Morris tribune., 1896-11-11
SHE rooK HIM.
The Reason Why, Likewise Her Opinion
of Him.

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The Reason why, Likewise Her Opinion
of Him.
I The woman at the gate of the
| mountain farmhouse was an unusual
type of mountain woman, in that
she was enormously large of frame
and had the flesh to match it, so that
she must have weighed 200 pounds
at the least. She was good looking,
too, albeit her hair was inclined to
be red, and there was snap in her
eye and in her voice that BODIED i'll
for the person provoking her. She
told me I could get my dinner in
half an hour, and by that time her
husband, man not half her size
and almost young enough to be her
son, joined US and sat at the foot of
the table. After the meal she hus-
tied the man out on the farm again
as if she had him hired, and l sat
down in the shade to smoke a pipe
before riding on.
MY husband wanted to smoke
around tile house, she said, "but I
wouldn't let him.
II beg your pardon, I Responded,
taking my pipe out of my mouth.
Keep right on, y she said, disap-
pearing in the house and coming OUT
again in minute with clay pipe.
II wouldn't keer to have a film Nv
yer store terbacker myself. I git
kinder tired NV long green.
AS she filled and lit her pipe she
went on:
"Hit looks kinder funny, mebbe. "
she said, ''to see me smokin an not
let Jim smoke, but he amt gotter
bit Nv control over hisself, an thar's
no tellin how lazy he'd git eff I let
him set round smokin all the time.
Smokin is powerful lazyin eff you We
ever noticed. "
I confessed to the soothing quail
ties of the weed and branched out
on the subject of her husband.
us he your frst?" I inquired
mildly.
well, no." she laughed. "I'd be
plum ashamed Nv myself eft /
couldn't do no better n that the fust
time. He's my third, an I needn't
a tuck him, I reckon, eff hadn't been
sorter obleeged to him fer favers. "
May inquire what kind of ia
vors a gentleman could show a lady
that would impose such an obliga-
ton upon her?" I said very politely
so she would not think I was poking
fun at her.
"Well, she said hesitatingly, "ef
I just ketch yore idee, he saved my
life, an I thought hit wasn't no
more'n far to sheer hit with him
when he asst me to-
But how could puny little fell
low like he is save the life of such
big, strong woman as you are?" !
That's what I would "a thought
eff hit hadn t aoshally happened. Hit
was about two year ago, an he'd
been workin fer me about two year
an kinder zhintin round ez eff he ,
might BE akin me some day, an I
jist laughed, fer I knowed I.didn't
want no small packages like him.
Well, one day was up in the field /
whar he was workin, an all to onct
a copperhead swung round on log
an bit me in the hand. I ain t afeer-
ed Nv nothin like I am Nv snakes, an
[ jist kerfummixed an fell over, an
pore little Jim couldn' t "a packed me
home to "a saved his life. Well, I
come to after while, an thar wuz
Jim with his mouth to whar the
snakes teeth had gone in, an he
had plum sucked every drap Nv pi-
zen out, an | wuz able to set up
while he went an got a wagon to
haul me home in, fer I wuz that
shook up couldn It "a walked t all.
But my life wuz saved, an when Jim
axed me to marry him I felt obleeged
10 him fer favers, as told you, an I
Just tuck him. Jim ain It no great
shakes mebbe fer a husband, but
hell be mighty handy to have
FOUND the house in case Nv snakes,
IN this is powerful neighborhood
:er snakes, - which I knew to be the
ruth, for | had seen 100 rattlers and
within a month. w.