The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-04-06

Ddn CuplO ana Ille ftITGu wan,
Kansas City Star: Our hired man
had a love affair. l have been what
might be considered something of
confidant or advisory counsel in the
matter, but really believe that have
been to him a kind of convenient,
safe, passive thing to which he has
been in the habit of soliloquizing.
The first of this was when he said to
me:
Pm waitin on Miss Matte quite
frequent now and Pm thiniin' right
smart of rentin' a place next year.
Wonder if the doctors made any
'rangement yet for that eighty over on
up? No. Not exactly yet. I've just
got far 'nough long to let her know
by comm what | mean by comm so
much. I've done took her to preachin
twicet an a buggy ridin' of a Sunday
four times. Course, whilst there amt
been no word said, it's the same as
holdin' gate open. What you holds
it open for knows mighty well what
you means. With wimmin you got to
sorter 'cumerlate afore you can say
things, but course she knows blame
well what's comm, and if she don t
get unruly an hostile the signs show
you're all right.
Say, do you know her daddy, ole
man Peavey? He's a queer actin ole
cuss, now amt he? He done a thing
luther night the wherefore of which
l amt just exactly penned up inside
me yet. You see | go over to see Miss
Matte right often these nights, two
three or four times week. Me an
her sets up in the comp'ny room an
talks a few, but dern me if bein' with
her don't sorter get me tongue tied an
just set an try to think up things to
say, but somehow my thinker won't
think an it gets late an finally | got
to go. Well, luther night after it had
got some along bout midnight an me
an Miss Matte was a settin up, her
on the "melojeum" stool an me on a
cheer acrost the room, here comes
in the old man in his sock feet with
one of these here little, round, shiny,
dollar clocks in his hand. He never
say a solitary word but puts there
time-piece careful on the chimney
shelf over the fireplace, faces it plum
towards me an goes out. l been
thinkin' right smart about his doin'
that way. What do you think that
ole "Sqee-gee" ment? I've sifted it
down to maybe it was a kind of a
sorter hint and derned imperlite. I'll
tell him so first time | run onto him,
only I'm feared what I'd say might
get to Miss Matte an rile her. VIM
min is toucheous bout their daddies. y
Another soliloquizing came to me a
few days later.
Say" said the hired man, "some OF
the boys been warnin' me bout Miss
Matte but | reckon / got no cause to
misdoubt. There's a widderer with
whiskers circulatin' some round old
man Peavey's. Whistletrrigger's his
name, from over on the Blackwater
an he's got a farm an children
growed up. The boys needn't try tC
skeer me with a ole he goat like him
Sides he amt waitin' on Miss Matte
nohow. He's always there but he sets
with the ole man an l don't never mol
hear of him bein' nigh her. | reckon
him on the ole man is on some kline
of a trade. The reason | feel no cal
to care bout Whistletrigger is from
the way they treats him an | see II
myself. Tuther night when | come
it was chilly an Miss Matte says as
how we better have a little fire for tC
set by an she goes out to get some
body to fix it up an comes right back
Who do you suppose comes in right