The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-05-18
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az her face broke into reminiscent
10 smile she amt my real grandmaw
ne you know She's paws first wife't
he nav, but us kids has always called
lie her grandmother She lives way out
tn on the west side and she gets awful
8, sore II one OF us youngsters don't &c
out and take supper and spend the
night with her about once in every &c
often
ay Last night 1t was my turn and
as when l got there Grandmother Kelly
Id says to me, Nellie she says, i asked
I'd poor old Grandmaw Getchell to come
is over tonight and I'd be real obliged
t. If you'd run over to her sons place
ID and fetch her Like as not that dapgh
II ter-in-law of hers'll let her start out
n by herself, and if that poor old thing
= should fall down / bet she'd break
n some Of her bones. They gifts awful
brittle, you know, as a person gifts
= older 1t was funny because Grand
g mother Kelly amt more'n couple Of
. years younger than Grandmaw Get
chell.
Il was just a-startin' to pike over
and get Grandmaw Getchell when the
old lady come hoppin' up the stairs,
spry's you please. Grandmother Kelly
runs to the door. Why, grandmaw,'
she says, did you come all by your
self? l don't think you ought to "a
done it. 1t amt safe for you to come
all that way alone
| "Grandmaw Getchell just pushes
past her and begins takin' off her hat
and cape and THROWN EN- on the
chair. Quit "grandmawin" me, she
says. I'm just as well able to walk
three blocks by myself as | ever was.
and a good deal more able than some
of these siimjacks that'd crack to
pieces if they ever hit the sidewalk
when we sat down to supper
Grandmother Kelly says, just as sweet (
as could be- made some cornbread I
for supper, grandmaw,' she says, [
cause I thought it would be easy for I
you to eat. When a persons lost so
many of their teeth as what you have I
l know it's kind of hard for 'em to |
chem tough things.
"Grandmaw Getchell begun to swell
up. I guess you don't need to be so
careful of me and my teeth, Mol
Kelly, she says, Hard for me to
chew" she snorts, shakin.
Grandmother Kelly come right
! back at her. smilin and happy. Well
she says, putting a helpin' of creamed
chicken on to Grandmaw GetchelPs
plate, 1T does beat all how some folks
gets more satisfaction hangin' on to
their poor old snags long after they're
past their usefulness than let em go
comfortable like and get some good
boughten onas.' Then she hustled out
to the kitchen.
1T just makes me want to cry
she says, fetchin' great big sigh, 'ev-
/ cry time | eat lemon cream pie. Mr..
4 Tinkum, him that was my second, he
4 was SO partial to it. Then she looked
over at Grandmother Kelly spiteful,
! and knew they was about ready to
| lock horns again. You know / been
married three times she says to me.
Mr. Getchel, he was my third
Grandmother Kelly didn't say moth
In for minute. Then she says, Mel
| lie,' she says, amt 1t funny how some
| women will marry just anything that
! comes along, just to show they had the
/ chance?'
| "I don't blame no woman says
Grandmaw Getchell to me, Just becuz
the men folks don't take to her, but
| there's some folks not more'n hun
dred miles away that didn't get mar
ried more'n once for mighty good
and sufficient reason. and that Is that
they didn't get asked again
well, you needn't to think that
Grandmaw Getchell had any two-thirds
of Grandmother Kelly on the mat.
Grandmother Kelly was right there
was the comeback.
well she says. takin' off the lid
of the teapot and lookin' in to see II
t the teas all gone, ] always did think
e the folks that keeps on gettin' mar
e ried every time they get asked aim
ever had such very good luck
We'll, they KEEP 1t up the whole
Al blessed eyenin', and you'd "a died 1
5 you could "a heard them. Every timt
Grandmaw Getchelld get half mel
son on Grandmother Kelly, Grand
f. mother Kelly'd bat back at her am
il then duck for the kitchen or dinini
room, or somewheres, like she ha
some pressin' business, and by tn
time she'd get back Grandmay
- Getchel'd be all ready with anothe
nj hot one. The last thing I heard afte
ha I went upstairs was Grandmother Ke
ID ly sayin', Now, you be careful. grant
.as NAV, goin' up them steps. I knew
- real stout person that fell down ther
once and she never walked again
=, "T guess you better be careful you
self Moll Kelly snorts Grandma
~ Getchell; If you should tumble dowr
- stairs your bones'd crack up like s
w many icicles,'
aS 81 ducked into my room and prett
nc near swallowed all the bed clothe
re tryin' to keep from haw-hawin' rigt
We out.
nd Say, bet | been to ten thousan
movin' pitcher shows and musics
oo,oadioo and thaavfarc and thin Q1