The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-09-01

| the inh:lin' I've Civ ye O Mandy Jane
| gimme the wink an I'll scoot."
The road was still clear.
''Sam looked s'prised little when
! told him bout havin' the owls gizzard
| love powder. an pooty soon he says:
'''We1l, he says, I'm goin'ter take
| Sa1lie to the picnic tomorrow, an ]
s'pose that'll be the last time kin
gallavant her anywheres. 'cordin' to
That's what 4. will. sammy.'' 1
MANDY Jane Fenstock mowt q ben
sumner when she was gal, fer all
know, but I don't jis' recomember
when that was. She'll hef to think
back good ways if she recomembers
1t herself. But. leavin' out bono an
sinner, an pooty sharp nose, Mandy
Jane don't cut much of a fgger now
ndays. She's consid'able sot in her
ways, though, an when she has stump.
in on her mind that she's goin'ter do
she's goin'ter do it or tbings'l rumble.
''Sam Brace he took Sallie to the
picnic an I was there with my hoot-
owls gizzard all ready. Sallie kit
tened consida'ble to Sam, an it made
me squirln to see her, tell We, but 1
says to myself: All right, my ladyi'
says. But wait till the hoot-owl sings
to yer l says Bimeby I says to Sam
on Sallie:
Sone over an IL treat We, says.
Come git some Lemonade says.
AN they come along, an I bought
the lemonade. an when Sal1ie wasn't
lookin' tunlbled the owls eizzard
love powder inter her glass.
"'Oh! she says. Wonders Mandy
Jane Penstock! she says. MANDY
must have treat, tool! she says.
$50 she calls Mandy Jane over, an
1 orders glass fer her. Now sec what
what Sallie done. She hands the glass
that had the owls gizzard in it over to
Mandy Jane herself, an fore could
stop her. Mandy Jane had gulped it
down. love powder an ell! You're
sure We hain't color blind, Cap7'
''Positive.'
Nor nish-sighted?"
Not a Bit
"fe don't see no more colors or the
landscape. yet, than ye'd maturity
'spect orto be there, do ye?'
No"
can the dust hain't actin in a way
that mo,vt fool We into thinktn' it was
only a hurricane a-comin'?''
NO"
eth go hard with Sam Brace If it
ever gifts safe fer me to go back to the
Hook ag'in! Soon as 1 see Mandy
Jane gulp that lemonade an owls eiz-
zard l give one cold shake an started
fer home to pack my trunk. This was
only Yesterday. When came out ag'in
there was Mandy Jane.
ASA says she, 'arter all these
years. says she, an to think that
you'm to be the one,' says she. I'll
be ready Tomorrow says she, an me
an you'll go to the squire's. To-mor-
row at half-past nine: says she.
Say. Cap! 1 tumbled back in the
house an slammed the door an went !
upstairs an hid under the bed. EARLY |
this lnornin' I crawled out an snuclx !
outen the house an jist laid myself !
out an dug fer liberty. AS raised !
the hill turned an looked back. F!
There was Mandy Jane comm on my
rail like the woods afire! She's comm |
vit! She's only stopped fer wind. Has !
she hove in sight yit?''
Not yet
Then I'll take to the woods an
nebbe won't see no t'backer for a |
month, Cap, unless you gimme that |
'lug O your'n; an when Mandy Jane
zetches up with We If yell only jist |
ell her"
But I hadn't time to wait to hear
What was to tell Mandy Jane and
lrove on toward Barley Run Cross
Torks--N. Y. SIM.