Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-02
POSSUM SKETCHES.
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Zcb White Tells About a Little
Family Row.
Copyright, 1879
HVKTMIN 10 curious critters" said

big fireplace and smoked our pipes.
/ nodded my head to show that / as
scented, and he continued;
"My ole woman will run along AZ
slick as grease fur two or three months
and then all of n sudden she'll break
put and be as techy as wolf with
sore paw Mebbe it's that way with al
wimn, and mebbe that's what man
Kin expect to put up with when he falls
in love and gifts married"
whats the story tonight" I asked
rs the old man smoked in silence and
looked into the fire.
zone time about six vars ago." he
slowly began, 81 cum home from town
and found the ole woman sittin' out on
the toah-step and loolin' as ruflled as
wet hen. She was all right and as
clipper as yo' please when | went
away in the mawnin', but sunthin' had
changed her. She didn't pay no ten
Shun to me as / sot down, and /
yknowed we was in fur row. didn't
say nuthin' fur long time, but jest
rhawed tcrbacker and looked across
the road at rabbit hoppin' about.
Bimeby, I softly seq:
"It's q powerful pleasant eavenin',
Mrs. White"
"She turns on me with glare in her
eyes and SEE:
Eyes, it's powerful pleasant eaven-
In fur folks as is too lazy TO draw their
breath and don't keer how much their
families suffer-
"Mebbe that's me?' SEE /, feeln' sort
. Tiled all to once.
"Zeb White seq she, as she riz up,
atyo' amt no man tall! My shoes ar
AL worn out, and I amt got dress fit
Cur % skunk to look Mt. shall cook the
dast CON meal in the house fur break
fast, and the Lawd knows whar' Wen
giC any mo-. Yo' hev got to be the
,0nariest man in all Tennessee. Yo' amt
sIitten fur buzzards to peck at. Yo' used
TO git around and be sumbody, but fur
thu last var it's bin whisky and ter
hacker and loafin' around till l won't
put up with it no moi
Nobody's akin yo' TO stay if yo'
don't want to- sez I, feelin' hurt in my
feelin's.
"She got her bonnet on and was
minded to go, but arter walliin' out to
the road and loolsin' up an down she
cum back. She didn't say nuthn' mo-,
and was too mad to speak, and we sot
around fur awhile and then went to
bed. 1t might hev bin along about
midnight when she wakes me up and
SCI:
"Teb, I've bin hevin' acurious dream,
T drempt that mighty big bar had
fell into one O. them iron pits up by the
big ravine.'
"'What if he has?' SEE /.
""Then his pelt will buy me, par o.
shoes and a dress, and We'll hev meat
and grease huff to last us fur a
month
'"'Tll see about il in the mawnin'.'
I'D But want yo' to see about it right
Off now, I'll go with yo' and pint out
the pit, and yo' kin shoot the bar befo'
he, climbs out
II was mad yit," said the old man,
sand / didn't think much of dream,
and so l wouldn't git up. The ole
woman did, however. She got out O.
bed, Lit the lantern and went off to see
if the bar was actually in the pit. |
soon fell asleep, thinllin' she wouldn't
go fur, and it was mawnin' when
woke up agin. The ole woman wasn't
nowhere to be sawn, but wasn't in
no hurry to go out and look fur her
got sum breakfast, smoked my pipe
and along about eight o'clock Shout
.dered my gun and started off fur the
pits. We was up that way, last Sun
day, if yo' remembers"
eyes
'"Thar' ar six or seven places whar
they dug down fur iron ore. Sum OF
'em amt more'n ten feet deep, and
sum ar full 80. didn't know which
one she had drempt about, and
/ went along slow and looked fur
signs. l had looked into fo' or five
pits, and was thin,Sin' the cole woman
had got lost on the mounting in the
might when l cum TO the deepest pit
of all. 1t was as big around as well
and down on the leaves and bresh at
Che bottom was sight to behold My
,ole woman and a monstrous big bar
was down thar together and all mixed
mp. She heard me movin' about at the
sop, and she knOwed my face as
looked down, but she didn't say q
blessed word until arter l spoke.
was sorter glad to find her alive, and
sort O. mad about her calm mt
names, and, bimcby, ! SEE:
"Mehbe I'm mistool, but ar thai
Mrs. Zeb White down thar at the bot
tomY
"DIebbe it arr SEE she, cool as yo
please.
"'And ar that bnr alongside o
yo'9
eyes, it's b'ar-same bar
1Srempt about last night. Mebbe yo'
name might be Zeb White?'
I'm considerin' that folks call m,
10y that name. It's pleasant mawnin'
Mrs. White
"'Pears like it,
''Then we didn't say no mo- fur lon!