Show the hen ilona were Effect eL 1 arkansaw traveler the governor of arkansas had jut just turned from a petition bearing hearing name names when a tall angular woman carrying a gingham aua sun bonnet by the strings entered the room and dropping on a settee a said a id 1 I want to see the Gov govner sier 1 I am the governor madam shore yee yes I 1 am quite sure wall I 1 corao come to ask you why you answer my letter I 1 live out in in the hilla hills moved there lately from Ind yany sent you tou a u letter by a feller named steve spencor spencer why you yuu answer it your name please jane bromfield from as good a family ai as ever liged in in the state father was it Mcl and mother mothe was a harkrider 1 I did not receive your our letter mrs bromfield look here do you reckon that feller amen pt got drunk an lost that dock 1 I dont know anything about bis his habits but dont it stand to reason that be he got drunk well ite its far frem from impossible ill tell you what the letter was shortly after I 1 got here tobe my husband was aut sent to the dry arf lie ile a citizen of the state at the time and think that the sentence would hold him lie he not being a citizen makes no difference and he could be sent to the penitentiary before he had a right to vote yes and stay there ther ejust just the same as an any citizen t V C certainly erta shore of course madam I 1 know what I 1 am talking about I 1 would like to tell you before you put yourself to the trouble of pleading hie his case that it is is quite useless 1 lie is is doubt less guilty and I 1 therefore cannot grant him a pardon ably my cakes takes alive man dont ak keer eer yourself for im not goin to as ask k for a pardon pardo 13 the letter I 1 writ you at a time when I 1 thought you hold him unless he was a voter statin the fact that he be voted a nt t the last election whether or no then you dont want him bin i pardoned not much ive done so much better since since hes been in in there that I 1 never do want to set eyes on him a again gain it may sound a little strange inge but it is is a fact that as soon a as the they y took him lim awat away the hens bens th that a t had been copin round on a sort of strike keall all il spring diug pul L to kayin and I 1 wish I 1 may die IV if I 1 think they would laj lay themselves to death one bigold big old do omi nicker the finest ben hen on the place but mighty sulky and hard to please at timea laid a single egg for two months but when ehe she found that they had took tobe off ehe she sat ant in in to kayin an all I 1 never seen bothin to ekel her shed walk around the yard and ting sing awhile an then shed go in in an lay la tobe was sent up for a year Gould nt yorito you to oblige a poor woman malo make it two governor oh ohno no I 1 have no authority to extend the time 1 I know but to oblige a po woman you mout no I 1 cat cannot inot well dont dun t you think you could dip slip six six mouths months on him anyhow NO cant extend his time a ini minute nute 11 but you are shore that you wont won let baw out under a year ear 2 well keep him lim in in that long Is e 1 1 I am ani much obliged to you fo for doin oia what hat you rian she the said arising and I 1 believe that it you had bad the awer you could would do more fur for me good day |