The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-10-23
Delights Of
Repartee

Kelly last n1SnL, MISS connolly IN |
formed Liss Frizkle, as she threw her
self on the couch in the rest room,
"and of all the fun" She paused and
her face broke into reminiscent
smile. "She amt my real grandmaw,
you know. She's paws first wifes
nav, but us kids has always called
her grandmother. She lives way out
on the west side and she gets awful
| sore if one of us youngsters don't go
out and take supper and spend the
| night with her about once in every so
often.
Last night it was my turn and
| when / got there Grandmother Kelly
says to me. Nellie she says, I asked
| poor old Grandmaw Getchell to come
| over tonight and I'd be real obliged
if you'd run over to her sons place
and fetch her. Like as not that daugh-
ter-in-law of hers'I let her start out
by herself, and if that poor old thing
should fall down l bet she'd break
some of her bones. They gifts awful
brittle, you know, as person gifts
older 1t was funny because Grand
mother Kelly amt more'n couple of
years younger than Grandmaw Get
chell.
| II 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? 1 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 'em on the
chair. Quit "grandmawin" me- she
says. I'm just as well able to walk
three blocks by myself as 1 ever was,
and good deal more able than some
of these slimjacks 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, 4 made some cornbread
for supper, grandmaw,' she says,
''cause thought it would be easy for
you to eat. When a persons lost SO
many of their teeth as what you have
/ know it's kind of hard for 'em to
chem tough things.
"Grandmaw Getchell begun to swell
up. 4 guess you don't need to be so
careful of me and my teeth, Moll
Kelly she says. Hard for me to
chew? she snorts, shakin'.
Grandmother Kelly come right
no OF hor AZ, opd bonpv syIyol1
she says, putting a helpin' of creamed
chicken on to Grandmaw Getchell's
plate, it 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 ones Then she hustled out
to the kitchen.
."Tt just makes me want to cry
a.. she says, fetchin' great big sigh, 'ev-
cry time / eat lemon cream pie. Mr..
Tinkum, him that was my second he
: was so partial to it. Then she looked
over at Grandmother Kelly spiteful,
and l knew they was about ready to
lock horns again. You know l been
married three times she says to me.
MIR. Getchel, he was my third
Grandmother Kelly didn't say moth
in for a minute. Then she says, Mel
lie,' she says, 'ain't it funny how some
women will marry just anything that
t comes along, just to show they had the
]. chance?'
: "T 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
9 ried more'n once for a mighty good
J. and sufficient reason, and that is thai
t they didn't get asked again.
"Weil, you needn't to think that
Grandmaw Getchell had any two-thirds
of Grandmother Kelly on the mat
S Grandmother Kelly was right there
: was the comeback.
u "eWell,' she says, takin' off the lie
of the teapot and lookin' in to see il
the teas all gone, 4 always did thinl
the folks that keeps on gettin' mar
ried every time they get asked ain
l. ever had such very good luck
s "Well, they KEEP it up the whole
4 blessed evenin', and you'd "a died i
S you could "a heard them. Every time
e Grandmaw Getchell'd get half mel
Il son on Grandmother Kelly, Grand
mother Kelly'd bat back at her ant
then duck for the kitchen or dinin.
= room, or somewheres, like she hal
= some pressin' business, and by tn
time she'd get back Grandmav
: GetchePd be all ready with anothe
i hot one The last thing heard afte
; 1 went upstairs was Grandmother Kel
ly sayin', Now, you be careful, grand
NAV, goin' up them steps. I knew
real stout person that fell down then
] once and she never walked again
"I guess you better be careful your
self, Moll Kelly, snorts Grandmay
Getchell; IF you should tumble down