Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-15
ABOUT FIANcEES.
What Ben Got For Telling Sam the
Truth

| The men In the store watched tne
youn farmer assist his wife into the
respectable looking buggy outside. ar
range the packages, spread the laprobe
generously and carefully over the
young woman's knees and then. him.
self uncovered, drive away.
"Clayton's goin' to take good care
o. that there wife O. his" commented
| the storekeeper.
Foolish of him." declared Washing
ton Hancock.
He'll get tired O. washin' up that
buggy O. hisn after a while n c'nclude
the ole waggin's good enough to come
to town to trade in," said Sol Baker
sagely.
"Course he WILL" agreed Hancock.
He'll have her out to the woodpile
splittin' stove wood. like as not. I've
knowed that to happen, too"
Baker had the grace to look embar-
rassed when the storekeeper snicker-
ed: There's wus things than splittin'
leete mite O. wood now and then
for a woman" he said. Anyway,
Clayts wife'll take all the care he kim
give her an then need more. II he
ain't washin' the dishes for her afore
long, 1 miss my guess. She don't like
no kind O. work none too well. She
didn't as gal"
Amt great hand to cook. they
tell me-" said the storekeeper Most
any one o. the other gals could beat
her out when 1t come to fixin' up a
meal Seems like Clayt 'ud have took
'Lisbeth or Birdie II he wus set an
bound to marry into the family. This
un's mighty slack mouthed by all ac-
counts. 1 could ha' told him suthin'
on thet score II he'd come to me an
asst me-"
"Why didn't you tell him. anyway
asked Marvin Parsons.
ITS a pity she's slack mouthed,"
observed Hancock. IT'S them kind o
wimmen that gifts to talkin' about
their neighbors after while. An it's
a funny thing that it's allus the vim
men that does that. You might set
in this store when Rufe an Sol here
wus shootin' off their mouths year In
an year out an you'd never hear them
say a word agin anybody-not II you
wus stone deef. But when a man sees
a feller in danger o. blightin' his life
by takin' up with gal that's ornery
hA trtf
than what's his dooty to give him the
right kind O. warnin'. If a feller's got
good sense he'll erpreshiate a word In
season O. that sort an won't git mad
about 1t. Anybody's apt to be a mite
keerless an unthinlin' in the matter
O. choosin' a gal when he's young. ]
lbet there hain't a married man here
but what'll say that's So"
The storekeeper nodded involuntar-
lily and Hancock grinned.
as furs not takin' a word O. good
advice kindly's concerned I reckon
there's many a man would tell you
that II somebody'd come to him in
time an let him know what he had a
right to expect from the gal he wus
thinkin' O. marryin' he'd never have
married the gal he did," resumed
Hancock. There's some what does
git warned in time. rickerleck right
well when a cousin o. mine, Sam Han
cock, thought O. hitchin' up with a
gal he'd met up with when he was a
young buck He seen the gal an tuck
her buggy ridin' once or twice an he
fingered to himself that she wus jest
about the finest young woman that
ever set a foot on this green airth
HE couldn't make out that she'd got
IA fault or blemish. Shed allus act
ed that away whilst he wus around, 80
how wus he to know any diffrunt?
There wus one thing, though, an
that wus that Sam had a mighty
level haid on him for as young as he
wus He'd slip up on trade wunst
in a while, but he never slipped up
ltwicet the same way an he'd made a
many trades by the time he was 70
year old. No, Sam wusn't nobuddy's
fool.
well, there wus a feller lived
neighbor to the gals folks, name o
Ben Crittenden, an he knowed Sam an
he knowed the gal. He figgered that
Sam wus a likely boy an that II
wusn't right for him to stand back an
keep his mouth shet when he cd dc
good by openin' it. So he goes to Sam
one day and he takes him out behind
the barn for a conf denshal talk.
"'Sam, he says, I allow you know
that I'm a friend o. yours an that
lhaint a trouble maker of a stir-strife
live got suthin' to say to you, an If
say it I don't want for you to git mad
an prance around on your ear
Certainly not says Sam. If you've
got anything on your mind you say It..
Its about Berthy,' says Ben.
"T hain't a-goin' to git mad says
Sam. What about Berthy?
"Tt's this away says Ben.
wouldn't say nothin' at all If thought
you'd had the chance to know fol
yourself Jest what kind Of gal she
lwus. But you hain't, an have.
hired out to her paw all through one
harvest an 1 know what I'm a-talkin
about. That gals mighty shifless
Sam-jest shif'less.'
"Is that so?' says Sam.
>"T wouldn't tell you II 1t wusn't so,
saws Ben. An I wouldn't say nothin