The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-07-29
THROOP'S
FATAL ERROR
Too Much Attention Spoiled
Him, But Eventually He
Was Cured.
{" HAT there i~aiiy-gaEgin' makes
me sick" growisd Ola Man

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they'd let up on II when folks was
around. nyway II they'd KEEP on much
longer I'd have up an tot EN- I
thought about It"
That's one OF the privileges OF old
age" remarked Eeen Baxter who held
the cynie In light esteem When q man
gets over the shady side o. seventy he kin
pleases. an that's = plenty with some OF
en-. They wasn't iovin' you. Uncle. /
don't see where you've got airy kick
comm"
One Of the drawbacks or old age N
that when a teller gets 30 he's TOO sun to
handle himself. eyr' ~red-haided bow
Tagged. whapper-Jawed loafer thinks us
SAFE 10 shoot on his big mouth at him."
observed old Man S~omarindyk. with q
steely glitter In mis- eye. "Ive seen the
time you'd run an stick your haid In q
gopher hole when you heard me whoop.
Eb Baxter. Or any man In this yer
crowd he added. with a challenging LOOK
around the circle.
Il reckon that's right" agreed Wash
lngton Hancock, pleasantly. Uncle
Levi was a noly terror when he was a
young buck. A Teller halter put the
harness on him with a pitchfork. they
sth mc DGI al 10 NniS yer Dlllln an
cooin. II ain't so bad when the pleasures
mutual. as the Teller says. It's when It's
all on one side that there's trouble. spe-
cially when It's the man at gets the mer-
lasses jug stopped on him.. He begins to
get a hankerin' for sour pickles. ever
time, but he don't want the pickles outen
his own barl.
continued Hancock. sims that Teller
from Pignut that comes In here driyin'
them little gray nevis an keeps his
haid twisted back on his shoulder 's!f
he was eXpectin' somethin' TO happen
behine him. Right good lookin' Teller.
Sim was. twenty year ago. If you didn't
b1ieve Il all you halter do was TO asst
his wife. She thought the sun rose
an set in Sims whiskers.
First on. Sim set about as much
store by her as she did by MIN. hut
after while he found out at she thought
jist as much OF MIN II he wasn't taggin'
around after her to keep her from
IL wasn't strickly ness'ry TO call her pet
names when he spoke to her. He seen
at she nachally wanted TO fuss over
him an do for him. so he set back in
the best rocker an let her do. When
his pipe went out she'd knock out the
ashes an al It up for him. an then
run 10 get him a match. Then shed
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well, gentlemen. Sim could have wore
a white shirt every day OF his life II
he'd wanted to. an she would have been
tickled plumb to death TO wash an iron
'em for him. He never had a button
missin' for years, or a hole in one OF his
socks, an as for cOokln. all led have to
do was TO say what he wanted an she'd
work over a hot stove all day In mldsum-
mer 10 give il 20 him. II wasn't very
long afore she was totin' her own water
from the well an spl.ttin' her own
kindlin' an mornln's when IL was cold
she'd get up an start the fires SOS Sim
wouldn't get a cold on his chist.
Its a turrble thing FOR a woman like
SIMS wife was 10 have a man Ike sim
kefch cold. bccus she knows that colds IA
apt 20 turn INTO suthlu' worse an mabbe
XII him. an then the smarfest. hanson.
est. clevercst Teller or the footstool I'd
De gone an lie wouldn't be wuth Twin
50 II SIN sneezed or grunted, or didn't
feel equal 20 n third helpiu' at meals
shed hy around like a hen on a hot
griddle an mix poul;ices with one haad
an rub his had wl.h the other
We'll. one day there was a b,ske,
social az the Picnut Congregational an
Sim drawed n wilder that his VIE baa
klne % had nor suspicious OF II she
hadn't her suspicious she wouldn't have
snucs up heh.nc the pair the way she
done. an then she wouldn't have heard
sim teilin' how Unhappy an pes;ered ne
vas an how diTrunt 10 might have been
~ the widder's husband had went henc.
about two years sooner.
Re ham Of yourself saws ,hs
Widder. hittin' him over the knuckle,
You with a sweet iovin' wife that think,
the world Of you IN ain do too much
Tor you. talkin' that n-wayl"
That's list tho pint says Sim
shes TOO disgone sweet an too plague
taxed town an wants 90 do too ALFRED
much for me. I'm jist nachaily honeyed
70 death an she fuses over me uil I
icaint see straight. the hull time. Nov
lyou haint hathaway
~ should say I wasn't SAYS The
widder. II ! had you you sure wouidn't
have no cause 20 complain ercount o.
bcin' too iovin' ia see that you toed
the marx an walked the chalk. too.
"Gd Ike that says sim.
"'YOu would. would your Eays III,
wife.
sim turned red in the face. 7 was
fist a-iOkln'. honey. he SAYS
cave you TO tight 70 out saws
the wilder. an she got up an made a
bee line FOR the preacher
The next mornin' Sim got IN IN.
started the fires an totcd In a buck.,
81 water an' an armfuI OF wood. an
after a while his wife cot IN an.
started the breakfast n WASH, the
Kline ~ a breakfast Sim had been used
~. but he made out without kirkiu
~ soon a. 10 was over. his vile ahs
says 70 him Say. youf 7 aim 10 DO a
small wash this mornin' an III trou.
bic you 20 stir your lazy bones an M
my tubs. an when you're done that
there's the woodbON 20 fff civ
sweetnesa- says sim.
Don't you fool yourself saw, -.
I've dons soursd. You get thar
water $3.50
lie didn't want no more ,eirn. ".
got r. When he come IN a. noon sbs
male him empty the tubs an co..
him what vas icf over from -eaLf,
Tor HE dinner. an when he ast a.,
jeli % eat or his bread she tor 49,,
that ieil vas Fwcnt an wasn't ceo4
Tor him. About the second dav ~ 90,
MAD an started 20 show her wb, ~.
boss an she hit him over me b.tf
with the skillet an let him pYt 3D..
Z plaster on % himac'f From 49, 49,,
be sewed on he own buttons or fret
his raliuses with n ahlnrIo NAH. a.
smoked he pipe out bohIne the bar,
Z reckon he haint had n decent w.sf
or q lovln' word sence they sfsrted
FOR the social about fo'tcen years ago
cot to some.
one time be brought ~ me subfs~k
uffr r1Aa mfu .uru d
an she Cor him she wasn't a-refo, n,
gmntsm iUf % nof i.ufu5 6us lrq
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