Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1902-11-21
HANNAH'S DEMAND


niyer go to church along O. yew, how
ever much yew may plague me WI
your pressin' zentences' q hadn't 20
much as give worth a word vor a good
half hour It'll yew can put me into a
house like lady" sx1
Like LADY," zays I. . rs s-1ssfs:'
'Tss fay" zays zhe.
zquire's?" gays I.
Not 20 GRIT" zays zhe, "but must
! be surrounded by the 'menities of an
advanced civilization"
"Lor' "a mussy!' zays 1. what ever
do yew maneY
We'll" zays zhe, 81 heard Miss Char
tie gay 20 when they was a-talkin'
about her beau and how they was to
live when they was wed, and wonder
yew zhould be 20 vulish as to ask what
l name. Yew must be downright
mazed."
Dang me-" zays 1, but twas down
in my innards, 'if zhe knowed what
her named herself" Outwardly in man.
ner of zpakin' gays to Hannah, "Now,
II yew was to let me come up to the
grit house and just zee how zee looks
midst them 'menities Of civilization
might DRAW in some notion Of what
yew eXpec's me to pervide." !
"Yew'm CROWN powerful DARN,
JAM" gays zhe. "Well, if your zoul can
du wiout wood on Zunday mornin', and
yew doan't mind chancin' gallyin'
vrom pa'son, yew can come up when
the volks be at church, and I'll show
zee what I name. Not that l wants
Zactly what yew'll zee, but zomethin'
like it, and that tell 'ee."
10 when Zunday mornin' comes
round and I'd put on my best breaches
and the bleu coat with brase buttons
that was feyther's and a birdseye
neckercher that went twice round the
course as the zayin' is, just gives
the church and pa'son the go by and
slips up the grit house. Hannah was
awaitin' vor me round by the ztables,
and her Zmuggled me in at the back
door. through a long DRAWN passage
like the tunnel o. the new railway.
into the grit hall, VII pawn vor all
the world the zane as the Lunnon
measurin' man put down in our chan
Gel; then through a door wi a curtain
draaed all across I'm into the big
dra in room.
MISSY me!' gays as mYveet went
squelchin' into Zummat as Noft as clot-
ted crane, "yew never expec's a car
pet in our cottage, Hannah. that veels
as though yew was walkin' on rotted
turmuts, do zee? And chairs and So
fies," l gays, "wr legs like the golden
CALF? Yew doan't want zumnaat like
this" l gays as l Eat down on
zquabbed, puffy lookin' thing where
dree volks could zit all to once. like
the cherribims under our Won't and
nary a one O. 'em be comfortable like
wi either o. t'others. 1t wars that
Jumpy, tew. that when l Eat down
heavylike l was well nigh zhot right
off again.
And then the pictur's a-hangin' on a
golden rod, all in vrames of zoid gold
-pictur's as made q modest man 60
red from his hobnails to his hair, they
was that naked! The wust Of fem all,
which had the name of "Zuza nnah,"
draa'ed out in print underneath I'm.
they had had the decency to hs ng I'D
In dark cornder. "Zuzannah's"
menlties of civilization was just moth
in and minded me O what zquGre his
self zaid as err drove through Kerswell
pike and asked where old Zagty had
gone please, Eur. they've give her
a Shift" gays the new keeper. "And
a DANCED useful thing tew, some
times" gays squire, WI a girt laafe.
and useful, thinks l. 'twould ha' been
for "Zuzannah."
And then the stachery. as Hannah
called the gashly white vigures a.
standin' about, mindin' nothinf, on mar
bic columns! Twas musSival prov
ldence, Hannah" l gays, THAT made
the Wig tree to flourish down in Devon"
AS to the clancy, 'twould have filled
a score O. kitchen dressers wi animals
as Noah could never a dreamed on.
why, one o 'em in back yard up tew
plymouth town would have vairly
N'SAS INV AZ as ever SOL
loose up to Dartymoor. And the glasses
with the Zun on 'em-a-zhinin' and
a-dartln' blue. red and yellow for all
the world like the Revelation.
And across one CORNER of the room
there was misshaped thing on YOUR
legs. like Il table a-twist with the
rheumatic. and all along 'ees broadcast
end hundreds and thousands OF grit
black and white teeth, and yew gi'ed
un lash and zee yowled like Il bulldog.
We'll. Hannah" gays when us cot
into the ztable yard again and | had
washed down yum O the wondcrment
with Il draft O zquire's zider and
mouthed piece O currandy kcake. do
ee name" zays |, Ito wait a maid till
zee gets all thicky there?"
mo, yew girt guckoow gays she. "I
told ZEE 20 avore. But Ill come to no
cottage wi only brick vloor and
naught humanizin' about un, as Miss
Charlie Zays."
70 the end O it is that Hannah and
mas carpet like Zolomon in his glory.
ard hangin' around the walls on little