The Washington herald., 1914-11-15

you'll hold the funeral day after to-
morrer. wont you, at , o'clock in the
MIR. Dolby was listening to a noise
outside. He heard something to remind
him of hen trying TO crow. and he
wondered if it could be that. so long af-
ter dark.
IF you want it a day soOnlr you can
do it," continued Mrs. Dolby, after sobs
you must look out OF the neighbors
will talk. Better hev IL the day after
tomOTrer. and ] hope, for your sake, II
won't be a rainy day. I've sometimes
went. with over forty wagons in the
purcession and the church bell alto lin
and the dogs a-hOwlin, but I've given
that up. No. Samuel. you needn't make
any spread over me. I'm one OF the
kind that kin go to heaven without any
hurrah and fireworks. If there is ten
wagons in the purCession. shall be
satisfied Don't you think ten ought
TO he nun for a person like me?'
1t wasn't . direct question. but had
it been Mr.. Dolby would not have an
swcred. He was devUuring the third
testimonial and making up his mind
10 try a bottle on the sly.
Ten wagons in the purcCSsion. sam
ucl, and the bells needn't toll or nuthln
else happen. If anybody is digEin' 'taters
or maxim soft soap or dyeln' carpet
rugs. they needn't stop on my account
that will be nun We've got Ieven
chairs altogether, cOuntin' them with
broken backs, and Mrs Walters will
lend you the rest. You II hcV our own
preacher. OF course. but he needn't go
on for an hour or two and tell how good
| was and how much you'll miss me. II
he says that my toll is Ger. and that
you won't never find more savin' wife.
that'll he about 'nuff. Shall You do any
erwin at the funeral, Samuel:
No answer.
I'd do a lcctle hit If ! was y0u-jeS;t
a Icctlc. If you don't folks will talk
about il same as they did about Jim
Dewitt. He never cried at all. and
to this day folks say he didn't use
down and SOp and git up an excitement.
but you kin gasp few times and wipe
YOUR eyes and blow Your nose. I'm
sorry you'll heV TO take that long ride
tn the graveyard. as yuu could be playin'
Chrcktrs or Sunthin'. but don't see how
YOU are To sit out OF II. However. you
won't never ncv to go up ther ag in.
When YOU git ready to buy me aNEraVe-
/ stun you kin send IL up 10y man.
/ S'p"Se you'll buy stun Of some sort
won't YOU
testimonial a man declared that he had
1 been saved after one whole lung and
! three-quarters Of the other were gone,
and il was a sketch to thrill the reader
WAY down TO his toes.
of course don't kcer about no
I gray cstun' for myself said Mrs. Dolby
a. she tried TO wipe away her tears
with the glass stopper of the bottle, but
( il YOU don't put one up the ncighborS
will call you stinEy. Get Il cheap ono:
! however If YOU kin git one for $40 and
trade lot Of carpet rags in, I'd do II.
I used to think 1 wanted whole lot
Of readin' on my gravestun', but I've
/ changed my mind. Just put on that
! Susan Dolby expired in the forty ninth
| year Of her age Of Sincral disability,
/ and that she has found rest wh"T"
asthma, boiIs. backaChe and rheumatic
cease from troubIin'. You needn't say a
word about making forty yards Of rag
/ carpet and a bar'l of soft soap last year
while enjOyin sore eyes and a boil on
/ my arm. or that ! allus kept Catnip.
! smartwced and peppermint herbs in the
house, and was a nurse To all the nay
/ burs No. Samuel, YOU nvedH say a
: word about them things. Make it-a
. .Chcap-GraVcstun. and you needn't never
! go up there-and-a
! And when Mr. Dolby had finished the
/ testimonials and fully determined to buy
! at least three bottles and hide them in
! tho woOdshed, he rose up, yawned and
| stretched and looked around TO find Mrs.
! Dolby asleep and the camphor wasted
on the floor.