Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-01-12

kins wuz a settin at the table with
glass in one hand an a bottle In tother
an wuz maxim of a speech about Chris
mus only comm onst a year and tryin
to git Jim an Jedge Grigsby to take
one more glass "fer the sake OF Chris
mus" he lowd.
what wuz Jeems a doin, Lucindy?"
"Doin? He was too dead drunk to
do anything. and thar he wuz stretched
acrost the bed. boots an all, right up In
the middle OF my bed, a snorin' an
groanin' to beat anything I ever heered
tell Well. / tell ye right now, when
seed what them fellers had abeen a
doin thar in my house an me gone to
the meetin house, to a Chrismus tree,
shore wUz mad, an good mad"
well. now reclSin so, fer ia er
been mad my sef. but what did we do.
an what did them fellers say when
they seed We. come in?"
well, Lawyer Perkins wuz the on
liest one that had sense ernough left
to say nothin, an he sez. sez he:
Good evenin. Miss Rainwater. Jist come
right in an take one with us. We're
jist a havn Of a little Chrismus mer-
riment. an we likes to have all our
friens tine in with us I'm maxim merry,
fer. sez he. 'Chrismus don't come but
Onst a year an hits the time to drownd
our keers an troubles in sport an rev.
elry Here's luck to ye. Sister Rain
water sez he. a holdin out a glass Of
whiskey to me, then putin hit to his
mouth, he swolered hit down right
thar in front of my eyes"
"Ye say he did? Well that shore
does beat the worl fer insohorance." !"
yes, he done that very caper. an I
tell ye right now, my dander wuz riz
up right, fer the very idee of him a
astin of me. a stiddy goin. religious
woman like me, that is notorius fer
leadin In everything that takes place
at the meetin house, the idee of him
astin. of sich woman as me to take
a DIR an jine in with him in his
Chrismus merriment. as he called hit.
wuz jist too scanlous fer anything"
well, now 1 recliin so. but what did
ye say to tiat, Lucindy?"
We'll Safrony, ] wuz jist that mad.
went right up to that Lawyer Perkins
an takin that glass an bottle outer his
hans. ! ketched him by his yere an
sich a shakin aroun as did give that
feller, I reckin haint never been shuk
by nobody in Van Zandt county. Well,
shuk him till ! wuz clean outer
breath then marched him to the door
an put him out Now sez I, I'll larn
ye how to come to my house an eat up
all the cooked vittles on the place an
low as how ye air a "havin a little
Chrismus merriment." Oh sez I. I'll
give ye a dost of Chrismus merriment
hot H. f. ,1ls ATsarur ,
sez /, givln of him turrible shove
that sent him c.ean to the edge of the
porch, whar he TUX sormter of a mis-
tep an fell off in the mud. Now sez
| l, we clear out, Jim Perkins. an next
time ye want to take a little Christ
mus merriment," we jist go some whars
else to take hit, fer Lucindy Rainwa-
ters house haint the place fer no sich
| theca pers.'
well, he sorter rolled over on the
groun an tried to pick his sef up, but
the mud a bein so saft, ever time he'd
rise, he'd fail agin, but ! didn't keer,
/ had that Jedge Grigsby to ten to-,
so I went back an ketchin him by the
feet, l drug him clean 10 the edge Of
the porch an tumbled him off on top
of Jim Perkins, who wuz still a tryin
TO pick his sef up outer the slippery
mud. an thar them two rolled over
one another ketchin to one another,
an tryin to stiddy themselves SOS to git
up, but nary one was able to hep his
self. Then I went back, an wuz al
lowin to throw Jim Sanders out on
top of both tothers, but Jim Hogg an
Joe Bailey. they sot up sich a howl
when wuz a dragging Jim out. an sez
Joe: You let my paw alone; that's
my paw. an ye hain't goin to pitch him
out In the mud" mo" sez Jim Hogg.
Tll git stick an beat yer head off
ef We try to put my paw out doors"
| (They wa orful tickled when ] was a
putin tothers out, but when they seed
! wa alowin to put Jim out too, they
scruck up sich a loud bawlin ] wuz
| afeored they would rouse the hull
neighborhood so locked the door an
| turned around to see what l could do
fer Jeems Rainwater Thar he wuz
layin in the bed. close an all on, a
mumb,'n somethin about a feller not
a livin but onst, an he mought as well
| live while he was a livin. Well | made
up my mind. then An thar. Jeems Rain
| water NODDED a dost that would last
him fer considerable spell. an me
never whipped Jeems afore. ! sorter
hated to give him a reglar lickln. but
seed hit wuz my duty to larn him
a lesson he wouldn't fergit. an ! want
a gwine to shirk my duty. fer that's
somethin l never does. Well while
I wuz standin thar viewin of the
wreck them four drunk men had made
outen that Chrismus dinner, suddenly
Jeems began to vomick right In my
bed. an all over the floor | never seed
such vomickin, an can tell ye. II made
me madder'n ever when ! wuz In th'
proper frame OF sperrit to give thai
Jeems Rainwater jIst what he needed
But l wuz cam an stiddy. an never le
on TO him whut / wuz lowin to do
Jist waited TN he got over his vom.
ickin spell and laid down agin to sleep
Then / got me needle an some goot
stout twine an goin TO the bed. | be-
gin TO sew together the quilt aroun hin
good an close. He soTter reused uI
onst an sez he: What air We doin
sweetheart" tJeemes hain't in tbs
inhabitants OF calfln me sich names
an ] knowed good an well he thought
he wuS talkin TO somebody elae.) ~