People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1896 — BORRERIN BACK AN FO'TH. [ARTICLE]

BORRERIN BACK AN FO'TH.

Ma an Mis' Hays bed long ergreed Ter borrer back an fo'th Them little things ’at women need W’ere one ’nd do fer both. So ma She kep' a candle mold , Mis' Hays a coffee grindev, An ma a w’eel, Mis' Hays a Kws f . Flax hetchels, brakes an vhicut,. j An, oh, wnt leaps my glad heart W’en Marthy Ellen’d come An ast fer a piggin o’, eof soap Hr -candles to take hum, Fer then I’d see ’er back ergain. An walk so good an slow Thet quarter mile ’ud las’ aw’lie— An boar o’ bliss er so. She’d come fer pork. I’d go fer bread Er empt ’in’s fer a r’isln, Er hanks o’ yarn er spools o’ thread, An wnt wuz mos’ surprisin Wqz the way she’d look so kind o* peart W’en she’d see me com in, too. An alius say in ’er ctmnin way: "W’y, hello, Jim I That yon?” Waal, Marthy*a gone, an ma is det#V . Fled are the happy years, A Eannok is on the Hays hnmsteao A-fannin it on sheers; Bnt I alius think o’ the good ole times W’en me an Marthy both Bed blissful days an ma an Mis’ Hays Wuz borrerin back aa fo’th.

—J. L. Heaton

In “The Quilting Bee.”