Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-06-07
SUSAN AND TIE PAINTERS
An Episode in the Youth Of an
Astounding Woman.
She Was Interrupted by Tw" PAnthers-
when Compelled to Take "A Hand
In the SCrimmage She Didn't
Waste Her Powder.


Miles. the octogenarian baskct-weav-
ing hermit of Indian Run, Pa, /
''which'd make it sumpin' like seventy |
year ago, She had started in 10 be as
toundin' alreedy, an She was only jest T,
comm ten year old at that. ! never /
know about it, either, till year or
more arter me an Susan was married,
an had come down from York state
into the Pennsylvany wildernest an
chopped an dug an grubbed out that
clcarin Of our'p down the creek. /
wouldn't "A know'd il then, nuther, If
me an Susan hadn't got up one night
10 90 out and resky some OF our 1--we
stock belongin's from painter that
had come down ont o the mountains
an set out to levy on calf We
reskied the calf an got the painters
hide an taller, an after we'd gone
back an went 20 bed, Susan said that
the painter didn't begin 70 be as big as
either one o the two she killed wunst
at one shot, up in Cortl and county,
when she was gal.
IF I'd know'd this one wasn't no
bigger'n it was says she, i wouldn't
a woke you up Moses, says she, but
d slipped out an gethered 1t IN
alone, says She.
susan" says l, how you talk!
Then she didn't say no more, but |
couldn't git them two painters at one
shot out o. my mind, an poorly soon
says:
'"'Susan' says l. how did it happen?'
THAT | woke you up?' says she.
"'No. says l. The two at one shot
ooh" says she. Didn't | tell ye
bout it2
why, no. says. Course not"
Must a ben, then, cause | hadn't
! thort of it,, says Susan. It's ben SC
long ago that most fergit 1t, anyhow
SAYS she, but his is sumpin' like the
way it came around, says she.
Then she told me bout it. Seems
that Susan's mother had sister Twin
down at the Chenango Forks, an one
dav some one from down there came t
Susan's folks clearin' a-horseback 10
tell the Of lady that her sister wa
sick an mebby wouldn't live till the
next mornin. Course, Susan's mother
mus go down right away, but Susan
pap was way from home, an WASH
'spected back till late that night, OF
mebbe not afore mex mornin'
wouldn't do 10 go way an leave no
BODY on the clea rim, fer when the oil
man came home an found his wife an
darter gone he wouldn't know what Il
make of it, an there wasn't no neigh
bors 10 leave word with.
"'Why, nanny, says Susan, II
STAY till pap comes, an tell him.
AN Snsan wasn't ten yit, an Their
wasn't no one livin' nighcr'n five miles
an there was big woods on every side
full i bar an painters.
''Ain't We feerd, Susan?' says he
| nanny.
PUN says Susan. 'Feerd! CUES
| wasn't fetched up in the woods to b
5 skeert by owls" says she.
, An SO Susans nanny went dow
, 10 the Forks to see her dyin' sister
I Susan done the chores round the cleai
. in list a. il the hull family was Their
| as usual. an arter eatin' her supper sh
: put big log on the fireplace, cause
! was long late in the fall, an sot dow
o to put some patches on her pap's hici
: orv trousers, which had been tore COZ
n sid'able during a little tussle the O
n man'd ben havin' with bar the ola
4 afore. Susan's pop was liable TO sec
: tussels. an Susan usety sag that bot
the only reecryation she had when ST
: wasn't workin' was took up setti
4 patches in her pap's trousers or seWl
p. up his coat or sumpin'. But he ain
q got the bar, She usety say.
!. "Weu, Susan She sOt down TO set u
4 patches in her pap's trousers that nigh
is and was stitchin' away at one VINE
suddenly. off 10 the right o the hous
there come out o the woods yell tint
ought TO ben enough to, from whi
.e Susan told me. 10 skeer wild Ing
n into fit of shakes thatd rattle II
u war paint of. -.
10 "a painter, hay2' says Susan biti
Y off another piece o. patent thread a
y tbreadin her needle ag'in. 'Wul
If saws She. he amt comm after none
L our belougin's or he wouldn't be no
n lerin'. an he couldn't git none OF EN-
n, he was comm arter en-, says she,
1t let him veil till his throats sore, If
y wants to- says she, fttin' anoth
@, patch ON her pap's trousers
ri "She hadn't more stuck her need
g: in il. when from the direction of /
creek. on the left O. the house, riz
another yell, so much frightfuller TIT
the first one. Susan said, that If thcr,
y a ben hull tribe O Injin's camp
It around there they'd got up an dug
; 1.-Two on EN-, hayg says Susa
IL vaxin' her thread some more. %
n comm from the east an t'other com
Ia from the west. an both on EN- ma
= der'n bush fires, says she. should
y wonder but what they IN gointer hey
n scrimmage around here, some'rs. /
em scrimmage. says she. More