Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-23

AGIN!'
it takes the roof off the house / don't
reckon lay Old woman is any better or
any Wuss than any OF the rest of EN-,
but she has kept he guessin' most Of
the time siuee We was married. | was
jest a-tuinllin' of sumthin' that hap
pened few years ago, an, bein' shes
gone to bed an won't be listenin', III
tell it to yo'.
'In them days" continued the old
man as he gave the fire last poke and
dropped the poker, IF she got cantan-
kerous get cantankerous too. Then
we'd go as much as a week without
speakin to each other She was proud
an wouldn't give in. an so 'twould 60
One mawnin in gettin' breakfast she
burned her hand. an laughed at her.
an she got mad Then I got mad an
she turned on me with
" 'Zeb White, I'll never speak to yo'
gin if live to be a hundred years
old
:" Nobody keers whether yo' do or
not says l. an with that we both shet
Up. Not another word did we say fur
days an days. though we got over bein'
mad an. wanted dreffully to make up.
| reckon it had been about two weeks
an I was thinkin' I would give IN an
speak to her when she put on her bun
net one AFTERNOON an picked up bas-
kit. | knowed she was gwine up the
mounting arter chestnuts. an knowed
thar was big bar lurkin about up
thar wanted to tell her, but she
had her nose stuck up an wouldn't
look at me- an So didn't say nuthin.'
But you followed her, | queried.
Yes. arter awhile took down my
gun an followed her was gwine to
keep an eye on her without her know
In It. I'd seen that bar an knowed he
was whopper an full OF fight.
traled along fur mile or so, an then
| seed the old woman pickin chestnuts
Jest ahead of me. I had jest noticed
that she was lookin' powerful mad an
had the end Of her nose p'inted sky
ward when that bar showed up. She
heard him trampin over the leaves an
called ont:
"'Mefbe vo hey foliered me- Zeb,
to make up, but I'm mad from top to
bottom an don't keer to talk to yo'.'
Il was nigh choked with laughin',
when that u ar suddenly slid in an
fetcL1d hCr il cuiI Wdlch sent her rO.iIn
ten feet away She thought it was ne.
though tlle Lord knows wouldn't hev
put hand OF hey in anger. an she
grabbed fur club an yelled
''Zeb White, 70 onery, pesky var
mint, III whop yo' TIL so can't crawl
home 70 pay fl.r t4at''
When she 60: @p au' Whirled about
thar stoo8 tic bar an surpFiseder
woman never dfawed tie breath OF
life She thought she was a mile from
help. with a fight on hand. an fur
mint Sue looked as if she was gwine
to run. Then she braced up. spit on
her hands. an heard her sayin:
1t amt Zcb like | thought it was,
but III fight yo Just the same. Drat
my hide, don't low nobody nor nuth-
in to cuff me around that way.
Then she pitched right in contin-
ued Zeb, AN, durn my buttons, if |
wasn't proud of her. If that bar had
ever seen a woman befo' he hadn't
seen no sich woman as her. If he recll-
oned he had an easy job on hand it
wasn't long befo he diskivered his mis-
take. The club was stout an heavy,
an the ole woman struck with all her
might. Bimeby the bar got mad an
rushed in on her an fetched her a
swipe which rolled her over, but she
was up ag'in like cat l reckoned it
was about time to interfere, fur yo'
can't expect a woman to kill a bar
with nuthin' but club, but as l riz
up over the bushes she sees me an
said:
That yo', Zeb White? Who sent
FUR yo'f
~ cum along to see the fun said.
-s.Sers