The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-09-06
OBED's HARD LUCK
STRING OF MisFoRTUNEs RE.
; voLvlNe AROUND BUGGY.
All Dated Sack to the Foolish Idea
He Had That His Wife Would Not
Have Her Own Way
in the End

Quincy demanded anxiously of MIR.
Peaslee, whom he found sitting under
the shade Of the big maple tree In
front CT his house, when you think
one way and your wife thinks another
about anything?"
"Well, in case like that" replied
Caleb, pursing his lips judicially, eve
commonly split the diff'rence-and ]
come round to her way of thinking
I've found out I get long easier thas
way"
Mr.. Quincy poadered this defect
edly.
II s'pose you're right" he agreed at
last. IT didn't know but what YOU'D
studied out some way Of gettin' round
'em and havin' your own way part OF
the time"
"You amt the first married man
that's tried that" returned Caleb, with
q suspicion Of irony in his voice.
whats the matter now? You'n Mis-
Quincy been havin' q difference OF
opinion?"
Obed slowly polished the back Of one
hand with the palm Of the other and
gazed moodily at the ground
well" he replied at last, 1--WE had
some talk a day or so ago bout gettin'
the buggy painted"
"Well," prompted Caleb little i'm
patiently, what about it?"
Obed reused himself. "Td kind Of
sot my mind on the color I wanted it
but hadn't gone so far as to tell hel
bout It." he explained. II thought
perhaps I wouldn't. I thought some
day when I want busy I'd haul the
buggy down to Dan Mobiles paint shor
and set him to work on it-tell him tc
paint the runnin' gear either red Oh
yaller and the body a real dark blue
Caleb stifed something that might
have been either g laugh or a cough
It'll look kind Of gay, won't 1t, wher
you get it dons?" he asked.
"I d'know-mebbe it would have,
Obed conceded, "but it didn't get as
far as that"
'T fgsered," Obed went on, that
mebbe 'twould be as we'll If didn''
take my wife to Bangor with me when
+ bought the paint; so I went out and
dug some Of my early p'taters to hau
in-I knew she wouldn't ride in on nc
p'tater wagon. The p'taters wa'n't
much morn half growed and they
didn't fetch much more'n half price
but fggered I cd afford to lose lit
tie somethin' on the p'taters for the
sake OF gettin' the kind OF paint
wanted 'thout havin' to argue.
'sIt took me some time to get rid Of
my p'taters, and, as matter OF fact,
lost more on 'em than I had to pay fol
the paint, and that CALLED me some
When I got home I got the paint on
loaded on'n the wagon fore she got
cut to the barn-She most always
comes out to see If I've forgot any
thing she's sent for. But hadn't for
got anything, for a wonder, so that
part was all right.
Come mornin', I went out to the
carriage house to get out the buggy
and haul it down to Noble's-and, Ca
leb. there want a sign Of q buggy
there! 7 couldn't understand It, and
went into the house to ask bout It
She was workin' at the sink, and she
never even turned round when asked
her where the buggy was.
1.-The buggy's down to Dan Noble'l
bein' painted! she snaps, and I blieva
heard my jaw click when it dropped
open.
"'Well, good land!' says I. Ther
what in tunket am goin' to do with
all the paint bought?'
"'You never said anything to ms
bout buyin' any paint she says, kind
Of short. What color did you get?
And then I had to tell her.
"'Well,' says she, you en- do any
thing you're a-mind to with It. II
wouldn't have gone on to that buggy
anyway. I en- see through you like sc
much sunshine she says, and knew
a week ago what you was cal'latin' tc
do. So yesterday says she, I hac
Dan Noble come up here and get thai
buggy, and by this time he's got the
fust coat on to it-and It's black paint
too. You can do what you like with
them fancy colors Of yours she says
$50 the upshot is, I've dug load
Of p'taters and sold 'em for half price
and I've got two cans of paint that
d'know's I can sell at all, and I lost
my days work-and I amt goin' tc
have the buggy painted the way
want it, after all.
"I guess your ways bout as gooj
as any" Obed concluded resignedly.-
Youths Companion.