Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — TURNED LEAVES OF ROMANCE [ARTICLE]

TURNED LEAVES OF ROMANCE

Vangy Found, a* Other* of Her Bex Have Done, That Man Wa* Ever Fickle. “Will you have a cup of tea, Vangy?” asked Mrs. Greene, as Vangy came in from hanging out the clothes. “Ah don’ cayah es Ah do, Mis Greene. It right col’ on de roof an* Ah’s mos* chill to de marrer ob mah bones. Yo’s bery kin’” as, yielding to Mrs. Greene’s suggestion, she deposited her portly form on a chair near the kitchen table, “Yo*b alius tryin’ to make a pusson comf’able. Yo’ min’s me ob mah maw—o’ cos’ yo’ ain’ as ol’ as her, but yo’ like her In yo’ mannahß. Oh, yes’m, Ah likes sugah in mah tea. W’eneber anybody ast me es I like sugah In mah tea Ah t’ink ob a gamman fr’en’ Ah was ’gaged to oncet. ‘W’are he now?’ Lor, Ah dunno, he lef* de city. He aln’ no ’count no how an’ Ah don’ eayah es he nevah come back. Dere’s jes’ as good meat in de hash as eber come out ob it, Mis Greene. ‘W’ot’s his name?’ honey. His name Mistah Dobson, at dat time. He use come *roun to mah house to take his af’ernoon tea wif me an’ maw. He mighty sweet on me den. Ah ’member one day he come an’ maw, Bhe po’d out a cup o’ tea fo’ him an’ he taste It an’ den he say mos’ ’grayshatin’ like, ‘Mi* Vangy, would yo’ min’ puttin’ yo’ liTes fingah in mah tear—on’y de ve’y tip ob It?’ “Wot yo’ wan’ me put mah fingah in yo’ tea fo’?’ Ah say. ‘W’y,’ he say, _*yo’ maw fo’got to put in de sugah an’ I cayn drink tea ’less it bery sweet.’ Now days." she concluded with a shake of her head, “he wouldn’t drink his tea, .Ah reckon, es Ah was to put mah whole han’ in.”