The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-02-07
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+ LIKE UNTO STORM !
( SWEPT GALVESTON !
I BY Paul +. Harris. !
written for this paperJ
BY Paul +. Harris.
700 YO'RE gwine ovah thar to Gal

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kin know how 1O, ,OC0 human critters Civ
up their lives. Wuz you evah in one III
them coast storms, stranger? Did yo
evah happen to be roun' when the sea
swep' things clar fo' miles, leavin' only
hyar en- thar poo stranded cuss tC
mourn the loss of loved ones? No!
Thank God TO thet, stranger.
"When All saw tibet thar line in the
mo'nin Picayune ez we wuz pullin' out
I'm New Orleans, Ten Thousand Dead
Twenty Thousand Injured, All Won
dered how many readers thar wuz e7
would really know what thet thar
meant. faint them tibet go down be-
Meath the waves that hez nah deepes
pity. Coin down don las long. All
speaks. sub, uf them tibet hez to stan
by helpless en- see those thet he hol's
thousan' times dearer then life itself
swcp' away by the mad, rushing tide
All amt agwine fab yo're way, stranger
All hev TO get off at Crowley, but All
reckon Ah shll hev time to tell yo'. lts
lust barly possible thet yo' en- All shall
meet agin en- ef we dom mebbe yo'll see
fit to tell them thar no'then newspaper
iellers thct All hearn yo' say tibet yo'
worked fo' nah little story of Edwin
en- Genie.
"Ah wuz livin' down near the bayou
Cook, Plaquemins parish, sixty odd
mile below New Orleans, in those days,
not fab FIN Buras township. Genie
WIZ creole. She wuz plain en- simple
uf dress, sweet en- Heavenly, sub. When
All think uf her Ah seem to heah the
ring of distant church bells ez the
u.ed to ring when she, little miss uf
twelve er tharabouts, in snow-white
gown en- with a sprig uf iessamine er
valley lilies in her ha'r used to trip
erlong past our plantation uf Sunday
mo'nin' on her way to our parish
church. Like the church bells, her
to bettah things. The wuzent much
about her pedigree to brag on, but,
stranger, If yo' could hev took one look
into them deep blue eyes with the
long dark lashes, yo' would hev allowed
tibet the he'd cornered all the sunshine.
All took that look mahself, sub, an All
hevent seen the sun shine elsewhar
sence.
"Edward-Ah calls him thet, now
he'd everythin' to brag on in the way
uf pedigree, en-. ez All look at it new,
in everythin' else thet goes to make up
the gentleman, but he nevah said much
about hisself. Neither of his parents
wuz Twin en- he wuz pretty much alone
in the worl. He wuz tall, broad
shouldered en- handsome. He come I'm
up yo're way somewhar, New York
state, All reckon. Mebbe yo' know uf
him er his family. Las name WIZ No
hev been bettah named unless it would
have been Noble Edward Noble; thet's
what All hev on his tombstone now;
but Ah'm getting ahead uf nah story.
edward en- All wan the bes' uf fren's
FIN the fust. though the fault uf thet
wuz altogether mine. All he'd been
used to hevin' things pretty much nah
own way. Nah paw he'd the bes' plan
tation in the parish, sub. 1t he'd been
in our family sence Jackson's army
moved on New Orleans en- our bottom
Ian crop uf rice en- cane wuz, All reck-
on. the bes' thet grew. Nah parents
he'd set heap on me, en- All remembah
well the day thet nah nav (she wuz
I'm the proudes' family in the Ian.
suh). tole me thet she hoped she would
nevah liv to see the day thet a son of
hers would take to wife a low-bohn
creole, en- the tears thet dimmed her
eyes. sub, KEEP me I'm sayin' what All
should hcv been sorry fo'. Genie
want low bohn, nohow, stranger.
"Befo' many days he'd passed, All
he'd asked her to be mine, an,
though she nevah quite consented,
the wuz moments thar thet All felt
ea though it wuz only a matter uf
time when she would give in. en- when
once, stranger, An thought thet All
saw the love light shine in them dear
blue eyes, nah heart seemed sho'
enough to stan still en- nah breath
came short en- quick. The wuz the
sunshine days, sub.
Edward came down to study the ef.
feet uf various fertilizers on our long
staple cotton en- tibet itself wuz enutf
to set the fab smolderin'. We felt in
them days just aftah the war more
than we do now tibet the south wuz
fully able to see to the cotton rails
in er anythin' else ez fab ez tibet
goes, down in Dixie, without the in
tervention uf Yankees with any uf
their dog gone scientific ideas. What
at fust diden' amoun' to much broke
out into a full flame uf hatred when
All saw thet Edward had his eye on
nah Genie. All saw them standin' to-
gether once, under the big pecan tree
in front uf her house ez All wuz rdin'
past. Nah fust impulse wuz to pass
on ez though All hedent noticed, then
the fcolishness uf thet came to me en-
! refined up short. The want the
slightes' embarrassment in his look
ez he waved me How de- but il All
he'd tried All coulden' to hev saved
nah life hev answered. All Just sat