Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1895-05-07
CONSUL THE SIGNS
They Encouraged Mountain Farrrsr 10
Ask the Girl Of His choice o.
share His Now Homs-An

OF the Cumberland company's saw
mill one June afternoon, when Jacl
Frazee, o mouptain, farmer, pretty
well to do and a bachelor, came by,
and observing my very evident com.
fort, invited himself to sit down ON
a part OF the log not occupied. I
was glad enough to have somebody
help me loaf for the hour or so had
to spare, and greeted his PROPOSE
ton with applanses Owe talked
awhile about politics and hard
times, and then Jack became seat
tering in his ideas, and was pretty
certain wanted I to. talk to me on
something more important to him
than the general affairs Of the ceun-
try at large 1 let him get aroupd
to the subject himself SO as not TO
confuse him, and 1t wasn't loug be-
fore he was ready 10, present his
case
Colonel, he hesitared do you
believe in signs?"
WELL Jack" Erepised, lit de-
ponds on what kind of signs. For
instance, if see sign over a build
ing 'Sawmill--I don't go in there
to buy dry goods
II don't mean that kind. = he said,
with a nervous laugh.
MOP" and looked at him Just a
bit curiously.
No. mean the other kind.
Those that are signs, as is signs.
You know what signsis, don't your"
he explained, lucidly.
''Superstitions, you mean 2" ven
tured. tft N
YES" he answered, with a,
CLEAN in his face. ''Them's them.
Do you believe In them2''
That depends, too. Have yon
been seeing anyf"
He blushed sheepishly, and
changed his seat on the log.
We'll, that's what wanted oask
you about be said. You know
Mandy Milser, don't you?'''us's
| nodded, for l had seen Mandy,
and she was the best specimen of
young womanhood in that neck Of
woods. 'ta c>a
We'll, he went on, tive been
kinder sparkin' Mandy for Sbetter'n
year now, and she amt very in
couridgin'. In course, / hain't ever
mentioned the subject right to her,
but I've been beatin' the devil around
the stump mighty close for some
time, and don't know whether I've
got much hopes ernot. When got
my new house about done, l asst her
one day if she thought thar ort to
be porch in front NV it. and. she
said she thought they, ort, So put
one thar Next time I seen her I
asst if thar ort to be a palm fence er
post an rail acrost the yard, and
she said they ort. SO I put one
thar. Then, after that, I asst her if
the house ort to be painted white or
pink, and she said she thought it ort
to be white. So painted it white.
One day | was at her house talkin',
and l asst her if the well ort to have
windlass er sweep, and she said
sweep, fer the sweep was so pic
turesquee - what's picturesque,
colonel?" and he stopped a mo-
ment.
l explained what it was to be pic
turesque, and he went on.
"Well, l didn't know he said,
"but / put up the sweep. Then l
asst her if ort to set out peach trees
or apple trees in the yard, and she
said Their ort to be both, cause they
would come handy for family use.
So set out both kinds. Last week
/ moved into the one room I've got
fixed up, and I've been kinder lone
some and thinkin' like, Yistiddy
Mandy came by, and was settin
on the porch, and she stopped at the
gate a minute and said she was
mighty glad to seewhat nice house
had, and she hoped I'd be powerful
comfortable in it, and l asst her if
she didn't thins ort to have wife
to take keer Nv it, and she said she
though ort. !"
Jack stopped his story to mop his
brow, for the exertion or interest
was making him warm.
What did you do then?3 / in
quircd, with smile.
Not darn thing, colonel" he
said, in a tone Of disapproval of
himself, land that's what Iwant to
asst you about. II thar's any truth
in signs, don't you believe I could
come nigh gittin Mandy eff was to
asst her. say this very EVENING""
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