Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1902-01-10


t,y the mail carrier to the mountain
farmhouse which answered as post
office.
She'll be the pecrtest gal in the
cove aginst she gifts it, said OLD
+.unt Polly, laughing.
after waitin' nigh onto three year
Ger it, | reclin she will. Let's see;
hits marked Cincinnati. / wished /
could see what's on the inside OF it.
"Bud Hunts been monty fergitful
oe her, hit pears like to me- said
Aunt Polly. "Bein' scholar enough
TO read an write, hit seems like he
would hev wrote her fore now, jist
&c let her know what he wuz about
''Waal, think said the postmis-
Sress, "she's been ez wishful ez n
young cat, comm round every mail
e1ay an asltin' eff thar warn't no let
Gers fer her folks. She haint been
IN now fer more'n two weeks"
E-Waal, ] say; she must be TUX sick
or somethin."
''She's been a-loollin' powerful puny
s>eer since corn wuz laid by. She
sut,st worked too hard; ye know
she's about to run into kinsump-
sioa."
'tSle used to look big and chuffy
enough fore Bud went out'n the set
Jtc1aent"
"ESas, an after he went, too, fer
The fust year. They say ez how he
g;v her his promise he'd write jst ez
ssonn ez he could git n good job;
ehca they'd git married"
''She lowed hit wouldn't take sich
nm uncommon likely fcller ez him
suOre'n a week to git well-payin'
Ias,."
'-Her pappy died with that kin
ssanoption jst soon after she wuz
tsorsded," said the postmistress. re-
fseciively; "an' whenever he died they
sslid ez how some'n his people'd hev
IL, too"
do We mind" broke in Aunt Polly,
show Sally Ann TUX on at the time
0l her pappy's buryin'? They WIZ
EnalSjn' the coffin before our house,
an she come in an aXed me ef they
WIZ goin' TO put her pappy in that
ofd box. That's iist what she called
1t, old box an p'inted over whar
they wuz workin'. l tole her that
rEcy alluz put dead corpscs into
boxes, ez they called coffins, an then
ETt Il led on 'em fore they put 'em
Tn she ground an kivered 'em up.
>Eivcr up my pappy" says she;
~Ehsy's afeared to liiver him up; he'll
syiG up an shoot a hole through 'em
ef they tech him."
''Shc lSnowcd what buryin' meant
L., r.. t,,1.
10 the buryin' ground"
II rccllin she did. Waal, must be
EIttin' home"
Slant We stay all night?"
~'lNo; I'll hev to be a-goin. You-uns
come up and see us; don't fergit."
= group of men were gathered at
The small store in the lower end of
Tie cove just as the evening shadows
wcre beginning to thicken in the
ruSislDtains. Some were seated on the
S,gs5c platform in front, while others
Ssu1unted on horseback had reined up
u0 hear the news of the day; for the
catsntry store and the post Office take
Slne place of newspaper in the
Rlsountaiu districts.
-<'They tell me-" said old Squire Bar
foU, as he threw huge quid of to-
eoScSoo on the floor, "they tell me that
SSity Ann LarRin got that letter from
6sa3 Hunt to-day, an that she growed
nigh onto an inch since it come"
.'Whar is Bud now?" said an angu-
lar young farmer.
-'iiud, he's some'rs about Singcin-
matt, reckin; that's what Polly said
aa' she wuz at the Office when the let
ter come. He's run onto plumb
good Job thar with some kind of a
railroad consarn, an he's a-gittin' 40
u mouth"
-ESeats stalk breedin' all holler
don't it, gittin' into one of them big
tcwas?"
Yes, or maxim corn an wheat
6oc-r
Tain't everyone kin git such a iot
In the city," said the squire; "wher
T. wuz thar about war time they
'l',ved ez thar warn't nary place like
ehe mountains fer Pete Barlow"
""sSaal, hit pears to me-" said the
sforekeeper, that eff ye an BuC
Esnnt could both git jobs thar, thai
mos all the rest of us could"
oals raised the lauSl on the squire
who responded by eXpectorating il
III Ecg of horseshoes that stood at on,
e.ss{ of the porch. Just then a pal,
Soang fellow, whose white skin wa!
n sharp contrast to his curly blacl
EEsix, hailed the group, and was jus
ABOUT to ride past when the squire
Srs order to regain his standing a
Va<lsGsAE- na lln1 ont. SCANS
aa7 RE frien'ly fer minute, Jim
We needn't think Sally Ann wants t,
ssee We now, Hain't ye heared abou
f,er tetter?"
Yes, 1 did," said the young man
quietly, as he rode up; 81 didn't 'los
Siae7d care much to see me-"
II should guess not" responde,
dIrss squire quite hnnny nrain an,