The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1901-01-10

LIKE UNTO STORM :
SWEPT GALVESTON !
BY Paul i. Harris.

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up their Ives. Wuz you evan in one III
them coast storms, stranger? DID 20
evan happen to be roun when the sea
SWEEP taings clar 70 miles. leavin' only
hyar ca thar a poo stranded cusS TO
mourn the loss of loved ones? No?
Thank God TO tibet, stranger.
"When All saw tibet thar line in the
mo'nin Picayune ez we wuz puilin OUT
FIN New Orleans. Ten Thousand Dead.
Twenty Thousand Injured All won
dered how many readers thar wuz ez
would really know what tibet thar
meant. faint them tibet go down be-
Meath the waves that hez man deepes
nity. Coin down don las long. All
speaks sub, uf them tibet hez to stan
by helpless en- see those tibet he hoIs
+housan' times dearer then life itself
sweep away by the mad, rushing tide.
All amt agwine fab yore way, stranger.
All hev to get off at Crowley, but All
reckon All shll hev time to tell yo. It's
Just barly possible tibet yo' en- All shall
meet aoin en- eff we don mebbe yoll see
fit to tell them thar no'then newspaper
fellers tibet All hearn yo' say tibet yo'
worked fo' NAH little story of Edwin
en- Genie.
"Ah wuz livin' down near the bayou
Cook. Plaquemine parish, sixty odd
mile below New Orleans, in those days.
not fab FIN Buras township. Genie
wuz 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
used to ring when she, a little miss Ut
twelve er tharabouts, in snoW-Whlte
gown en- with a sprig uf jessamine 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
mission seemed to be to summon souls
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, 20 would hey allowed
tibet the he'd cornered all the sunshine.
All took that look mahself, sub. an Nh
hevent seen the sun shine elSeWhar
sencP.
"Edward-Ah calls him tibet now
he'd ererythin' to brag on in the way
uf pedigree. en-. ez All look at it now,
in everythin else thet goes to make ND
the gentleman. but he nevah said much
about hisself. Neither of his parents
wuz Twin en- he wuz pretty much alone
in the worr. He wuz tall, broad
shouldered en- handsome. He come FIN
up wore way somewhat, New York
state, All reckon. Mebbe yo' know uf
him er his family. Las name wuz No
bic. Al cayent figure it tibet he could
hev been bettah named unless il would
have been Noble Edward Noble: thet's
what Nh hev on his tombstone now:
but Aim getting ahead uf nah story.
Edward en- Nh wan the hes IF fren's
I'm the fust, though the fault ut thet
wuz altogether mine Nh he'd been
used to hevin' things pretty much NAH
own way. Nah paw he'd the bes' plan
tation in the parish sub. It he'd been
in our family seuce Jackson's army
moved on New Orleans en- cur bottom
Ian crop uf rice en- cane wuz, Nh reck-
on. the bes' tibet grew Nah parents
he'd set a heap on me, en- All remembah
well the day tibet nah nav (she wuz
I'm the proudes' family in the Ian,
subj. tole me tibet she hoped she would
nevah liv to see the day tibet a son of
hers would take TO wife a low-bohn
creole. en- the tears tibet dimmed her
eyes, sub, KEEP me FIN sayin' what All
should hev been sorry TO. 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 WIZ moments thar tibet All felt
ez though it wuz only a matter uf
time when she would give in. en- when
once, stranger, All thought tibet 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 eff
feet uf various fertilizers on our long
staple cotton en- tibet itself wuz enuff
to set the fab a smolderin'. We felt in
lHeIh udAN just dlldH tue war IuoIt
than we do now tibet the south wuz
fully able to see 10 the cotton rails
in er anythiu' else ez fab ez thet
goes, down in Dixie, without the in
tervention uf Yankees with any uf
their dog gone scientific ideas. What
at fust diden' amour to much broke
out into a full fame uf hatred when
All saw tibet 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 foolishness uf tibet came to me en-
refined up short. The want the
slightes' embarrassment in his look
ez he waved me How de- but if All
he'd tried All coulden' to hev saved
NAH life hev answered. All just sat
there en- glared like stupid gawk till
il seemed En- if An should burn up
with shame en- anger, en-, when he
smoke upip in his palu cOIrtpOuS