Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1905-12-29

"weII, Lucindy. me and Marthy has
list been a hearin So scanlous much
about ye a gittin drunk on oyster cock
tails down in Austin when ye wux at
the Kinfederation of womens Clubs
and Sister Tweekins lowed as how II
ye don't come and squar yer self at
the next Temperance League meetin
fer doing the like OF that, ye're a goin
to git expelled from the hague, so me
and Marthy loNd as how we'd jist come
and let ye know that folks Is awful
stirred up in this settlement about yer
capers when ye're away from home ana
since ye TUX 20 wearin them de colit
dresses and got TO playin AZ. which Sis
ter Tweekins II lint nothin but High
Five, and the only difference is one
is played with cards by society folks
and tother is played at church socia-
bles with dominoes She lows as how
ye air lierble to be turned clean outer
the church, cep'n ye change yer ways"
said Mrs. Thunderbug as she and Mar
tina and Mrs. Rainwater we're seated
around the latters fire place, enjoying
their usual social dip"
Turn me outer the meetin house
and me the main singer and prar meet
In leader? well. reciSin not Land Of
Goodness Now who do ye reckin
Brother JinlSins could git to help him
I'm runnin his meetins that would take
the place of me and be as perficient in
helpin of him as me? Not nary pus-
son in that meetin house could take
my place II / wuz to drap out OF be
turned out. and as fer the Temperance
League turpln me out, l aint nary
bit afeared. In the fust place, l never
drunk nary oyster cocktail and shore
give that nigger waiter at the Driskill
Hotel cish lecter as he aint had in
many day fer offerin of me such q
drink
"Ye say ye did? DO tell US about It,"
said Martha Bosley. while Jim, who
had been busily engaged in fixing a
bride while the conversation was going
on, now came forward and seated him
self near Mrs Rainwater to hear the
cocktail narrative from her own lips.
''well, ye see. me and severl other
awful stylish Federation women wuz a
settin at the table. lookin over the
eatin program to see what vittles they
had to eat, and one woman she sez, sez
she. have you got any blue pints?''
'Lawzy Massey. what's them, Lucin-
dyg' asked Mrs. Thunderbug.
81 donno, Safrony. and never did
| fnd out, because the niger lowd they
never had none, and / want gwine to
ast what they wpz and let them women
| know | never had seed no sich stylish
vittles as blue pints. so l kept mum and
never said nothin, and the nigger he
see. 1--WE aint nothln' cep'n oyster cock
tail Kin fetch ye that7" The woman
sez yes" and he asst tothers If they
wanted oyster cocktails; they said
'yes,' and when he asst me. / riz right
| up and seq /, in witherin tones of voice
| to the nigger, seq /, Don't ye dar to asst
me- the leadin temperance worker in
| Van Zandt county and the main stand
| by OF DR.. Rankin fer prohibition; don't
| ye dar to asst me to take no cocktail OF
no kind right here afore company. I'm
| fer prohibition, local option and tenn
perance, and don't drink cocktails In
company sez l.
"Well, the nigger sorter laughed. and
the women peared to be turrible tickied
| becase, gave him sich lecter, and l
| reclxin the nigger wuz afeared to fetch
| them cocktails to tother women, fer
| when he come back he brung oysters
| fixed up In tomater sass, in little
| glasses and with quare lCokin forks TO
eat 'em with, and the women never said
! nothin more about cock tails, and when
l seed them oysters looked purity good.
| l tole the niger to fetch me some. He
| lowd as how I tole him never wanted
none, and SEE, seq l, tole ye not to
| fetch me no oyster cock tail, but ye
kin fetch me some oysters fixed with
| tomater sas' same as We brung tother
| women, 80 he brung me the oysters,
but Good Land, gals, them oysters wuz
| so big and so slick, any they wouldn't
stay on the fork, and seed plain the
| onliest and most conyeniegtest way to
| eat them things wuz to lay down on
my back on the floor and drap the
things In my mouth. but ye know |
want a gwine to cut cish a caper as
that at the Kinfederatlon, so / never ct
them oysters on account of the un-
handiness of 'em, but ye kin tell all the
folks We see never drunk no oyster
| cocktail, and as fer me wearin them
decolit dresses. thar amt nothin In the
church rules ferblddm OF women from
warm them kind of dresses, and ] want
q goin to be outdressed at that Kinfed-
GRAFTON by them other women what
never had no better shapes 20 show
1 than me. and as fer me a playin that
thar AZ game. all church members
| plays AZ, and hit Is sich popler game
amongst the Epworth Leaguers too,
and shorely body couldn't be turned
outer the church fer playing a reg'er
church game. kin they?
.'well. I.ucindy, Sister Tweekins lows
as how High Five and AZ is list tai
same game cep'n one Is played with
cards and tother with dominoes, ana II
Brother JlnlSins turns folks out fer
| playin High Five. he orter turn them
/ AZ players out too said Mrs. Thun-
derbug.
well, fer onst Brother Jinlkins Is
right II he turns one gang out he
ort to turn tother out, and II he turns
his men poker players out he ort to
tu,n his women euchre players out too.
| fer men gamblers amt no wuss than