The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-10

church took on nightly about his mar
rying one out of society. But after she
Joined they all got satisfied.
Mrs. r.: Why la me! the seven stars
is way over here!
Mrs. B.: Well, lets light our pipes and
take a short smoke and go to bed How
did you Gomez on raisin' chickens this
year, Mis- Shad?
Mrs. s.: La messy, honey! I have had
mighty bad luck. I had the prettiest
pa eel you most ever seed till the var
ment took to KILN 'em.
Mrs. r. and Mrs. B.: The varmentle
Mrs. S.: Oh, dear, yes. The hawk
catched a powerful sight of them, and
then the varment took to 'em, and nat'ly
took EN- fore and aft, bodily, till they
aeft most none at all hardly. Sucky
counted EN- up tother day, and there
warn't but 80, she said, countin in the
old specl1le hens chickens that jist come
off of her nest
Mrs r. and Mrs. B.: Humph- h-h-h!'
Mrs R.: Well, I've had bad luck, too.
Billy's hound-dogs broke up most all my
nests.
Mrs. B.: Well, so they did me, Mis-
Reed. I always did despise a hound-dog
upon the face of yea'th.
Mrs. r.: Oh, they're the bawlinest,
about one; but Billy will have EN-, and I
think in my soul his old Troup's the beat
of all creators 1 ever seed in all my born
days a-suckin o. hens eggs. He's clean
most broke me up entirely.
Mrs. s.. The lackaday!
Mrs. r.: And them that was Matched
out, some took to takin' the gaps and
some the pip, and one ailment or an
other, till they most all died.
Mrs. g.: Well, l reckon there must be
somethin' in the season this year that
amt good for fowls; for Larlxn Good
mans brother Jimmes wife aunt Penny
told me she lost most all her fowls with
different sorts OF ailments, the like of
which she never seed before. They'd jist
go long loolSin' right well, and tilt right
over backward (Mrs. B. The lawD and
die right away Mrs r.: Did you everD,
with sort o. somethin like the blind
staggers.
Mrs. b. and Mrs. r.: Messy on me!
Mrs B.: I reckon they must have eat
somethin' didn't agree with them.
Mrs. s.: No, they didn't for she fed
EN- every mornin with her own hand.
Mrs. B.: Well, it's mighty curiousl
A short pause ensued, which was broken
by Mrs Barney with, 'And Brother Smith
married Mournin' Hooer!' 1t came like
asleep.
The next morning when we rose from
our beds we found the good ladies sitting
round the fire just as I left them, for
they rose long before us.
Mrs. Barney was just in the act of
calculating. "And Brother Smith mar
ried Mournin-'' when she was interrupt
ed by our entry into the dlning-room.
We were hardly seated before Mrs. Reed
began to verify her promise. MIR. -"
said she to Ned, didn't you say last
night that them was two men that got
married to one another?"
Eyes, madam said Ned.
And didn't you say they raised a fine
pa'cel of children"
Eyes, madam, except Billy. I said, you
know, that he was a little Wild
"Well, yes; [ know you said Billy WASH t
as clever as the rest of them. But we
old women were talking about 1t last
night after you went out, and none of US
could make 1t out how they could have
children; and I said I reckon you wouldn't
mind an old womans chat, and, therefore,
that I would ask you how 1t could be-
I suppose you wouldn't mind telling an
old woman how it was?"
Certainly not, madam. They were
both widowers before they fell In love
with each other and got married"
THE lackaday! / wonder none of us
thought o. that. And they had children
before they got married?"
Yes, madam; they had none afterwards
that I heard Of"
We were here informed that our horses
were in waiting, and we babe the good
ladies farewell HALL