Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-21

n the OLD woman was look IN by 1T.
And you went into screens?"
asked.
Yes, sah-went right in. l sent
down TO NaShviiIe anu got fifteen
screen doahs. and screens 1ur hun
cred winders, and when the come
loaded EN- into the cart and set OH to
sell en-. The kurnel had given me
fggers, and when | oriv up to Bill
Fleemans cabin l knowed jest what
to say. Bill comes out and looks at
them screens and says:
ABE, it pears tC me them milk
strainers is larger than any l ever seed
befo'. Is the object to strain hull
bar'l of milk to once?'
Didn't yo' ever hear of fly-screens?'
l says.
Never did,
go hen yere yo are. They are fur
doahs and winders. Can't no flies glt
in by day or shelters at night. Let's
the air in, but keeps cut tne insects.
Don't have to build no smudges nor do
no slappin'. Saves half yer energy and
all yer cussin'.'
ABE Hope says Bill, arter takin'
time to think it over, it pears to me
yo are agin flies and 'skeeters. If yO'
are, then yo' are also agln' the Lawd.
The Lawd created the State of Arkan-
saw. He knowed what he was about
when he made her half-swamp and la
COON. Tie object was to raise flies and
skeeters-heaps O. 'em. Folks was put
yere to be Bit and Destered, and any
man as goes aCin 1t went have no
luck.
That's the way he Talked said the
sQuatter, and that was the way all the
rest OF 'em talked. 1t wasn't no good
putin figgers at EN-. They jest an
swered that if the Lawd hadn't reck-
oned on flies and 'skeeters when ne
made this world he would have made
'em all wild turkeys instead. | driv
around fur a week and didn't make a
sale, and then | come home. | was
powerfully put out with Kurnel Bun
ker, but he Genes over and hears my
story and says:
ABE Hope, the people has got to be
given a few weeks time and eddecated
up to it. Just fix up yer own cabin and
let EN- all see how them fiy-screens
work
Il fixed it. l screened the winders
and the dCahs, and l put screens up
at the mewl shed and the co Il crib.
Then | fixed up sceels clear out to the
road, and the folks who come to see
declared it was monstrous sight.
| Not a ny nor a 'Skeeter could git into
the house, and we didn't have no
smuGges tor the fust time in twenty
years Nobody would buy, however.
Coin agin flies and shelters = as So
in agin the Lawd they said, al heaps
of EN- predicted thaC some calamity
would happen as punishment.
| That's jest how it did come out, and
| | haint got feairly over bein skeart
yit."
But what could have happened?'
l queried.
J. Il tell yo' sab Them flies and
| shelters and gallinippers had bin hav-
in their way since the world was Gre
ated If they wanted to enter my
cabin in Arkansaw the doahs and
winders was open TO EN-. Ii they
could bite a body and git away that
was ali right. The news spread
around among EN-, and arter about
TO or five days they began to come
about mighty thick. | didn't take
much notice till we had a cloudy day
Then they commenced to come out O.
the swamps in such amazin' swarms
that we wuz driv into the house, and
the old mewl began to bray in alarm,
and kept it UP right along. There
was hoss-hies, blue-bottles. swamp
wasps, house-fies, shelters, gallinip-
pers. and all sorts o flynn bugs. Seem
ed like a brass band had got out to
call EN- all together, and at four
o'clock in the afternoon we had to
light a candle. l wasn't feelin' very
serious about it up to then, but the
old woman flops down on the floor,
and cries out:
abe. yo' was agin EN-. and a
Judgment has bin sent upon us, We
amt goin' to live to see another sun
rise!'
"Yes, l said them very words" add
ed Mrs. Hope.
And what happened?"
.I'll tell yo', sab. BY the time
night had come them insects was
SO thick around the house that the
roarin' of EN- was like high wind.