The Opelousas courier., 1896-02-29

about how the old lady Singleton hell
her own with the Rrittenham boys and
win the fight hands down.
Bad Medicine in Big Doses.
1t come to pass along In the Christmas
and Now Year tir,es last year that Bob
Brittenham and Miss Net Singleton
went and got married. Now the Brit.
tenham boys are famous in this coantry
for GOVERN all the ground and travellin
all the gaits. Everything from a scrub
horse race to a free-for-all fight goes
with them. They are all bad medicine
and tremendous big doses of it.
1t had only been three weeks to the
day since Bob and Miss Not got married
when the Brittenham boys went to a
horse race somewheres down in the Flat
Woods and got into a free and bloody
fight with the Tomlinsons, which the
Tomlinson boys they was also hot stuff
and a whole passle of it.
That was one horse race which l
didn't 60 and see, whereas ] can't give
all the facts and wherefores in regards
to the terrible scrape between the Brit.
tenhams and the Tomlinsons. But at
any rates, 1t seems like when the firm
ceased and the smoke cleared away
three of the Tomiinson boys had got
bad wounded and Bob Brittenham was
dead.
In them days it likewise also come to
pass that the finest plantation on Deer
Creek belonged to Bob Brtttenham in
his own full name, and accordin to the
will he had made before he married the
plantation would belong to his wife
when he was dead and gone, SO long as
she lived, and then fall to their chill
dren when she died.
And by gatlins Bob Brittenham hadn't
been dead ton days before the other
Brittenham boys put in to buy Bob's
wilder off and git their fingers on that
fine plantation. They lowed under tho
will she couldn't claim nothin but her
lifetime interest, and since Bob didn't
leave no children the land would finally
at last revert back to his brothers any
how. They wanted to buy her out and
pay her what was right and proper for
her lifetime interest in the plantation.
In the mainline Miss Net, Bob's
wilder, had went back to live with her
mother, and ! knowed good and well
that when the game come down to a
pinch it would lay between the Britten-
ham boys on one side and the old lady
Singleton on tho other. There was
some powerful fine pints in the game,
and whilst it was none of my business I
couldn't help from watchin the ''docu-
ments" clost and constant.
One Woman's Business Sense.
cit is a monstrous pritty game if the
cards will but only run right" says I to
mother one night after supper, ''and
there is plenty OF nerve on both sides.
But as for me, l will give odds of three
to one and bet on the old lady Singleton.
If the Brittenham boys didn't have to
buck agin nobody on the other side but
Bob's wilder they maybe mought beat
her out. Miss Net is young in regards
to the ways of this world anyhow, and
besides that her heart is broke now on
account of poor Bob's death.
"But the old lady Singleton she amt
gone nowheres, and if 1 recollect right
she put off her widder's weeds more
than twenty years ago. When it comes
to a strong and knotty business pint she
has got more sense than most any man
I have ever saw, and she can see further
on ahead into the dim and distant future
than any other old lady in the round
created world. Accordin to my figura-
ton, for oncst the Brittenham boys
have met their match. Let the game
60 bravely on. We can wait and watch
and see."
That was in the Christmas and New
Year times last year, and l didn't know
for certain how the Brittenham boys
had come out Of the game till one day
last week. But / then got some news
from over there in the hill country
which goes to show that they got beat
at every pint, whilst the old lady Sin
gleton win the game hands down.
From what the hill country people
saw. it would seem like the old lady
soon got so she wouldn't let Bob's wild
der talk to the Brittenham boys about
that plantation on Deer Creek. When
thew come to see their brothers wilder
the old lady she would go out and do
the talkin and keep Miss Net busy in
the kitchen. AS time went on the Brit
tenham boys got restless and mad and
threatened to go to law with the case.
But the old lady told 'em they could
non their whips and pitch in. You have
heard people say that. time is a mighty
good lawyer, and old Misses Singleton
she was playing for time.
It now comes to psss that there is q
little stranger over at the Singleton
place. It was two or three weeks be-
fore Christmas when she opened her
baby blue eyes on the wonders OF this
world. In general experiments she IS
the very spitten image OF poor Bob
B%rittenham, and they have named her
Bob for him. Naturally of course old
Misses Singleton and Miss Net they think
the onlyest baby in the whole discoy-
red country is right there at their
house.
And the other Brittenham Buys, where
IRE they? Thoy are still brnisin around
In the settlement. but they don't W 2
bit moro land down on Deer