Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-01-01


pond, there was less than two little
iiggers of exhilaration left in the jug.
but there was more than five gallen o
water in Ben. 1t wasn't drOwndin that
killed Ben, some folks thought. They
said 1t was the sudden waShin' OF all
the exhilaration outen him by so much
water gittin inter him that done it,
Ben not bein' used to setch oyerpoWer-
in Disappointment. An that's the way
Ben got the title to that pond, an it's
ben called Ben tunnels pond ever
Sence.
well, there's where Uncle Abel
went fishin, spite o Aunt Hubby
warnin $, an when he got back | don't
s'pose that Aunt Hubby ever moved so
ripDn' in her life. All that Uncle Abel
has ever said about it is that she jest
swatted him over, an then sot on nm
till she peeled what Uncle Abel says
.-ust a ben more'n a bushel o taters.
Aunt Hubby weighed in the vicinity o
200 pound, an every time Uncle Abel
wiggled she'd scrunch down on him.
An speakin' O scrunchin, there lot
more tanzy; shell l.
Il interrupted the landlord to say
that | didn't care for any more, and he
seemed so much disappointed and re-
manned silent so long that | began TO
think that | wasn't going to hear the
end of his story, but by and by he
started in again.
Yes. sir she scrunched down on
him hard, Aunt Hubby did. She
scrunched down so fur arter awhile
that Uncle Abel says he got his eyes
on the shinin' shore, an was hOpin'
that Aunt Hubby would give him an
other twist SOS he could get his feet
on it; but she want through with him
yit, an didn't let him pass over. There's
where Aunt Hubby made her mistake.
She ought to Scrunched Uncle Abel all
the way over, an then she could took
out that black bOmbazine ag'in an
hooked it on fer her fourth, an ben
a-lookin' out fer her fifth now. But
she didn't do it. an there's where she
made her mistake.
This here last lively moyin' of
Aunt Huldy'S must a kind o sot Uncle
Abel to thnkin. Joe Bevan, up yOn-
der apiece, had an OF churnin' ram that
somehow or other was dead sot agin
women folks, an none of 'em cared
to go nigh him, cause he'd pitch ut
'em. an Joe KEEP the ugly OF chap tied
up. But the ram was mild enough 10
men folks. Tother day Aunt Hubby
SAYS that it beat all how it was that
she couldn't have piece o rope to
make a pull-to for the gate, and that if
she had man worth pinch o salt that
she'd a had the rope long fore that.
This was the fust that Uncle Abel
knowed that Aunt Hubby wanted
piece O rope, an that very day he was
goin' by Joe Bevan's place. an he see
n niece O. rope ut the side o the road.
he picked it up and went home with
If. Wrappin it round post, he went
in the house.
"."Hully," says he, 1--WE brung
home piece O rope"
"'"You have, hay" Aunt Hubby
snapped out. Its good thing, an
it'll come in handy fer you to hang
yourself WITH
$50 Aunt Hubby goes to see the rope.
"'"Ding your pictur"' she hollers
back to Uncle Abel. An you've got
that rantankerous ram o Joe Beyan's
tied to the end of it. too"'
"."Why, so he isl" says Uncle Abel.
AUNT Hubby grabbed the ak and
moved on the ram. The ram seen Aunt
Uuldy comm, an went to meet her.
He met her 50 suddint that she curled
I'D like a ship-knee, kicked little, an
never got up from where she landed.
Uncle Abel says that Aunt Hubby pass
ed away a good deal peacefuller than
he thought it was in her natur' to, an
he's q lone, lorn widderer, an has the
bombazine dress to SELL l wish he'd
staid here awhile. Then I'd had
some one to jine me in a scrunch. II
YOU don't keer to jine, you mowt leave
one for Uncle Abel.
81 paid for a scrunch' for Uncle
Abel to enjoy when he came in, ana
drove on my way, and who should L
meet but Uncle Abel again.
"'Hullop he shouted, and l stopped.
ale told ye bout me an Aunt