The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-12-13
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BY X -hhETr hARRls

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"'Tain't nothIn'" he said The skin
amt skassiy peeled"
You pore young one" exclaimed
the woman in horrorstricken tones.
How In the name o. tnassy did you
come to do that? Does it hurt you,
Johnny"
Nav" replied the freckled boy
contemptuously. "Aint nothin' to hurt.
You might git blood pizen in it."
said the woman. Here, let me put
this yer hankchief around it to keep
the cold out. My land. What mis-
chief boys does,"
The freckled boy broke away from
her and hurried through the store.
The large woman waddled slowly
after him. anxiety written in capital
letters on her kindly face.
AS she passed out of the store Par
sons broke into a smothered guffaw
and the little tailor winked at Wash
ington Hancock.
She's all right" said Hancock
Some women is jest nachelly that
way. She's a-goins over to Mis- Ber-
rvs now to try to scare her into a
conniption fit, but she won't; Miss
Berry's got too many of 'em to scare
easy. Johnny's little brother busted
through the swing doors in the hay
NOW last summer, an went kitin' end
over-end IS foot to the ground, an lit
settin'. His mother seen him from
the porch where she wus a-washin'
but she didn't let on, SOS you'd notice
IT, In about mint the young one
picked hisself up an begun to cry.
You Beemis!' boilers Mis- Berry
You quit that bawlin' right away; you
hear me? If you git cuttin' up them
didoes ag'in I'll take n switch to you
an frail You outcn your hide. Some
o these days you'll git hurted, mark
my words. actin like that. Go up an
pun them doors shct.'"
"That'll do to tell" said the store
Keeper.
"If 'twarn't so | wouldn't tell it,"
said Hancock with virtuous express
sion She amt like A1ilt Sowash's
woman. You know Milt. don't you,
Sol?"
Baker shook his head.
1T was over on Gooseneck," supple
mented Hancock. "Rufe knows him If
you don't. Mighty poor stick Milt is,
too. but his wife seems to think he's
about all right. Mills wife jest match.
ely wus that there kind o woman
jest like Mrs. Berry amt. Shed allus
go about pityin' everybody an every
thin, but with Milt she wus more so.
IF Milt come in from the field an said
he wus plum tuckered out she'd fly
around like hen on hot griddle to
bring him a rockin' cheer out on the
porch, an it WIS, Why. Milt, you pore
man! 1t makes me feel real bad to
think o you workin' the way you do.
Sho! You jest look it. too. Let me git
piller fer your haid.' an sech as
that
One time when they wus a-thrash-
in Milt pushed 4 bund;s too clost to
Cicero Perkins, who wus cuttin', an
he got one of his fingers cut 'Twan't
much, but If you could have heerd
the fuss his wife made you'd have
thought his head was cut off After
she'd got his finger tied up even she'd
still keep a-pityin' him an askin' hin,
II it didn't hurt him
Amt that too bad. she'd saw
Jest to think O. you be.n' carved IN
hathaway. You shorcly do have the
wust luck of any man | ever knew:
you shorely do! Milt. honey, tell me
II ! cant do suthin' fer you. l hate
~ SSS you Su!ieFin an me Standin'
around an holdin' my hands. NV, 1t
must hurt you powerful bad. 4 quar-
ter Of an inch more an it would have
cut you clear to the bone. an there
you set maxim nCthin' of it,
"Nilt kind O liked it," pursued Han
cock. He'd tell her to quit fussin'
but he kind o liked it all the same
He does yet
Does he get it?" asked the store
keeper.
Il hain't been up Gooseneck wav
for five years or more replied Han.
cock. "A1ehbc he sits it There was
one time. though. when she WIS
weighed in the balance an found lack.
in That WIS one day when the Farm
ers an Drovcrs' bank failed an Milf
lost $3.50 he had in it an as he como
BACK from town his horses got to act
in up an fn'ly run away an busted
up inc wagon an threw NIilt out an.
put his ankle out o. jint an fn1v
missed the bridge over Goosa,cci, /
crick an drowned themselves He
Wus settin' by the side o. the rod
when his hired man come alonr rid-n,
hckety split to find him an tell him |
that the barn had burned down whi1a /
ne was trEtn' to doctor the Hereford .
Dull what had got into the cor, an, /.
lorndercd hisself The hired ma, .
Went to a neighbours an got Milf .