Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1903-03-06
that" asst her.

that" asst her.
"Wy' she ses 'you no what poler-
tlshuns Is"
"No'm" sed "less'n they are them
fellers what sits round the cord house
and whites sticks an spets terbacker
spet over everywhere" "thems the
very fellers" SEES she can Tommy sum
NV them there fellers what amt doin a
a thing not single solytery thing sep
white sticks an chaw terbacker them
there felleSs" ses she "is gittin the
money fur doin nuthin that we awt TO
be gittin an knows il" SEES she, Miss
Sallie, got rale rawt up. mister editur
her checks got jist as rosy as a winter
apple long late i'm the fall on her eyes
sparlled like the frost dus thes morn
ms when inn gOin TO skule an no befour
/ git there i've got too make the fire.
then Miss Sallie went on to say "wy
Tommy" she SEES "ef jist had the
money id go down TO Famville or
'sumwhere and go too n normal skule
an i'll luIn sumthin an then i'll come
back here an teech you sumthin but
how can teech you Tommy when j.
doant no nuthin myself seprn lettle
rithmetic an grammar an gography?"
ses Miss Sallie.
Their wus mos tears i'm her eyes
when she spoke bout goin TO the nor
mul, cause shes a good teacher an shes
interested in us an my sister SEES Miss
Sallie studdys every mite jist as hard
as she can tryin to l6rn sumthin to
teech us.
Then mister Editur fore could
think NV enything to say Miss Sallie
went on Tommy" she ses, rale serus,
"this teechin is n responsible thing an
sum times feels like / aint got no bis
mes trying too teech you when i nose
so little myself ses she.
put i SEES "Miss Sallie you noes a
lot" an then she smiled at me i'm a
sortcr weak kinder way and pats me
on the he'd an she ses, ses she tom
my you're good boy an i'm glad you
think / noes enuf too teech you but
Tommy" SEES she 81 don't no nuthin,
then she she set there awhile with her
eyes fixed on the ski over where the
sun wus settin an the sky wus all red
and pink an looked like heven an she
got rale quiet an her eyes looked like
she didn't see nuthin lesSn twus angels
an things what she reads to us about
outn the bible in the mornin an after
while she ses, not lOOlIin at me but
still loOkin at the sunset "but If doant
teech en- an if them what's got 10 more
edulIashun than i've got didn't teech
EN- they wouldn't git tawt' an then
mister Edtur she set up strate an
quick an lafs an ses, ses she "Tommy
wus dreemin."
loolSell at her but didn't say nuth-
in an then she scs Tommy j wus
dreemin an thawt mabe sUmtime sted
NV these little ole slIule houses without
eny paint on EN- an with no blackbords
in EN- an with the ole uncomfortable
desks in EN- wed have good Mise paint
ed skule houses an mise desks an
globes an charts and blackboards an
fires an then mabe they'd pay us sum-
II
thin SOS we could 60 sum where in the
summer an study an learn sumthin
and come back an teech you sumthin.
IVY Tommy" she ses ii could make a
, good man outen you EFF noed enuf
| you've got n talent she SEES IAN l
doant no enuf TO do no good To you
an then she side mister Edieur an
went too loolIin at the sunset again an
after while heaTn her 81 agen an she
wiped a tear outen the conner NV her
eie al reached up an patted her on
the han an then she stopped over an
kist me an ses, SEES she Tommy i amt
got much lernin an CT they doant pay
much i'm goin to do my duty" an
nanny colled me then too go an
milk them COWS an when went round
the corner NV the house Miss Sallie
wus settin loollin at the settin sun.
Yore Friend,
TOMMY.