The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-11-09
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body else. but he was powerful ANXIOUS
for somebody to refuse 1t, SO he coolo
follow suit and call for nothin but gold
and silver when people he had loaned
to come to take up their notes. ne
looked At me with a nervous. dont-you"
.ake-it sort OF look that day when
Uncle Billy shovel down with his Con-
federat6 nioftey. hut could see some
further ahead than the ehd OF my nose,
and SO the wink didn't work worth
cent with mo. I didn't go and forget
that lobe Crittenden was holdin my |
note for 1880, and I wanted to bring |
that note home with me and put IT
away good before the whole country |
broke away from Confederate money.
You can see how it was that couldn't |
make the first break and save myself.
or A,..r That IIard.I,ell Note.
The very next day my note to Tobe
Crittenden fell due. so bright and early
til at mornin saddled up and mounted
nv nag and started of after 1t. me
road to Tobe's place took mo right by old
man jeremiah Jernigan's; and when
got along there tho old man come odt
and hailed me and wanted to know
| where I was bound for. I told him
| where was goin and what was goin
after.
| ''You would better let your horse
swap ends for home right here" says
tho old man. "Tobe Crittenden amt
goin to take your Confederate money.
"well, if he don't take It," says I, lit
| will be because you have been down
there and put him up to refusin, and II
you want a heap older than me would
give you my plain. personal opinions OF
a man that would play a game like that
amongst his friends and neigh bors.
am on my way to lobe Crittenden's,
| and rrOin after that nOtc."
s.And I'll jest bet my mare mule Kit
| arin the sorriest steer calf on your
place that you don't git it, says old
| man Jeremiah.
..I'll take that bet if loose" says I.
shakin hands with him to clinch it.
s'Good mornin, Uncle jerry
When hove in sight of the Critten-
and down k:s front plaza. and smokin
and putin with his pipe like a steam en-
CINE.
Good mornin, Tobe," says !.
''Good mornin, SIR" says he.
'.You needn't too make out like you
don't know me-" says ], ''cause l was
warmin up at his cold and highferlutin
, | talk
Eyes, 1 do know you," says he. ''That
, is Rufus Sanders. Light and git down
, and come in"
p went in and let him know from the
Jump that had come after that note.
3 you can git it, says he, ''providir
b if you have come heeled with tho RICH
n sort of rocks, but let me tell you now,
i am not goin to take any of your DUR
i Confederate money.
n .sWhat was old man Jeremiah Jerni
z gan dom down here yesterday" says ]
n HE was down here on business" say!
+ Tobc. s'but that amt got nothin to d.
a | with your durn Confederate money.
n wouldn't touch it with forty-foo
9 pole"
..Well and good, Mister Crittenden,
SAYS I, ''but you have got to sign
paper refusin to take it. A man tina
" talks as big as you do ought to
:. :. willin to put it in black and white"
=. lobe lowed he was willin to sign ii
5 name, and we went in the house to
y up the paper.
y That ..Durn Dictionary Document
20 Sorry spellin has always been on
If of my mainost weak pints.
= WAYS would spell word accordin to tn
a. way it sounds. My spellin is don
,t mostly by car, as it were, and IL tn
a letters don't run along with the SCUM
II of the word am moro than probable
h. NJ AXE a mess of it.
in Now lobe Crittenden was good an
" kind b. arted, but at the same time
~ was one of these nervous, eestless, su
It. picious sort of mon. lie wouldn't y
ID lieve his own dear daddy on Bib
-, oath, and he wouldn't trust his be-
~ friend as far as you could throw a ca NJ
ar meetin by the tail. And besides tina
~ lobe was monstrous dull in books. I'll
tn school teachers use to say that tt
ra onlyes way to put any learnin in lobe
Mt head was to split tue thing open, p'
IN the book in it and sew the whole bus
cd ness up.
IN 1t was my job to writo the paper, al
he I didn't go so very far before l struck
nd knot and called for a dictionary. To
went and got the book and then want
q, to know what was goin to do with
nd 81 have struck a hard word to spell
a. saws ], ..and need the book to pull Z
he through"
.ra s'Look a here, Rufe Sanders ga
ev he, don't you 60 and put nothin In th
zoo paper which / can't understand"
,e- II will read it out when git through
an says to lobe, land make every VIC
h. as plain as a painted horse rack"
,be But at tho same time l saw rig
mo where Tobe's weak pint come in, a
an after that would write a few VOL
IN. and then pull the dictionary on hi
~ He was walkin around in his uervio
TO- fretful way, and every time picked
the book he would shake his fist q
las foam at the mou tn and tell mo not
20. put nothin in the paper that he could
understand. ] told him over and O.