The Cairo bulletin., 1907-09-12
the SOUL OF
THE COLONEL

| one OF the throne chairs In PeacocN
alley BY the side of the woman, "tc
tell YOU somethin whut happened To
me the day befo yesterday early in
the mornin'.
you know the Gennul? Don't youY
| Wen, il was the wife OF the gennul.
suppose you don know nuthin' about
II. but the gennul, he's got jes' about
/ the fines wife in New York. The
] only objection you can possibly have
! To the gennuls wife Is that shes jes
about gone clean daffy on the subjec'
| Of reiiun. And 1t breaks out in such
unexpected places. You nevah know
whuts comm next in regahd to the
gennuls wife when 1t comes TO re-
iiiun.
Day befo' yesterday mawnin Edie
and me was woke bright and early by
communicashun from the gennuls
wife a sayin' that If | pleased would
come right up to huh house at onct
without losin' no mo time than could
hep losin
Huhhyn says Eide. Hubby |
reckon the Gennul's got one o them
deleium spells O hisn, Don't you lose
no time a huhhyin', Phil
AN didn't. put on my cloes as
fas as l could git EN- on, and it
want no time befo was up an out
and at the gennul's house a ringin'
Of the do bell. Eve'y little while |
would ketch myself glancin' at the do
bell half expectin' to see crepe
hangin on 1t. thinkin' maybe the gem
nul had died in one o them spells o
hisn, seen the message was SO per-
empto'y-laike and sudden,
Wen de maid she come by an
by and ushad me into the pahlah and
aftah a leetle while here come the
gennul's wife walkin' In Emilin' an
a shakin' of me by the han. All this,
min you, at about seven o'clock In
the mawnin'. long befo' Eide and me
evan thought of havin ouah bFeakfus,
The gennul's wife she set down in
front of ma on big sof chaiah and
she smoothed out huh face and said
to me:
Kunnel,' she says, 'kunnel. you
hev bin on my min long time. A
long time, kunnel'
Il was polite as usual, polite as
could be.
~ am soy madam, said ] In re-
turn. If | have discomposed youah
min emmy by bein', to say, on it.
You have, kunnel.' said she sad
lake. You have
81 am ve'y soy TO that madam,
I says to huh agin', how have dis
composed youah min by bein' on it,
Kunnel,' says the gennul's wife.
very grave an composed. drawn
down the cohnahs of huh mouth an
lookin' at me hahd You have bin on
my min because / have bin wo'yin'
vey much heah lately about the con-
dishun of youah immortal soul. sup
pose, kunnel,' she adds, lookin' at me
hahdah than avah, that you ah awah |
Of the fac that you have immortal
soul
81 have huhd tell, madam says I.
in return, ve'y polite, cause the gen.
null an me have bin on so many |
sprees togethah | wouldn't hunt his |
wife's feelin's, not TO nuthin' in the |
huhd tell that theah ah |
such things as souls, but have nevah
seen one. ! suppose, as you ah kin
anuf to say, that | have immortal 1
soul, but theah alb so menny things
right befo youah eyes to bothah you
hat l nevah go out O my way to
Dothah about nuthin' that amt
The gennuIs wife she tucked her
Ie'f mp sudden.
That's jes' It, she says; that's jes'
{. It's whut | wus thinkin' An
it was whut the Lawd was
hinkin', too-it mus "a bin. That
yus why he put It in my min to sen
o you the fus' thing this mawnin'
md ask you some questions about
'ouah immortal soul
An If she didn't set theah solid
iouah by the tall clock in the cohnah
-talkln' to me about my immortal
oul. and me a dyin' 70 a little drop
( suthin' to quench my thust oh lit
le breakfast, or ennything in othah
fohds that might suffice TO break the
amt a Kentucky kunnsl
settin heah by youah side on this
eah divan
"A solid houah Then she all at
net dropped on her knees by the
ide OF huh chaiah and spent anothah
uahtah OF an bouah a-prayln' 70 my
soul. Yes. a-kneeIin' theah
-prayin' 70 II.
Well. wen / got back home /
uied to the decantah an aftah
uenchin' my thust and stahtin' the
reakfast that Sarah had KEEP wahm
} me in the oven | told Eide all
bout IT, Mad. You ought seen
uh,
Along about dinnah time heah
am the gennul aroun meek as you
lease and commiseratin'.
II wouldn't "a had It happun TO-
.e wohld, kunnei. he says Not TO-
Ie wahld. I hope You undahstan'
.at It want none of it my fault
lpe you undahstan' that. nevah
all my life experienced sech a de-
C Of mohtificashun.'
" 'Fohgit it, Gennul.' l tells him.