The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-09
JAN PEARCE'S VISIT.


Twas when | was a-courtin Hannah Yeo,
who was one of the maidens up To the old
gquire's
Hays Hannah To me one Zunday after
noon as we was a-walIin down Coombc
lanc, WI my right arm round about her
waist, and her left arm round about mine,
lCastways var as 'twould go-not gallyin
one another wi tew much talk, but quiet
like, as Is the custom of them as goes
n-courtin i'm our parts-zays Hannah to
me all of zudden like 70 zudden that l
was minded, hein n retirin zort o. man, to
vail down tho ditch l was that zhook.
clan" gays zhe, on niver go to church
along % yew, however much yew may
plague me wi your pressn zentences' Il
hadn't 70 much as give worth word vor
"A good half hour "till yaw can put me
into IL house like u lady,
Like "a lady' Gays I.
'lss fay" gays zhe
"Yow doant mano house like
zquire So" zays l.
mot 70 GRIT" zays zhe, "but l must he
surrounded by the 'menities of an advanced
civilization"
"Lor' "a mussy!" zays l. "what ever
do yew maneY'
"Well, " gays zhe, ''I heard Miss Charlie
=
beau, and how they was to live when they
was wed, and wonder yew zhould be 20
vulish as to ask what l NAME Vow must
be downright mazed."
Dang me, ;" zays l. but twas down in
my innards eff zhe knowed what her
named herself" Outwardly in manner of
zpakin | zays to Hannah, Now, if yew
was to let me come up to the grit house
and Just zee how zee looks midst them
'menities of civilization l might DRAW in
some notion of what yew expects me to
pervido"
"Yew IN CROWN powerful DARN, JAM"
gays zhe. "Well, if your zoul can du VII
out wood on Zunday mornin, and yew
doan't mind chancin gallyin vrom pa son,
yew can come up when the volks be at
church, and I'll show zee what l name.
Not that l wants zactly what yew'll zee,
but zomethin like it, and that tell zee"
10, when Zunday mornin comes round,
| and I'd put on my best breeches, and the
bleu coat with brasc buttons that was
| feyther's, and "a birdseye neckeroher that
went twice round the course, as the zayin
| is, just gives the church and pa son the
go by and slips up the grit house. Hannah
was a-waitin vor me round by the ztables,
and her zmuggled me in at the back door,
tunnle o. the new railway, into the grit
hall, wi pawn vor all the world the
zane as the Lunnon measurin man put
down in our chancel; then through door
wi curtain draa'cd all across un into the
big dra'in ROOM
"Mussy mep' gays l as my veet went
| squelchin into Zummat as Zoft as clotted
crane, 'yew never expects q carpet in our
cottage, Hannah, that veels as though yew
was walkin on rotted turmuts, do zee? And
chairs and sofies," zays, "wi' legs like
the golden caalf? Yew doan't want yum
mat like thisf' l zays us | Eat down on a
Zquabbed, puffy iookin thing where drce
volks could zit all to once, like the cher
ribims under our won't, and nary u one o.
em be comfortable like wi either o. t 9TH
ers. 1t was that jumpy, tew, that when l
zatdoyn heavylike l was well nigh zhot
right off again.
And then the pictur's a-hangin on q
! golden rod all in vrames of zolid gold
, pictnrs as made II modest man go red
from his hobnails to his hair, they was that
! naked! The wust of 'em all, which had
the name Of 'Huzannab," 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
|
zquire hisself zaid as err drove through
KersWell pike and asked where old ZaIly
had gone. PLEASE, EUR, they've give her
a shift Gays the new keeper. "And a
DANCED useful thing tew sometimes zays
zquire, wi grit laafe, and useful, thinks
|, 'twouid ha' been for "Iuzannah."
And then the stachery, as Hannah called
the gashly white vigures a-standin about,
mindin nothin, on marble columns!
Twas mussival providence, Hannah, -
l zays. THAT made the Wig tree to flourish
down in Devon"
AS to the clancy, 'twOuld have filled a
score O. kitchen dressers wi animals as
Noah could never "a dreamed on. Why,
one O 'em in Il 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 or
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
n table a-twist with the rheumatic, and al
along 'ees broadcast end hundreds and thou
sands of grit black and white teeth, ant
yew lied un a laish and zee yowled like {
bulldog.
well, Hannah" zays I when us go
into the stable yard again and L hat
washed down yum o. the wonderment witt
draft o. zquire's zider and mouthed /
piece o. currandy keake, "do zee name,
gays 1, "to wait maid till 'ee gets al
thicky there?'
mo, yew grit cuckoo" zays zhe. 81
told zee 70 avore But I'll come to no cot
tage WI only brick yloor and naugh
humanizin about 'un, as Miss Charlie
gays
10 the end o. it is that Hannah and
has a carpet like Zolomon in his glory, ant
hangin around the walls on little bras'
hooks and little brase nails is pictur's q
Jan the Baptist, and the Marys to thu
zepulcher, and the twelve 'postles, nj
draa'ed out as nachral as ever you zee -
Sketch.
A Story of Millais.
Millais had II favorite story Of Pre- 2.
Init rat her gushing Young woman " lu :. .