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

Law, Lucindy. fist come right in and
set down. / have been a lookin fer
ye. ever day since Chrismus and wuz
a gittin a leetle sorter Uneasy about ye
not a comin over, fer yer been a comm
70 reglar here lately when ye miss a
day or two ard not come. allus
thinks shorely somethin has happened
TO ye at yore house, to pervent ye
oomin and I reclxin IL Marthy Bosfey
wuz tellin Of the truth, tother night
somethin shorely did happen. though
l rally couldn't believe no sich, fer
tole Marthy as how had been a know
in of ye, fer goin on now 45 year haint
it2 una I never hearn tell of such
thing as Jeems Rainwater gittin
drunk and you havin to sober OF him
by SEWN him up in a sheet ana
givin of him a lickin. Now shorely
to goodness. Lucindy, no sich caper
a that want cut by you-u0g 90 v""o
house on Chrismus Eve? -,t
believe no sich a tale till / hear We
sa so from yer own lips.
Bring yore cheer up closer to the
fire, whar ye kin spit. but be keerful
in yer almin. and don't spit in that kit
tie of beans, a bilin thar i'm the fire
by your splttin in em fer nothin.
Now have a fresh dip an tell me all
about you and Jeems. fer cep'n l hear
hit FROM yore own lipes. iist aint per-
pared to blive no sich a caper wuz cut
at yore house"
well. now. Safrony. I kin tell We
pintedly, fist sich a caper wuz cut at
my house on Chrismus Eve. and win
he Of Dol for.
dares to come home drunk again and
eat up ever thing in the house, like
he done tother evenin. Ye see, Jim San
ders, he writ to us as how them two
twinses of his'n Jim Hogg and Joe
Bailey, wuz a pesterin of him to death
to let 'em come out to Van Zadnt coun-
ty an spend Chrismus. longer me and
Jeems, (the two twinses thinks a sight
of me, don't keer eff have spanked 'em
many a time). SO l writ back an tole
Jim to fetch 'em out, an so Chrismus
Eve, here he come a fetchin 'em. ,Vell.
wuz orful busy, a gittin my Chris
mus dinner ready, fer mex day. fer
had done invit the new Methodist
preacher and his wife to eat dinner
longer us, an had cooked up a right
smart chanst of stuff, sich as punkin
pies, and ginger cakes an doughnuts
(The fust thing Jim and Joe done. wuz
to eat one OF them punkin pies. un-
beknownst to me, while l wuz out
huntin some aigs. Ye know them two
is orful hans fer pies, and when l cone
in the house, thar they wuz down in
the middle of the floor a fightin to see
which un got the most), but as / wuz
n sayin, had cooked up them pies an
some cranberry sass, to go longer the
turkey and had fixed a big chanst OF
stufin fer the turkey Il allus likes
plenty of stuffin in a turkey and !
had billed the turkey till hit wuz plum
tender and wuz a lowin TO do the
brownin for him the next day-he wuz
n orful fine gobbler-and besides all
that, / had fixed big pitcher of billed
custard an sot hit out on the shelf by
the kitchen door, TO freeze, lin case the
weather wuz freezin.) Well, i dunno
what all haint fixed fer that Chris
mus dinner, an sot 'em by, not TO be
teched by nobody. That evenin, Jeems,
he lowd as how that wuz a gwine to
be a Chrismus tree at the meeting
house i'm Wills Pint, an as Jim never
keered fer sich, fer me to hitch up ole
Billy to my new buggy an take them
two twinses in to see the Chrismus
tree. Well, to be shore them two twin
ses wuz right in fer goin thar, an as
haint never seed one of them Chris
mus trees mysef / jist hitched up an
driv in. Well. hit wuz about as purity
sight as / ever seed In life. Now hit
rally wuz, an / wuz plum dumfoundered
at the fineness an purtyness OF that
tree. and when that thar ole feller come
I'm an lowed as how Ne wuz Sandy
Claus. come to han the presents down
often that thar tree, l rally do b'lieve
wuz wusser skeert than them two
twinses, fer they jist hollered an laffed
they wuZ that bad ticlSled, when Son"y
Claus stopped and shuk hans longer
me. q wuz the onliest woman In the
meetin house he shuk hans longer an /
Teckin he was TUX with my good looks),
but as l wuz a sayin, that thar Chris
mus tree want emptied till plum eleven
o'clock an me an them chillern had
10 drive home by our sells. ] felt list
Ieetle sorter shaky, drivin erlong
in the mud, but Ole Billy trotted along
purity brisk when he started lords
nome. and bime by. we arriv. We'll
seed a orfu bright light wuz "A shinin
i'm the kitchen an / wondered what on
airth wuz my kitchin hein III u"
fer, at that time o'night, but hit v'"7'
long till ! seed jist exackly what 81
wuz lit up fer. Arter I put ole Billy u;
an run the buggy under the she J.
went In, an thar, sich sigAt met my
eyes as had never seed afore."
What on airth wuz the sight. Lu-
cindy?"
"Well, thar on the kitchen table. WIZ
all that wuz left of that Chrlsmus din
ner lWld been cookin the hui coy o.
that dinner an thar want enouyA LEI
of II to feed a canary bird. No S'r
thar want enough left OF that turkey
10 make hash fer breakfast, fer hit VT;
ct, clean 10 the bone, an nary bit n
cranberry sass. ner nary punkin pie
ner even a doughnut wuz left an t1e'
had drunk up ever bit OF that tfa'
biled custard l had sot out 10 frees
fer mex day"
"Well, now l do know I'm my soul
Shorely Jeems Rainwater never dom
the like Of that. did he Lucindy?"
HE pintedIy did, Safrony, him anC
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