The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1896-11-30
SHE TOOK HIM.
rhe Reason why, likewise Her Opinion
Of Him.

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OF Eims
The woman at the gate OF the
mountain farmhouse was an unuEral
tvpe OF mountain woman, In that
she was enormously large Of frsma
and had the flesh to match lii so that
she must have weighed 200 pounds
of the least. She was good looking,
too, albeit her tPir was inclined 20
be red, and there was snap In her
eve and in her voice that boded III
for the person provoking her. She
told me / could get my dinner In
half an hour, and by that time her
husband, a man not half her size
and almost young enough to be her
son. Joined us and sat at the foot or
the table. After the meal she hus-
tied the man out ON the farm again
as il she had him hired, and Sas
down in the shade to smoke a pipe
before riding on.
my husband wanted to smoke
around the house, she said, but
wouldn't let him..
''I beg your pardon" Responded,
taking my pipe out of my mouth.
Keep right on, she said, disap-
pearing in the house and coming out
again in q minute with clay pipe.
''I wouldn't keer to have q allin dv
YER store terbacker myself. ! git
kinder tired NV long green. y
As she filled and lit her pipe she
went on:
"Hit looks kinder funny, mebbe,
she said, Ito see me smokin an not
let Jim smoke, but he amt gotter
bit nv control over hisself, an thar 9
no tellin how lazy he'd git ct let
him set round smokin all the time.
Smokin is powerful lazyin ef you We
ever noticed.
/ confessed to the soothing quail
ties of the weed and branohed out
on the subject of her husband.
"Is he your frst?" I inquired
mildly.
''Well, no, she laughed. "I'd be
plum ashamed NV myself of
oouldn't t do no better'n that the fust
time. He's my third, an I needn't
tuck him, I reckon, eff hadn't been
sorter obleeged to him fer favers."
MAY I inquire what kind of fa
vors a gentleman could show lady
that would impose such an obliga
ton upon her?" said very politely
so she would not think was pokinG
fun at her.
"Wen, she said hesitatingly, e
/ Just ketoh yore idee, he saved m.
life, an I thought hit wasn't n
more'n far to sheer hit with hin
when he asst me to.
But how could puny little fel
low like he is save the life of such
big, strong woman as you are?"
"That's what would "a though
eff hit hadn acshally happened. III
was about two year ago, an he
been workin fer me about two yea
an kinder hintin round ez of /
might be akin me some day, an
jist laughed, fer | knowed I didn
want no small packages like hin
Well, one day was up in the fie,
whar he was workin, an all to on
copperhead swung round on IL
an bit me in the hand. amt afee
ed Nv nothin like am Nv snakes, {
I iist kerdummixed an fell over, {
pore little Jim couldn't "a packed n
home to "a saved his life. Well,
come to after while, an thar w
Jim with his mouth to whar &
snakes teeth had gone in, an
had plum sucked every drap nv ]
zen out, an wuz able to set
while he went an got wagon
haul me home in, fer / wuz til
shook up I couldn't "a walked t q
But my life wuz saved, an when j
axed me to marry him I felt obleeg
to him fer favers, as told you, al
Just tuck him. Jim amt no grC
shakes mebbe fer a husband,
he'll be mighty handy to ha
round the house in case nv snak
an this is powerful neighborhc
fer snakes, - which knew to be
truth, for had seen 100 rattlers a
copperheads within a month
J. Hampton in New York Sun.