St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-07-11

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Now in them days it also come 70
osss-in less time than week alter the
storm At Reed Level church-that they |
had the most gonebyest wctidin smash.
mo and scandalatioh ever heard seaa
of or read about, I do reckon.
The news had been goin about for
lonx time to the general extent thas
Tim Logan and Miss Babe Skinner
would soon jine their right hands and
work out the sum wherein you add two
together and il don't make but one.
II people in general thought ns macn
Of men as they do of horses-lf tney
would put up large reward Tor the
hest man ut the next state fair, would
enter Tim Logan for first money ana
land the pile Ms smooth and easy Is
pickin it up in the big road. Inn
stands six feet two inches in his SOCKS
and pulls up the beam at $50 Pounos'
risin weight. But. at the same time, no
is straight and round and smooth as
the butt cut from hickory tree. NM
hair is black and curly, his eyes are
blue and bright and his skin as white
as milk. To anybody that dont0o"
Tim Logan it is 4 thousand wonders
that he didn't git married long ago.
But to them that know him the where
fores and the whenceness thereofstands
out Is plain rs q painted HORSEBACK IN
three acres of burnt woods. He is the
weakest and most scarryest man nave
ever saw in regards to girls and women.
He never could stand the very shadow
Of any lvin female human thing.
From general appearments ana wnat
little / have picked up around amongst
the neighbors, it would seem like the
weddin match which had heen worked
up between Tim Logan and Miss Bape
went on as nice and smooth a. batter
cakes and molasses up to the very last
pinch Of time, and then bless the
heavens II the mainest man didn't come
up missin. The news was first brung to
me on the lips Of white man by the
name Of Lucas-Andy Lucas can
tell itN ~ you n it was give unto me.
What makes the smashup 20 Internal
hard and hurtin on me, you understand.
Rufe," says Andy, II had put my own
finger right tolerable deep into the
wesldin pie. I had went in like the
blasted idiot, which am. and worked
things up to the stickin pint, as ]
thought, between Tim and Miss Babe.
.Now rs you know, Rufe, whilst &c
love to see the earth multiply and 70
plenish, for q common thing don't
|Rblow In any precious time to speak Of
3 bring on weddin matches for Other
beople. But I knowed and everybody
I knowed that Tim was dead gone. heeia
. over appetite in love with Miss Babe
J He never had told her 50, he never hae
. told me SO and he never had told any
boily 10. Hit WINS also plain as daylight
, that Miss Babe had some tender sprinl
like feelius for Tim. If Miss Mandy
Singleton was willin over ut Red Leve
! the other night, you understand, Rufe
], Miss Babe was more than wiliin. So
a went to work and got up two or thre
j picknics and moonlight parties and le
I down the fences between Tim and Mis-
n BABE. as it were, and then by doin
4 whole lot OF the courtin myself 60
{ things to swingin right"
mt the Han.strang Broke.
:, eve didn't 20 IN for no stavsn bl
church weddin, with.music and flower
! and fancy trimmlrs." Andy went OF
Il knowed blame well that Tim couldn
! stand anything like that, and didn
j want him to pull On the bits right
j the start. So we fixed it up to have
= Quiet little family weddin. with nobod
q there but me and the preacher and = fe
= II the kinnery ON both sides. Ans: the
a thinks to myself II the hamstrir
q kolds and the trees don't break m
. the breechin don't fly up there will
3 lappy times and plenty OF good Pick
I. over At the Skinner place when tn
n " eddin day comes.
= $50 after supper last night mount'
= NV horse and rid ON over to the Skinn
: place to shove up the chunks and .
- the thing well done. Everything W
= ready and waitin. Miss Babe she "
j. dr essed out OF sight and lookin 50 ire
a and sweet till by gatlins it made =
y mouth water to look at her. Present
1. the preacher rid mp and come in. =
~ then everybody was there but the ma
:. sst man. Tim Logan come up miss
=. We waited and waited till it want NO =
- 10 wait. Miss B.,be she cried.
"a preacher led in prayer, and l got
=. foamin mad till went out on the ba
4. p,rch and helt = private cussin mat
"A I'll alone with myself.
"A FINALLY at last I couldn't stand It
= longer. I then got on my horse q
"a rid over across the creek to see what
the thunderations had went with
mainest man. felt 70 creese fal
and furious till il had met Tim Loe
It in the road that night I have no do"
- but what = second-class funeral wo
he be Roin ON right now. But when
RS to the Logan place and dismounted
,rn went in Tim he was piled up in
fhe shakin and tremblin from head to II
He with his eyes bulged out till dadbur'
md II YOU couldn't of took stick
r,ked EN- on. Skeercd? Man. sir,
his was skeered in an inch Of his life,
me sweatin great drops Of cold persp
o." tion as big - your fist-
; to "At first I put right In to give
[iss my private opinions in raie str
lme United States language. but whez
gal smoke the words "Miss Babe" and ~
en- din" he jumped under the cover.
blamed II 1t didn't look like he w
rry shake the house down and die with
the spasms. To start with had 3
and hopes that I mought maybe rally
'urt around the old Aag oncst more, bS
pile was III pluperfect vanity. Rufe. He
'eed naturally couldn't come to the scra
not sTim Logan never win live 10 git :
nan ried, and II he does It Will XIII !
Ion. Al TO Miss Babe, reckon the r1enS
4tss will come along some OF these q
the and do hope she will be happy ne
title forwards and forevermcre. But IN
hich main time, Rufe, there II one man II
arts settlement that has forever ret
from the weddin business. You nm
vas stand, and his full name = Andy J
ana son Lucas" KUFCs SANDsl