The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-18
uRs. GALLUP's TRIBULATI0N.
She Receives Warning That She is not
Long For this World.

Mr.. Gallup had been interestingly
perusing the advertising in the family
almanac for half an hour, and Mrs.
Gallup had been tearing up an old
skirt and sewing carpet rags, when she
looked up and said:
Samuel, | want to talk to you a
mint. Do you know that I've bin
warned Of my death?'
s'I hadn't heard Of it" he replied.
"But hev, and my time in this
cold world is brief. By this time next
week you may be widower. y
''Wall, took them chances when L
married you. [ s'posc it won't kill me
to be a widower.'
"I'll bet you are jest wishin you
was one this very night 7 she ex-
claimed, as she crossed her hands in
her lap to look him straight in the
face. "Mrs. Tompkins was tellin me
Yesterday that you was steppin around
as lively as colt, bowin to all the
wimmin you met, and that you'd git
married agin in month after | was
dead.
II should wait at least three, he
said, as he clasped his hands behind
his head and looked steadily at the
clock.
"Wall, I amt goin' to worry over
what you'd do. I've had nuthin but
worry all my life, and now when I've
got chance to be an angel in week
or two I ain goin' to fret and stew
about what I leave behind me. Do
you believe in warnin's, Samuel?'
"It's accordin' to whar they hit
me- he replied.
':Don' make fun Of solemn things.
Your brother Aaron used to do that,
and he fell off the barn and broke his
neck. I'm one as believes we was put
here on earth to be warned. Do you
know what I heard at 2 o'clock tother
night? You was snorin' away and
didn't hear it, but it come to me as
plain as day. I heard a bell tollln
''What was she tollin for?'
s'For my funeral. Yes, Samuel
Gallup, that bell tolled forty seven
times, which is my age, and then it
stopped with sort of groan and
shiver y
s'Got tired, probably he said' as
he scratched at his left heel with the
too Of his right slipper.
eff you ain't struck dead fur sich
remarks it. because the Lord is savln
YOU to be drownded in the we'll.
When that bell fust started | thought
mebbe it was tollin' fur Aunt Hetty
White, who is 70 years old and ex-
pectin to spread her wings every day;
but it stopped at forty-seven. Samuel,
hcv you priced the price of cofiins
lately?'
mo, l heven't.
II pose they can be had all the
way from s15 up to 500. | don't
want the cheapest, and l won t ask ye
to buy the dearest. How much d ye
think you could afford, Samuel? Re
member. it S the only coffin you IL ever
hey to buy me, and [ wouldn't ask FUR
that, only folks might talk about it,
"Times is purity hard, Hammer, he
said, after long silence.
'I know it, Samuel. Hain bin
goin almost barfoot fur the last three
months cause times was hard. and
don't | steep the tea grounds twice
over to make EN- go further 2?
Il should think ye ortcr git along
with S25 coffin, bcin it won t be OF
no more use after it's put into the
ground. 'Tain't as if yc could rig it
up fer sled or weeclbarrer after
wards
..What You goin to bury me fur
s25 after my slavin fur all these
years and years = she exclaimed, as
the tears started. I'll never take nc
$50 coffin and agree not to haunt yc.
Times is hard, but | ain t goin to be
put away in no dry goods box. If you
are so stingy about the coffin, what i
YOU do about the tombstone :?
;'Tcn dollars gifts fine one, he
answered, "and they'll gimme a yeal
to pay fur it.
';Tcn dollars fur my tombstone :!
she walled, as she dropped her work
Samuel Gallup, if anybody had told
me this wouldn t believed it.
You d be a nice man 10 come up tt
heaven and meet me and hev all tho
angels know that You didn pay bu'
SO. all told, fur funeral expenses
Not one Of EN- would look at ye, an'
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