The sun., 1910-01-09
A UNIT SALLYS NEW
"A YEARS DAY IS SAVED
Her Faith In Cousin Marcellus
Almost Broken but at
Last Restored.

Last Restored.
CHESTER. Jan. S.--what looked tre-
Ltendous hike a depressin' endin'. an
q wearin' one fer Aunt Sally Beckendartsr.
TO q Happy New Year was switched OF
by the roomytiz not ketchin' Cousin Mar
cellus Merrfweather aG'in. an all went
well. though Uncle David was disap-
p'inted as to his idees o. blessin's in dis
guise." said the man who alleges that
he brings the news from Pochuck. I'VE
had eat our New Years dinner, Cousin
Marcellus bein' there jest by accident.
He come along that way a little afore
dinner time, an dropped In jest to say
Happy New Years. bein' on his way. so
he said. to Uncle Juniper Jackson's. Uncle
Juniper livin' mile furder on. but Aunt
Sally had skeercely said Same choo n
many of EN- when that pesky roomytiz O.
Cousin Marcelluss ketched him so over
powerin' that he says he guessed Uncle
David d have TO hook up the hoss an
take him the rest o. the way.
An / wouldn't disappint Uncle Juni
per's folks. not fer the world, says he'
-'An' wouldn't have you do it, neither >
says Uncle David. fer think too much
o. Uncle jumpers folks to have EN-
disapp'inted.' says he. so rll-'
David 'Beckendarter,' says Aunt
Sally you amt goin' to do no setch a
thing says she. You sha'n't lug him
down to Juniper Jackson's. him all took
with the roomytiz so. says she. He's
goin' to stay here. says she.
That's what was goin' fer to say,
Sally says Uncle David. chucklin'.
I wouldn't have Uncle jumpers folks
disappointed fer the world he says.
an so I was goin' fer to say to Cousin
Marcellus that he'd better stay here
We're use to bein' disapp' 'inted an don't
mind IL none,' says Uncle David. chuck
lin. an that's the way Cousin Marcellus
come to jine us New Years jest by acci-
dent. We had eat our dinner an me an
Uncle David was layin' back smokin'
our corncobs. Cousin Marcellus havin'
been consider't enough to bring a seegar
with him in case there didn't happen to
be only two pipes. an he was putin on
that an Aunt Sally was washin' up the
dishes when Uncle David says, sorty
talkin' to nobody in p'tic lar. that this was
the time O. year when some folks always
mado good resolutions, an Cousin Mar
cellus says Z wasn't the only time.
look at the time Uncle Soc Tinkle-
paugh made that good resolution o.
his'n.' says he. 1t was way along in
harvest apple time. his good resolution
that nothin' in the world couldn't make
him break. an him only a ten-year-old
youngster at that says Cousin Marcellus.
An why did he go an make a resolution
that time o. year? Ill jest tell you.' says
he.
when Uncle Soc Tinklepaugh was
about the size an heft that any stub an
twist ten-year-old orto be, says Cousin
Marcellus. as he used to tell me many a
time. his folks lived up along the old
Passadanky. over in Pennsylvany. an
all the apple trees that had been started in
that deestrict yit was one that had sprung
up from a slip that the Seth Jowler family
had took along with EN- over there from
JERSEY That apple tree stood on top Of
a little knoll in the Jowler back medder.
creek went dancin' by says Cousin Mar
cellus. an Uncle David most bit his pipe
stem in two. he gave setch a start, an
Aunt Sally says that il that didn't sound
ezac'ly like readin' Il out o. books then
sne wa ny JeuBe
Some way or other. Uncle Soc, as he
used to tell me. says Cousin MarcelEIs.
when the time o. year come round that
the apples on that tree got ripe he
couldn't no more help goin' fishn' in the
OIL Passadanky. right at that pint. than
he could help eatin' johnnycake an
'lasses, an he either had to eat johnny
cake an 'lasses in them 'arly days in the
wild woods or else go out into the wild
woods an indulge hisself on sassyfrass
an sech, times bein' slow an his folks g
barns an graineries an smokehouses
an cellars not Dustin much yit with
the fat o. the land says Cousin Mar
cellus. an Aunt Sally says Poor
creatur'sr an Uncle David. 80 IL sounded
TO me. says sOmethin' about how he didn't
see how that could a made much differ
ence to Uncle Soc's folks, pervidin' their
neighbors' graineries an barns an smoke
houses an cellars had somethin' in 'em,
an they didn't keep no dog.
AN somehow II always happened,
arter Uncle Soc had been a-fishn' that
way. says Cousin Marcellus. the Jowler
apple crop d be short. some seasons
bein' a total failure. That sorty sot
season, the very next day arter one O.
Uncle Socs fishin' trips. ol Seth dropped
in at Uncle Soc's folks's an told his pa
that the price o. harvest apples that year
was 81 a peck. an handed him a bill
fer one peck an leetle over, he claimin'
that to be about the size o. the apple
crop on the or Passadanky that season.
Uncle Soc never knowed. says Cousin
Marcellus. 'ezac'ly what the heft o. the
arguments oil man Jowler sot ford. was,
but from the way his pap interduced
the soap paddle 70 him in the kitchen that
evenin' Uncle Soc always said that he
believed he could guess what the heft
OF them arguments was, bein' as his
pap went a trihe furder too an says to
him that IL the apple crop on the Oh Passa-
danky was gethered similar next year
he'd shuck the hide offen him. says
Cousin Marcellus, an Aunt Sally says
Yes, indeedr That was the TinkIe-
paugh of il; spare the rod an spile the
child was their motto. which it want
never the motto with some other folks
she could mention. as she knowed to her
livin' sorrow, she says, givin' Uncle David
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