The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1902-02-06
SHhhY ANN'S
LETTER
BY NORMAN II, PITNAN.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Copyright. 1901, by Authors syndicate)
nnALLY AIMS letter hev come a


nCALLY AIMS letter hev come at
last" said the postmistress, as
S she looked over the thin package
brought by the mail carrier to the
mountain farmhouse which answered
as post Office.
"She'll be the peertest gal in the
& cove aginst she gifts it" said old
Aunt Polly, laughing.
"Atter waitin' ign onto three year
fer it, | reckin she will. Let's see;
hits marked Cincinnati. I wished l
could see what's on the inside of it. :"
"Bud Hunts been mouty fergitful
of 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, iist
to let her know what he wuz about"
"Waal, Think" said the postmis-
tress, 'she's been ez wishful ez a
young cat, comm round every mail
day an askin' CT thar warn't no let
ters fer her folks. She hain't been
. in now fer more'n two weeks"
"Waal. | say; she must be TUX sick
or somethin'."
"She's been a-lookin' powerful puny
ever since corn wuz laid by. She
must a worked too hard; We know
she's about to run into kinsump-
tion."
''She used to look big and chuffy
enough fore Bud went out'n the set.
tlement.'
"Yaas, an after he went, too, fer
the fust year. They say ez how he
4 Civ her his promise he'd write jist ez
soon ez he could git a good job;
shen they'd git married"
"She lowed hit wouldn't take sich
an uncommon likely feller ez him
more'n week to git a well-payin'
job"
"Her pappy died with that kim
sumption jist soon after she wuz
bornded," said the postmistress, re-
fectively: IAN whenever he died they
said ez how some'n his people'd hev
it. too
DO We mind" broke in Aunt Polly,
"how Sally Ann TUX on at the time
of her pappy's buryin'? They wuz
maxim the coffin before our house,
an she come in an axed me eff they
wuz goin' to put her pappy in that
old box. That's jist what she called
It, old box an p'inted over whar
they wuz workin'. | tole her that
they alluz put dead corpses into
boxes, ez they called coffins, an then
put led on 'em fore they put 'em
in the ground an kivered 'em up
,kiver up my pappy?' says she;
'they's afeared to kiver him up; he'll
git up an shoot hole through 'em
ct they tech him."
"She knowed what buryin' meant
by the time her five sisters wuz TUX
to the buryin' ground"
reckin she did. Waal, I must be
gittin' home"
Cant We stay all night?"
No; I'll hev to be a-goin'. You-uns
come up and see us; don't fergit"
A group of men were gathered al
the small store in the lower end Of
the cove just as the evening shadows
We're beginning to thicken in the
mountains. Some were seated on the
rude platform in front, while other.
mounted on horseback had refined uI
10 near the news of the day; for the
country store and the post Office tax,
Inc place of newspaper in TIL,
mountain districts.
They tell me-" said old Squire Bar
iow' as he threw huge quid of to
oacco on the floor, 'they tell me tina
saiiy Ann Larkin got that letter from
Dnd Hunt to-day, an that she growet
high onto an inch since it come"
'Nhar is Bud now?" said an angu
lar young farmer.
Bud, he's some'rs about Singcin
natl, | reckin; that's what Polly said
an she wuz at the Office when the let
uf come. Hes run onto a plumb
good job thar with some kind of
faiiroad consarn, an he's a-gittin'
month";"
Beats stalk breedn' all holler
aont it. gittin' into one of them bi,
towns?''
Yes, or maxim corn an wheat
too.'
Iain't everyone kin git such io
N the city" said the squire; "whe
Wuz thar about war time the
lowed ez thar warn't nary place lilS
ae mountains fer Pete Barlow"