Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-04-17
By M. QUAD

and thar's times agin when she's as humble as q cat
 But men are also that way" I pro- tested.
 ''Yes, mebbe so, though not quite as bad. reckon wimin hev to hey family row bout so often or they think they ain't livin' happily. l was thinkin' bout our fust row. We'd bin married bout two months when the ole woman got Up one mawnin' loolein sorter dan gerous. She walked around fur awhile and then finally said:
 Zeb, thar ain't no mo co'n-meal in the house.
 Shoo!' says I.
 And no mo bacon.
 ".Shoon
 And no mo sorgum.'
 'Shoo!'
 And <shat' you goin' to do 'boutit? ? SassssSbe.
 Reckon I'll go out and hunt a few 'possums.'
 Then she lit down on me- said the old man. She called me lazy and shift less and onery, and the mo she talked the madder she got. It wasn't no great shakes that we was out O eon-meal and things. l could go out any day and kill three or fo' 'possums or fox and sell the pelts, but she was can tankerous and wanted trubble. Bime- by I said:
 Mebbe yo' want hosses and silk dresses and dimunds2 Mebbe this we're hin and tba ,,,o7 .xsl,fO a,t.,,r ;,,s purity huff fur you7 Mebbe yo' kin do heap better if yo' put on yo'r bunnit and start right off ?
 "Mebbe yo' want me to?' says she. lookin' as mad as bar with a sore eye.
 'Mebbe yo' kin please yo'rself,' says I.
 With that she says she cums of family which can't be bluffed by ne- ssAh2dy, and she puts on her bunnit and Sgstarts out She reckoned I would call her back, but I stood in the doah and looked arter her, and never said a word. She took the trail over the mounting, and that showed she was goin' home. I waited about two hours, and then I follered arter. It was three miles over to her pops, and at that time the woods was full O yarmints. I was mad, but of co'se 1 didn't want no harm to cum to her. When 1 got mile from the cabin I found her. She was up a tree, with her bunnit and one shoe gone, and at the foot of the tree, and loollin' up and lickn' his chops, was big bar. l got up purity clus and sung out:
 :" Hey yo' got tired and clumb that tree to take leetle rest?'
 It's none O yo'r bizness what I've clumb this tree furl' she yells back.
 q 'Gwine to stay up thar long?'
 As long as please Nobody is dun axin' yo' to git me down'
 That showed me she was still mad" said the old man, 'and as it was sum mer time and the old bar wasn't wuth killin' I walked off and sot down. The yarmint looked arter me and growled, and seen he was standin' on three legs. He had mighty sore paw, as may tell yo', and that's the reason he didn't climb up arter her. Arter about two hours I went back, and things hadn't z 1hanged bit. The ole woman was still roostina on the limb and the bar was still loosSin' up and wishin' he could git her. TIeaned up agin tree fur awhile and then said:
 Mebbe yo' rig up this mawnin feel in mighty cantankerous?
 "sAnd what if I did?' says she.
 'Mebbe roostin' up tree fur three or fo' hours has humbled yo'r speerits leetle?'
 And what if it has?'
 "sThen I'm loolin' fur yo' to beg my pardin' fur them words
 But her speerits wasn't humbled," ]" said the old man. with sigh and a shake of the head. "She called back to *me that she'd stay up that tree till snow flew befo' she'd beg my pardin', and jest walked back to the cabin and left her thar. It was our fust TOW, and if she conkered me I was a goner. It was late in the afternoon when I went back agin, and she'd bin roostin' up that tree fur bout seven long hours. was in hopes that the bar had got tired out and that the ole woman had slipped down and gone along, but they was both right thar yit. That bar wanted sunthin' good to eat, and he was will in to wait fur it.
 "'Any hosses or dimunds or silk | dresses up thar'?' says. as I got with in speakin' distance.
 'Jest as many as down in yo'r shackelty ole cabin!' she answers.
 Then mebbe yo' intend to stay up thar all night2'
 "I shall stay as long as it pleases sse.'"
 And you went back home again 2" I | asked, as the old man made long pause.
 "Yes, wentback home again." he slowly replied. Her words made me feel sot. The bar couldn't git her as long as she stayed up thar. and I I knowed I'd got to humble her or she'd be boss. l hung around fur awhile in hopes she'd call out and ax rue to shoot 4 A,<.f l..