The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-30

group was big enough, she rested her
mead on Ineodore's shoulder. and mourn
FULLY sCbbed out. Uncle Cole were a.
ways decent to me q" SUNDAY was ~ Az.
set for the funeral. consequently Fm0,g
lines admirers we're expected 10 go ont m,
that day They were met at the ststion
by a small boy Familiarity known as
ragged jim He greeted them with q
smile, and inquired. Gentlemen 7 bc,as
you has brought your weepings?" They
proved this by bringing forth two razors
ana a pistol Then Ragged Jim escorted
the drlstocrattc contingent to The house
Emmeline and Sis. the oldest sister. had
evidently had quarrel. for they were sit.
ting one at one end, and one at the other
end of poor Uncle Coles coffin. Uncle
Cole himself had frequently told me-
Nanny she had had fifteen head of
children but al the funeral only thirteen
We're present In time, the preacher an
peared on the scene, and TO Emmeline
CONSERVATION, was seized by Sis who
talked TO him for long time after which
/ he suggested that the funeral now bs
started with the solemnity due the occa-
sion. Emmeline and Theodore walked To-
gether, while the gentlemen with the
'Weeplngs' We're just behind them The
children all seated. the preacher began.
SISTER Chloe, weep; your father is dead.
Brother Juniper, weep; your father IL
I
dead! This was kept up until twelve
We're named, and Emmaline was left out
| There was an insult she would not stand.
| and so she raised up in all her majesty
and her Grape veil, and asked: rs l ask
in too much when l dequires why l am
left out?"
At the other end of the bench stood up
Sis with the answer: Uncle Cole. he
We're none of your father"
Back came the Tetort from Emmeline
i knowed he weren't: Use got the best
blood of the south in MY veins: Use al
ways knowed il, but Uncle Cole, he were
always good to me, and unless l am prop
erly treated at this funeral, ! don't go for
| to give one cent toward payin' the preach
er or the undertaken" This threat prob
ably induced the preacher to interfere. for
| he said: Sister, let US have no descrimi-
nations" The funeral went on quietly
! after this, poor Uncle Cole was put in his
last resting place, and the family returned
/ to the house, where there was the usual
/ dinner to serve. Theodore positively de-
clined TO partake of the feast, "Kase he
| never eat after woman cookin'." This hit
/ at the cooking made all the blood of all
/ the Coles boil in Sis's veins She told
! Theodore that Emmeline was a demorali-
| cation, that without a wedding ring she
| had two small boys. Emmeline came to
| the front with the expressive reply, so
1 has, an what is you dom to keep en-?
/ The state in which Use a free citizen is a
| carin' for them two dlnKeys."
After this the ''weepings" were used.
| the mourning garments were torn to rags.
/ Ragged Jim was made happy, and late
/ that night-a sight for a painter-Emme-
/ line came home and greeted her Missy
with chuckle and the information that
de funeral was great success. We rep
| resented de 'Stocracy, de borrowed vail
am tattered, we got de better in de fight,
| I'll have nothing more to do with any of
| de Cole family, and not one cent of my
money shall go to pay de preacher and de
undertaken, an he needn't to count on II,
| kase he can't take up the coffin, and he
| can't have me Took away by the police
| man, kase Theodore said, as how If I
weren't Uncle Coles daughter and so
| publicly denounced as such, the law
couldn't tech me, but does hope, Missy,
/ that somebody will give Sis and Chloe
the best lashin they has ever had"
! The real southern darby is a JOY for
| ever in her use Of words. Emmeline was
J very dlgnified as far as pronunciation
/ went. The last time I saw her she had
! entered into the marital state, uniting
/ herself with gentemanly Whitewater
commonly known Tommy Jenkins.
/ Matrimony had not changed her. She in
| vited me- when / called on her, to have
| a milk punch, and on my declining it she
said: "Oh, do have it, little Missy; the
milk came from an elderly cow" Ten
minutes hard thinking made me at last
understand that Emmeline was not dis
| paraging the milk as coming from
an old fountain, but pra:sing it
] as coming direct from a beau
! tiful Attorney. However, the new
! generation of darkys is not like the old,
and il is a pity The old one was so fun
/ of joy; was so happy and 50 eager to have
/ everybody else happy that 1t is pity for
/ ~ Il ,o vrybo !
my father and me, who had been my
| grandmother's aid and who sleeps At
/ the feet of my grandmother, was a conf
/ mon type throughout the south, but you
don't see that type nowadays. The new
/ maid yearns for false teeth and a trunk;
she is fond of medicine, and likes to so to
| a white doctor.
She wants the hymns that are printed
in books and no longer composes them to
meet the demands of the hour. AS | say
this seem TO hear the voice of Emmeline
announcing in clear tones:
de rocks an de mountains will all fade
away,
An we will have a new hidin' place that
day"
Just why Emmeline should long for a
| new hiding place on the resurrection day,
/ she does not know, but it sounds We'll
and the words adapt themselves to the
| tune.
We have told so many stories that we
| have forgotten that we were going to Jim
| Philip Gudgins' funeral. Uncle Timothy
! has driven us around by the village, and
we are at home before we know it. l do
not think Uncle Timothy wanted to 90
| into the graveyard, and Mis- Tomlinson
says Mrs. Jim Philip is a woman with
no emotions, so there would not have been
! much pleasure"
sic transit gloria mundi." This is
! about the only Latin 1 know, and l trust
] you can translate it, because you are
! surely better UP in Latin and everything
! else than is Bah.
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