Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-08-01

wish the pesky things had been il
Guinea before they come here
I've notion TO wiring their necks
an have 'em for Sunday dinner moth
er'd say.
Don't you never let that notion git
any farther along says the old man,
pretty tolabe firm.
"But mother was sorter firm herself
an that's how it came ont the way 1t
did. It was plantin' time an there
was a right smart O. fencin' too, so we
had to have two eNtry hired men ter git
through the work an hands was
skeerce an hard ter keep. 1t come
Sunday an fer onct mother had ter
stay ter home from meetin' an cook
fer them men. The old man hitched
up an went an took me along with
him. Comm back we see a buggy in
front of us that had broke down an
woman that was havin' considerable
trouble straightenin' out. 1t wus Mis-
Pakenham"
"1'he widder?" asked Baker.
Eyes" answered Hancock, "the wild
der She had a farm over near Bur
toms in Satterlee township. an run it
herself ever sence Pakenham died
Closer'n the bark on tree an sour as
them dill pickles o. Rufe's. Worked
in the field in short petticoats an sun
bonnit an did two mems work'sides
her own, but when she wus dressed
fer mettin' she rugged up like the queen
O. Sheeby. Silk dress an gold watch
an chain and cameo brooch. That's
what made her so unhandy about fxin'
her buggy. reckon-askeered o. muss-
in her silk dress. Anyway, the old
man pulled up an got out an helped
her. Then. when she got through, he
asked her TO stop a the house an take
dinner with us, bein' as she hadn't I
made mother a visit for about year,
an she finerly allowed that she would. I
well. we got to settin' down to the /
table and there was good s nell /
What is it?' says the old man. Roast /
goose SAYS mother, lookin' at him J
stiddy. IN be ding swizzledv says the /
old man, thumpin' the table with his /
fist, madder'n hops. Mis- Pakenham, /
she looked from one to the other kind /
er curious, an the old man simmered /
down, but itWusn hard to see he wus /
disturbed in hie mind. Mother was some
frustrated, too An it WIS that-a-
way through the meal There wus
both Of them geese cooked, but we wus |
all right hungry, an Miss Pakenham /
wus the hungriest o. the lot, seemed /
like. She sent up her plate three times. /
Finerly she said: 4 dunno when I've /
relished anything like that, but I'm /
powerful fond O. roast goose. I didn't /
know as you KEEP geese, Mr.. Hancock
4 don't says the old man. Them /
two geese come to lis las February. /
the matter, Mis- Paken-
ham?' She had showed back her
chair an laid down her knife an
fork an wus glarin' at him.
"'Abe Hancock, she says, slow an
solemn, I didn't think YOU was the |
man to steal a wilder woman's geese. |
Them two geese at you folks have /
jest ct wus my geese. They was
taken from my place in Febooary. ]
know they wus taken, because they
was too much attached to their home
~
inquirin' about 'eV ever sence. Why.
couldn't go ter town but folks ID f.
holler: ''No. Mis- Pakenham, / hain't /
seen nothin' o. no stray geese" with
out me sayin' a word to 'em. put
a piece in the Clarion about 'em. You
needn't tell me, Abe Hancock, that
YOU didn't know whose geese they
vas
Father tried hard to explain, but
,he was one of them women you can't
lrgue with. an then mother got mad
Finally she says: We'll, If it come to
hat, the geese is ct an you've ct
our good share o. them. We're able
o pay you what they was worth, if
'ou've got the conscience to ask it;
mt / reckon you don't want ter take
he bones home with you. Wash, you
20 hitch up Mis- Pakenham's horse.
hes gittin' anxious to go an I don't
want ter keep her.
CT s'pose, says Mis- Pakenham.
orter sarcastic, you throwed away
he feathers
Mother colored up a little more,
N then went out an got the bag O.
Gathers she'd pTuclSed from them
wo geese, an Mis- Pakenham
yaltzed off with 'em, an I want ter
ell you that her tongue want stilI
bout that ontil the day she died.
Seems like Mis- Pakenham ben
inter- town first after the geese left
IN she made sech a doin's about II
at none o. the folks felt much in
lined to help her find 'em, an then
when the old man come in an seemed
W r,lnnne-tal1ed anvinns ter. find tho