The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1896-12-31
JAN PEARCE'S VISIT.


20 zee the girt houses Yew doan't zqy zos
Twas when was a-courtin Hannah Yeo,
who was ono Of the maidens up to the old
squire's.
Zays Hannah to me one Zunday after
noon as we was a-walkin down Coombe
lano wi my right arm round about her
waist, and her left arm round about mine,
leastways var as 'twould go-not gallyin
one another wi tew much talk, but quiet
like, as Is the custom Of them as goes
a-courtin In our parts-zays Hannah to
me all of a zuddep like, 20 Zudden that
was minded, bein retirin zort o. man, to
vail down the ditch I was chat zhook.
"Jan," zays zhe. "I'll niver go to church
along o. yew, however much yew may
plague me wi your pressin Zentences" U
hadn't 20 much as give worth word vor
a good half hour) "till yew can put me
into house like lady"
"Like a ladyl" gays /.
"Iss fay" zays zhe.
"Yew doan't name house like
zquire'sS" zaysI
"Not 20 girr," zays zhe, "but must be
surrounded by the 'menities OF an advanced
civilization"
"Lor' "a mussyl" gays l. "what ever
do yew maneS"
"Well, gays zhe, 81 heard Miss Charlie
zay 20 when they was a-talkin about her
beau, and how they was to live when they
was wed, and wonder yew zhould be 20
vulish as to ask what name. Yew must
be downright mazed."
Dang me-" zays /, but twas down In
my innards, "if zhe knowed what her
named herself" Outwardly in manner of
zpakin I zays to Hannah, "Now, If yew
a. I.& L.. IL
and just zee how GO looks midst them
'menities of civilization might DRAW in
some notion Of what yew expec's me to
pervide."
"Yew'm m CROWN powerful DARN, JAM"
|, zays zhe "Well, II your zoul can du VII
out wood OH Zunday mornin, and yew
doan't mind chancin gallyin vrom pa son,
yew can come up wheo the volks be at
church, and I'll show zee what NAME
Not that wants zactly what yew'll zee,
but zomethin like It, and that tell ee. -
10, when Zunday mornin comes round,
and I'd put on my best breeches, and the
bleu coat with brase buttons that was
feyther's and a birdseye neckercher that
went twice round the course, as the zayin
is, just gives the church and pa son the
60 by and slips up the girt house. Hannah
was a-waitin vor me round by the ztables,
and her zmuggled me in at the back door,
through long DRAWN passage like the
tunnle o. the new railway, into the girt
hall, wi a pawn vor all the world the
zame as the Lunnon measurin man put
down in our chancel; then through door
wi curtain draae all across un into the
big dra'in room.
"Mussy Iner' gays / as my yeet went
squelchin into zummat as zoft as clotted
crane, "yew never expec's carpet In our
cottage, Hannah, that veels as though yew
was walkin OH rotted turmuts, do 'eep And
chairs and sofles," gays, "wi' legs like
the golden caalfY Yew doant want zum-
mat like thisf" zays, as zat down ON q
zquabbed, puffy lookin thing where dree
yolks could zit all co once, like tho cher
rihims under our Won't, and nary one o.
'em be comfortable like wi either o. 10th
ers. 1t was that jumpy, tew that when
mt down heayylike was we'll nigh zhot
/ right OF again.
And then the pictur's a-haDgin on a
golden rod, all In vrames of zolid gold
pictur's as made modest man 90 red
from his bobnails to his hair. they was that
naked! The wust of 'em all, which had
the name Of "Zuzannah, draa ed out I'm
print underneath un, they had had tho
uSCeuCy nibk UP III udTk CNFDucT.
"ZuZanDab's" 'incnities of civilization
was just notbin and minded me O. what
zquire hisself zaid as or drove through
Kerswell pike and asked where old Zally
had gone. "'Please. zur, they've give her
a Shift" zays the new keeper "And
DANCED useful thing tew sometimes, ~ zays
zqure, wi girt laafe, and useful, thinks
I, 'twould ha' been for "Zuzannah.
And then the stachery, as Hannah called
the gashly white vigures a-standn about,
mindin Do;hin, on marble columns!
Twas "a mussiyal providence, Hannah"
i gays, THAT made the Wig tree To flourish
down in Devon.
As to the chaney, 'twould have filled q
score q kitchen dressers VII animals as
Noah could never IA dreamed on. Why,
one % 'em in IA back yard up tew Ply
mouth town would have vairly vrghted
every convict rs ever got loose up to Darty-
moor. And the glasses with tho zun on
em-a-zhipin and a-dartin blue, red and
yellow for all the world like the Reyela-
ton.
And across one CORNER of the room there
was a misshaped thing on YOUR legs, like
a table a-twist with the rheumatic, and all
along 'ees broadcast end hundreds and thou
sands of grt black and white teeth, and
yew gi'ed un a laish and co yowled like a
bulldog.
'Well, Hannah zays I when us got
into the stable yard again and / had
washed down zum o. the wonderment with
q draft o. zQuire's zider and mouthed
piece o. currandy keake, do 'ee mane,"
2ays /, "to wait maid till 'ee gets all
thicky therc?"
"No, yew girt guckoo!' zays zhe II
told 'ee 20 avore. But III come to no cot
tage wi only "a brick vloor and naught
humanizin about 'un, as Miss Charlie
zays."
10 the end o. 1t Is that Hannah and
has carpet like Zolomon I'm his glory, and
hangin around the walls on little brase
hooks and little brase nails is pictur's o.
Jan the Baptist, and the Marys to the
zepulcher, and the twelve 'postles, all
draa'e out as nachral as ever you zee.-
Sketch.
Story Of Millais.