Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-11-03

about that dream. Every single night fur
two weeks or mo- it cum 10 me at about
the same hour. but I couldn't sit the ole
woman to believe in it. The number OF
possums went mp from "a TO p, and they
was an the biggest and latest varmints
go ever sot eyes on. Tom Bailey cum
over twice and 1 told him about EN-. but
he lest smiled and patted me on the head
and said I'd git over bein' Eighty arter
awhile. a cried and begged of him to go
over some night and stop up that hole
and captur everythin i'm the log, but he
ana the ole woman smiled at each other
and he went away lafiin.'
You were probably little light-headed,"
] said. as he smoked I'm silence and looked
zap at the grim Cumberland range.
'Mehbc L was and mabbe 1 wasn't"
he quietly replied. The last dream 1 had
bout them possums was one stormy
uiehL I dreamt a rock rolled down hill
ag1iu the end Of that log and stopped it
up with the hull Is fat varmints sound
asleep in thar I woke up and SEE to the
ole woman. SEE L:
II yo luv me so fur Tom Bailey the
fust thing arter daylight i'm the mornin
Mo 'possums? seq she.
They ar an i'm the log with the hole
stopped up, and Tom has only to take
along his axe TO git 2S of en-
Right i'm the log. eh?'
'laas. right i'm the log but they may
guaw ont befo' evening if ne don't go
over. Tharu Doe foteen 'possums apiece
fur u.s.
'Zeb, says the ole woman with a grin
on her face. thar's another dream I wish
yo'd dream fur q change.
What's that?'
Dream that yo' ar the father of
twins and that the babies ar both boys an
ar as red headed as Jake Holbrook?'
You won't go FUR Tom Bailey
'Of co'se notZeb. yo' ar actin like a
boy TO years OLE and if YOU wake me up
again' and keep ON with this fussin' IN
gi- mad about it,. Haint yo 'shaned to
Doe sheddiu tears2
"I can't help it. I ten yo thar ar 2S
'possums i'm that we're log"
And L tell go I'm gwine TO move that
log Of yo'rs a bit and then yo' want 10
shet up and go TO sleep, It's bad nun o
hev man dreamin bout 'possums and
holer logs and maxim extra trUbble?'
well. how did it come out?" 1 asked
Zeb. as ne looked down at his feet and
smiled.
III didn't git out o. the house till March,
he replied after q while. FL had nuthin'
90 say bout 'possums. but as soon as the
snow went of and / could use "a par o.
crutches / sot out one day fur Chestnut
Springs. 10 was long pull and I didn't
gin thar tiIl noon. Thar lay the big log,
jest as I knowed it laid and jest as I'd
dreamed about it q dozen times. and right
at the end of il. stoppiu mp the hole, was
q rock that had rolled down HILL
And so-so''-
"Jist hold on mint 7 was lOlin that
log over when Tom Bailey cum along with
his axe looking fur crotch. I sot him TO
work 90 split the log open. and what we
found in the holer was the dead bodies of
cS 'possums. Yes. sah-'zactly 2> and of
cose they was fur gone with decay. 1
looked at Tom and SEE 20 him, SEE /:
Wall. didn't I dream it?'
.Duru my hide. but yo' did sez he"
"They was right we're fur yo.
So they was, but 1 thought yo' was
crazy
.I cut Off the paws and carried them
home 90 the ole woman, said Zeb. "and
when I flung them down befo her and
axed If I should dream bout red headed
twin bows She jest went red and white,
and couldn't say n word-uot word"
"Weu that was "a queer thing-your
dream and the way it came OUT I said,
as we rose TO up.
.Yaas. sorter queer" ne replied. "sor-
ter queer. Jes' shows what the Lawd will
DO sometimes fur man i'm trubble. and
also what o. critter loses when he can't
make his ole woman believe he knows
what he's dreamiu' about. Tweuty-eight
bic. fat 'possums; and all dead and with
less. Shoe, Shoe"