The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-02-23
JAN PEARCE's VISIT.

What dl4nt I 3ver Ill 70 how I eems
70 Eso ths girt house, Ysw doAn,s nay sol
'xwas when ] was A-courtin Hannah Yse,
who was one Of the naidens up 10 the old
xqpirs'a
zays Hannah 10 me one Zunday after
noon as we was a-walkin down Coombe
Lana, VA my right arm round about her
waist, and her left arm round about mine,
leastways yal as 'twouid go--not gallyin
one another vi tow much talk, but quiet
Ike, as 10 the custom Of them as goes
a-courtin In our parts-zays Hannah to
me all Of a zudden like, 20 zudden that
was minded, bein retirin tort O. man, to
vail down the ditch was that zhook
Jan, gays che, I'm niyer go to church
along o. yew, however much yew may
plague me WI your pressin sentences" Il
hadn't 20 much as give worth word vor
o good half hour) "till yew can put me
into house like lady"
Like ladyi" zaysI.
"Iss fay" zays zhe
"Yew doant name O house like
zquirc'sp" zays l.
mot 70 grit, zays zhe, '"but must be
surrounded by the 'menities Of an advanced
civilization"
"Lor' "a mussyl" gays L "what ever
do yew maneP"
well, gays zhe, II heard Miss Charlie
gay 20 when they was a-talkin about her
beau, and how they was to live when they
was wed, and wonder yew zhould DO 20
yulish as to ask what name Yew must
be downright mazed."
Dang me-" zays I, but twas down in
my innards, "if zhe knowed what her
named herself. " Outwardly in manner Of
zpakin I zays to Hannah, "Now, II yew
was to let me come up 10 the grit house
and just zee how ZEE looks midst them
'msnities Of civilization might DRAW in
some notion Of what yew expects me to
peryide"
"Yew'm CROWN powerful DARN, JAM"
Gays zhe. "Weil, II your soul can du VII
out wood on Zunday mornin, and yew
doan't mind chancin o CALVIN yrom pa son,
yew can come up when tho volks be at
church, and III show ZEE what l name.
Not that wants zaotly what yew'll zee,
but zomethin like 1t, and that tell 'ee''
70, when Zunday mornin comes round,
md I'd put on my best breeohes, and the
bleu coat with brase buttons that was
feyther's, and a birdseye nsekercher that
went twice round the course, as the zayin
10, just gives the church and pa son the
go by and slips up the girt house. Hannah
was a-waitin vor me round by the ztables,
and her zmuggled me in at the back door,
through long DRAWN passage like the
tunnle O. the new railway, into the grt
hall, wi pawn yor all the world the
10 mn a.,
down In our chanoel; then through door
wi curtain draa'ed all across un into the
big dra'in room.
"Mussy me!' zays az my veet went
squelchin into zummat as zoft as clotted
Crane, "yew never expects carpet In our
cottage, Hannah, that yeels as though yew
was walkin on rotted turmuts do 'eep And
chairs and sofes," ] zays, Evil legs like
tho golden caalfP Yew doan't want yum.
mat like thisf" Gays, as Eat down on o
zquabbed, puffy lookin thing where dree
volks could zit oil to once like the cher
ribims under our won't, and nary one o.
'em By comfortable like wi either o. 10th
ers. 1t was that jumpy, tew, that when
Eat down henvylike was well nigh zhot
right off again.
And then the pictur's a-hangin on a
golden rod, all in yrames of zolid gold
picturs as made n modest man go red
from his hobnails to his hair, they was that
naked! The wust Of lem all, which had
the name Of 'Zuzannah," draa'ed out in
print underneath I'm, they had had tho
decency to hang up In dark cornder.
"ZuZannah's" 'menities Of civilization
was just nothin and minded me o. what
zquire hisself said as er drove through
Kerswell pike and asked where old Tally
had gone. please, EUR, they've givo her
O shift" zays the new keeper "And a
DANCED useful thing tew sometimes" zays
zquire, wi grit laafe, and useful, thinks
|, 'twould ha' been for "Zuzannah.
And then tho staohery, as Hannah called
the gashly white vigures a-standin about
mindin nothin, on marble oolumnsl
" Twas mussival providence, Hannah"
Gays, THAT made the Wig tree to flourish
down in Devon"
AS to the clancy, 'twould have filed q
score O. kitchen dressers wi animals as
Noah could never "a dreamed on. Why,
one O. EN- In a back yard up tew Ply
mouth town would have vairly vrighteG
every convict as ever got loose up to Darty.
moor. And the glasses with the zun on
and a-dartin blue, red and
yellow for all the world like the Revela-
ton
And across one CORNER of the room there
was q misshaped thing on YOUR legs, like
a table atwist with the rheumatic, and all
along ices broadcast end hundreds and thou
sands of girt black and white teeth, and
yow gi'ed un iaish and 60 yowIed like
bulldog.
well, Hannah" zays I when us got |
Into the stable yard again and I had
washed down zum O. tho wonderment with |
a draft O Zquire's 2ider and mouthed a
piece O. currandy keake, "do zee name" |
lays l, ito wait maid till 'ee gots all |
Lhicky there?"
"No, yew grit guckoor' zays che ~ |
told 'ee 20 avore But III come to no cot. |
tage wi only a brick yloor and naught |
humanizin about 'un, as Miss Charlie |
rays"
10 the end o. II Is that Hannah and |
has carpet like Zolomon In his glory, and |
hangin around tho walls on little brase |
hooks and little brase nails il picturs O. |
Jan the Baptist, and the Marys to tho |
.epulcher, and the twelve 'postles oil
lraa ed out as naohral as ever you xee -
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