Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1896-12-03

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father when I was 40 years old. Ii
was the first time ] ever heerd DAM
Webster use uDscript'ral language, but
it wasn't the last. for he often said
things that / never sec in the cate
cIIism, when he got to talkin' about
Betsy.
Then a change seemed grady to
come over the hull crowd. Hugh's sis
ter brought down a girl friend from
the city, for company, she said, but
knowed a thing or two myself, an see
that she was brought down for com
pany for Hugh, so as to give his sistes q
chance to get out o. doors once =
awhile, for he was finicky to IN ~
reasonable extent, though suppose Il
was to be excused. for il must a-beez
tiresome layin' there day after day.
"This city girl hadn't been down
n,ore'n week when noticed few
things. have allus KEEP my eyes open,
an amt allus asleepwhen they'reshet,
so noticed that Hugh was gettin' more
contented without seein' Betsy an that
Dan1 Webster was a-goin over TO Jud
Bramwell's oftener than was strictly
necessary.
ut took good deal of his time to
take Hugh's sister out to get some fresh
air, but purity soon noticed that he
allus had some excuse for soin' over to
Jud's at least once a day.
"I mentioned it to Jud, an he said he
could see that Betsy was gcttin' more
clipper than she had been for some
time, and it wasn't long ontiI you
wouldn't although to see her that she'd
ever heerd of Hugh Browning or
knowed that he was on earth. She
asked DanI Webster about how he
was a-gettin' along every time he come
over, but that was all, an the folks soon
noticed that she got to goin' to the
gate with Dan1 Webster every time he
come over, an I knowed then that
Betsy's fancy for young Browning had
jest been girls fancy for a stranger,
and am mighty glad ont for DanI
Webster's peace O. mind.
''My boy quit sayiE' anything about
Betsy an Hugh, an / could see that
Hugh was gettin' very friendly with
his sisters friend, an things begun to
look as if they were comm our way,
sure huff.
"After long time Hugh got able to
go back to the city, an, do you believe
it, he jest said, as he was a-goin' away:
Tell that Bramwell girl good-by for me.
some o. you folks Stranger, do We
know, / felt Almost like knockin' him
down, did, to have him keer so little
fer her SO blame soon after they had
been SO thick. But says to myself:
Wal, it's better SON fer 'em to "a got
married fore they both found it out
II had another o. them Chicago di-
vorce suits, as they would sure if Jud m
me hadn't put down our foot on their
spoonin'. Don't you think twas well
we did, now?"
I admitted that did think the joint
action of the two heads of the two
families had been most wise-though
I was fast losing interest in the story
in my disgust at the tickle lovers.
81 am willin' to own up now" he
after a moments ynedita-
ton, that was sorry to have him go
we'll enough to go. After got better
acquainted with him an found that he
wasn't a-goin' to interfere with our
plans, found out that he was pretty
good Teller, take him by an large, an
the day he went away felt as if had
lost horse. did, sure's you're born.
"It was gettin' along to'ards spring
by the time Hugh got away, an after
that Dan'l Webster and Betsy got along
together the best kind. They hadn't
never said a word about their inten-
tions, but we knowed what they was as
well as they did. an understood the hull
thing from a to lizard.
"One evenin' we all went over to
Jud's to spend the evenin', because it
was his birthday, an jest as we was
goin' to go home DanI Webster spoke
up onconcerned as you please. an said:
Betsy an / have concluded to get mar
ried tomorrow, an we want to ask the
consent of all concerned
my wife an Jud's wife pretended to
be very much surprised, an begun to
say as they couldn't get ready on such
short notice, an Dan1 Webster said
they had concluded 20 be married quiet
like, an just go by themselves up to the
:ity and get some minister to say the
There was a good deal of objectin',
but we was all so glad to have the mat
ter settled our way, that we finally give
our consent, an that night 1 slep' free
from care. We intended to have
proper doin's after they got back.
1.-The next mornin', bright an early,
Oan1 Webster hitched up his buggy an
be an Betsy started off with the best
wishes of both families, promisin' to
,ome back that night.
"We WIS pretty inpatient that day,
Dut along lords night see the couple
.omin' hack, an went down the road
;ec that DanI Webster had Hugh's sis
er's friend in the buggy with him.
by this time the hull of the two
antilles had come out, for we had all
rot together at my house, an theS was
scared for Betsy, seem as she hadn't
ONE back, ar was afraid something
lad Happened. An somethin' had"
Here the old man stopped. Nothing in
lis countenance showed that he would
yer tell the r1st of the story.
Something we never had any idear
# had happened he finally resumed,
cooking away toward the horizon.
Betsy had gone up to the city an mar
led Hugh browning an Danl Webster
lad married the girl he brought back
With him. They had made it all up an
ooled ,is old felix's beautifully.
''Waal, wasn't one to cry over split
milk, an it all turned out well in the
nd Huqb browning thinks as much