Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-07-09

already there when l went IN, WHIT
tin a stick and tawkin about his bad
luck to a man l dident kno, and 1t
wuzent but few minits before unkel
Peeleg wilkins and Kalup Chiller KUN
along. Unkel Peeleg sot down in cheer
that had ben made out ov a bari,
and takin up the poker immejutly be-
gun to stir up the fire, thing expect
I've seen him do at that same stove
more than a hundred times this win
ter. Its his way to alwas want to stir
up the fire wherever he goes as soon as
he gifts into the house.
Unkel Peeleg had his koat kollar
turned up and big red hankychuf
tied around his neck. Kalup Chiller
stomped the snow off his feet. and
standin with his back 70 the fire he
| asked me il l dident think he was
| havin the ruffest spell ov weather
wede had fur a good spell. / told him
that was the very thing l had said to
Jim Teester jest before ne KUN in, and |
from that We all got to tawkin about
the weather, ontil sumbody brung In
pollyticks, which KEEP us goin like
|
in and branched us off on to meetin
matters, and Kaptun Pusher kummin
up Jest then to warm his hands, jined
in. ez Unkel Peeleg helped hisself to the
poker again and Civ the fire another
stir.
Kaptun Pusher is one of these here
fellers who calls hisself q bruther-in-
law to the church, bekoz his wife be-
longs to meetin and he don't. Every
preacher we've had sense he KUN to
town has ben after him hot footed
to line meetin and git to payin quarter
idge, the kaptun sed. eZ he run his
fingers thru his hair and held UNI up
klose to the stove agin, but ne sed hede
alwas told UNI he dident see no need
cessity fur his jinin, bekoz his wife was
bein religious fur her and him both.
He sed he wuzzent never afeerd to KUN
right out and tell preecher pintblank
} that his wife was a doin four times as
mulch as any other woman in Cider
Vile. and so he cudent see ez there wud
. be any yuse in his botharln his head
: about meetin matters at all.
IF they want anybody to teach a
, Sunday skule klass," sead the kaptun
to Unkel Peeleg, ez the old man laid
( down the poker, why, its Sister Push
err that they call on to do 1t, and its Sis
ter Pusher that don't back out, but gifts
e right up and duz 1t. Is somebody want
Y ed to take paper and go out and raise
mummy fur the preecher? Git Sister
!. Pusher to do it, everybody SEE, and Sis
}. ter Pusher duz 1t. Must an oyster stew
: be got up to put new rufe on the
= meetin house? Sister Pusher Is thu
n wun to take holt and put it thru. Is thu
d sick to be sot up with? Go fur Sister
i Pusher, sheze alwas willin, and Is {
:, splendid nuss. Are you after means t
n buy the preacher a new kOte? Go t.
Sister Pusher, shele Civ more thai
e anybody else. Do you want sumbOd.
% to pray in meetin? Sister Pusher is tn
II wun to call on. DO you want an.
speakin dun? Well, nobody kin tawl
~ like Sister Pusher and foxes wud abou
20 ez soon hear her ez the preacher. d
d YOU want q house to have soshabl
m in? Why, there's Sister Pushers
- waitin fur you. Sheze never afeerd o
gittin her carpets hurt, and II she die
kant she take new wuns out Ov tn
store and put UNI down? Its Siste
81 Pusher fur this, and Sister Pusher fu
~ that, and whoever wants her fur any
to thing will alwas find her ready to NOR
ne than do her part" sed the kaptun, G
n he left us and went to show sum ingu
W rubbers to woman who had jes
=, KUN in.
~ l asked Unkel Pee!eg how he like
as that idee, and ne sed he reckoned mel
es be there was a good deal of kumfert
NJ it, if a body cud only believe it, for
eF saved the needcessity ov payin quartz
W idpe. and goin to meetin. and doin OIL
err things when you dident want to. ar
that was ginerally purity mulch all II
time with him. He sed his old wOma
I'll. was about ez reglar in goin to meet
no ez any ov UNI. and she was middl
-, willin to do her part, too, ez fur as h
10. gifts wud low her to go, and yit
of sed it had alwas peered 10 him to
300 turrible resky bizniss fur him to lie;
six altogether on her. fur he had found o
ms more than wunst, that wimmin WI
1lo sumtimes backslide ez well as me
When he was up and around, he Off
found hisself a begrudgin the quartz
idge he paid. but whenever he W
at down on the fiat ov his back sick. al
in dident kno ez hede ever hav chan
,an to lissen to preechin agin. he W
70 purity apt to be glad that he had b
a member ov meetin ez long as he Ia
~. Kalup Chiller sed he was only po
Fri. weak wurm Ov the dust. ez he W
lift alwas sure to find out whenever he h
led a boss trade. but he wud heap ruth
an be in his own shoes than In kapt
'c.. Pusher's. And. still, it was turrii
~. satisfakshun to him TO kno that he b
"a. a woman fur his kumpanyun who W
90 thru the rain any time to bile con
or make popcorn balls to help I