The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1907-09-07
Aunt Penny's Kin-FoIk.
(The Rosary Magazine.D

AUNT Fennys kin-Folk.
(The Rosary MaEazine)
Aunt Penny was not white-oh. no
aunt Penny never claimed to be white
ana she never claimed that any Of hel
relatives were white-oh. no.
You could not please Aunt Penny bet.
Ter than to tell her she was black
solid, fadeless black, with not a white
speck anywhere except in her eyes
did teeth.
No; I'll affirm that she was irredeen.
ably black, and so would you if YOU
had seen her.
MISS Lily Washington, her grand
daughter, was quite as hopelessly
black as the old woman, but she as
sumed numerous airs, as did Miss
Daisy Washington, another progressive
grandchild Of the same sable complex
ion
These smart young ladies did not
visit the old woman because they cher
1shed any particular love for her but
because their healthy appetites persist
ed In outgrowing the larder at home.
Aunt Penny and Uncle Nero were
workers, they were, and there was al
ways something good to eat In the
house. The girls tried to repay the old
tried TO claw 1t open, but finding il held
quette from their own limited knowl-
edge, but the old folks didn't want any
pay.
"Oh, grandma, Use quite shocked to
see 20 go out in de street in such
ragged habitaion-ouite shocked. in
deedl" Miss Lily drawled.
''Oh, yes" supplemented Miss Daisy:
deed 1t is bad form, an grandpa quite
shocks my n1orsels, tooT'
"Huh-huh! Seems laik yo' aIls doan
nebber git shocked when yo' comes
hyear to eat chicken an colIards. an
SIGH. Dat amt mad form-uh, uh! Eff
yo'd scrub yo' alls house err little mo
an galvant de street er little less, yo'd
hab er heap mo- brains dan yo's got
huh!" Aunt Penny delivered this speech
with many vigorous mods.
"Oh, grandma, it amt progressive to
scrub an wash! We b'longs to de Bos-
ton Literary society, we does, an we
got TO keep up in re latest style. Mr.
AlonZo Brown say dat we is de most
stylish young ladies in our set,'' replied
Miss Lily.
Huh, 1 ebet dere amt er morseI toh
eat in yo' house right now! Yo' pa am
de biggest sort fool to low you to
kerry on dat way, cause his health am
mighty poly, an he's likely toh drap
off any time sudden-den wha' yo'
gointer do. Ell? Huh Better Iarn toh
wuck, galsi"
The Misses Washington departed
wrathfully after listening to this often
sive speech, and they declared they
would never visit their grandparents
again, but Aunt Penny was not trou-
bled by this declaration, for she had
heard IL before. She was honest to
herself, and that is the fundamental
principle Of all laws of honesty.
TTnpIa Nero
patch and Aunt Penny went out to
help him.
rink we's gointer have rain. ole
woman-rain an wind, cause de fish
hawk fly high an holler loud" he said.
Strengthening his back for a few min
utes.
''Uh, huh. dass wot 1 t'ink. too, cause
yo' kin hear noises long ways off, an
dass er sho' sign" she replied. Then
they both worked on in silence. Twi-
light was fast approaching, and the
chickens were clustered together at the
back door waiting for their supper.
The COW, Star Face, was stretching her
neck over the bars, and every now and
then she would softly call to her little
spotted calf in the next yard. The calf
would answer, and then Star Face
would throw uD her tail and dance
around till she was tired. This was her
first baby and she was quite foolish
about it.
Boss Linkom," the "four-eyed" yell
low dog, came to the garden gate and
folks by giving them lessons in ETH
fast by the hoop over the top, he tried
to dig under.
"Uh, huh! Wha' dis hyear? Sump'n
sho' gointer die when he dawg dig holes
in de ground-Lawd sabe us,' cried
Aunt Penny as she left off hoeing to
attend TO COW and chickens. Quit
dat, Boss Linkom-Quit dat does yo'
hyear! Time huff toh dig de grade
when de people done dead. G'way,
subj
Nearly a week had passed by this
time since the Misses Washington had
called upon their grandmother, and
that length of time was about the
limit.
Aunt Penny and Uncle Nero had com
pleted their work for the day and were
sitting on the front ''stoOp' smoking
their pipes in blissfuI rest and silence.
It was one Of those strangely still even
ings. when even the lightest. sound
travels far and has many echoes. /
There was no moon in the purple-lit
vault above. but twinkling stars were
w1nking and blinking everywhere. The
anthem Of the wind in the pine
tops passed on and on in its soft mono
tone Of 10000. and sleeDless old
rooster raised his voice in a late but
loud Growing.
.'Uh, huh! Change of wedder, or
hasty news when he rooster crow arter |
da'k," solilquised Uncle Nero
Aunt Penny smoked on in silence: |
she was thinking deeply-thinking Of
her son and granddaughters in the city. |
but nothing very definite was evolved
from her thoughts. You know that we
do sometimes think very intently, and |
yet when we suddenly bring ourselves