calliker dress an green
sanbonnet nowheres betwiXt you an as
fur as We kin see, is tha!' asked the man.
No" said 1, there isn't"
y e hahn color blind, be ye ~
] wasn't.
Then a woman in a red calliker dress
an green sun bonnet wouldn't be liable
TO look TO you like one in yaller dress an
blue sun bonnet, would she 2"
She wouldn't.
"Tha hain't no raiSin' O. dust noWheres
that looks as if 1t mowt be riz by woman
in a red kalliker dress an a green sun
bonnet comm this way poorly fast, IS
tina ?"
The road was entirely free from any
thing Of that sort.
"Ye hain't noways pigh-sighted, beye2'
quite the contrary.
Then if tina was a raisin' O. dust setch
as that not more'n hundred yards down
the road, We wouldn't be liable to take 1T
Ter haystack mild away, would yeE'
Entirely out of the question.
I h lz-l., ~lAA tN-eNT
and, with big sigh of relief, sat down on
stump.
Cause We see i'm a leetle anxious, - he
Sald, fer if ye'd a seen a woman with a
red calliker dress an a green sunbonnet
comm, or raisin' o. dust that looked as
II mowt be riz by woman with red
caIlker dress, and a green sunbonnet,
IInatd a ben Mandy Jane Penstock, an
ia a had to take to the woods"
WHAT'S the matter with Mandy
Jane" l asked.
Inc man mopped his face with his
and said,
Did We ever have a hankcrin' fer gal
fer ve?n
qldn't know that I ever had.
as keep yer eye on the road, Cap, -
salu the man, an if We see any of them
y
said would.
3, hen III tell We sumpin'. If ever We
SaAe shine to gal an she won't han
a mel, take hoot-owls gizzard, dry it, an
trluu II inter a powder Then, unbe-
1I aLost to the gal, git some of it in her
.CuioAaue or sImpin' fore she drinks it,.
Su we've list as good as made shillin'
~ ~ the squire, fer she can't never say
, oo agin when We asst her if she'll be
IoUt n: Tha hain't no red an green
r S'Hllu mp .ylt 'twiXt you an the horizon,
ANU AN, no shakin, o. dust that mowt have red
green inside of it, is thaz"
norl I yed ever knowed Sallie Magom-
I'm over TO the Hook, ye'd a hankered
r5- ma oeJ We l took to hankerin' fer Sauie
baI5 year ago, but tina didn't seem to
ma no use Sallie's Jest turnin' 20, now,
nal. tNcpoe she hain't caution fer pooti-
o.. flclur's hain't nowheres 'longside
So But somehow she til shy % me.
n. J ii3 uay says TO m Jself: All right,
og,i Guy II it's got 10 be left TO boot
co. j says, hoOtowls it'll be, an / went
1tnnln fer hootowls. But hootowls
AM so durn thick in these here woods,
a ~ s.5Shed, and ] gunnel fer poorly nigh
'01' lore drawd bead on one, an you