The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-09-24

s;,n. she sed fust an foarmust that
ste jected ter ther nouncemint that
the poar wimmin which had the
small chillurs at the Konsurt shood
carrie them out if they cride. Now
she sed they was blige ter cry when
they seed the kind of a lookin man
which mr.. edison has fur his shut
fer, and it wus pintedly rite that
the babies be tuck out when crying,
hut whar wus Mr.. Kar and unkle Jim
c.d Roy powar and Saml mcKune
bout which we seed so mulch that
they shood not take the crime babies
out an look arter them while the
visitin ladies witnessed the konsurt.
She sed also that she thinks it
wus bad ideer to put the lites out
fur so long as sumboddie might a
got ther pockets picked while ther
lites wus out in which ease sum-
boddie else mite a sed that the man
which picked the pockets wus in the
kompartner of Kar & edison, an the
furm mite a been blamed fur it, but
sed no that the furm of Kar &
edison is daylite pickpockets and
what they kennot git out of you in
the day time is not wuth pickin at
mite, and jist then lizzie remember
I'd the bed which she bort frum the
Emporium and sed that she seed i
was rite.
by that time she wus doun to tell
ing me bout the good-lookin stenno-
graphy which did the singin. lizzie
sed as how she Good out sing a
hawking burd and what a beautiful
skirt she wore when she was singin,
and all bout her butiful pussonal-
ity. I seed then that i he'd maid a
CRATE mistake in gittin cort at hoam.
the moar she tole me bout how good
lookin the lady wus in fack, the
moar see why Mrs. edison do not
allow Mr.. Edison to travel roun look
in after the konsert bizness, and 1
soon saw that insted of the shuff1er
havin Unkal Jim and fren Kar hitch
ed in the side stabal, they wus un-
der the protecktin kare of Missus
Stocks and Misses Kar, which made
them so quiet. By the way lizzie
deskribe the lady, as plus man as
am, wood never 60 hoam ter
dinner and wood be lait ter supper
sevrul mites in the weak if she wus
my stennography. Well, I CESS it
are good thing that I do not know
how to doc nuthin but maik cotton
and corn and talk pollerticks.
lizzie axed me Toosday mite whut
ther stunt pardner wus in a furm,
but arter she seed fren Kar and Un-
q! Jim out at this konsurt with ther
good wives she said as how she seed
fur herself what a silent pardner
wus, though it has alwais scanned ter
me when seed bruther Kar doun
streat by hisself that he wus very
unsilunt.
but lizzie sais as how she shure
i'd enjoy the musick at the konsurt.
she sed that the follow which look
ed so ugly as ter make the babies
cry Good also make a fiddle cry and
she was also taken with the fine
singing of Miss tiffuney?
Now she sais as how the whoal
music which they sings is Kought
by mr. edisun an boxed up in his
eafferfoan and it can be bought and
kept fur nanny yeers jist as good
as when fust plucked. She is fur
buyin a box contaneing bout a BUSH
81, or a bushcl and half, or two
lughels of the best which he has
boxed, and that is where i git off
2gin. But the wust of this buyin
bizness is that lizzie lays the whoal
thing on me. she sais as how she
has done heerd it herself, but she is
80 disappointed that i had ter stay
at hoam and mine the chillun and
chickens and did not git ter heer it
that she will not be kontent till l
has bort a boxfull of it so will be