The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1897-05-22

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about the next news we got from him
he had been hung by the neck till he
was dead for stealth horses. Conse-
quentially 1 don't reckon Misses Null
hgan, as she is now, will be forever and
~eternally throwing it up to old man
Lish about what a marvelsome great
and good man her other husband was.
In a general way the wilder was a right
tolerable good woman anyhow, and,
by gracious, she can't make no volup-
titus big brags about Newberry Barker.
"Ain,t Worth n Dam Now"
Mother went out the other day, pc
rusin around and about through the
I settlement lookin for a settin of fresh
turkey eggs. And bless your sweet
soul, honey, when she returned back
home late that evenin she was foamin,
furious mad, with her fightin clotheson.
For my natural born life Icouldn't tell
where the torn had riz, or what in the
thunder was the matter, anyhow.
"Rufus Sanders says she, ST want
/ you to mount your horse-right now
immediately-this minnit-and go over
to the mill and give old man Charlie Ell
lington the worst and most severest
beatin that any white man ever had to
tote outen these woods"
Now, to tell the Bible truth about it,
I want to say 1 want out lookin for any
little odd jobs like that this spring.
in the first place me and Charlie Filing
ton went to school together, took many
and many a lickin together, run horse
- n 4Aro4hor, on1 rr,or,4 cnaJIin 4NnohhnTs
back there in the golden days of boy
hood. And henceforwafds after that
we have been neighbors and fellow
citizens and friends together forto these
many years. And, what is more, old
man Charlie amt no SLOUGH for a man
himself, and if he ever takes a lickin
from one mortal man you can bet all
your free silver that the other fellow
will be kept monstrous busy in the
mainline.
what in all this green and naughty
world is the matter with you and
Charlie Ellington, mother?" says L.
"He cussed-he cussed right at me
that's whatl'' says she, and bless the
heavens if her eyes didn't flash the ma
tive fire of her righteous wrath.
"What was Charlie cussin about,
mother?" says l..
"Nothin in particular" a She
f'only for pure meanness, I reckon. 1
met up with the wicked old wretch in
the road and asked him in a kind neigh
BORN way how he was gettin along over
It the mill.-,And what do you reckon
he said:
"sYou can tell everybody over in that
md of the settlement that l amt worth
dam now-straight goods, Misses
sanders-I jest simply amt worth a
aam.' And with that he driv on, but
l had only been clost enough I would
spit in his face, so help mel"
''Mother, dear, sweet mother" says
IL soft and gentle as I could, don't you
collect the tremendous heavy floods
had last week, and don't you recol-
Met that the waters fell in such great
&dbs and sluices till they washed down
Charlie Ellington's mill, and then eve
Washed away. the DAMP"
Yes, Rufus, l did hear the news
tout that"
Now, then, it seems to me like Char
e has but only told you a sad and sor-
aomful truth in his own blunt way
Ealey right now the poor man amt
orth a dam"
What, did mother do? Laughed q
little and cried a little, and then went
Il bed and soon dropped off to sleep.
So runs the world with women in it,
Hat she wouldn't run any at all scarce
with the women out.
The PnrsOn Was Thankful.
vac trouble and the fun we had
about Charlie Ellington and his cusS
uord brung back to my mind a good
one they Used to tell on old Parson
D~Fittenham. It came to pass way bach
here in them plain old days when PEG
sIe had to ride on stage coaches instIc
Sd railroad trains as they do now.
And from the way the story come II
me. it would seem like old Parson Brit
ssnham and Maj. Wash Collins hat
scth took the stage coach for Belly
andin, and from there they woulC
Ike the steamboat for New Orleans
Id would likewise seem that both O
hem had some powerful pressin bust
ess down the river. The major hat
ehipped a whole passlc OF cotton
ome fifteen to a hundred bales-an'
e was Iookin for the price to tumble
very day. The old parson was got