The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-03
HE HEARD FROM
HIS NEIGHBORS.


irritably. What are you a yellin' GU
at me S if l wus over in the mex town
ship fer?"
I'm right sorry l hollered, Uncl,
Dave, said the storekeeper, apologet
ically. Il clean forgot you wasn't dee
kinder got in the habit of it,
reckon"
Washington Hancock and Marvin
Parsons over by the stove slapped theil
knees and whooped ecstatlcally. The
storekeeper became exceedingly red. in
the face and snickered in an embar-
raised manner
| Its curious how habits hang on, II
he remarked. "Doggone if thought"
You ought to try an git into the
habit O. thinkin', Rufe,'' suggested
Hancock. 1T might come hard at first,
but if you keep on tryin' you'll make
{, it,
| Blamed if I kin git it through my
+, wool what the joke was" said Parsons
when the old farmer had left the
! store. "Wus he def or wusn't hep"
Ulster be-" replied Hancock. 81
L
| he got def when he wus quite little
| kid. His right hand got crook in
| it holdin' it up to his ear. l remem-
| Der the time when it come easier to
| talk to him with lump O. chalk an
| a single than any other way. l don't
blame Rufe
How'd he come to get his hearin'
! hack asked Sol Rakar
He went to one O. these yer speshul-
ists," answered Hancock "A teller
that didn't do nothin' else but doctor
folks ears. Uncle Dave never was
none too well liked. being as he was
about as mean an ornery an OF cuss
| as ever stepped. Still folks put up
with him a sight easier on account of
, the satisfaction it wus for EN- to tell
him to his face what they thought of
him, 'thout his KNOWN it. His own
folks useter do it right along when he
got to actin up around the house.
; They couldn't have stood his ugliness
if it hadn't been fer that. The two
boys, l b'lieve, would have run away
if they hadn't been able tc blow off
steam that away, the gal sassed him
up an down an even the old woman
took advantage of his erfiiction wunst
in awhile. l don't say as it wus dooti-
full in EN-, but if you'd knowed him
then you'd ha' said it wus mighty nat
urai.
well, Uncle Dave didn't have no
idea O. havin' the Teller speshulize him
when he went off to st. Louis. He
went to see cousin he had there
about family lawsuit; but the cousin
told him about the Teller an Uncle
Dave thought it wouldn't dc no harm
to try him whirl. don't know what
he done to him, but he fixed him all
right-got him SOS he could hear as
we'll as a hired man when the dinner
horn blows. He wus tickied plum to
death, O. course, an comm home on
the train he lowed it 'ud be a good
joke not to let on to folks that he'd
ben cured. 1t cert'nly wus good
joke, too.
Levi Jones was the first man he
seen when he got of the train. Levi
went up to him an hollerej in his ear:
Hello, Uncle Dave; glad to see you
back Hows the lawsuit min on?'
An he turned around to LATE Rogers,
who was standin' by, an he says in an
ord nary voice: L was a hopin' he'd
ben run over by one O. them boss
cars in the city. No such luck.
hope them Iowa relations IL skin him
out O. that property, the ole skeezicks.
He amt no more right to it than /
have
"An' LATE says: He'll grab for any
thin in sight if he thinks he kin git
it, whether he's right to it or not.
He's a plum hawg.' Then he hollers
out: You're a lookin' mighty well,
Uncle Dave. Have a good timer
Hey? says Uncle Dave, putin
his hand up to his ear.
"'Hope you had good time. Uncle
Dave
Purity fair says the old man. I
didn't git full an make howlin' jack
ass O. myself an have to write home
for money to git back on, but had
good time
That was one on Lafe, who'd done
that same. Uncle Dave moseyed along
up the street an met lot OF MS
friends an talked with 'em. An l bet
he had a heap O. fun. But it want
nothin to the sport he had when he
got home
What did they say to him there?"
asked Baker.
Il amt agoin' to tell" replied Han
cock, 1T amt none o your business
an there's some things / won't tell on
a man when he's a tryin' 70 do bet
ter; an Uncle Dave certnIy reformed
hisself from that day on. I reckon
what he heard done him good"
Them speshulists is great" said
Marvin Parsons, after a reflective 81
lence Puts me in mind . young Doc
WibSley when he first started to prac-
ticin He didn't have no luck gettin'
patients for about year an then one
day Jim Keene drug him out of bed
at midnight to see his boy who'd run
a rusty nail IN his foot an got lock-
jaw. He'd called for Doc Hopkins
first. but old Doc wasn't at home.
Well. young Doc Wibsley fixed the boy
out all right. About a month after an
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