The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1907-09-06
the Soul OF
The COLONEL

one of the throne chairs in Peacock
alley by the side of the woman, Ito
tell you somethin' whit happened to
me the day befo' yesterday early in
the mornin
you know the Gennul? Don't you?
Well, it was the wife of the gennul.
suppose you don know nuthin' about
it, but the gennul, he's got jes' about
the fines wife in New York. The
only objection you can possibly have
to the gennul's wife is that shes jes
about gone clean daffy on the subjec
of relijun. And IL breaks out in such
unexpected places. You nevah know
whut's comm next In regahd to the
gennuls wife when It comes to re-
lijun.
DAY befo' yesterday mawnin' Edie
and me was woke bright and early by
a communicashun from the gennuls
wife a sayin' that II | pleased would
! come right up to huh house at onct
without losin' no mo- time than | could
hep losin'.
Hubby says Eide. Hubby! l
ltChOu TIC SOh OAC " NA'~'Ai
deleium spells o hisn. Don't you lose
no time huhhyin'. Phil
AN / didn't / put on my cloes as
fas' as / could git 'em on, and 1t
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 it, thinkin' maybe the gen
null had died in one o them spells o
hisn, seen the message was so per-
empto'y-laike and sudden.
well, de maid she come by az
by and ushad me into the pahlah and
aftah leetle while here come the
gennuls wife a walkin' in smilin' an
a shakin' of me by the han All this,
min you, at about seven o'clock in
the mawnin', long befo' Edie and me
evan thought of havfn' ouah breahfus.
1.-The gennul's wife she set down in
front of me OF big sof chaiah and
she smoothed out huh face and said
to me:
huulCl, N,uy - SOa
hev bin on my min a long time. A
long time, kunnel.'
Il was polite as usual, polite as
could be-
81 am soy madam said | in re-
turn, If / have discomposed youah
min emmy by bein', to say, on it.
r'You have, kunnel said she sad
lake You have
az am vey soy 70 that, madam
| says to huh agin', how have | dis
composed youah min by bein' or it?'
'Kunnel says the gennul's wife.
very grave an composed, drawis
down the cohnahs of huh mouth an
lookin' at me hahd. You have bin on
my min because l have bin woyin'
vey much heah lately about the con-
dishun Of youah immortal soul sup
pose. kunnel,' she adds, lookin' at me
hahdah than avail that you all awah
of the fac that you have immortal
soul
al have huhd tell madam says /,
in return, ve'y polite, cause the gen
null an me have bin on so many
sprees togethah l wouldn't hunt his
wifes feelin's, not TO nuthin' in the
wohld-Ive huhd tell that theah ah
such things as souls, but | have nevah
seen one. suppose, as you ali kin
enuf to say, that | have a immortal
soul, but theah all so menny things
right befo youah eyes to bothah you
that ! nevah go out O. my way to
bothah about nuthin' that amt
"The gennuls wife she tucked her
sef up sudden.
That's jes' it, she says; that's jes'
it. It's whut l wus thinkin' An
kunnel, it was whut the Lawd was
thinkin', too-it mus a bin That
wus why he put it in my min to SEN
70 you the fus' thing this mawnin'
and ask you some questions about
youah immortal SOUL
AN if she, didn't set theah a solid
houah by the tall clock in the cohnah
a-talkin' to me about my immortal
soul, and me a dyin' TO a little drop
OF suthin' to quench my thust oh a lit
tie breakfast, or ennything in othah
wohds that might suffice to break the
monotony, / amt a Kentucky kunnel
a settin' heah by youah side on this
heah divan
"A solid houah Then she all at
onct dropped on her knees by the
side of huh chaiah and spent anothah
quahtah of an houah a-prayin' TO my
immortal soul Yes, a-kneelin' theah
a-prayin' TO it,
Well, wen ! got back home /
hu'ied TO the decantah an aftah
quenchin' my thust and stahtin' the
breakfast that Sarah had KEEP wahm
TO me in the oven | told Edie all
about it. Mad! You ought seen
huh!
Along about dinpah time heah
cum the geunul aroun' meek as you
please and commiseratin'.
i wouldn't a had it happun 70
the wohld, kunnel, he says Not TO
the wuhld | hope you undahstan'
that it want none of IL my fault. /
hope you undahstan' that. | nevah
In all my life eXDe'ienced sech a de-