| Show A LOST COURTESY they were a group of choice spirits and they gathered daily in the same place in summer beneath the wide spreading boughs of a pride of india and in winter before the hearth in the dingy little office of squire brice the aforesaid boughs shaded the door of the aforesaid office and as the same choice spirits met every day or rather lounged all dy naturally many questions were artl hed and exhaustively discussed I 1 among them they were speaking of politeness one day each man giving his opinion of the quality of true polite ress iress the subject had been widely discussed and began to dwindle when one of ane g roup group who had been a lis te tet T tr revived it with an observe observation aaion ging gi ag his personal reasons why too much of a good thing can be just as bad as a paucity of well being bassir Yas sir observed jere dinkie the las speaker ker stepping from behind the fire and lifting the cloth of his hot troopers troupers troup ers away from the calves of his spin clin legs gs bassir Yas sir gentlemen per litel liess bought be a mighty good thing but when hen run to death hits sern no winners anners rr a atall tall that ar article he resumed looking around the a assem j L i A JACKET bly with a glance as of one who thoroughly knew the business that ar ar tide is like a blanket plenty big I 1 I 1 enough in the middle but too short at ends now argumentatively 1 I do 10 low that cihat ness showed toe a ole oe oman aint wasted but I 1 do hold mighty tight grip too that the finest article of ness showed toe a gall is not only wasted but goes agin the feller thet chews hit i there was an interested movement among the crowd and jere co continued n untied confidentially now genI enmen lemme tell yer a beetle something about how bow ness toe a gall sometimes hurts a teller feller A right smart while ago when I 1 was alivin a livin over toe the haslett settlement I 1 fell mightily in ilove love witha gall she was ess head swimming she was so I 1 wanted toe ax her toe marry me but dinged danged it if a tr emblin grab me by the knees every time I 1 tried toe spit out the words an my bawd jess jelas drap sames a daggs wen hes a beggin f fer er clackl crackling crac klins ins but danged dinged et ef my chaps git that dry that sted isted 0 sp speak eakin ln hit out ater I 1 got as aa far even as toe low miss rose id just beg for a gourd 0 water which whick ar feared I 1 bust ef I 1 git well was another feller a goin t ter r seo se her a hangin roun castin sheps eyes an the lak a sort of dandyish buck named critchett ike critchett chett an you kin just bet hit was nip 2 ip an tuck twixt me an that ar crit carett I 1 low lo w toe youens you uns we git mad 1 leastwise east wise I 1 but critchett sorter sort er snorted round a bit bout satisfaction an sich an one 4 aay y he did low thet a dewel was ter be b fit betrix us as bafo night well brtek r ui vely torn sartin visas I 1 seed I 1 knowel too wed the galls alls jede v I 1 ment wa f and seed at the me same bame tk t 7 J take much on nuth tm ter fix er so I 1 jem na chelly d dant nt take no notice of 0 ikes ike foolishness hit happened chisser way jere continued warming to his story en jurin that summer the biggest camp that ever was held in the haslett settlement was a bwy gwyne ne on an ot of cose miss rose an her folks bein per festers rn mostly was all was a po ful sight er folks that claimed kin with the gall an some of em was as fer me and some of era em was ter ier critchett betrix the an the pray in we seed a heap of miss rose that Is toe say we run neck an neck W wh jon n I 1 war critchett he was an when critchett war why 1 I 01 1 alered right derlong miss roses maw was a baptis a hard hardshell abell but her paw profess no religion but he come derlong ter th jus ter keep th omen s straight tra ight he sed but I 1 knowel hed come less jess ter see th botwin me an that ar sassy shoat critchett the old man he done took me out behind the fodder stack fo we stai stalled ted an he lowed ter me thet hed seer south th w way ay things was a settin twixt critchett n me an he lowed he did thet hed put a bug in miss rose s year but I 1 lowed no siree I 1 dont want ant no paw maddlin med dlin an pe n bout the gall im settin up toe kuse I 1 knowel as true as that galls in n omen was as burus critters A gall an a 0 ow is just the same feed em fodder hand an tramp hit down but head em off from a pile of dead wire grass an climb a ten rail fence ter git toe hit same way with ralls rails an I 1 knowel if miss roses rose Is bawd I 1 ole her toe act pretty toe the mar man he be ras ivas ter sort out the fat ud be in the fre f re sho well things was a gettin serious in f religious way with miss roses hardshell maw toed the las of th an one evenin we was a settin in a bunch listening lis toe th preaching pr eachin the ol 01 lady had done made up her igind toe sit git religion an she was gwine toe eit cit hit mighty strong an she got the idee dee that hit would be a mighty 9 good abing thing if she git sanctified by herself but beung somebody derlong with her I 1 was a settin next miss rose on one side an miss roses maw come an plumped right down by abet disable sinner of a critchett an commenced a exhorting an a persuading hot tern a hound on a trial critchett he was toe make the ol 01 lady mad so he set an listened an lowed yes desm m toe everything ever every thin she sed w hile I 1 got over ground with miss rose that ar made critchett maddern a wet hen an after meeta he sent beetle bunchy cilly calley toe tell me thet ef I 1 could icae eave pe stenn a gall long enough toe come out in the pine thicket hed lick me quicker quick ern n a houn pup can lick a skillet an you sou know quick we went out in the thicket an I 1 a lot of the boys bos was a baitin toe s see the fun an without any an foolishness we clinched an went at hit bit we fit fur f ur a POT etl au ai both of us was a giffin blow nose nohe was skinned and critchett Cn chott s eye was most gouged out when here come two preachers an half a rozen dozen de deacons afons amalin out inter tb t ter break up th dewel of cou couse course se after wed fit critchett an me speak but we both kep a courtin coultm th gall if he went a walkin on one side I 1 was right on an th was as sweet toe mp a she war toe him things would a come out sooner but miss rose went toe see her married sister in pineville neville Pi an stayed staved till nigh about christmas an when she sha come home some of the young folks got up a barn dance in the schoolhouse for her As soon as I 1 heard she was home I 1 cut over to see her thinking I 1 would be bafo critchett had done heard she had come but bless my soul when the ol OF lady opened the do who was a gannin brinnin grin nin like a possum in a holler tree but that sorrel top hit critchett an he had done ast her toe foe let him scort her toe th barn dance too 1 I let critchett set me out that time but I 1 done had a scheme I 1 was bwy gwyne ne toe work on him an had toe be lively if I 1 wanted hit toe work smooth 1 I hunted up ol 01 abslom th fiddler an dr appin a quarter into his ol 01 black pam I 1 sprained ed my idee an I 1 tell yer er hit worked like new soa soap P T the he gall was a dancin opper site me when the fiddler give gie out the figger ter change partners pard ners an I 1 jest danced up to toe e her as Ke erless an gay as a young oung shoat an when I 1 belt out my hand she give me hern bern an then th fiddler moved by the devil deil most likely forgot toe change us back an we danced halt half the day together well suh satan he put hit into th 1 galls haid not toe go home with any one of us but toe snuggle up toe her ol 01 daddy when the dance was over we were a goin home on th train an th j kyar was crowded me an critchett critchet t a 1 settin on th same seat A heap of i folks was up an all of a I 1 looked around an stood our gall now here was a fix by gittin up I 1 would be but hit would give him a mighty fine chance toe do some plastered so dost ter hw her I 1 studied a linit or two then critchett seed her but move a peg at last up I 1 bounces miss rose I 1 says have this ere seat she laughed so an sot down that settled hit A sympathetic glance ran round the company and some one murmured ah she married critchett 7 naw she auther not by a blamed sight she married me an sf ef that oman aint bin a jacket an a torment toe me ever since I 1 dont want toe eat no mo an mournfully fu ily the beauty of the question is that ef I 1 b bin n so she bought hev married critchett Critch etL |
