The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1911-08-02
STORY OF THEIR
FIRST ICE CREAM
And the Trouble They Had
Enjoying 1t.
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SERIOUS MATTER TO ARRANGE
A Notable Incident in the
Life of a Kentucky
MOuntaineer.
DIALECT STORY OF INTEREST

none endurin' our whole lives and
the way she went avn about ice
cream seemed like we never had
really lived.
"Mrs. Pattee was a school teacher
from Chicago that was spendin' the
summer in our neighborhood, and
from what she said recon there
must be a hundred places or even
more in Chicago where they sell ice
cream. Every evenin' most, in
summer, she ct ice cream, she said,
and it was the incest stuff you ever
got your mouth avn to, and eatin'
of it was fashionable, too. Chicago
is lot of times bigger'n Dummers
Ford and Frankfort rolled into one.
Some of the boys has been to Frank
fort raftin' logs down the Kentucky.
and nah old man has been thar as
a witness in moonshiner trials.
Eyes, Henry has been drug down
thar to the Federal Court three
times as a witness. 1 bought that
carpet thar whar them four hound
dogs is lynn out'n Henry's witness
fees, time Bud LETTER and Dave Nc
Grew was tried. Never see why
them fellers was ever convicted of
maxim whisky. Whisky! Anybody
would be ashamed to set sech stuff
before company and call it whisky.
"Well, this Mrs. Pattee said we
orter hev some ice cream. Finally
one day LATE Watterson's wife come
by and said Lucy Mason's husband
had been down to Dummers Ford
and man from Lexington had
started a drug store thar and that
he sold ice cream. Then I jes
plumb told the old man to hitch up
and git tin pail and a bucket that
would go outside of 1t and a box to
go outside of all, so he could pack
fee around in it. and to take some
of that money I had put by to buy a
family doctor book with and go to
the Ford and git the ice cream.
"In co'se of a long and tedious
time he came back-next day, it
was. He fetched his ice cream into
the house, packed in sawdust. We
put it down. shooed the dogs away
and sot and begun to unpack the
ice cream, when he heard someone
boiler in the house and there was
Mrs. Pattee in the yard.
81 let her into the next room and
set down a-huggin' mahsef to keep
the Disappointment and fidget from
Dustin out. Here we was. two pore
mountain folks, and Henry had
driv all of one night and part of
day to bring home that ice cream
and here was this city woman that
would have gobbled the whole mess
if we had offered it to her. felt
convicted about not bein' hospital
and bringin' it out, but I couldn't
help mahse'f.
Thar she set, and I knew that
the ice around the cream was melt
in, for we had got it most unpack-
ed. I could hear pore Henry NOV
in around an frettin'. I went in
and told him to eat the ice cream,
not to wait for me. But he
wouldn't. To relieve his feelin S
he had took down his gun and was
p'intin' it at the wall t'other side
of which Mrs. Pattee was settin'.
"'Oh, I wish she was a Tate, so
I could go in and shoot her!' said
Henry. The Tates was the clan we
McDermotts ulster hev a feud with,
and the feud had played out, most
ly because the Tates had played
out, too, in the co'se of twenty years
of shootin'.
81 went back in with Mrs. Pattee,
and she said she was goin' back to
Chicago next day and would spend
the whole afternoon with me! Just
then one of the dogs pushed through
the door and left 1t open, and thar
we see Henry prancin' and p'intin'
his gun, his face plumb diabolical.
Mercy avn us! Mercy avn
us!" said Mrs. Pattee, springin' up.
"T don't know why ever done
It, but said: He's gittin' bis
shootin' things ready, because Cole
Henderson accused him of stealth
shoat pig
'Why-what-would this Cole
Henderson come over here to. shoot
him.
"'Come over here? You don't
reckon Henry would go over to any
party's house for to be shot? II
you're goin' to be shot, always be