The sun., 1907-12-29
SUFFERING A Liz NAY CAUSE
STORY FROM POCRUCK or MANY
BLASTED CHRESTMASES.

rue als Was About Anakes-UmCao eoc
TinkIepaugh Convinced 1'OO Laa0-4ns
| lem PeRderxrast's mepentan0e--O Onnls
/ David Duly RcwArtS . Truth teihor.
CHESTER. N. ". Dec. 3s.-The man whose
peruistenos In saying that his native heath
and present domicilo lie over toward Po-
chuck has passed into a proverb thst mas
become useful 10 It's application hersabOuts
| TO statements about which there may o@
iustihable doubt wandered In the day aSter
Christmas with tho same old homemade
COOnskin cap and the Same old hickory
overalIs stuffed in his rubber boots but
wearing a new pair OF bright yellow and
necessarily commodious gloves with wool
around tho tops. Thesheepskin foundation
and fabrication OF tho gloves were so un-
mistakable that Farmer Bill Leonard. who
hvcs down opposite Goose Pond Mountain.
had TO smile at the announcement che self
alleged POchuck pilgrim made.
Them gloves" said he, was Chris mas
present from Aunt Sally Beckendarterp an
the skin she made em out Of was Ofen the
slammin oil buck deer Uncle David Becken-
darter killed over in Pennsylvany last fall.
mowt say, consckently. that them gloves
was Chris mas present from Uncle David
too. but as l rather expected Uncle David
was goin' to give me a now pair o. rubber
boots fer my Chris mas, an he seemed to
forgot it, | hain't goin' to give him any o the
credit fer these here gloves. Did you ever
see yaIlcrer ysller than is perduced In
them gloves?"
Farmer Bill Leonard said no. he never had.
for there wasn't anything so determined to
be WALLER as an old fashioned pumpkin raised
to take tho prize ut the county fair, and
thom gloves, if they was blowed up. he said.
would equal any two prize pumpkins he
ever saw, not only for yaller but for size.
/ The chronic!er Of happenings over Po-
| chuck way smiled pleasantly es he spread
! his gloves out and said:
Yes, sir Aunt Sally knows that like any
color only 20 it's yaller, an she jest hit me
| to a dirktum in this here Christmas Oferin'
/ o. hern ! dunno whether Uncle David
had al inklin' that mebbe Cousin Marcellus
Merr- weather was liable 10 dIOp in yesterday
or not an 80 went OIL to the holler fer the
grand annual holiday turkey shoot, but he
vert, TN ! was soTter glad ht did, cause
Cousin Marc,llus dropped IN, sure enough,
along in the AFTERNOON, bringin' with him a
little family history. With his ideas about
Cousin Marcellua, I'm afeared Uncle David
would "A hurt his feeia's il he'd been to
home ar had 20 hear that history.
"Arter we'd said Merry Christmas all
! round, an hoped we'd have happy New
! Years. an same to you, an Aunt Sally
had hung up Cousin Marcelus's tippet an
put his oveTshoes behind the stove, Cousin
MarCclius sot down an pOoty soon he says:
/ "A strikin thing about Uncle Soc Tinkle-
pauGh, says he, was a tOler ble good sized
three cornered wart on his nose. DO you
rccomenber it, Aunt Sally?' says he.
Aunt Sally said she didn't, an it was
sorter funny, too, she said. fer il there was
( anything she'd be likely to Tecomember
about anybody, ptic'ly n Tinklepaugh, it'd
! be a three cornered warr on his rose. hut then
| she happened to think that she hadn't never
| see Uncle Soc Tinklepaugb, an so mebbe
/ that accounts fer my not recomemberin'
his three cornered wart,' says she, an
| Cousin Narcellus says yes, more likely il
I did acco mt for it.
We'll says he, that wart was on his
/ nose, an some folks always said that Il was
| the reason strangers turned an looked
back at Uncle Soc when he passed. but
setch folks was envious an jealous felleT
CIT izens. Uncle Soc wa conscientious an
| full to the briIn with jus, feeiins, SO much
so that he showed il in his gitup. an that
was why strangers stopped an' took another
look at him as he passed
Them feelin's jest ooZed outen him.
like sap from a maple. An it was because
of them feelin's that he couldn't never
be merry on Christmas, not for years before
he passed over Jordan. He said he never
could be merry ag'in ON Christmas as long
as he ISnowed that no owed Deacon Pender-
grRst an apology. Snakes. Aunt Sally
Snakes is what Uncle 500 TinKlepsugh
owed that apology to Deacon Peliergrist
fer says Cousin AIarcelluS
-Tve an idee. from the way Aunt Silly
looked outen the winder. that fer minute
she was afeared she Inowt soc Uncle David
comm back. but she didn't. an she says
to Cousin Marcellus:
"'Snakesl' says she. Fer missy sakes.
Marcellusl I want To know says she.
/ AN another funny thing about It Is, :
says Cousin Marcellus. that arter Uncle
Soc found out that he didn't owe Sllem--
but Jest let me tell you about II while you re
miXin' them dumplin's.' ssys Niarcellus.
Aunt Sally havin' rolled up her sleeves an
gone to her mixin'
"'Salem Pendergrast WIS Teller citizen
that stood high over in pennsyivany. where