The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-05-09
The Story'of
Waitstill
Baxter
By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
copglishl. I9I5. y Kal. DoaaI.. We.
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wen. settSe-rm within! told you
that afore you painted the ell. Amt
two rooms. "a by II. enough for yon
TO settle down in2 If they amt, 1
guess your mother'd give you one O
the cAambers In the main part"
she would IL married Phoebe Day,
but l don't want to marry Phoebe
argued cephas. And mothers gone
and made summer kitchen for her.
self out in the ell already. | bet yer
she'll never move out If | should want
to move in on sndden"
Il told you yon was takin' that risk
when you cut door through from the
main part" said bis father genially.
IF you hadn't done that your mother
| would "a had to gone round outside to
git int the ell. and mebbe she'd a
stayed to home when ii stormed, any
how. Now your wlfe'il have her
troopln' in an ont. in an ont the.
whole 'durin' time"
Il only cut the door through TO- please
mother, so't she'd favor my gtttin'
married. but guess't won't do no
good. Yon see. father. what I was
thinkin' of Is. girl would mebbe
Jump at a two story, four roomed ell
when she wouldn't look at a smaller
place"
Ponds upon whether the girls the
tumptn' kind or not Hadn't you bet
ter sit everything GSed up with the
one you've picked ont afore you take
your good savfn's and go to huildin' a
bigger place for heg:'
I've asked her once Already" Ce-
phas allowed with burning face. a
don't s'pose yon know the one |
mean:"
NO kind of an tdee, Nr responded his
father with quizztcal wink that was
lost on the young man, as his eyes
We're fixed upon his whiting. Does
she belong TO the yillage:"
Il amt goin' to let folks know who
I've picked out TILL git little mite
forrarder." responded Cephas craftily.
Say, father it's all right to ask girl
twice. amt it,"
Certain it is, my son. l never heerd
there was any special limit to the mum.
Der O. times you could ask 'em, and
their power o sayin' No is, like the
mercy of the Lord-it endureth for
ever. You wouldn't consider wilder,
Cephas? A wtdder'd be a good COM.
n'ny keeper for your mother"
Il hain't put my good savin's into
an ell Jest to marry comp'ny keeper
for mother" responded Cephas hufily.
I want to be No. ! witGaSny girl and
start right In on trainin her up to
slit me"
We'll. II trainin' S your object you'd
better take my advice an keep 1t dark
before marriage, Cephas. It's astonish,
in how the female sect despises bein'
trained. 1t don't hardly seem to be in
their nature to make any changes in
'emselves after they once gifts started"
How are you goin' to live with 'em,
then?" Cephas inquired, looking up
with interest coupled with some in,
credulity.
Let them do the trainin'," respond.
ed his father, peacefully putting out
the words with his pipe between his
lips. Some of ems mild and gentle
in discipline, like Parson Boones wife
or Mis- Timothy Grant, and others is
strict and firm like your mother and
Mis- Abel Day, II you happen to git
the first kind, why, do as they tell you
and thank the Lord faint any worse
If you git tue second kind Jest let 'em
put the binders on you and trot as
straight as you know how. without
shyin' nor kickin' over the traces, nor
boltin', cause they've got control o.
the bit and faint no use fghtin' ag'ln'
their superior strength So fur as you
can Judge, in the early stages o. the
game, my son-which amt very fur
which kind have you picked outia
Cephas whitfield on for some mo.
ments without word, but finally. with
a sigh drawn from the very, toes of
his boots, he responded gloomily:
Shes awful spunky, the girl is; any.
body can see TINT; but she's young
thing, and thought bein' married
= hpulh AlHA " 'lNllG ueE CuWu1
"You can see how much marriage
has tanned ynur mother down." obsery-
ed Uncle Bart dlspassionately. How
someyer, though your mother can't BIO
called tame, she's got her good p'ints.
for she's always to be counted on. The
great thing In life, as take it, Cephas,
is to know exactly what to expect.
Your mothers gen'ally credited with
an onsartin temper, but folks does her
great injustice In so thinkin', for in a
long experience I've seldom come
across temper less opsartin than
your mothers. You know exactly
where to find her every mornin at
sunup and every night at shutdown.
There amt nothin' you can do to put
her out O. temper. cause she's all out
aforehand. You can jest go about
your reg'lar business 'thout any fear
Of dIsturbin' her any further than she's
disturbed already, which is copsld'ra-
BILE. don't mind 1t mite nowadays,
though. after forty years Of it. II
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