The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1923-03-23
OUR OWN FAMILY ALBUM
(C0ntinued)

The first picture ON this page after
we leave Aunt Tidy and her husband
Uncle Bige, is Aunt Beulah Scrog-
gins. She amt really our aunt, you
know, but she's Aunt Tildys sister,
so We always call her Aunt Beulah.
No, no, she ain't married! guess
that's why she came to live with Aunt
Tidy and Uncle Bige. She's as bossy
as Aunt Tidy, but Aunt Tidy always
gets the best of her, because if they
have fuss, Aunt Tidy says, well,
| OUGHT to have more sense than
you got! Anyway | had enough to get
a husband, am that's more'n you
had"
That always shuts Aunt Beulah up
like clam. She's the funniest thingl
| don't mean she's comical or any
thing like that, but she LOOKS so
funny. Don't you think so? The way
she does her hair like skinned ONION
is a scream! Am the way she holds
her mouth makes her look like she's
got a chew of tobacco in her cheek.
don't it?
That scared look on her face is be-
cause the photograph man made her
mad. He KEEP tellin' her if she didn't
keep still and quit fixin' her hair,
it'd cost her more money. An she
snapped back at him an said, Its
pity you wouldn't spend a little
money yourself an buy comb to
fix that stragglin' hair of yoursw
An then the photograph man kinder
mumbled under his breath, "Wen,
thank God | amt like some folks al
ways havin' to fix up an then never
lookin any betterl'
An Aunt Beulah heard him, an
she got awful mad! She Jest puff ed
out her cheeks like a toad frog full
o buck shot, an that's why she looks
SO scared!
Uncle Bige used to call her 'old
hen!' Only he said it wasn't right to
the chickens to call her that, cause
the hens laid eggs an Matched EN-,
an even if Aunt Beulah did sit all
the time she never Matched out any
thing but trouble.
But Uncle Bige never let Aunt Til
dy hear him say anything like that!
No sir! AUNT Tidy used to boss Aunt
Beulah jest like she bossed Uncle
Bige, but she always took up for
Aunt Beulah, an Uncle Bige knew if
he let Aunt Tidy hear him belittlin'
Aunt Beulah she'd snap his head off
like snappin' turtle
Aunt Beulah went to camp meet
in one time, an you know the people
all live in tents and buildm's like
huts with the top sides of 'em all
open with curtains. An they was
awful close together SOS the people
could hear each other talkin' at night.
Wen, one o. the preachers was
Twin in the hut next to Aunt Beulah.
He was the funniest lookin' thing!
He had mournful Ratchet face, an
he used to go around with his hands
together acrost his stomach with his
fingers touchin' am he'd call us child
rem Little Sister," and Little Broth
er" in his yard voice.
Aunt Beulah went up to the mourn
er's bench one night at the camp
meetin an that preacher come down
an kneeled by her an put his arm,
on her shoulder an prayed for her
An Aunt Beulah was all fused to
death. She said she thought he was q
very lonely man an ought to have a
good woman look after him.
An that night Aunt Beulah heard
him over in his hut an she said he
said IN the sweetest voice, "thou
knowest love thee, am I ask only to
touch the hem of thy garments" An
Aunt Beulah slipped on her wrapper
an went am looked in his hut an
said, THE Lord hath sent me to thee
beloved"
An there was the preacher in his
night shirt kneelin' down, an he'd
been jest prayin'l
Ito be continued)