The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1897-03-13
The ola Mnn was Crowded

o, ihe uld Mnn Was Crowded
- When Jerry Scroggins was 90 years
= Old and goin, with his good wife dead
= and buried and all the children mar
= RED off, he got lonesome and wanted his
Youngest SON Blev, to move in with his
family and run the place and keep him
company. OF course Bley and his wife
they jumped at the chance-which Won
understand the old man was now comm
across with his last load of poles, and
he had the best farm and the most love
hest home anywhcres in the Rocky
Creek regions.
SO they moved in and treated him so
KIND and gentle and loyin till the next
news the rest of the children got, the |
oId man had made over the home place |
and all he had in the way of this worlds
goods to his son Bley and his son BIev's
VIE, and their children after them
henceforwards and forever.
! am now old and helpless and weak
and tired, Blevins,' said old man Jerry.
and all | want in this vain and tleetin
world is place to rest easy and die in
peace. You can run the farm and your
wife can keep the house. Let me have
my old chair here in the corner, and use :
my tobacco, and eat at the table so long
as live, and the old place is yours" :
SO then he made out the paper givin
everything to Blew, and Btev's wife she |
took the paper and put it away under
lock and key Now it want so very long
after that before they took to cr0wdjn
the old man considerable and presently .
II seems as if they would soon crowd
him and his old chair out of the corner. IL
ana crowd him out of doors, and crowd d.
HIM into the grave. Blev's wife she al
fused and fumed and ding-donged at tt
1lm and crowded him terrible because d
he would use his tobacco, and he a
couldn't always spit right exactly 1u
where he was lookin, He had shed his m
bird set of teeth and lost his strength dc
20 I'LL he couldn't raley spit much past M
MS nose, whereas it follows that he was IN
ound to make a right smart mess ca
round the fireplace every day. And is
'Ieys wife jawed and ragged at him OF
ay in and day out about spittin on her icl
oor, and mcssiu up her house, till bless
raelous the old man got sick and tired
it, =.
one summer day-when the sky was 60,
Tim and clear, and peace was broodin co,
sc a gentle spirit over the whole en- t,e
re family, old man Jerry happened TO fo,
member that he had left sonethfn out l.,
hen he was fixin the papers and maxim fer
e place over to Blew. So he called or
eF's wife by one of her pet names and 50,
Id her to please bring him the paper inv
d let him put in everything right. She Tor
mt and brung it out like she was told. der
d quick as flash that old man laid II
over peiiihu the back log IN the big etft
Now, there, young woman" SAYS he. the
ils mouse ana inns farm and every bur
Hs On 'he pace belongs TO Jeremiah of
oss ius III MS own name. You and wit
son Bleyins can now shell out and
site for yourself till git ready to
we. In the mainline | will use as 81
lch tobacco as Iwantto and spit where prize
urn please | can have all the room prlc
Iceland take my rest and not be in the we
T. bought this place and built this chal
Use and planted out the orchard with q
own hands, and III be dadburned if Hey
l and Bleyins can crowd me ont in thes
old age" him
WITH that the old man went to the big
lliy chest, got out a fresh plug of to- G.
co, pulled his chair around in front ~
the fireplace, put his feet on the aara
nney jamb and let the juice of the IS ~ ~
d fly free and promiscus, right and TO- !;
hen Blew and his folks they had to e st,s
'e out, and when the old man died ~ ..
ION turned out that he had went and So
lie a will leavin his property to be pima
ded amongst all the children fair
equal, eXceptin his son Blev and his JoI
Blev's wife. me.
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