The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-01
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God makes sech nights. all white an
still
Fur z you can look or listen;
Moonshine an snow on field an hill.
All silence an all glisten.
Zekle crep' up quite unbeknown
An peeked in thru the winder.
An. there sot Hubby all alone.
18th no one nigh to hender
A fireplace filed the rooms one side,
With half cord O. wood in
There warn't stoves (tell comfort died
To bake We to puddn'.
The walnut logs shot sparkles out
Towards thu pootiest. bless her,
An sleetle flames danced all about
The chimney on the dresser.
Agin the chimbley crook necks hung,
An in amongst EN- rusted
The ole Queens arm that Gran'ther
Young
Fetched back from Concord busted.
The very room. coz she was in,
Seemed warm from floor to ceilin',
An she looked full ez rosy agin
Ez the applies she was peelin',
Twas kim O. Enedom-come to look
On sech a blessed cretur,
A dogrose blushin to q brook,
Amt modester nor sweeter
He was six foot o man, A L.
Clean grit an human natur';
None couldn't quicker pitch ton.
Nor dror a furrer straighter.
He'd spanked it with full twenty gels.
He'd squirrel 'em, danced EN-, druy EN-
Fust this one, an then tibet, hy spells,
All is, he couldn't love en-.
But long o. her his veins 'ould run
All crinkly like curled maple,
The side she breshed felt full o. sun
Ez south slope in Apjl.
She thought no vice he'd sech a swing
Ez hisn in the choir;
My! when he made Ole Hundred ring
She knowed the Lord was higher.
An she'd blush scarlit. right in prayer
When her new meetin' burnct
Felt somehow thru its crown a pair
o. blue eyes sot upon it.
Tibet night. | tell We, she looked some!
aShe seemed to We got new soul,
For she felt sartin sure he'd come,
Down to her very shoe sole.
She heered a foot. an knowed it tn,
A raspin' on the scraper-
All ways to once her feelin's flew
Like sparks in burnt. up paper.
He kin O. Uttered on the mat,
Some doubt1e o. the sekle,
His heart KEEP goin pity-pat
But hern went pity Zekle.
An yit she gin her cheer jerk
Ez though she wished him furder,
An or her apples KEEP to work,
Pafin away like murder.
"Yoa want to see my pa, l s'pose?"
"Wal-no--I come dasignin -
''To see my ma? She's sprinklin clo'es
Agin -morrers i'nin'.'
To say why gals acts so or so,
Or don't, 'ould be presumin';
Mebby to mean yes an say no
Comes material to women.
Then stood spell on t'other,
An on which one he felt the wust
He couldn't ha' told We, nuther.
Says he. I'D better call again"
Says She Think likely, Mister;
Tibet last word pricked him like a pin,
An'--wal, he up an kist her.
When ma bimeby upon EN- slips,
Hubby sot pale ez ashes,
All kim o. smily roun' the lips
An teary roun' the lashes.
For she was les the quiet kind
Whose naturs never vary,
Like streams that keep a summer mind
Snowhid in Jenooary.
1.-The blood clost roun' her heart felt
glued
Too tight for all expressin',
Tell mother see how meters stood,
And gin 'em both her blessin'.
Then her red come back like the tide
Down to the Bay o. Fundy,
An all | knew is they was cried
In meetin come mex Sunday.
James Russell Lowell.
.
Mrs. S. T. Gay left yesterday to visit
her relatives at Warsaw
Miss Elizabeth D. Davis. of Beau
fort. N c., has been in the city since
Wednesday last, visiting Miss Eta V
Perry and Miss Annie Duncan.
Marriage licenses were issued yester-
day TO Mr.. NJ. B. Chamblee and Miss
Bessie Griffin. of Wakefield. and to Mr.
l.. A. Ellen and Miss Lizzie Salmon, OF
Garner.
MIR. w. L. Sherwood. his daughter and
Miss Ruth Matthews, of Hamilton, who
stopped over on their way from COM
mencement al the Salem Academy, left
far their homes yesterday.
Miss Cora L. Richards, of the facul-
ty Of Louisburg FeiIale College, and
Miss ReEa Eigerton, student at the
college, passed yesterday on their way
TO Selma. ~
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