Hattiesburg daily progress. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 18??-1909, 1903-10-07
Letter from Rustykuss

Ltt!eF tIUiii kuSl lJkuSS
Mr. Eddytur;
arriv' in yer toun yistiddy ter be
on han at ther opry last mite. Their
truth is I've been here fer er week
but hev' been er hangin' roun in ther' |
oustkearts Nv ther' city where grub
ware cheap, er waitin' fer ther' show
ter git in. an yistiddy | cum in an ;
reegistured at tins here hotel whut
thev calls ther Kummersbul. Yer see
nv bein' here cum erbont in this
way Er week er go er more, l can't
say prezactly, l reched yer town with ,
two bale er cotton, hevin' erlong with
me ther ole lady an children, an
when | seed ther show fel ers with
them thar CRED long mops pastin' NV
them thar purity picktuIs on ther
plank fences roun' lowed ter ther
ol lady then an thar, thet fer iner-
self, ware er go'n' ter stay an see
ther thing through-kinder take it
| in. yqr know. This caused her ter
do a lot nv perlaverin' sich as
women will sometimse do when
things don't go jes ter suit um, buf as
it ware put down in black an white
! in me an hur marrige contracat that
cold Rusty as ther nabers zee fit ter
call me. ware ter do as he seed fit IN
all Sich matters she mounted ther
waggin 'thout sayin' emmy too much
an driv' off fer home, an ter be ez
good as mer word, fer it'll never do
ter be emmy other way with er wo-
man, I'm here yit.
But er funny thing hap'nd roun' at
tier Kummershul. Yer see it ware
my first experience with er hotel, an
W hen walked n thar an sed ter
that man whut war IS glasses,
Stranger, kin git ter stay all mite?
an he sed yes, but yer'il hev ter reg
istry. I got kinder riled up fer l
thought most emmy kinder man know
ed that er feller would be lierbul ter
registry in his own beat, an then er-
GIN l knowed ther primery ware
over an thar'd be no use nv it, so L
told him yes, but he seemed ter take
on er don't bleeve look, al ther time
er lookin' erbout over er lot er wrltln'
Oh er big book whut ware er layin'
on ther table. so | thought ter con-
vince him, jes' went down in mer
Iockit an brought out ther papes on
him, mer registrashun sertlffyklt,
yer know. And then Nv all ther
laughin' that yer ever hearn in yer
life, he an er crowd of jude drum
mers what ware er standin' roun' had
it. I, merself couldn't see ennything
in pertickler ter laugh at, but it
seems they did, an it ware ten min
its er fore they let up suffisherntly
ter low er feller ter git in er word
edgeways.
Finerly thay stopped an then ther'
specktickle man, he explained that 1t
ware the stile at hotels fer ev'ry man
whut stopped at um ter put his name
down on ther book, an when he sed
stile, he had me then, fer that's mer
name, so I registered, after which L
axed tt er way ter er barber shop an
they pinted NE ter one down forwards
er stable, an goin' down thar an ther
first thing ter meet mer eyes bein'
er man in er big cheer an er nager
l. r or
Teller whut wuz er standin' in ther
door, whut is that nager doin' ter that
man. an when 1 understood him ter
say "he's er shampaining it, l sed
then an thar that no darn nager
shill shampain my head, SO / walked
out 'thout patrinizin' ther shop.
Gittin' back ter ther hotel er big
black nager warein' nv er white apurn
sich as ther masins in my settulrmiIt
wares on burryil ercashuns, cum
ter ther door an sead supper liz on"
an / sed CRATE stars nv life. an here
it iz that they're jes' putin on sup
per, when it's high time that it war
on ther table, but / seed that luther
fellers ware er gwine in, so ! follered
an they set me down ter er table
whar thar was not er mouthful nv
!, grub ter be seed, an then, shore 'nuf
! Thought ther whole bizness had Ter
, be cooked, but / seed the others
: settin' thar waitin' SO I did ther
same thing. an after so long one nv
them thar white apurn nagers cum
in, an genterimen, sich er supper as
8 he sot down afore me, no one in my
ldirgins ever seed.
Finishin' up, went ter ther opry
: house an seein' Nv er man all boxed
up in ther' wall with jes' er little
: hole left big ernough ter poke his
head out, I axed him how much
would have ter suffer ter ockerpy a
4 seat in ther' big room an when he
lsed fobits. it lacked ter or knocked