The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-05

! GOWN IN the Ole-faSnlOneu way, Ch
then the fellers dom the choosin' up
'ud keep tally on the ditfrunt plnis
made, en- announce the result. Artef
this wuz done onct it 'ud be trIea
agin, but in diffrunt way, with Two
others a-choosin' up. This I'D not
only afford instruction en- amusement.
but in time 'ud let ever one know
whayre ever one else wuz from, en-
hep 'em to get acllwainted
''The plan of this jogafy match wuz
about eZ folders: He had Arranged all
| the states in the union en- all the ter
ritories out of the union in alphabet
ical order, from Alasky to Wyoming;
en- he said tibet aney person borned in
a state would count ez many pints fer
| his side ez the number WIZ CORE
| spondin' to thet state on the list. So
d teller from Alasl<y nd count only
| one pint en- the Teller from Wyoming
'ud count So En- ever Teller horned
in any country in Europe 'ud count
numbered, in Asia two numbered, in
Afriky one numbered en- fifty, Austria
! lee two numbered en- fifty, en- so on.
He had it all fggered out in nice
| shape, en- the purfesser air shore a
| genius. / wush we had i'm fer mex
| winters school, but we could pay
him ony $18 month, en- / eXpec' he's
a-makin' more'n thet in real estate.
"Wull, arter all the preeliminaries
wuz settled, he called out Dollie
| Fudges en- Sallie Homer to choose up;
and they chose up ever one in the
house Nary Teller thayre axed to be
excused which wuz shore to the great
credit Of Talbot deestrict. 1t wu3
| funny to watch the gals ez they wuz
| a-choosin' up. They both seemed t.
/ think thet the older a Teller looked,
| the more pints he would count up en-
! the way they went arter the ole foxes
wuz caution. 1t dident take 'em
long to sort out everybody in the
house, old en- young, big en- little,
male en- female, clean down to leetle
Charley Marvin, the hump-back.
Things got so quiet We could hear
the men a-chawing theyr terbacker, ez
| the gals en- the purfesser begun to
fgger up the pints. They commenced
at the head Of each line. Sallie had
the fust chico, en- she took ole Ben
Swale fer it.
"'Whayre wuz you horned, Mr.
Swale?' asked the purfesser. In
Virginny,' Ben answered; en- Sallie's
side got credit fer 46 pints, en- her
father, who wuz a-stanin' by me,
whispered whut remarkable penetra-
ton tibet gal had, fer one SO young.
''Dollie had taken Mrs. Swale fer her
fust choice; en- Mrs. Swale wuz axed
the same question. In Arkansaw,
she answered, en- big laugh went up,
en- Dollie got credit fer only four
pints
En- so they went on, whipsawin'
down the lines, en- acrost from one to
the other, en- some amusin' things
a-hapPenin' right along all the time.
| The women would say, Indeed!' jist
ez surprized like, en- %, my' ez ex-
citedly, en- the men folks nd smile
en- keep on chawin' theyr terbacker.
| Some curious combinations come to
| the light of the community fer the
| fuss time, en- | reckon theyr owners,
even, wuz considerably surprised
| themselves. Thayre wuz ole Joe Big
| gers, with his wife en- seven Children.
| They wuz all on Sallie's side, en- the
way theyr birthplaces wuz scattered
| all over creation wuz ginyuoine eye
opener. Bill wuz horned in South
Carlinee; his wife in Michigan, the
oldes' gal in Eelinoi, the oldees' boy
in Ioway. theyr next child in MiZ-
zoory, at which Ed Swank with his
hospitable face seemed mighty tiekled
! cole Ed wuz from Mizzoory), the mex
child in Newbrasky, the next in Kan
sas, the mex in the Injun nation, en-
the mex in Oklahomy. Theyr wuz
several families scattered aroun',
sonepin like thet, only not quite so
bad. En- thayre wuz Jim Swoboda
| from Bohemia en- Carl Schmidt from
! Germany en- SO on en- SO forth. A man
| 'ud be horned in Californv en- his wo-
man in Massachusetts en- thdyre child
rem gethered up on all the roads be-
| tween the two. | found tibet my
neares' neighbor wuz borned in New
York en- his wife in Texas. The one
on the next quarter wuz horned in
Vermont, while his woman wuz from
Floridee. En- of all the miXed-up mess
es you ever seed, our deestrict shorely
wuz, when we got through The
whole United States, EN- disunited ter
ritories, en- several foreign countries,
wuz represented by foxes with the
proper credentials, en- ez the countin'
of pints went on, we saw tibet the
match wuz to be just nip Ell tuck ez
to which of the gals Won out, fer sew
eral of US wuz a-keepin' tally on the
pints.
Tom Lipscomb wuz the last Teller
on Sallie's side. I'm from the free
state Of Van bandit says he; EN- we
all helt our breaths, fer none of know
ed fer shore whayre tibet wuz. Fer a
minute er so we thort he wuz a for
eigner, but he dident have aney
hrogue to his talk. But the purfesser
relieved the strain in less'n minute,
fer he knomed whit it wuz. Gree