Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-11-20
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$50 you're from Pistonrod. stranger.
Well, l want t. know. | was born and
brought up there, but l haint seen the
place in twenty year. Is ole Younker
livin' yit:"
a mo, but his darter Is, and mighty
fine woman to. She's got the biggest
and best stocked farm in the county
and plenty O. money in the bank.
"Want t. know. Is she married?"
''No; she hain't no use fer man
except to make money out of him.
Can't any of 'em git the better of her
in q trade"
"Want t. know. How did she git her
start? When l lived in Pistonrod ole
Younkers farm wasn't more'n seventy
acres, fifty cleared, and the stock was
one spawned horse and cow"
"That seventy acres he's growed to
a thousand now, all cleared, two big
barns full O. grain and stock. Sairey
Younkers turned out to be a heap good
manager"
"Dew tell? How'd she do itF'
"Waal, she got her start when she
was bout twenty years old and purity
as a bran new mowin' machine. Bout
that time most o the young men in
the neighborhood wanted to marry
her. Far back as l kin remember
hearn all the wimmin folks and most
O. the men talkin' bout two young fell
lers that was both bound to git her
They said Sairey he'd agreed to take
the best man o. the two. AS the way
they was to find out which was the
best man Sairey set 'em job. The ole
man he'd just died, the ole woman
wasn't no good, and there wasn't no
one to do anything except Sarey, and
she didn't hev nothin' to do it with
except her good looks, and good looks
in gal don't count except to git a
husband that's worth suthin'. But
there wasn't no SIGH in Boulder coun-
ty, so it was cold time for Sairey.
'Howsonedever, she said that since
her ole pop had died and left her and
her mother in bad way she'd got to
hev man rs conld build UP the farm.
Eff she got lazy galoot to set roun'
and white it nd be mighty hard on
her. 1t happened to be rlowin' time.
She tole Zeb Mower and Jake Marks
that whichever could pillow ten acres
fust she'd marry Jist as you said.
there want but fifty acres cleared, and
twenty O. this needed plowin'. She di-
vided 'em into two equal parts. one for
Zeb and t'other fer Jake. Both on 'em
was awful bent on gittin' her, and
their pride was teched, Besides, nei-
Their was willin' to refuse on account
O. t'other Sairey had to borrow two
horses fer EN- and one plow She
started 'em one fine April mornin'. |
was there, with lot O neighbors, to
see 'em start, and all the time they
was plowin' people was comm and
goin' watchin EN-, while Sairey was
a-smilin' on both of 'em and bringin'
'em out things to eat and drink
"Waal, when they come to the end O.
the match it was a tie. Both got
through at the same time, and both
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both a drink and tole 'em they was the
finest fellers she ever seen. She SEEM
ed awful sorry, though, that one on
'em hadn't come out ahead, for she
said it put her In fix. She couldn't
marry neither of 'em nohow. So they
asked her to let 'em try ag'in. She
said she'd give 'em an easy job next
time She give each on 'em twenty-five
acres to plant They was glad enough
to git off so easy. but when they was
gittin' to the end O the job Sairey TUX
sick with neurology and wasn't there
to see the finish. Both of 'em claimed
that they got through fust, and there
they was agin.
"Sairey was put out with bein' pes
tered by 'em and wouldn't hev nothin'
more to do with neither Of 'em. But
long bout harvest time she relented
and agreed to give 'em another trial.
She said whichever got half the crop
into the barn fust was the man she
| wanted, and she kinder limited that
there was one on 'em she did want
mighty bad, but 1t wouldn't be fair for
her to tell which. So they went to
work on third trial. This time just
as they was gittin' to the end O. the
| job they both TUX sick, and Sairey had
| to finish it herself. Nobody knowed how
| they come to sicken both at once, and
some was mean enough to hint that
Sairey had given 'em some rum with
piZen in it. They want sick long, but
when they got well the job was finish
ed without 'em. So she didn't take
neither of 'em nohow.
"That's the way Sairey got her start.
She growed a fine crop as didn't cost
her nothin' and put the money all into
the farm. They say she got the bal
| ance Of her land cleared in some SIGH
fashion, but don't know nothin' bout
| that Leastaways she not only put
her farm in payin' condition, but be-
gun to buy jinin' land. She's forty
year old now and good leokin' yit. All
the widerers and old bachelors there
| abouts wants to marry her, and be-
lieye she could git up plowin' or
| mowin' match among 'em today If
she wanted to; but, laws. she hain't
got no use for 'em l axed her onct
why she didn't take husband. She
looked at me surprised-like and an
swered: What would l do with him?
He'd only be in my way"
"But, say, neighbor, what makes you
| look so sOrroWful?"
"You was tellin' bout Zeb Mowet
and Jake Marks. wasn't your
Il was"
'They was both at the soft age bout
gals, wasn't they?"
"'Bout twenty-three or four"
81 guess they'd both of 'em ought
| to been planted in the town buryin'
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