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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

BURLINGTON. CEDAR RAPIDS &
NORTHERN RAILWAY Trains arrive
and depart from Union PassS ger Station,
ERFlInEsU aal lows g. Paul Dep t. Arrive
W Wafsssswn. A s}enx p afa,
Estherviile, Iowa Falls
and Cedar Rapids 1850. 900 p m 6:45 a m
Jefferson Street Pas
seuger Station:
Minneapolis, st. Paul,
Wuseca, Albert Lea,
and Cedar Rapids 9:1o p IN 6:3s m
Davenport, Iowa city,
Cedar Rapids, Water
lee, Rockford, Grnnell,
Ues Mones, etc ........ SO a Ii 6:45p m
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Fails Baskerville, Spirit S
Lake. Sioux Falls, Worth
ngton, Waterloo, Albert
lis, 81. Paul .........: 4:22 IN 12:1O NJ
Davenport, Iowa City.
Lea, Wasecu, Minneapo-
Cedar Rapids, Column
hus Junction and West
Liberty, 49, .:;l;So 1855 m
and way -. ....... .6:34a IN 4:SO m
IOWA CENTRAL RAILWAY.
Time, OF trains ;.x CARRYING passengers at
ltsias' iowa 4 Ghsst Nort iuly lst' 1901
No. S-si PApl Express daily 1920 IN
no. 5--Mason ,Eltg AniI (Ex sun 2I0 , N
No. Way Freight tlix sla, 80 N
No. G-Peoria Mail (Ex Suk} ..12:2o u II,
40. Way Freight (EX Sum :. .7:45 m
No. Peoria Express daily ;. 3:10 D m
Coupon tickets , on sale to NIL points in The
rates; fo y 1 s ssSy call on or address
Gen. Pass. & Tiki Agt, = Agent.
Marshalltown. Iowa, Hedricf. la.
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Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets
cure cold in one day. No cure, NO
pay. Price 25 cents.
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Railroad Timetables
TRAINS LEAVING UNION DEPOT,
w. S. Parker, Ticket Agent.

BURLINGTON route, c., B. & q, H. II.
Going East. Depart.
No. 2ia-Fast mail ........ LOG 4. Ill.
No. l2a-Chicago, Peoria, st. Louis,
Dubuque Quincy ....... .2:15 a. IN.
92b-Local Freight ~ G:4o a. M
10b-Peoria, Dubuque & Quincy 12.01 pm.
fa-Cnicago Limited ......... 80 D. M.
Chicago, st. Louis N Quincy TO pm.
Sa-EnSt Mail ;...;.,,.:. S:3I p. M
Going West.
5a-Omaha, Council Bluffs and
Nebraska 80. .......... l:l1 a. H.
l5a-Fast mail ..... .....2:19 A. III.
3a-Omaha, Kansas City, Denver,
Hot Springs, Deadwood. og-
den, Portland < California sos IN
,;l-tast Mail 49,. 1880. -. So III
get Sound 100. ......... LAO m
f3a-I4imited ..... -. ......... ::23 D IN
11a-Kansns City, St Joe and
Council Bluffs 80. go. 9:a5 m
la-rienver Omaha -. $50. II 100 D m
a Daily, b. Except Sunday, Nos. Z, s, 10
and II do not carry passengers.
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CHICAGO. rr.MADlsoS & DIES Mo4Sls

CHICAGO. FT.MADIsoN & pEs MONIES
Arrive Depart
TT. Madison passenger 40 III 2:45 M
Ft. Madison accomno. Gao m 6:35 M
Trains run daily except Sunday.
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND " PACIFIC.
Going East. Depart
No. 22S-Ottnmwa to keoliuk ....7:l5 m
202-Des Moines 10 Keokuk ..l0:35 a IN
204-Des Moines TO Eldon 49,. 1886 p M
..33l-Freight Ottumwa to IIldon 400 p IN
Going West. Arrive.
c21-Kcokuk to ottumwa ........;. 6:45
2U1-Eldon to Des Moines -. S25 a. IN.
203- keokuk to Dcs Moines. 1905 D m
,3:;-t'rt. Eldon to Dcs Moines 1892 a M
231Trt. daily Eldon to Monroe. sos D m
Unless otherwise specified. all trains are
daily except Sunday
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WABASH.

Arrive. Depart
Kansas City & St.Louls a6:l5 am Assoc nm
Kansas City IL st. Louis aI:0O p. m. aS:25 am
Freight trains carrying passengers be-
tween Ottumwa and Moulton:
Fast freight -. ......al2:10 pm a2:3O pm
aDaiIy bEXceDt Sunday.
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Stops the Cough and Works Off tn.
Cold.
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So. ...s7,S54,S33 $1,5O5,S5
Leading Articles.
Exports.

Exports from the port of Manila b,
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Wraneling Kills Scheme.

Matters dragged along and finally
on December II, 1858, Henry
OReilly, of New York, entered into a
contract with the commissioners, in
which for the consideration of the I'M
sold lands belonging to the improve
ment, and tolls and water rents and
other profits arising from the work for
the term of forty years agreed to
complete the entire work within the
period of four years from July l.
1854. The company which he
formed, the Des Moines Improvement
and Railroad company. wrangled
among themselves and soon the mat
ter of Irregularities was in the courts.
before the governor and then the leg
islature. and the fact is known that
the improvements were never made.
"On March 5. 1860. an act was
passed abolishing the Office of commits
sioner of the Des Moines river inn
provement and George G. Wright, Ed
ward tombstone and Chris. w. Slagle
were appointed board Of commits
sioners to ascertain all the liabilities
of the Des Moines improvement and
against the state Of Iowa growing out
of the improvement. They We're re-
CURED to meet at Keosauqua and were
clothed with powers similar to the dis.
trict court. to hear and determine all
claims growing out of the improve
ment and the lands appertaining
thereto. These commissioner proceed
ed with their duties and with their la
bors closed all official acts, so far as
the state of Iowa was concerned, in
applying the proceeds of this land
grant toward the improvement of the
navigation of the river Des Moines."
Edwin Manning Interested.
Edwin Manning, who died at keo-
sauQua August 16, 1901, held the posi-
ton of commissioner of this improve
ment at one time. He was appointed
in November, 1856, to fill a vacancy
caused by the resignation OF William
Mckay, of Polk county, and he was
probably the last of the officials who
had anything to do with the Des
Moines river Improvement of "ye old,
en- time
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Much Trouble.

The governor appointed Yer Plank
Van Antwerp commissioner and Geo
Gillaspy register, who on January
8, 1851, entered into a contract
with Bangs Brothers & Co.. of New
York, in which they stipulated to com
plete the whole work in four years
This company soon failed and the con
tract was declared forfeited.
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-05-25
WHEN TO PASS TIM HAT.

Mark Twain Gives Advice to Those
+. Wishing to Procure Charity.
Mark Twain had wisdom on occasion,
as we'll as wit. He declares that when
man makes an appeal for charity it
is great mistake to get everybody
ready to give money and then not pass
the hat. Some years ago, in Hart.
ford" he said the other day, 1--WE all
went to church on a hot sweltering
night. to hear the annual report of Mr..
.Hawley, city missionary, who went
around finding the people who needed
help and didn't want to ask for it. He
told Of the life in the cellars, where
poverty resided; he gave instances of
heroism and deyotion to the poor. The
poor are always good to$Seach other.
When man with millions gives we
make much of noise. It's noise in the
wrong place. For it's the Widows
mite that counts. Well, Mr.. 2Hawley
worked me up to a great state. I
couldn't wait for him to get through
I had $400 in my pocket. wanted to
give him that and borrow more to give.
You could see greenbacks in every eye.
But he didn't pass thes plate, and it
grew hotter and we grew sleeper. My
enthusiasm went down-$100 at time
until finally, when the plate came
round I stole 10 cents out of it. So you
see. neglect like this may lead to
crime. Times-Herald. L..
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Tourist Postal Cards.

Tourist postal cards are extremely
popular on the continent of Europe.
On this side the water the people seem
to be too busy to think about them,
but in Germany NO city or hamlet, no
place Of historical interest is without
these cards embellished with some de-
sign appropriate to the locality, which
offer convenient means Of communi-
cation with friends at home. Last
summer, according to the German
postofice returns. over 2O0OO,OOO cards
were mailed in one week Forty-six
per cent were tourists cards The
postage collected daily on these cards
was more than $4,000. Berlin fur
nished the largest quota-137, 900
cards. Next followed Dresden, then
Hamburg, Cologne, Leipzig, Breslau,
Frankfort, Hanover. Halle, Dussel-
dorf, Wiesbaden and Kiel. I Bremen
stood thirteenth in the list, with a
daily average of nearly 5000 postaIs
New York Press.
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mus or took two hans. Fis' and skull.
skull lI and ifs, they has it while wipes
off the blood fore 1T dries on my hair
and makes it hard fer to comb.
Just den In steps your constable.
Tho The done tole him we warn't a.
hurtin' nobody but jest tendin' to fam
ily juties, he rests us all three, and
here we is. 3=.
Nj through your fault, squire. All
through yore ignunce Of womens. T
oughtern to blame you. for you did
the best You knoWed, but its tough for
a perfessing Christian and his cook
ladies to be drug through the streets
same as FOUNDERS, and bone-rollers.
Dollar fine each and costs Of the
cote & Breach of the peace 2 s.5 4: f
We'll, you may call it breach Of
the peace, or a peace of the breaches,
jus as you's a mind to, but I nom
mates it a squire's pore Judgment Of
Womens, does. Three dollars fine
| and twelve dollars costes. Just sem
that constable of yourn to the fore
man of the mill and he'll square him
up. @EsSz 81 E &css:s i 4 & 81. !. 81 ID -
Come erlong, Nancy. Come long,
Narcess, and you needn't ter be a
blinkin' them wall eyes Of yourn at the
squire. He amt a studyin' yer. But
just recollects, Miss Himpertnunce, not
to call a squire lie ergin, for that
fine has JUS the same as took two new
dresses offn your back. J. ss~
"Goodby, Squire, amt no wise
thinkin' hard of YOU. but I wants to
tell you now, I'll never follow nary
nuther justice about the handlin' of
womens. They is too ignunt of the
creeturs." " L. IL ~ '.a5 u
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faint craps, hits Womens youse both
cred about. says 'stonished ergin.
You shore made the coupling that
time, and its about two womens that
bothers me. Den quick as lightnin she
says: Yes, and one Of the ladies Tubs
you better than the other, though both
of their hearts is yourn, and one is
darker than the other Now, how she
know dat? How she fine out dey amt
de same color and dat dat wheeny-
Whitney voice Narcees amt as. dead
stuck on me as Miss Nancy
Den up and tells her dey bofe
were gone on me, and do bofej said
4 was her honey babe, / was bound to
Tess dat Narcees Warnt 50 sWeetsome
on me as Nancy Den tells her about
dat pin and axes her which Of dem
Womens got dat pin.
she filings red rag with gold dol
lars stomped on it aerost her face. md
breafes loud q long time. but JUS Az
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yizAE1t H'sRz

Long years ago. one sunny day & z#s
Alas, how dim and far away # #
That bright day now appears
Companionless and lonely 4, s5s VI
For pastime watched the clouds so BY,
4 AS since have gone the years
I wandered where the brook leaped down
Its rocky channel by the town Isl. s
In foamy, ceaseless flow; 0 @
I saw wild pigeons rise and fly,
Like arrows cleaving the bright sky,
Shot from an archer's bow. 1s5s5 5sE 5
I heard the wood doves plaintive note,
: AS softly from her FURNISHED throat,
1t melted on the breeze ri 81. ~
/ heard the plover'sa joy-notes ring
Across the pasture, Quavering,
Il And die among the trees.
Two little wrens were building near, |
Their .downy nest, where every, year
h They came to build and sing: IA
They seemed to love the spot, and there,
Their tender song, soft as a prayer,
Breathed welcome to the Spring.
The morning long I watched them weave
With patient care beneath the cave, s
Their soft and downy home; y
/ heard them sing their tender lay, -. -
Their song Of hope, that some near day
Nestlings would to it come. r..
And I see now what then saw II
But vaguely, that one common law LII
2 Rules birds as well as men: :. ~
And glowing warm in every breast
Is that home-love, the first and best,
Which bids US build the dear home nest,
AS doth the little wren. NJ =
rs@g - &C. H. DOING. +
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WHY THE BOILER BURSTS.
Scientific Expianat ton of Some Phenomena
. '#ts.>.--.-, &. of the Kitchen.

oc1on1inc Explana ton of Some Phenomen3
INIT. ~. of the Kitchen.
When you hear the kitchen boiler
cracking their is no cause for alarm.
There is prevailing impression that
the cracking is produced by steam
and that there is, therefore, an in
creased pressure on the boiler at such
times. But this is an error. If the
DollerEls in good condition, with the
water turned on as usual, so that the
boiler is kept filled, the only pres
sure that it is subjected to is the same
as that in the water pipes, from which,
OF course, there never is the slightest
danger. And this is true, no matter
now hot the water in the boiler may
be. The reason is very simple. AS
long as the boiler is kept full of wa
ter there is no room for steam. If YOU
open the hot-water cock the water
pours out and steam rises from it be-
cause it then has chance to escape
into the air. In other words rapid
evaporation takes place. But az the
not water pours out water from the
pipes PUSHES in to take it's place, and
thus the boiler is kept full. The
cracking noise referred to is heard
when the water is unusually hot, and
is nothing but the expansion of the
boiler under the influence of that heat.
1t is in no degree an indication of dan
ger, unless, indeed, the boiler is worn
out or defective, which is a matter
entirely outside of what we are now
considering. When a kitchen boiler
explodes it is generally because a fire
has been kindled in the range while
the boiler was empty. It happens
sometimes when people come back to
town after, spending the summer away.
The fire heats the boiler, of course
and when the water is turned on it is
converted suddenly and violently into
steam, and the boiler cannot stand the
enormous pressure. Fortunately, few
persons are thoughtless enough or
silly enough to build a fire before
opening the cocks connecting the boil
er with the water pipes. 49,.
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vas gittin, skittish-Iike ana aidgina

was gittin' skittish- like and aidgins
lords the door, she flung it of and
walls up dem orbs Of hern, and reaches
out for the spots Then she says in 4
ginger cake voice, Mr.. washington. ii
is the light lady what is the larcener
of your yalable joolry. Then pintin
to the queen Of hearts she says 'splan-
atorious like, 81 on will preserve, Mr..
Washington, it is a red queen and not
black queen that the sperits has
turn up, and hence it is the light lady
what has larcenered your pin /
Fl gives her twenty-five cents, and
she says polite as d basket of chips,
Mr. Washington I would be proud
to have you call ergin when youse in
trouble and let me and the cards hex
tricate you from your difficulties. The
cards never lies. I. gives. you my own
word fer it, says she. 5:s #..fs +.
Now, / wants you to have dat
Narcees rested and flung in Jail, and
when she am sont up there with dem
FOUNDERS and crap shooters she'll learn
better than to hook her clampers on
joolry what amt hern I
Cant have her rested on evidence
like dat? Dat Amt no proof? What
you tryin to- give me, squire? What
more proof does you want? Youse
got my word, the word Of an oil mills
generman, that the pin were tooken,
and you got the word of the fortune
lady dat Narcees were the thief. I
like then fer you to tell me if dat
amt proof enough to cornvic a white
pusson, much. less er cullud lady. Well,
sponsor she mics it? Amt it two ergin
one? ~ -
(. We'll, de law certainly am curisom.
No wonder, de blessed postle Paul says
de Lord have come ito do way wild de
law, but de way it seems to flourish
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-05-25
Betting and Oranges.

A favorite way of betting in China
is with oranges. This goes on sat the
fruit stalls, and also in private houses.
The bet is on the number Of seeds in
an orange. Sometimes it is as to
whether the number is odd OF even
and at others as to the exact number
of seeds the orange contains. If at a
fruit stand the dealer will pay the
lucky guesser5 five times his debt, but
the loser must pay the value Of the
orange and also five times as much
as he has Wagered. Quail ting
and cricket eombats are also sources
Of great interest to the oriental sport
ing fraternities.
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,~'e&lz 4RSI(NSS v9~
81, = $$SS g., t}r
No Judge Of Women.
: BY DABNEY MARSHALL. :,
Copyrighted 1901 by the Daily Story Pub.

''Hits like dis, Squire" said big
hurley coil mill hand addressing that
functionary in the awed deferential
tone of voice which the colored brother
scorns 70 use except when speaking to
preachers or administrators of the
criminal law, Use called to question
de arrest of cullud lady, She have
stole my pin. 1 wouldn't be FER raisin'
all dis san about dat pin, but shore
lubs it. My brudder paid six bits fer
dat pin in Kansas City, Kansas City,
Mosourah. -
"How / know she stole it?'' .-s
Hits dis way. I went to see lady
what tells fortunes down on de levee.
What de fortune teller got to do wild
1t? Squire, if you don't quit 'ruptin'
dat. way in a. generman's cornversa-
tons, you will work confusements of
speech. Dat fortune teller got all to
do wild it. Why dat lady just brought
fortune-tellin to dis world. '~''~
Il lief my coat with dat pin in the
hem when / went off to work. Dere
want nobody in dat house ceptin' the
two ladies what cooks for me. What a
man dat amt married dom with two
cooks? Well, now. Dare amt no law,
as knows, 'hibting a generman's hay
In as many cooks as he has de wages
to pay fer. - :. :
Il jes' natcherly gets tired er
chompn' grub fixed by the same pus-
son all the time, and besides the good
DOCK says, 'contrariety is the spice Of
life When 'tuns home for my eve
Minis freshmeats l missed dat pin, and
| knowed one Of dem cooks had done
tooken it? But which err one couldn' t
say. So hits the grit for the fortune
teller's studio or rudio, whichsomever
dey calls it, down on the levee.
AS soon as ever gets. my hoofs on
dat white woman's carpet, she up and
lows: ="
(" You'se in trouble Now, how she
know l in trouble cepen she were a
fortune-teller? I says 'stonished:
Lady, you shore hit the truf and that
amt no lie ~.~.
Then she looks 1t me ergin and she
says: And may Je it's about craps, er
the lottery and you wants to know the
lucky numbers and you've come to the
lady what knows just what tickets will
draw and what won't III.
''Then afore could say nothin' she
looks at the deck ergin, and says, No;
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1901-05-25
HUSBAND AND WIFE.
A Veteran of the Civil War Tells ar
Interesting Story. @r'sgy & 4

A Veteran of the Civil War Tells am
Interesting Story. * elg
Effingham, Ill, April 22.-(Special)-
Uriah S. Andricl1 is now 67 years Of
age. Mr.. Andrick served through the
whole of the Civil War. He was wound
ed three times by ball, and twice by
bayonet
When he entered the service of his
country, in 1861, he was hale and
hearty, and weighed 1913 pounds. Since
the close of the war, however, Mr.. And
drick has had very bad health.
For fifteen years he never lay down
in bed for over an hour at time HI
had acute Kidney Trouble, which grew
into Bright's Disease. His heart, also,
troubled him very much. -.
On Oct. 18th, 1900, he was weighed,
and weighed only 102 pounds, being but
a shadow of his former self. He COM
menced using Dodd's Kidney Pills on
the 26th of last December, and on Feb.
Goth was again weighed, and weighed
LAG pounds. He says: ,4 49,.
1T have spent hundreds of dollars and
received no benefit, until on the 26th Of
December last, I purchased one box of
Dodd's Kidney Pills. I am cured, and
am free from any pain. My hearts
action is completely restored. I have
not the slightest trace Of the Bright's
Disease and can sleep we'll all night.
I was considered hopeless case by
everybody, but to-day am well man,
thanks to Dodd's Kidney Pills.
For the last sixteen years my wife
has been in misery with bearing-down
pains, pains in the lower part Of this
abdomen and other serious ailments.
When she saw what Dodd's Kidney
Pills were doing for me she commenced
to use them. She now feels like anoth-
err woman, her pains have all disap-
peared and her general health is better
than it has been for years. ...
''She is so taken up with Dodds
Kidney Pills and what they have done
for us that she has gone to Mr.. Corn
wallis drug store and bought them for
some of her friends for fear that If they
went themselves they might make q
mistake and get something else"
There is something very convincing
in the honest, simple story Of this old
veteran and his wife.
Dodd's Kidney Pills are the only
remedy that ever cured Bright's Dis
ease Diabetes or Dropsy. They never
fail.
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in dis her berg is about enough ter
,stroyasde faith of de childun of de
Kingdom and make infidels and Inger-
soils brewery one of 'em. '..tc .
Go home and scuse her o. takin it,
and may be will fessup? May be she
will, judge but misdoubts it. If
you'll excuse my not usin manners and
behavior in the intrust of truth and
boss sense, I wants ter leave it wild
you-lt is seldom and rare a man can
git a woman to own to what he knows
| to be de truf much less to fess just
what he beliebes to be so and HAYES
no proof on it. I am mighty afeared,
squire, dat you maye be good judge
OF law, but I tell you now I amt
placin much pendence on yer jedgment
of womens. ~. ~ #
You won't have her rested? Well,
I'll go home and 'scuse her jest as you
say, and see what I will see.''
Grumbling over the unreason of the
law which rejected the word of an
| oil mill hand and fortune teller lady
combined as insufficient to convict
"larcener," he slowly strobe out of the
| office. s, H., 1f
In about an hour there was a COM
motion among the loafers at the door
| OF this theater where farces, comedies
and tragedies are daily enacted with
out admission fees, and the justice
looking up saw constable authorita-
lively leading up to the bar the coil
| mill hand" and two deeply indignant
females, one light yellow and the
other. chocolate brown Before. the
justice or the consta BILE could saw a
word the oil mill hand commenced:
Its all your fault, squire. Youse to
blame for the whole thing. B told You
you was ignunt Of wonens, I believed
it then, but fore Gowd I knows it now.
You'se jest dat ignunt of womens dat
I am almost forcted to belibe you amt
never had no nanny; youse to
blame fer de whole rucus, dats what
you is squire. .$
How you ter blame? Well, I'll tell
you, | goes home, I does, Jess like you
tells me. OAR find Narcess er settin'
in a cheere rockin hersef and a guy
zlin' OF beer. It made me mad shore
'nough dat dat Woman's conscience
amt a pesterin her. SOL go up to
her, squire, just as you told me, and
/ says, as you said fer me to say.
You loW-doWn, bench-legged chile Of
a sea cook, you done stole my pin.
You'se a thief. Use got the 'squire's
own word fer 1t. And what you reckon.
squire? Did dat woman cornfess?
Not much. But that honey babe called
me liar-me, Judge! would say a
dern liar, as she said it her oWnself,
if I Warnt in cote. Now, no man amt
got no right to let a pusson what's
hitler than him call him a lie 'Tain't
right. And besides it was same as
calling you a liar, squire, fer I said
what you told me. Ez#
So 1ambastes dat audacious Wom-
an one on her jaw. I JUS couldn't
stand to have you call a lie to my face.
Now what you reckon dat woman
done? Take her chastisements ac-
cording to the law and the scriptures?
Not much; she was dat lost to reason
dat she fetches me one side the haid
with the Ratchet.
Nancy, she hears the racket from
the kitchen and comes a sailing IN and
lows il there any plantin' of fistes
to be did in dat. house she reekoned
shed take a han and from the way
Narcess vel. I'm PEELED to spect she
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