The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1905-01-13

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same Nedleten. He was such .
lookin, manly chap, and, thotG;r. - -,
wouldn't stoop TO palaver over no wo-
man, he was consd'able polite to the
wilder, and OF all her hands was the
most use. But sometimes | thought
Saunders would light in ahead of the
hull lot of us. He was livcly little
chap. and the only rule I've ever been
able TO apply To wimmen is that when
they sit along in years they mostly
reaches down fer men below EN-.
= Well, one eycniu' when we was nj
supper Nettleton, who llcp' nm eye out
fer safety. saw sOmepin black on the
horizon 'twixt him and the settm' sun
ana knew it was Injuns. You bet we
wasn't lonS in maxim corral. with
the wagon fer one side, log fer an
other and throwin' up dirt fer the rest
of it. We WAS rushin' rom fer things,
not mindin' what each other was dom
and didn't notice Till we'd got the stock
into the corral and waa all ready fer
the redskins that Sheath was missin'.
The mis'abie coward, not relishin q
siege, had left us to hold the IniIIns
while he vam0oscd. The worst of it
was that he took one Of the hosscs.
You oughter hecred that woman lash
him with her tongue. She was so mad
that she forgot the IniunS.
The fight amt got nothin' to do with
the story. Nettlcton took command
and handled us so we'll that We killed
most . ,he 1njurs ana drove off the
rest. l see that Nettleton had got the
better of me with the widder, and if
didn't 90 somcpin to balance up I'd be
LEFT clean out. SO as soon rs we'd cot
rid O the trouble / mounted tha best
hoss in tile team and lie out fer Sheath.
caught him ten mile away and
brought him back.
When | rode inter camp with him
was disappointed to obsarve that the
WlGutr'S wrath was cooled. Instead
. beratln' him, as I supposed she
would, she didn't take no notice Of
him. l axed her what punishment she
thought was best fer him. and size said
that She didn't think he was worth
punishin'. Consequence is he didn't
Git no punishment onless the fac that
none Of us men would speak to him
was sich.
Now, the ousariainiS % Wimmeu that
I'm tlyin - show up by this story is
this: As soon "a we men showed the
cold shoulder TO Sheath the widder be-
gun to treat him respectable, and It
wasn't long before it was plain that
she was t0kin' his part agin US. Wo
put it down to a natural parpsnsity O
wimmin to sympathiZe and excuse any.
body IN trouble, maxim 'cm on that ac.
count entirely omitted fer iurymen.
So we dldn't perteSt or anything like
that. jist shown our own conten,n'
fer Sheath and lettin' her have her own
way.
But the worse We sat down on Sheath
the more the widder warmed to him,
and at last we noticed that they was
a good deal together whisperln', and
VIC begun to suspec' that the widder
was goin' to try to help him out and
persuade rs to stop sittin' down on
him
About this time we went down inter
Salt Lake City, and the widdcr put TN
at tavern. The mornin' after we got
there Jimmie Saunders como to me,
and he says;
What dye suppose has happened?''
'NYhat?" I asked.
LAS night the widder married
Sheath"
And so she had. And that's the rea-
son why m0intain that a woman isn't
wound TO go regular.
JONATHAN B. ARMSTRONG.