The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-24
AS MRS. TEETERS TELLS IT.
CE1pTERY ASSOCIATION DoITGS UP
At TEE CORNERS.

Laughing Yet-AIis RuddIck'S Scouting at
the BurytnE Ground-AwnkeninG n Proper
Spirit Among the sooiety's Members.
"It's ben q year." remarked Mrs. Teeters,
"sence we was VI to Walt my folks In the ooun-
try. an Mr.. Teeters he amt got over lauGhin'
about II yet 'Twa'nt nc credit 10 him that we
went at all. From the very first time 1 begun
to talk about Il, he was for hangin' back an
maxim as II he'd ruther take a whippin' than
go. But lawsl mems all right II you only know
how 70 take 'em. an I says to him;
Nobody amt Roin' to tease you to 40. You
can lust stay right hero In Harlem II you're
afraid you'll git too iarsiRhted where you can
see more'n Ave rod IN q direction, I'm goin' up
to the Corners for q week sometime before cold
weather sets in. II you'd ruther spend your
vacation smokin' on our fre-escape, nobody
amt goln' to interfere. I'll stay here with you.
But when you get through, Pm goin' up to see
my family an git way from other folks's ell
bows for o WHILE
"Well, OF COURSE, Mr.. Teeters he made as II
he was goin' from asense OF duty to me-thouGh
] told him / wa'nt afraid of the cows-an' Ilet
him have his own way about p~retendin'. I
knew we'll enough 7 he wanted to go the worst
way only he wouldn't let ON. He's up an ready
to 70 again this summer though. you better
believe; and they won't be no managin' need
ed, either. You never seen such q man for
Jokes as Mr.. Teeters 10, an I certainly did
think that II / ever got him way from the
Corners I'd never let him 60 back there 30 long
as they was friends and relatives OF mine with
In twenty miles.
1T amt 30 much that he makes jokes him
self OF that he laughs at the Jokes other people
make a-purpose. 'Taint that. But he's got a
regular faculty for Hndin' that people are funny
all uubenownst to themselves. That's why he
amt got through lAughin' yet about the GEM
terry association up to home. You wouldn't
think q cem'tery association would be much
to laugh at. now. would your 1 guess they amt,
takin' 'em as q general rule. Iain't never be-
longed to one myself. but tho ladies up
to home have got this one / was goin'
to tell you about, and Mis- Ruddick In
vited Mr.. Teeters and me to 60 to 1t.
She's an awful nice woman, Mis- Ruddick is;
but she don't see the funny side o'things any
more'n a turkey gobbler. Folks talk about
maxim q horse laugh; as IL o horse couldn't see
| a Joke. Pshawl you oughtto have seen a horse
pa bought once. 1 told you about pa. His
| stable was a regular horse asylum. One time
he'd got cheated Just about az bad as any man
with two eyes could be, an the first time he
took the horse out by himself he didn't know
but he'd have to get out and lead the
poor old thing. But while they was crawlin'
along at a mortal slow gait pa saw
the man that had sold him the horse
comm along down the road with a brisk new
trotter he'd got. Pa want the only one that
seen the man comm The old half-blind horse
seen him. too. He kind O. turned round an
gave Pa o look-Pa always declared that horse
winked. Then he gave his tail q flourish an II
he didn't put of down that road with as good q
pair O. heels as you'll SEQ Town hero at the
park any day.
IT don't exactly know how It happened. Pa
declared that the man was so dumtounded that
he clean forgot his own drivin' an didn't turn
out enough, an the man he said that the old
horse was blind an run into him. At any rate,
they had An awful smash-up. an the old horse
broke his neck an they had TO kill the mans
new trotter. Pa he sued the other man an the
other man he sued Pa, an VOW an declare
II Pa didn't git damagesl You see, when the
other man got mad an said the old horse
was blind an couldn't see, Pa just III
an remarked that he must ha' turned blind
in a single right then. cause he'd bought him
for all right just the day before from that very
man. Iguess that was the only time Pa came
out even on a deal. an he always said he owet
It to the cuteness O. that old horse. He hac
him buried In the back meadow. an wanted Il
put up a stone. but Ma said he shouldn't.
'Speakin' O. buryin' brings me back to tn
cem'tery association. The cem'terry up t.
the Corners want a very big plot. an 1
gen ally ulu look KIM y lOESahen. H Oil grow
up to tall grass an once in a while some O. tn,
men d go over an NOV it. They always CAV
the hay to the minister II he'd send out from
town for 1t, but sometimes he didn't send, an
It lay there till it widowed an almost killet
, the grass underneath 1t. No. there amt an
two ways about it. that cem'tery wa'n'tneve
what you'd call ~invitin.'
well. two year ago Mis- Ruddick she wen
out to Ohio to visit her married sister. an whe
a. a A. ~ - L--l.
a cem'tery association to sec after the buryiI
ground. The women took 0-holt O. the ide
[ right off. an made Mis- Ruddick President al
the Wiley girls Sec'tary an Treasurer. TheyT
I twins, you see. an old as they are-they'r
Ruin' on 67-they amt many folks can tell 'eI
= apart. So. Kind Of for convenience sake, an
kind Of because they had more relatives In tn
l cem'tery than anybody else. they made tn
Wiley girls Sec'tary an Treasurer. Mis- Rue
dick told me all about 1t the very first night M
. Teetors an I got to the Corners.
THE men didn't take to the notion much
. first says Mis- Ruddick, but the women foli
met at my house an were keen enough after
! The cem'tery was lookin' scand'lous then al
1 when I'd ben elected President / made Il lit
r speech about what q shame an Disgrace tvs
q for US not to show more respect to departe
friends. Some O. tho women was real afrecte,
: Mis- Tandy she had to git her handkerchief OF
: an want one mite sorry, neither. Her fir
I husban's layin' up there in the southeast co
: ner an / don't believe she'd ben near his gra
4 senoe she married again. I'd ben up
@ the cem'tery that very mornin'. kind o sight
y round to see what was what an. IL you'll b.
lieye 1t, that southeast corner was 80 grown l.
to ras'bry bushes that | couldl't git anywhel
near poor Joe Morrow'sgravc; But could pee
n through the bushes an see that the headstu
was so tilted that l WAS most afraid TO 1T,
- y heavy. fear ia t0ppie j. clean eyer: : NOR 1oo
70 stun don't look bout as tipsy's old Tandy hin
self A.. ao,,o +, Mic, Tordy u,ch+ Ina, L,
her first husbands monnyment straight II al
couldn't do as much for her second choice
life. I guess 1t kind O. come home to her Il
a. same way that afternoon an 10 the othcrSthe
o. present too. An when ! moved 'cm that \
hold reg'lar weekly meetings round TO the d
no ferent houses an take steps for the i,!ryoy