New-York tribune., 1905-01-15
81 didn't know it."


got for his woodland. an reckon they're
some set up over it. Lofty Thurber is Z
born musicker anyhow. She can play
one piece with one hand and another
piece with the other hand an sing q
third chune all at one time. Music runs
in the family Lem kin play reg la1
chune on a common, coarse comb, an
Mis- Thurber kin play the gittar, an
lin kin beat the band Jerkin' music
out of a fiddle, an little Lucy kin play
the banjo, an the hull family kin whistle
like birds | tell you when they all
git to goin' at once it's considerable OF q
concert.
81 should think it would be-"
"'Tis. Did you know that Andy
Ricer got his wife new black silk out
of the damidge money he got for bein
run into an all but killed by the cars
at that grade crossin'? | reckon his
wife thinks it's true that all things work
together for good She's allus wanted
a nice black silk, an | reckon she never
would of got it if the railroad hadn't
helped her out Hear about old Silas
Thrale gittin' his tombstun?
"Why, what do you mean?"
less what | say. He's got him a
real harns0n stone an had it engraved
all but the daypf his takin' off, an has
had it set up in the buryin' ground
Said he wanted to make sure of havin
one an havin' what he wanted on it. "
What did he have on it2
''Oh. a long string O. stuff settin' of
his virtues that nobody ever knOwed
before that he had If that amt vanity
croppin' out on a tombstun | dunno
what is. Got his wife's age all carved
on the stun too. an they say she's mad
as a wet hen about it, for she's been
passin' for good five years younger than
that stun says she IS Kind o funny to
see a stun set up an nobody under it.
I'd feel kind O. creepy ev'ry time | saw it
if it was mine. Old Tom Manson has
got his pension raised from ten to twelve
dollars a month, an Andy Carneggy
ain t in it with old Tom Jess now. You'd
think to hear him talk that him an
Rockefeller was about on a level. I'm
glad he's got it. Them that's fit and
bled for their country has a right to be
cared for in their old age. 1t wouldn't
s'prise me none if Tom got married ag'ir
on his extry two dollars a month. Hens
layin' much now?"
Very little"
$50 it is with ours Drafted things
allus git lazy when eggs go up in price
Hear about how old Mis- Drury come
out tryin' to make her hens 1ay?"
mo. how was it, 2'f
''Wal, her hens want layin' to suit
her, anSshe got some new kind O. stuff
to mix in with their feed. an you know
her eyesight is dreadful poor. arSshe got
hold of package of newfangled ratpizen
Std of the egg-producin' stuff, an I'D {
hull package of it to her hens. They
laid all right. Still layin'. / reckon. an
they won't git up. | happened over
there soon aftsr it happened, an Mis-
Drury was yafkin' the feathers off the
hens. with her, teeth set an breathin
hard. You know She's purity pep'ry II
temper, an shesvowed thatff she ever
come across Nhe man hat>-inventec
that pizen she'd manage somehow tc
give him dose of it. She's got sixteer
hundred dollars in the bank an hel
place all her own. s0<he amt no call to
worry oyer the loss of I New hens; still
it was tryin' toy lose 'efh in that way
S9id it spited sr so toIfhink of how
Would of eat Yer old DO>OlnRCL- rooster