Arizona republican., 1904-12-25

OIner glrlS With Sm1Iln faces besides Libby? As I was a-sayin'. with her eyes a-dancin' an her lips a-smilin' she says: 'Aw, what if it does. Lizy Ann? We can't Xpect to have ali sun- shine. Sides, things'd make a pore out at growth ef we didn't have some clouds an rain. Wy, this is as purty day as l ever seen. Les enjoy it. What if 1t does rain tomorrow But Lizy's face was all clouded up, jest ready fer a rainstOTm, an I says to myself My land. I wouldn't have our Byron Theodore marry a girl as lived on the north side of life like Lizy Ann, an thinkin' of clouds an rain the whole enduIin' time, not if she had a hundred acres O land comin' to her! Though Byron Theodore, to teach you good business judgment, I will say that a hundred acres would ease up matters some, even with Lizy Ann"
 She rocked fast and furiously for a | time, winding carpet rags as she rock ed.
 "I knowed you'd take my part bout Lizy Ann, gTnnny. An you know well an good that it's Libby I want. You know Levi Stringer's folks is goin' to move up to Five Points right away, | an Libby she don't want to live in town. Says they's too much style on | goin' an con1in' to suit her. Beside i Lem Stringer is maxim a fool Of his self if ever fellow did. He seems to | think jest b'cause Libby's lived there | ever sinIee her ma died thet him an | Libby's jest as good as engaged. He ain't spoke to me for two months" fin! He ainlt? Had @ quarrel, l reckon. I r'menber when you traded dogs I thought you got the worst of it, l but seemc to me you'd be the one to be mad, Byron Theodore
 We ain't never said nothin' bout them dogs, granny. You know it ain't that Anyhow, the other mornin' Len
 went into the nilk-house pertendin to the field with him an didn't need TIC drink, but he says, Libby gimme q good cold drink O milk An she says 'they's some in tlet pitcher, Lem; helI yourself An he says, 'Hitd be SC much better if you'd pour nit out fer me- She didn't pay no 'tention what | sumeveT, but went on with her work Then he says, I reckon, Libby, hitd bC jest the thing fer us, you an me, tC git married and go on Twin here an let the folks move to town. I don | want to live in town neither An Lib by she jest doused the cream in tht | CHUTn. M1L1 d DlB Splutlti etil oe y . | Lem, can't churn with you a-standin
 bout doin' nothin'. An he says, Lem
 me chUrn, Libby, An she says, Al
 night am goes off to the house afte
 shuttin' an lockin' the milkhous'
 door, An after a while she went bacl
 an opened the door, am there was Lem
 waitin' to git out. He'd fetched tn,
 butter and had spIashed cream iron
 Dan to Barsh eepy. He says now a
 he'll marry her jest fer spite.'
 Well, Byron Theodore, it'd be a goo
 chance for Libby. I ain't never hear
 apyth:n' again Lem Stringer, 'cept h cheated in that dog trade, an that's
 good farm an a comfitable house Levi Stringer is right well off, and hi
 fambly ain't SO big. I think Libby
 be doin the worst thing she can thin
 of if she lets that chance slip by. Ler Stringer'd mabe her a good man. But Libby -ays she's lived there g long that. Lem seems like brother, ar she wouldn't like to marry her brother. But he ain't her brother, Byro
 Theodore, no nore'n you are. And : I was a girl an had a chance to git
 real good man with propputty, who 7 give me a good home, I'd git over tha