St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-07-29
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JOSIAH ALIENS
WIFE
Tale Of Rival suitors and the ! -,
dent That Gave the victory

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sntertaining Love Story - e''s az
! geepsnght. 1905, by Joseph q. Bow,es,
~ doW queer it is that sometimes soon
'nsly trihing things will do more 70
convince and persuade folks than niles
OF scientific books, endless arguments.
tears and pleadin' oratory. Now Iania
smith, my niece ON my own side. wuz
iryin 70 make up her mind which of
TWO suitors to take for better or worse.
ana she seemed to find it hard to do SO,
one a real pretty girl. and her pa
Dem We'll OFF and she bein' a. only child
and SO oncommonly pretty it wuzn,t TO
De wondered at that she had admirers
and plenty of 'em. But out of 'em all
Jane mad seemed to favor two; one of
EN- Augustus Meezik, wuz clerk in
fancy store in the nearby city, and the
otner. JACK Wilson, wuz a young farm
er; he, too, wiz only child and well
off. ~
1t wuz hard to tell which one jamie
favored most, she seemed to think there
wuz SO many advantages on both sides.
didn't feel SO or her pa and ma didn't.
we never liked Augustus Meezik for
minute and had told him SO time and
agln by our actions if not by our
words.
And we did favor Jack Wilson. YES
Indeed! and wuzn't backward in shown
our likin' for him. He wuz good
looking, manly young chap with no false
airs about him, full Of fun, full of good
sense, too. And he courted jamie in
good manly common sense way. Didn't
try to act any different when he WIZ
to Uncle Pelek's than he did at any other
time. Talked jest common United
States talk, didn't call her "divine an
GEL or serenade her, or VOW he would
Kill himself if she wouldn't have him
Jest KEEP along in a mejum, sensible
way, shown his love for her by tryin'
to help her in. every way he could, in
choosin' her first of all for his pardner
in every party or game, in the light that
Lit up his face every time he see her on
beknown to him.
But Augustus breathed such deep
vows Of devotion. He vowed to her that
If she didn't marry him he would kill
himself (Which Uncle Pelek, when he
hearn ont, said would be the best job
he ever did-he hated Augustus like
pizen and SO did aunt Rilly, his wife,.
He would come with his guitar and sing
soft love songs under her winder till
Aunt Rilly had to fairly hold Uncle
Pelek in the bed to keep him from set
tin the, dog on him.
And guess he never called her jamie,
but always called her Angelic Sweet
ness" Honey Dove. 'BeautiousIC rea-
ture,'' and such names. And like most
girls she wuz kinder carried away with
such doin's. spoze Ill the time way
down in her heart she liked Jack the
best But the paste glitter Of diamonds
kinder outshone the solid gold, and I'm
Gle Pelek and Aunt Rilly' wuz skairt to
death for fear she would take. Augustus
N spite of 'em. They knowed his mater
wuz naturally mean and little with Jest
o veneerin' of politeness on top jest as
we'll as they knowed that Jack. wuz at
heart one of the best men, solid, re-
liable, thoroughly honest and, good, be-
sides bein' well of. and able to take care
of wife, whilst Augustus goodness
and wealth wuz some like the paste dia-
monds he sold, no solid foundation to
either. VI
And we knowed that a boy who had
been so good to his ma as Jack had been
would be good to a wife. His ma Wuz
a invalid for years and never, as you
may say, found out that she had no
daughter. Jack so filed the place OF son
and daughter both. Petted her, car
ried her round in his strong young arms
when she got SO she couldn't walk.
KEEP up her courage when she gin up
hope. Smiled lots of times when he'd
ruther been cryin'. KEEP holt Of her hand.
as YOU may say, till her feet went clear
down into the Dark Valley. Then he
had to ieggo, and WIZ bed-sick himself
for weeks. kuuwed such son would
make good husband.
Augustuses ma and old maid sister
had scrimped themselves to educate him
and get him started in bizness. And
then he acted ashamed and sighted 'em.
Of course they are kinder humbly and
awkwud. settin' their hull minds and
labors on him they had sighted them
selves and neglected their manners and
clothes till both wuz rusty and old
fashioned. They'd made him idol.
TEST the same as though he wuz q gold
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