The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-12-11

year. VA 60 UP thtEe lotticS A
utI come back feeiin' as A !
swarm D beessiri my head an
won't go there,ag'in till 4 have
,lsuppose the growth Of the city has
.ded to the value Of your land some
what?" N
I Yes, oh, yes; 4 ain't got q word tc
say as to that, though when a man has
la farm an lives on it, it don't make
\ much difference what the lands wuth
as long a. prices Of products don't SO
up
Really was too lazy to discuss any
/ question and for a space silence fell be
! tween rs. I noted his hard hands,
Ibis kindly sun-tanned face, his Int, EVIL
IDENTIFY bought for dollar back toward
the silurian period somewhere, but l
did not feel like talking.
Eyes, me an Jud. Bramwell come
here nigh onto. As year ago." said my
companion atlast, as if he had been re-
viewing his life. 1--WE had mighty lit
tie money, an we was glad enough to
tackle the rich soil nm try to lay by
something for the comm time when we
should want to rest"
| .You succeeded, suppose r" It
Iscemed impossible for me to get out of
the interrogativc manner Of my forefa-
theirs, and am not certain but there
was an inherited prolongation Of the
word 'syeaou'' that sounds so delicious
TO the ear and looks so dreadfully awful
in print. "Dreadfully awful is a
phrase learned from our Office girl. by
the way.
sW-e-l-l, we didn't do so drefful bad
III the end, though judi got rather the
best Of it, all on account Of his daugh-
ter Betsy" admitted my new acquain-
ance, after moment spent in critical
examinatio Of q fragment Of the will
low twig.
.How did she help him out?" asked
with some real interest, for have
learned that all the good stories in the
world are not in print. ! was anxious,
too, to learn how -.Jnd got rather the
best of it."
You sec, Jud. an had allus been
good friends an come out here toget Their
an our children growed up together on
the prairie an we sorter calc'lated on
some on 'em marryin' each other when
they got old enough an our wives
thought it would be pretty good plan
for my Danl Webster to marry Bran
wells Betsy, bein' as they was the old
est of our children and nearly the same
age. Lee see" and he paused, and
taking off his hat ran his hand around
over the back of his head as if feeling
for some fact that had got lost on the
shelves of memory.
1--WE come here in the fall of 81" he
said musingly, can the Camps an the
Bakers come out in 81, cause know it
was the year of the panic, an three
years later l married Sary Camp, an
the next fall Jud married Lucy Baker.
That must a-been in go. Yes, recollect
now 1t was the year Lincoln run for
president, an l belonged to a wide
awake comp'ny an went prancin' aroun'
with tin lamp on pole, an one night
remember there was speech over to
the village an we had the biggest time
ever heerd of. Say, are you old
'gh to remember the wide-awakes?"
knowledged dim and misty recol- |
of those days.
m was the times" he asserted,
yhis hand on his knee and with
carefully caressing that mem
lediately after this display of
ism. Them was the times
,1itioc xrac raolifirc fa11 x,o,,
- Teller" But l did not want
told, and suggested that he was
to tell me about Betsy Bran
1 was jest figgerin' it up" he
oming back to his story. "Dan'l
r was born in the fall of So,
that was the year when listed |
doctor throwed me out an said
'dn't live year. Betsy was born
t sRring, an remember as well
Jas yesterday, the mornin' when |
eamwell come over before break |
4 said: See here, 81, I've got a
V that boy of yourn over to my |
an that was the way it all |
be planned that Dan1 Webster
marry Betsy some time. Wy
S 80 years ago." he exclaimed, as
king problem had just been |
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was long time ago." ven
he assentcd, "time flies, an it |
GEMS few days ago that my boy |
Z BramweIrs girl was running
r
my such trick now. Betsy was
'he.slickest girls ever see. i |
say that she got the color of |