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


Iia-savedt breath. for they w all th<
fuore obsas pIous. Two i46 hippo'
cannrious yciing ones 4 set my
| EYES onfer n sspeIl, fhnt III: 's NJ
NV friend stopped N think over fliese
failings 81 these young people while
| nientnll attacked the ort hograplay "a
xhc two new words will which he had
lAnriched my vocabulary.
NY used To ~ good place W hunt
duck in the ponds over ycn way tel
I.sumcd the story teller, present. y, AN
| lot of young felIcSs used to come down
| from town i'm the fall to waste gum
| powder an have i good time for . few
days
Zone D. these was a big Teller that
locked as if he might be dom better
than tramp around with gun an 4
dog, for he looked as il he could do \
Big days work if he wanted to. lin
hunters used to come to our house m
to Bramwell's an stay day Or two &
sometimes week. They vas
handed with their money, aIl
o'sliked some o. EN-, but w1 - 4
to be whispered around a 4
that this big feller-hiS III 4 \ i
browning, Hugh, the bd "A a. 4 Id
was a-castin' sleeps eyer III n N Az
Betsy Bramwell, Isee at once lII 1IetF6
was more danger thar ever III Sli1'
plans miscarryin'. sllss Ne
II went over to Jud's an looked ut
the lay q the land one day, when young
Browning was there, and see that he
was clean took up with Betsy. I thought
she knowed 1t, too, but she was purity
sly about it, an didn't let on very
much.
II spoke to Jud about it, an he an his
wife an me an my wife got together
an tried to fix up plan to stop mat
tiers from goin' any further.
1--WE didn't see our way very plain,
but trusted to Providence for some
thing to turn up, an sure enough,
something did, for Hugh Browning got
shot one day, an hurt so bad that he
couldn't be took back to the city for
weeks. Our house was the nearest
one where the accident happened, an
they brought him there, an there he
laid, helpless as babe, for weeks.
Ills folks come down from the city
an they said never mind expenses, an
his sister staid with him an his mother
come out every day or two, an his IA
Their twicet O week, an such to-do you
never did see.
Betsy was Almost distracted, an
Ifugh asked for her as soon as he come
to, an as we all thought he was done for
we thought 'twant no difference any
way, and SO we had Betsy come over.
Betsy an Hugh's sister took to each
other right away an got to be great
friends. We finally see how things was
liable to go, and that he was more'n Ii
able to get well, an SO Jud kept Betsy
away as much as lie could an be decent
about it, an she begun to pine to shad-
der. We talkcdlit over during the time
that Hugh laid there, an concluded
that it would be the best thing all
around to break up the match afore it
was made. Betsy was only coun-'
try girl, an Hugh was city-bred boy,
an we knowed that even if he now
thought he wanted to marry Betsy,
honorable like, he would get tired of
her an' likely misuse her or neglect her
when he see her alongside the uppity
city girls with their feathers an fur
bellows.
$50 Jud an Mis- Bramwell told her
she had better not pay any more atten-
ton to Hugh nor let him to her, an
when she didn't want to mind what |
was said to her, Jud jest put his foot
down an told her that she couldn't go |
to see him any more, and that ended
It, for Jud' is powerful set when he
rets set
Il never see girl go down hill as
fast as Betsy did for awhile. She looked |
as if she'd lost her las friend, and her |
Eyes got dim an her whole natur'
seemed changed.
MY Dan1 Webster went over to see
her once in awhile, an he told me what |
ne thought about things in sech Ian
yuage as I wouldn't dast a-used to my |
father when | was 40 years old. 1t |
was the first time ever heerd Dan'l |
Webster use unscript'ral language, but |
Il wasn't the last, for he often said |
things that / never see in the cate |
.Lism, when he got to talkin' about
Betsy.
Then change seemed grady to
come over the huh crowd. Hugh's sis
ter brought down a girl friend from
the city, for company, she said, hut /
knowed thing or two myself, an see
hat she was brought down for COM
pany for Hugh, so as to give his sister
chance to get out O. doors once in
'while, for he was fnicky to an on
reasonable extent. though suppose he
was to be excused, for il must a-been