Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1895-11-21

in your breeches.
some News From Panther Creek.
Aunt Nancy Newton drfv By one day
last week on her return back home from.
Bunk W~eatherf0rd-s. she tarried and
remained over long enough 10 trke a
social family smoke with me. and when
she vent away she left q biz bundle OF
news from down on Panther Creek.
The folks in our settlement are
mostly God-fearia people. Rufus. sa7s
the lear delightful Old soul between
tie puHs % blue smoke from her pipe,
and they ara multiplyin and repIen-
ishiu the earth acrorIin. Right along
in durin oc ths las. three weeks thirteen
new babies have curna into our midst to
face the trials and troubles and tribu-
lltions % this vain ami tieetin world, a.
10 were. Misses St-ickland-Dunk wife
she was the first ono 70 show down.
and as you and Blew and AMY would
say, sine belt a pair Of jacks, which IS to
say. two boys. Next come John an
drew Newton's wife-Sallie Stringer a.
she use 10 be-and she likewise also
laid down a pair, but they was queens,
you understand, two girls. That's four.
Then VIII Tom Ptclienses wife-Eose-
bud BaclSliew that use 20 be-and she
Jest naturally took the rag and pulled
up the bush bg comm across with three
at one trip-two boys and a girl That's
seven Well. then, first one Of the
neighhors and then another had Iog-
rollins at their house till there was five
more babies in the settlement And
that's thirteen
They are all mighty poordown there.
Rufus, in regards TO this worlds goods.
But they don't mean no harm BIZ that.
AMI they walk upright and hiameless
in the commandments as best they can.
II it want for the children all the good
ness in the human race would soon wash
out anyhow. and whilst I Amt in that
branch Of the business. il makes my old
heart glad to see he earth multiplied
AMI -rsplenished regllr and frequent.
What's past heIpin should be past
weepin, as the Old sIyin runs, but | dc
wish in my soul the whole thirteen was
mine and I could live long enough to
see 'em all grown and married and set
tied OF in thirteen different homes
The -Hsppiest and Most Lue,siest."
Oh nan shade Walton Is now about
the happ.ess as we'll As the u-Iiest and
most IucSies5 man in our settlement"
Auns Nancy went on presently.
The old man went up to the county
fair the other day and when be come
back home he had a five dollar bill in gold
hid away in his sock. IIenceforwards af-
ter that be aintdoue a blessed thing but
trapse around the settlement shown
everybody his new money and teIlin
how be got it, He never win it and he
didn't find it, but whilst up there seem
Of the sights he metup with a man from
s~omewheres over in C'eorgy. which he
was 4 rank blank stranger to old ma
shade.
My friend. says the man from
Geor-v soon a. ever he clapoed his
eyes on shade Walton, Z have got five
dollars IN gold which belongs TO you.
To WAS guv % ne forty years Aro by
rlv Sran father, and he tod me il /
met up with aman that WAS urIier
than ms I must pass it on down the
line TAe money IS yours. Here it IS.
Take it and be happy.
w ell. naturally Of course, oil man
Shade he took the money. lie couldn't
do uothin else convenient And I reckon
by rights It belongs to him. cause he is
the sorriest laolEin man have ever saw.
and bless gracious he is ugly enough to
wean 4 mule ealt"
When ThanksEtv.n comes 7 will have
4 heap OF things Co bs thankful for.
But VIII return particlar thanks 70 the
good Lord that my Aunt Nancy Newton
amt gone nowheres.
RUFUS