The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1901-02-28

night an fur three nights followin', she
sot up with his son Lisha that was down
with fever'n aguo. When Spencor seen
how sho nussed tho boy, an hilt up his
head to give him coolin' water an hyoarG
hor talk low an sof to him in tho dead
O night when Lisha couldn't sleep, he
wondered Of Mandy didn't have two
tongues in her head. Whom Lisha had
got uD an walkin' roun' Mandy sont him
nice things to cat about twice day, au'
Spencer said to mo, says he, Mandy is
tho bcs' woman In Sweetwatcr church,
an don't care Of she did run me out'n
her yard -"
"In the war time, when women use
to meet and pick lint for the soldiers
wOun's rs had boon made in battle,
| Mandy was Almost always ther. One
| day, Bho up and 'cusod tho women of
| bringing dirty scraps to pick, an said,
~ don't know what you all mean
These scraps ain't fittin' to make lint fur
dog" At that, some @ the women
busted out cryin', some lef' the room,
Miss Jim Wheeler thought she'd take O
shot back at Mandy. SO she us an
says, Eff you don't lko the way we
docs, Miss Moorehcad, you'd bet scr picl<
your lint Mt bome.' Mandy riz up. an,
without sayin' q word, she lcr the house
| Her skyrts was a poppin' like whip
lash as she switched out O. the do. The
very frock she had on looked like it was
mad too. That night, when the com
mttcc met to pack up tho lint an SEN
1t away to tho war, Mandy sont in a
pill or case mighty nigh full She had
went home an picked mo- lint than all
tho other women put together, an ther
was 'lcven of 'cm.
"Whcn VIC had the dinner an barbc.
cue at SwCctwater church to raise money
TO buy sashcs an blincs, Mandy sot an,
listened as long as she could at Parson
Brooks readin' out committees. an,
| sayin' what each committee was to do
Turnir' to Miss Spencer she said, "rell
Preacher Brooks to pint one mo- com
mittec to whit.lc tooth picks an with
that she fetched u whurl an went a
stormin' thoo tho do, out into the ward
On my way home, seen her scttin' on
the front stops to her house, an 7
knoWed she was mad but dasn't name
uncle DAM she called out, kin
you tell me who's goin' to buy the
dinner after Preacher Brooks has mt
tho whole church on committees? Don,t
ne Know the people who fixes the table
never pays FUR nothing? Is he a plum
ldiot? jest want him to come by here
so KIN speak my niue to him. I seen
II wouldn't 90 to have an argument with
her, so driv on On Wednesday foi.
lowin', the day of the dinner, Mundy was
lherc. She had On a poke bonnit am u
glngham apnn that retched to the
groun'. She had fetched barbccucd
Plg' a turkey, rice, potatoes, pies, tarts,
Dieau' an three gal III jug O. milk.
one jest TUCK charge O. things herself.
AS last as some young woman would
come up an set her baskit down. Mandv
would tell her what to do, without bav.
ing no regards for her being on some
spccial committee In this way. she
run about Two thirds O. the women awav
1um the table, an KEEP SIGH as she wanted
to help her. The tab was sot unIor
the trees, an scch spread YOU never
seen, When all was ready an the com
mlttcc women come s:aIkin' roun' thc
table she says to 'em pint blank, sScch
or " as wants dinner kin git it fur
twenty-five cents. 1t was curious to see
inc gals as had come to cat without
payln goln roun' gittin' money fun
thcr fathers and brothers an whcrcver
they could borry it Susan Carson rid
back home TO git her money, an it was
a1ull mile an mo- But Mandy had her
way. Fur about month. the whole
naoorhood was in q stew, but Spencer
Jenkins reported sixty one dollars TO
the church as comm fun the dinner, an
when the sashcs an blincs was put m
1t was well nigh agreed in tho church
that Mandy done it.
Mandy never did hurt nobody with
her hans but she would tear en- IN
with her tongue, an it, 'peared that the
hotter she got the more work she could
40. She was never knowcd to sulk an,
pout an git off in corner an sit still
She jest made up her mine to have her
way, an her temper mover come to u
calm tell she had got thoo with what
was on hand. When she was mad, her
halr 1airly rlZ up an her face got red an
stayed 80. But work? She could do
more work IN that frame O mine than
any six women at Sweetwater. T,ul,n
Sawyer, that had the wart on his nose
said he was a ridin' by one day. an seen