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


q wuz sewin that quilt aroun him
good and tight. SOS he couldn't git out)
An jist as I got him sewed up, head
an yeres. heered knock at the door
hollered to asst who wuz thar. an
son7oNody answered an sez: Hits me;
Aunt Lucindy John Peabody. do open
an let me in"
well. | opened the door. an shore
nough, thar wuz John He lowed as
how he wuz a passin through wills
Pint, an jist lowed he'd come out an
stay all night longer us. Well. when
he seed what wuz doin to Jeems. he
wuz turrible ticltled. an when tole
him what them four fellers had done
never seed nobody laugh wusser'n
John oh" SEE he, "the boys has iist
leetle too much highball, I reckin,
an they're a sleepin hit off" Well
SEE I. dunno nothin about EN- havin
of any high balls er lowballs. er what
kind OF a ball they have had: but
ono thing Is ded shore-they're all
drunk on whisky. an I'm a lowin to
larn Jeems Rainwater one good les
son"
'Well John he lowed as how ! wuz
a doin of him jist right, an II I couldn't
git nothin better. he wuz plenty within
to go out an hunt a plank an whittle
me out n good paddle. SOS could fix
Jecms up all right. Well. tole John
as how he could find my paddle that
I always stirs lye soap with while hits
a bilin. an that was out in the smoke
house. an wuz as good a paddle as :
would have to use on Jeems Rain
water. Well John he went out an
fetched me she paddle an begun. an
sich a larrupin as l did give that very
Jeems Rainwater hain't never been give
to him since he wuz a boy. Oh, I laid
hit on, hot an heavy. Fer every time
] thunk of that dinner him an them
| fellers ct up, I TUX fresh breath an
started again.
well, ye never seen anybody look
wusser sprised an beg harder than him
fer me to quit, an I jist thunk John
| Peabody would bust his sides a laffin.
an he lowed as how that wuz the best
show he ever seed, an he wouldn't er
missed hit fer nothn. Well, Jeemes
wuz a squlrmin an wigglin aroun a
tryin to git outer that quilt, but twant
no use. an finely. when he promised
| never to git drunk no more, an allus
to be good, quit, an TUX the quilt often
him, an mebbe he didn't look Sheep
ish when he seed John a settin thar
laffin.
"Well, by that time Jim Sanders wuz
awake an sorter comm to his senses.
an when he seed how mad / wuz he
lowed as how he would git up airly mex
mornin an go to town an have the best
Chrismus dinner he could git, sent out
to pay fer that un they ct So arter
| all of us a settin aroun a spell, we
went to bed, an next mornin afore day
We wuz walked up by grocery wag-
| gin a drlvin up, an sich a load of
vittles never seed. an while the feller
wuz unloadin of the things, in come
Jedge Grigsby an Jim Perkins, an low
ed as how they wuz plum ashamed OF
the way they acted the night afore, an
they had sent out all them good things
] to me fer a Chrismus present, to show
| their preshiatlon of my kindness to
EN- the night afore, an sez Jedge Grigs-
by, sez he: Sister Rainwater. I am
plum ashamed of myself fer gittin un-
| der the fluence of ticker last night at
the home of sich homes, good Chris
tian woman as you" But. sez he: ~
know ye air too good a woman to go
BLOWN bout sich mishap." fer sez
he, "hit wuz the merest accident that
l got in sich a kindition. fer ] hain"t
In the inhabitants OF doin sich. an
want to asst OF ye as favor not to
say nothin to nobody. not even my
dear little wife. fer hit would break
her sweet little heart TO know ] wuz in
sich a kindition last night" sez he.
putin his handkerchief to his eyes.
an sorter snifflin like he wuz a cryin.
| Then Jim Perkins he spoke up an
sez he: "Oh. don't We be Uneasy bout
Sister Rainwater a tellin on u.s." fer.
SEE he: She's too good a woman to
be tellin things like that fer she
knows as how our wives would be or
ful troubled ef they knowed how drunk
we wuz last night, an she wouldn't
make no trouble in our family fer
nothin.' seq he.
well. seed how bad they felt an
me a knowing Jedge Grigsby wuz
deakin In the Baptist meetin house
thar in Wills Pint, an Jim Perkins
elder In the Presbyterian meetin house.
an then a bein so good an thinkin so
much OF me as to be a bringin me
all them good things to eat, (fer instid
they et up, they had fetched two of
the biggest gobblers I ever seed), an
/ them all fixed fer cookin. an arter
them a thinin so much OF me as to
fetch all them vittles, an me a seein
how sorry they wuz, fer both OF them
wuz nearly a cryln, jist felt sorroy for
the pore fellers, an tole EN- as how
want a gwine to say nary a word to
nobody bout what they had done, an
I amt tole nobody yit cepn Martha
Bosley an Sister Tweekins an you
But law, know you us hain't a gwine
to say nothin to nobody about hit
| and"
We'll. hit wouldn't look we'll fer me
to be a startin OF such tale as that,
on two good members of the msetin
house, fer Jedge Crigsby lowed as how
hit would hurt his influence 'mong
tother members of his church ef sich a
tale wuz TO git out on him, an prom
ised him to keep quiet. SO l low to
hold my tongue en- II hit does leak out
hit pintedly won't be from me a talkin.
fer ] don't allow to do no sicb; but
lawsy massy Safrony, I rally must be
goin, fer ! left them two twinses at
home. an ef Sammy Cooper an Charley
MwIN 4.