The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-19
HER THIRD HUSBAND.
He Was Very Handy to Have Around
In Certain Critical Emergencies.

w. j. hampton, in New York Sun:
The woman at the gate of the
mountain farm house was an unusual
type of mountain woman, in that she
was enormously large of frame, and
had the flesh to match it, so that she
must have weighed 200 pounds at the
least She was good looking, too, al
belt her hair was inclined to be red,
and there was a snap in her and in
her voice that Eoded i'll for the person
provoking her. She told me l 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
of the table. After the meal she
hustled the man out on the farm again
as if she had hired him, and 4 sat GOWN
in the shade to smoke a pipe before
riding on
My husband wanted to smoke
around the house." she said, but 1
wouldn't let him.
L beg your pardon" 1 responded,
taking my pipe out of my mouth.
Keep right on, she said, disappear
ing in the house and coming out again
in a minute with clay pipe.
Il wouldn't keer to hev a film NV
yer store terbacker myself; I git
kinder tired Nv long green"
AS she filed and lit her pipe she
went on:
Hit looks kinder funny, mebbe,''
she said, ito see me smokin' and not
let Jim smoke, but he amt gotter
bit Nv control over hisself, an thar's
no tellin' how lazy he'd git eff 1 let him
set round smokin' all the time. Smok-
in is powerful lazyin eff you've ever
noticed
[ confessed the soothing qualities of
the weed, and branched out on the
subject of her husband
rs he your first?" 1 inquired mildly.
well, no." she laughed. 'TG be
plumb ashamed Nv myself eff I couldn't
do no better'n that the fust time. He's
my third, an I needn't a tuck him, l
reckon, eff hadn't been sorter
obleeged to him fer favors."
May / inquire what kind of favors
a gentleman could show a lady that
would impose such an obligation upon
her?" 1 said, very politely, so she
would not think 1 was poking fun at
her.
'Well,'' she said, hesitatingly, "ef I
jist ketch yore idee he saved my life,
an / thought hit wasn't no more'n fair
to shere hit with him when he asst me
to-"
But how could a Duny little fellow
like he is save the life of such a big,
strong woman as you are?'
That's what 1 would "a thought
eff hit hadn't achally happened. Hit
was about two year ago, an he'd been
workin' fer me about two year, an
kinder hintin' around az eff he might
be akin me some day. an l list
laughed. fer l knowed / didn't want no
small package like him. Well, one
day I was up nj the field whar he was
workin', an all at onct a copperhead
swung round on log an bit me in the
hand. l amt Altered Nv nothin' like
| am Nv of snakes, an l jist kerfium-
mixed an fell over an pore little Jim
couldn't "a packed me home to "a
saved his life. Well 1 come to after
awhile, an thar wuz Jim with his
mouth to whar the snakes teeth had
gone in, an he had plum sucked every
drap Nv Dizen out an / wuz able ia
set I'D while he went an got a wagon
to haul me home in, fer I wuz that
shook up I couldn't a walked a-tall
But my life wuz saved. an when Jim
axed me to marry him Iefelt obieeged
to him fer favers, as 1 told you. AN !
jist tuck him. Jim amt no great
shakes, mebbe, fer a husband, but