The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-01-23

few last words with you. When you
started over town, was singin Bar
bara Allen and thinkin my days might
be long in this land. Not five minits
later the summons come. I had just
started to wash the dishes, and had
that cracked blue platter in my hand,
but l hadn't gin it over two wipes
when the dishcloth fell to the floor
with a great spat. You are hearin
what say, amt you, Samuel?'
Mr.. Gallup wasn't. He was devour-
ing the second testimonial, which gave
the case Of woman who had been
given up by over so doctors, and yet
two bottles furnished her with new
pair Of lungs.
when that dishcloth fell, I knew
that my time had come. That's the
way Mrs. Grover and Mrs. Taylor
went. Their dishcloths fell, and in q
hours they was in heaven. 1 shall be
up there by tomorrer night, Samuel,
while you'll be free to stay out all
night to hear the political news. I'd
hev died before you come back home.
only wanted to talk with you leetle
about the funeral. Let's see. If die
tonight, you'll hold the funeral day aft
er tonorrer. won't you. at 2 o'clock in
the afterneor:'
Mr.. Gallup was listening to noise
outside. he heard something to re-
mind him Of hen trying to crow, and
he wondered if It could be that so long
after dark
"If you want it day sooner, you
can hev it." continued Mrs. Gallup
after sobs and gasps and shifts at the
bottle, "but you must look out or the
nayburs will talk. Better hev it day
after tomorrer, and I hope, for your
sake, it won't be a rainy day. I've
sometimes thought I'd like a big fu-
neral when I went with over 40 wag-
ons in the purcession and the church
bell a-tollin and the dogs a-howlin, but
I've given that up. No, Samuel, you
needn't make any spread over me. Pm
one Of the kind that kin go to heaven
without any hurrah and fireworks. IF
there is ten wagons in the purcession,
I shall be satisfied. Don't you think
ten ought to be 'nuf for person like
me?"
It wasn't direct question, but had
it been Mr.. Gallup would not have
answered. he was devouring the third
testimonial and making uD his mind
to try o bottle on the sly.
'sTen wagons in the purcession, Sam
uel, and the bells needn't toll nor
nuthin else happen. If anybody is
diggin taters Or maxim soft soap or
dyein carpet rags, they needn't stop on
my account If 25 people come to the
house, that will be 'nuff. We've got
'leven chairs altogether, countin them
with broken backs, and Mrs. Walters
will lend you the rest. You'll heV our
own preacher, Of course. but he needn't
20 on for an hour or two and tell how
good ! was and how much you'll miss
me. If he says that my toll Is DER, and
that you won't never find q more savin
wife, that'll be about 'nuff. Shall you
do any cryin at the funeral. Samuel"
No answer.
sI'd do leetle bit II was you-jest
leetle. If you don't, folks will talk
about it same as they did about Jim
Dewitt. he never cried at all, and to
this day folks say be didn't use Han
ner right. don't ask you to break
down and sob and git up an excite
ment, but you kin gasp few times and
wipe your eyes and blow your nose.
I'm sorry you'll hev to take that long
ride to the graveyard, as you could be
playin checkers or sunthin, but dom
see how you are to git out Of it. How
ever, you won't never hev to 60 VI
there ag'in. When you git ready t
buy me q gravestun, you kin send Il
up by a man. s'pose you'll buy 6
stun Of some sort, won't your
Mr.. Gallup didn't hear. In the fourth
testimonial q man declared that he hat
been saved after one whole lung ant
threc-Quarters Of the other were gone
and /. was Z sketch to thrill the reader
clear down to his toes.
"Of course l don't keer about nc
gravestun for myself" said Mrs. Gal
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. II you kin git one ful
$40 and trade a lot of carpet rags in
I'd do it. used to think wanted 6
whole lot Of readin on my gravestun
but I've changed my mind. Jest put
on that Susan Gallup expired in The
forty-ninth year of her age Of ginera
disability and that she has found resi-
where asthma, boilS, backaches anG
rheumatic cease from troublin. Yor
needn't say a word about maxim 4(
wards Of rag carpet and bar'l Of sofr
soap last year while eniovin sore ewes