The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-27
CREENHUT AND
" TWO WlDO WS
A Great Moral Lesson Taught
Through the Instrumentality
Of Draw Poker.

slut no marryin' nor Rivin' In marriag,
In heav ca eaid old man Greenhut. bit
ing of the end Of q fresh cigar. ,
Likely that's the eason they call /
heay en- he continued, with the air o.
one who has reached a logical conclusion
-Moro'n likely. Il some O. these here dod.
gastel reformers o to get In. syrup
:u,ious like. an faint likely they'd &c
there no other way. they'd be liable fol
to start in improvin' things. There'e
be weddin's In spite o. the dew Il, an frs
thing you know everything d be bel
a.hessback. sure
What's eatin' you tonight. Green
huti- asked Joe Bassett. you hahn
troubled with no reflections o. youthful
folly, be your One'd think for to heal
you talk what you done married iom
woman your own cell. when you was som
younger an hadn't got owe it."
He spoke teasingly, thinking to draw thu
old man on to a peppery retort, for bust
ness was slack and nothing else In the way
Of amusement seemed ay ailable. Tht
old man, howeN or. said nothing immedi
ately, but looked as II he might be cropping
through q remote past with an imperfect
, and anxious memory,
oh, / don't know eaid Mr.. Owen
Pepper, grinning maliciously. FIN what
] heer'd over to Greenville when ! wa,
there last week pears like the trouble
mought be somepin' diff rent. There's
a couple O. widders Twin there YET
what hain't got through thinkin' about
the day they was reck'nin' OF marryin'
our friend Greenhut,"
His speech was a bomb. Old man
Greenhut sprang for his bungstarter and
turned toward Pepper with murder in his
eyes and many strange curses on his lips.
but there was a burst Of Homeric laughter
from the others in the room and these
hustled Pepper out Of his way. jesring
the OLD man dehghtedly and unmerci-
fully.
$50 there was two on EN-. hey?' said
Jake Winterbottom. Al soon al he could
speak, for laughing. WANT one enough.
you old Mormoni Was you goin' to marry
EN- both to oncet or take 1t sep'rate?"
For a moment the old man looked wild
enough to charge, single handed. on the
group OF his friends and smash his way
through to where Mr.. Owen Pepper
stood laughing with the Others; but he
gulped painfully and said;
IL you uns II stand away An give me
haf a chanst, so e. " swet that Tennes-
see zap just one, pears like ] cd breathe
easy. Who done give him a license for
to grope around into the innards O. my
rast life an fetch out things what's been
forgot this many q Year,"
Them widders hain't forget nothin',
net yet they hain't.' said Mr.. Pepper,
and there was q fresh hurst Of laughter.
-'Tain't no use. Greenhut,' said Joe
.Passett. We uns Is got you fair this
time It's up to you to tell US all about
them two misguided females an how you
got away I'm 'em.
An first Oh the drinks is on you.
More'n that. Pepper amt goin' to be slew
right now. ! hain't sayin' 'twouldn't
lie a good thing on gen1 principles, but
he's, done done US a service this time
Slowly and reluctantly old mar Green
hut turned away, and putting his bung-
starter back in it's usual corner he said
sadly: q
The drinks 10 on me all right. l amt
sayin' nothin' to that. An bein' as this
here pirate O. hell has done poked the
dirty finger o. curiosity plumb inside o.
my vitals an diskivered suthin'. mebbe
It's Just es well fr me to give you tn
plain truth.
Likely it'll be some benefit to you
young fellsrs .'thouten there's more o.
that there wrybaid cacklin'. But il you
uns keeps laughin' like looms I reckon you
won't get no story
"Oh, / don't know said Mr.. Owen
Pepper, who's, sides were still shaking.
Il reckon mebbe i cd tell 'em some few
p'tio'lars what ! done heerd over to Green
VILE
Il know you don't know said old man
Greenhut. red with rage. you amt
expected for to know nothin'. But I know
I was sayin' what there wouldn't be no
story told 'thouten | told it,
And he looked 81 ynifoantly at bis bung-
starter.
Thereupon the others Strengthened their
faces with some difficulty. and Joe Bassett
kicking MIR. Pepper with considerable
vigor instructed him to keep his trap
shut. Drinks were then served and old
man Greenhut. relighting his cigar. took
his ~favorite seat by the window and put
his feet on the sill.
When l was over to Greenville,' he
said, a many year ago I was considerable
"."inger n I be now al just nachully
hadn't NJ gre't sense ~concernin' women.
o. course l seen plain enough what
a married man amt on'y half a whole
mar 'thouten he has children, an then
be amt half. All depends on how many
Young n he has, but anyhow a full
half O what he has OF does goes to others
an amt no benefit to him.
'Bein' some younger n I be now,
though, like 1 said, l just nachully hank
cred, en- ! had one OF two toI'able close
calls. There val some gils-but that
amt nothin' to do with them two Wild
ders. | was some fool, but I want no
such he'll roarin' jackass as to not know
t if a mar was goin' to marry he'd
oughter marry somebody t had property,
an looked further, them girls not havin'
none.
'Bimby | come to know Widder
salisbury. She had considerable OF a
plantation an want no ways sot agin
hayin' a man on the place for to look after
thing'. 50 | got in the way O. ridin' owe
TO see her meet a week or 90. an WANT
long afore things come 10 be understood
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