Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1897-01-28
JAN PEARCE'S VISIT.

zquires
Gays Hannah to me one Zunday after
noon as we was a-walkin down Coombe
lane, Wi my right arm round about her
waist, and her left arm round about mine,
leastways var as 'twould go-not gallyin
one another wi tew much talk, but quiet
like, as is tho custom of them as goes
a-courtin in our parts-zays Hannah to
me all Of zudden like, 20 zudden that
was minded, bein retirin zort o. man, to
vail down the ditch l was that zhook.
elan" zays zhe, "I'1l niver go to church
along o. yew, however much yew may
plague me wi your pressn zeptences' q
hadn't 20 much as give worth a word vor
good half hour) "tll yew can put me
into house like LADY,
"Like lady!'' zays l.
"lss fay" zays zhe.
"Yew doan't name house like
zquire So" zays I.
"Not 70 GRIT" zays zhe, "but must be
surrounded by the 'menities of an advanced
civilization"
"Lor' IA mussy!" zays l. "What ever
do yew mane?'
"Well, zays zhe, II heard Miss Charlie
gay 20 when they was atalkin about her
bG1u, and how they was to live when they
was wed, and l wonder yew zhould be 70
vulsh as to ask what l name. Yew must
be downright maZed."
"Dang me, says I, but twas down In
my innards aft zhe knowed what her
named herself" Outwardly in manner of
zpakin l zays to Hannah "Now, if yew
was to let me come up to the grit house
and just zee how zee looks midst them
'menites of civilization l might DRAW in
some notion of what yew expec's me to
peryido"
"Yew'm CROWN powerful DARN, JAM"
zays zhe. ''Well, if your zoul can du VII
out wood on Zunday mornin, and yew
doan' It mind chancin gallyin vrom pa son,
yew can come up when the volks be at
church, and III show zee what l NAME
Not that l wants zactly what yew'll zee
but zomethin like it, and that tell oe -
10. when Zunday mOrnin comes round,
and I'd put on my best brooches, and the
bleu coat with brase buttons that was
feythers, and brdseye neckercher that
went twice round the course, as the zayin
Is, just gives the church and pa son tho
go by and slips up the girt house. Hannah
was -waitin vor me round by the Ztables,
and her zmuggled me in at he back door,
through long DRAWN passage like tho
tunnle o. the new railway, into the GRIT
zane as the Lunnon measurin man put
down in our chancel; then through door
wi curtain draa'ed all across un into tho
/ big dra in room.
"Mussy ne!' zays l as my veet vert
| squelchin into Zummat as Zoft as clottt
| crane, "yew never expects a carpet in o.
cottage, Hannah that veeis as though
was walkin on rotted turmuts do zee? And
chairs and sofes, gays, ''wi' legs like
| the golden caalt? Yew doan't want yum
| mat like this" l Zays, as l Eat down on q
zquabbed, puffy lookin thing where dree
| yOlks could Zit all to once, like the cher
ribms under our won't, and nary Il one o
| 'em be conf, table like wi either O. 10th
ers. 1t was that Jumpy, tew, that when l
Eat down heavylike l was we'll nigh zhot
right off again.
And then the pictur's a-hangin on
golden rod, all in vrames of zolid gold
pictur's as made modest man go red
from his hobnails to his hair. they was that
naked The wust of em all, which had
the name of 'Zuzannah," draa'ed out in
print underneath I'm, they had had the
decency to hang up in a dark cornder.
"Zuzannah's'' 'menities of civilization
was just nothin and minded me O. what
Zquire hisseif zaid as er drove through
Kerswel pike and asked where old Zally
had gone. "Please, EUR, they've give her
shift, Gays the new keeper. And a
DANCED useful thing tew sometimes" zays
zquire, wi grit laafe, and useful, thinks
l, 'twould ha' been for "Zuzannah"
And then the stachery, as Hannah called
the gashly white vigures a-standin about,
mindin nothin, on marble columns!
"'Twas a mussiyal providence, : Hannah"
r slthn no. II,
down in Devon"
AS to the clancy, 'twould have filled
score o. kitchen dressers VII animals as
Noah could never IA dreamed on. Why,
one O. 'em in back yard up tew Ply
mouth town would have vairly vrighted
every convict as ever got loose up to Darty
moor And the glasses with the zun on
em-a-zhinin and a-dartin blue, red and
yellow for all the world like the Revela-
ton.
And across one CORNER of the room there
was misshaped thing on YOUR legs, like
a table a-twist with the rheumatic and ali
along 'ees broadcast end hundreds and thou
sands of GRIT black and white teeth, and
yew gi'ed un laish and 'ee yowled like a
bulldog.
"Well, Hannah" zays 1 when us got
into the stable yard again and 1 had
washed down yum o the wonderment with
draft O. Zquire's zider and mouthed
piece o. currandy keake, do zee NAME"
zays 1, "to wait maid till zee gets all
thicky there:"
"No, yew grit guckoo!' zays zhe. 81
told zee 20 avore. But III come to no cot
tage wi only II brick vloor and naught
humanizin about 'un, as Miss Charlie
gays"
10 the end o. it is that Hannah and l
has carpet like Zolomon in his glory, and
hangin around the walls on little brase
hooks and little brase nails is pictur's O.
Jan the Baptist, and the Marys to the
zepulcher, and the twelve postles, all
draa'ed out as nachral as ever you zee
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