The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-08-30


treated any better an Ped, but didn t
go runnin away You remember my
daddy wouldn't hear ter our bein mar
ried in a bizy time. SEE he ter me:
'Silas amt goin ter have weddin
goin on right in plowin time. Wait till
the corn's laid by, an then thar'll be
plenty NV time fer fixin fer the we'd
din. e"
YES said Mrs. Bugford, IAN we
had ter wait too. My mother was sot
ag'in our bein married right in gardenin
time. She sez ter me, seq she: Mandy,
it ain t no use in talkin Nv yer bein
married this spring. Sayin nothin Nv
the work that's got ter be done, it
would be waste ter kill them chickens
till harvest, an then thar's nothin in
the garden ter make pies but pieplant
an gooseberries, an they never did agree
with me. Wait till after harvest, Man
dy, SEE she, AN the blackberries will
all be ripe Mother was powerful sot
ag in extravaganza an believed in
young folks mindin their parents. -
$50 she did, an SO did my daddy,
said Bugford, "but things are different
now, an mebby war little hard on
Ped
"Ped was a good boy"
eyes, but he kept goin with them
Wykoff boys when he knowed that ole
Wykoff had treated me meaner than
dirt, then he war forever workin with
that fool machine idee Nv his, when he
ort ter bin at work ON the farm -
HE said the machine might make us
all rich if he got it fixed up right,
suggested Mrs. Bugford.
but SIGH fool things don't ever git
fixed right, f" declared Silas, IAN reck-
on he's found it out by this time. Ped
war a good hand ter work, though,
when he did work, an mebby ort ter
lowed him ter have his way about
them fool idees NV his -
"It would have been the best thing
boys will be boys"
$50 they will, an Ped was only 10
jist when a boy knows the least an
thinks he knows the most. -
Silas arose and stood leaning against
the big oak His wife got up and went
into the kitchen Presently Bud White
came along the road, carrying corn
knife, and, stopping, he leaned against
the fence
He was young man of spare build,
with half inch of downy beard upon
his freckled face.
"Pap lowed ye might want some un
ter help ye cut corn, - he said, after ex-
changing greetings with Silas.
Il dunno jist yit, y the farmer re-
piled. "I'm intendin ter commence ter
morrer mornin, though the fodder is a
little green yit. Ny corn is later AN
yourn.
eyes, bout two weeks. Pap sed if
ye needed any help he'd come in the
mornin -
"Waal, I'm goin ter want a couple
Nv han S fer few days. an 1 reckon ye
an yer daddy might both come. -
"Pap'll come, but I've got ter see ter
strippin the sorghum cane. -
81 reckon l might git another hand
Tell yer daddy ter bring one if he can. F."
"All right. Heard anything from
Ped lately?"
"Not fer good spell. -
"How's he gittin along?"
"He don't never say. Jist seq he's
we'll an workin every day. :"
Don't talk NV comm homer"
''Noap. Reckon he'll SOW his wild
oats first.
II low he will. Pap never lowed
me ter SOW no wild oats. Waal, 1 must
be travelin. Good day.
He was walking away when Silas
called out:
"Say, Bud, ye didn't see anything Nv
my ole speckled COW as ye came along,
did ye? She hain't bin up terday, dang
her ole hide, an the calf's most bawled
itself ter death.
Bud stopped abruptly and came back
and stood by the fence.
81 must be a-losin my senses, by
gum, must, y he said, with an air Of
vexation. ~ war jist goin ter tell ye
an forgot it. l seed her down in the
woods as I came acrost the crick. A
limb had fell off that big ellum an kill
ed her, an thar she lay deader AN a
6oornail.
Bugford took long pull at his pipe
Nothing ever disturbed or excited
him i'll the least.
"She hadn't bin MIXED this mornin
nuther, he said, can reckon the dad
Llamed tree has spilled the hide. Ye
can tell yer daddy ter come over in the
morning if it ain t rainin, an We'll git
at the corn cuttin.
The next morning as Mr.. White was
starting for Bugford's he saw young
man coming down the road from the di-
rection of the little railroad station. He
was dressed in a neatly fitting suit OF
gray and carried small leather valise
The young man looked eagerly at
White, and, nodding, said:
Good morning, Mr.. White. "
He held out his hand, smiling as he
did so.
Mr. White took the preferred hand,
looking very much puzzled.
eye seem to know me-but hanged
if-w'y, bless my soul, it's Ped Bug
ford
$50 it is" laughed the young man.
81 am glad to see some one who re-
members me. "
81 knowed ye as soon as ye laugh
ed, said White. "But hang it, how
We have growed. Wy, ye are man
now, bigger an yer father. y
The two walked on in the direction
of Bugford's.
Farmer White was not especially in