The free press. (Southern Pines, N.C.) 1898-19??, 1900-04-21

nayCGrS will talk. Better hev 1t day
after tomorrer. and hope for your
sake, it won't be a rainy day I've
sometimes thought I'd like big flu.
neral when | went, with over 40 wag
ons in the purcession and the church
bell a-tollin and the dogs howlin, but
I've given that up No. Samuel you
needn't make any spread over me, I'm
one Of the kind that kin go to heaven
without any hurrah and fireworks II
there is ten wagons in the purcession.
! shall be satisfied Don't you think
ten ought to be huff for a person like
me?"
1t wasn't a direct question. but had
1t been Mr. Gallup would not have
answered He was dpvourns the third
testimonial and making up his mind
to try bottle on the sly
''ren wagons in the purcession Sam
uel. and the bells needn't toll Dor
nuthin else happen Ii anybody is
diggin ta1erS or maxim soft soap OF
dyein carpet rags, they needn't stop y.
my account. If % people come to lh,
house. that will be huff We've sot
'seyeD chairs altogether, counlln Them
with broken backs, and Mrs Walters
will lend YOU the rest You'li hey our
own preacher, OF course, but he n,tdaI
go on for IN hour OF two and tell now
good was and how nnch yOu'lI MISS
me II he Siys thai III, ton Is Fl and
that you WOD'l never lind ii niO;e S.lvin
wife that le about 'nuti S;al you
do any cryiD al the funeral. Samuel"
No answer
"F,l do lee,le bit If was you Jest
leetle II you don't. folks VIII talk
about ii same as they did about )im
Dewitt He never cried AT ali and &c
this day folks say he didn't use Han
ner right don't ask you to break
down ap;l sob and git UP an excite
mepi bul yon kin gasp few times and
wipe your eyes and blow your noye
I'm sorry you'll hey to take that long
ride ~ the graveyard. as you could be
playtn checkers OR s1sEtAin, but DON'T
see how you are to git out of it. How
ever, you won't never hev to go up
there ag'in. When you git rendy to
buy me gravestun, you kin send it
up by man. s'pose you'll buy a
stun of some sort, won't your"
Mr.. Gallup didn't hear. In the fourth
testimonial man declared that he had
been saved after one whole lung ana
three-quarters of the other were gone,
and it was sketch to thrill the reader
clear down to his toes.
''Of course | don't keer about M
gravestun for myself" said Mrs. G..l
lup as she tried to wipe away her tears
with the glass stopper of the bottle,
'but if you don't put one up the nay
burs will call you stingy. Get a cheap
one, however If you kin git one fur
$40 and trade lot Of carpet rags in,
I'd do it. used to think | wanted
whole lot of readin on my gravestln,
but I've changed my mind. Jest Put
on that Susan Gallup expired in TIE
forty-ninth year Of Ter a@e Of gineral
disability and that she has found rest
where asthma, boils backaches ana
rheumatic cease from troubln. You
needn't say word about maxim 40
yards of rag carpet and bari of soft
soap last year while enjoyin sore eyes
and boil on my arm or that | allus
kept catnip. smartweed and pepper
mint herbs in the house and was
nurse to all the nayburs. No. Samuel.
you needn't-say word-about them
things Make fla cheap ravestun.
and you needn't-never so up there
and-and"-
And when Mr.. Gallup had finished
the testimonials and fully determined
to buy at least three bottles and hide
them in the wood shed he rose up.
yawned and stretched anil looked
around to find Mrs. Gallup asleep and
the camphor wasted on the floor
NJ OEtD