The Opelousas courier., 1896-01-04

that as his nara,
"WhoE It was all over with he wan tod
70 Know what in the thunderatious was
the matter, and all l could say was
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Well, sir,
nobody would of thought II. but blamed
1t he didn's pull out plug Of the bull
list stofe-bought stuff l have 1bpped q
lip on in many a day, aai cat mo OF a
full saaa:o. Inside 81 tn e minits I
ssd come to my senses, and se shook
hands and parted frienda
But reme-bet what I tell you, RUFF.
Doat you never start off to take no
long trips on a blamed old mule by the
name of Beck without plenty of tobacco
in your breaches"
Some News From Panther Crsek.
Aunt Nancy Newton driv by one day
last week on her return back home from
Bunk Weatherford's. She tarried and
remained over long enough to take a
social family smoke with pe, and when
she went away she left a big bundle OF
news from down on Panther Creek.
THE folks in our settlement are
mostly God-fearin people, Rufus" says
+he dear. delightful old soul between
the pufs of blue smoke from her pipe,
and they are multiplyih and replsn.
ishin the earth accordin. Right along
in durin Of the last three weeks thirteen
new babies have come into our midst to
face the trials and troubles and tribu-
lations OF this vain and feetin world, as
it were. Misses Strickland-Dunk's wife
she was the first one to show down,
and as you and Blew and Andy would
say, she helt a pair of jacks, which is to
say, two boys. Next come John Ar.
drew Newton's wife-Sallie Stringer as
she use to be-and she likewise also
laid down a pair. but they was queens,
you understand, two girls. That's four.
Then Will Tom Pickense's wife-Rose-
bud Buckalew that use to be-and she
jest naturally took the rag and pulled
up the bush by comm across with three
at one trip-two boys and a girl. That's
seven. Well, then, first one of the
neighbors and then another had log.
rollins at their house till there was Ave
more babies in the settlement. And
that's thirteen.
"They are all mighty poor down there
Rufus, in regards to this worlds goods.
But they don't mean no harm by that,
and they walk upright and blameless
in the commandments as best they can.
II it want for the children all the good
ness in the human race would soon wash
out anyhow, and whilst I Amt in that
branch OF the business, it makes my old
heart glad to see the earth multiplied
and replenished reglar and frequent.
Whats past helpin should be past
weepin, as the old sayin runs, but I do
wish in my soul the whole thirteen was
mine and I could live long enough to
see 'em all grown and married and set
tied off in thirteen different homes"
The "IIappiest and Most Luckiest."
Old man ghade Walton is now about
the happiest as we'll as the ugliest and
most luckiest man in our settlement"
Aunt Nancy went or presently.
1.-The old man went up & the county
fair the other day and wheli he come
back home he had a five dollar VII in gold
hid away in his sock. He~ncefo-wards af-
ter that he aintdone q blessed thing but
trapse around the settlement rhowin
everybody his new money anS tellin
how he got it. He never WHIT and he
didn't find it, but whilst up there seem
of the sights he met up with a man from
somewheres over in Georgy, which he
was a rank blank stranger to old man
Shade.
"My friend, says the man from
Georgy soo as eyer he clapped his
eyes on Shade Walton, l have got five
dollars in gold which belongs to you.
1t was guy to me forty years ago by
my grandfather, and he told me II 1
ever mel up with a man that was ~ulslier
than me l must pass it on down the
line. The money is yours. Here 1t is.
Take it and be happy.
SWELL, naturally Of course, old man
Shade he took the money. He couldn't
do nothin else convenient. And I reckon
by rights it belongs to him, cause he If
the sorriest lookin man I have aver saw,
and bless gracious he is ugly enough to
wean a mule colt"
When Thanksgivin comes I will have
a heap of things to be thankful for.
But I will return particlar thanks to the
good Lord that my Aunt Nancy Newton
amt pone nowheres.