The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-06-11

SOIn6Clln TO say. Dub Will i've Ou uuO
on poor lone widder till the chickens
cut teeth and the evenin stars sing to-
gether before will ever marry a man
with no better sense than to suppose
he has got the onlyest mouth in the
world
I'm the fall of that year Dolly Brad
shaw married herself off with Dan
Rogers, whilst the young man Claig-
horn packed his little wallet and re-
turned back to Kaintucky. There
amt no tellin what ever went with him,
but if he had used his mouth more for
eatin and whistlin and not so scandal
Gus much for tallin purposes right
now he would be grain on the finest
pastures in the land"
What "Savin suI<ey" Lost.
"In plain United States language
/ can tell you, Rufus, how it comes to
pass that Miss Sukey Sellers (Savin
Suckey as the boys now call herr lost
the best and / reckon the onlyest
chance she ever had to ,oate of with
a man person and fulfill the Scrip
lures. Like all the rest of the female
creation, no doubts Miss Sukey is
good and sweet and great comfort to
the old folks, but from general up
pearments it would seem like when the
good Lord was rainin down beauty and
brains on the human race she was un-
der the cowshed or ridin in covered
wagon.
"But when Jerry lost his first wife
he was left with nine children to fetch
up and four cows to milk, and marry
woman on the place. Well, the next
thing we knowed Jerry he vas courtin
Miss Sukey to beat six bits and oncst
more the settlement was threatened
with fiddlin and dancin and another
weddin match. Nobody couldn't blame
Jerry, and was raley glad to hear the
news, so fur as Miss Sukey was con-
cerned. was punchin up the chunks
as best could and lookin for the COM
mittee to report every day when, dad
blame it, Miss Sukey took and throwed
all the fat in the fire.
"Oncst upon a time-way back there
in his young days-Jerry Diggers had
got into the courts about somethin or
other in regards to another mans
watch. Somehow it would seem like
the watch had kinder took up with
Jerry. Tie other man swore that
Jerry stole the watch, but heap of
people didn't believe it, and when the
trial come off Jerry was cleared and
turned loose. But it hurt him mighty
bad, and forever after that ne never did
love to talk about that watch, or any
other watch, or anything which would
put him in mind of a watch. thought
everybody in the country had heard all
about Jerry's trouble with the watch.
But as it turned out Miss Sul1ey was the
onlyest person which hadn't heard the
news and didn't know that Jerry was
techy on the subject of watches. And
one day after they had made all their
arrangements to come on across as man
and wife Jerry rid by the Sellers place
on his way to town. Miss Sukey caught
sight of him, and she was so restless
for fear he wouldn't stop in passin till
she had to switch out on the front
porch and hail him.
"'Oh, Jerry!' says she, what time of
day is it by your watch?'
Fright there, Rufus, she broke all
the eggs in one pile. Then Jerry rid
on down the road. He didn't respond
back to say blame thing, and so fur
as he is concerned Miss Sukey don't
know till yet what time of day it was.
"The human mouth, Rufus, my son,
is the gonebyest most marvelsome and
risky thing in all creation. But re-
member it was made mostly to eat and
whistle with. Don't talk, Rufus-don't
you talk"
RUFUS SANDERS.