The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-05
A COUNTRY COUkTlN
A Ghost That Changed a Maid
EMS Heart.

''Why, yander goes Lige Huckly an
Melyiny, an Melviny's little brother
Bill, acrost the medder, as shore as
I'm a-livin' A-pon my soul! dldn {
s'pose he's able to be about VT.
kinder thought there's screw loose
some where's when he's pretendln, TO
be so sick. I lowed all the time it's
list to git round Melviny, b'case
know 'Lige Huckly, an knowed his
nap before him, an of all the men
folks l ever seed fur a-gittin' their
own way them Hucklys Wus the
beatnist. Why, when old Squire
Huckly was a-sparkin' Hammer she
had another beau over to Lick Skillet
at list plum worshiped her. Hammer
wus an awful good-looking girl when
she's in her teens, an Lige is the very
picter of her: an some O the neigh
bors do say yit if Huckly hmndt Just
scarf her into a-marrien' him she, q
a-mittened him fur that Teller ut LICK
Skillet. An low it's a fact fur Han
ner never had no will of her own
worth speaking about. Miss Johnson
told me about it, an she SAID at ner
brother-in- law, Doc Pence, knoWed O
the whole performance. He's the old
sources brother. He come home
an told Lizzie Ann, an Lizzie Ann
told Miss Johnson, an Miss Johnson
told me. SO you see it come mighty
straight. Well, as Use a-goin' to say,
he'd been a-keepin' company purity
reg'lar with Hammer, fur it must abin
a-goin' on two year. an Miss Johnson
said old Squire lucky told Doe his
self at Hammer had given him the
mittin twic't-Cnc't from spellin'
.~<r,DO1 ON fpO,,, n)npt in'-HlEf
peared as though stead O. bein' dis
ccura ged, like any other mortard
abin, he'd jist felt jagged on.
Well, sir, one night he found out
some how er nUther at Hammer d
gone over to Ed'ards to set a spell til
Piny, so what'd that Teller do but run
in to Lily AIMS an tell her his ma
had comp'ny an wanted to borry
sheet over night. A-pon my soul,
told Miss Johnson that Lizzie Ann
might a-knoWed better, fur the Huck-
lys wus we'll to do, I tell you, an
didn't want fur anything. So. as is
sayin', jist as Hammer got to that lit
tie strip O. woods tWiXt Ed'ardSeS an
home scmethin' all over white raised
up an says in an awful stern tone to
her: Hammer Simmons, yo' better
take Peter Huckly! Hammer Simmons,
yo' better take Peter Huckly Han
ner Simmons, yo' better take Peter
Huckly"' jist that way three times
an then sunk plum out Of sight. Well
Hammer WIS that scarf she never stop
ped runnin' till she reached the front
gate. an before two weeks her an
Squire Huckly was married. l hain't
never heard but what he done good
part by her. an l guess Hammer don't
know to this day but what it's ghost
AT she seen, fur land O. rest! Lily
Ann wouldn't tell her no better, an
Miss Johnson wouldn't tell her no bet
ter an 1 lived neighbors to her fur
goin' on fifteen years an I'm shore l
wouldn't a said nothin' fur no money,
an we're all the ones at knows it
besides Doc Pence an the old squire
hisself. But it does beat all, Lige
a-gittin' MelvinN the way he has,
when she had more fellers runnin'
after her an I've get fingers an toes.
Melyiny's purity as a piny, think. I
reckon Lige Huckly's tuck after his
pap, fur he ust to go to school to
Tildy an SHE said he's the sharpest
younger an the meanest she ever set
eyes on. He ust to stop in here some
times when he first commenced wait
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him about her an tell him she had
too many good lookin' fellers fur. him
to hav any show. Lige haint bad
lookin', don't think, if it wasn't fur
his two butter teeth bein' out. You
know they got kicked out when he's
jist 4 little Teller by his pap's old gray
mare.
An when Is jokin' that O. way one
evenin' a spell afore Easter Lige says:
"Oh, you jist wait, Aunt Sallie' Il
WASH no kin but we lived neighbors
so long he allus called me that-says
he, a-laughin', II heared up at Hen
Peck Bob Hudson was a maxim his
brags at he't git Melviny Elder fore
Easter Sunday er eat all the eggs i'll
the Holler an you jist wait about
two weeks an see that chap eat 'em. -
"Why, fur credits sake" says I, you
wouldn't be agittin' married in two
weeks, Lige when you're jist> agoin'
on twenty year old?" ''Well, I reckon
I might" says he, as cool as cucum-
ber "fore I'd let another Teller walk
off with my girl"
Then he went out to split some
kindln' wood for Tidy afore he went