Devil's River News. (Sonora, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 1726, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 5, 1924 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL 33
SOtHttU. SUTTON OO.. TEXAS. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1924.
NO. 1729
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AS TO WE-UNS AND YOU-UNS
They Are Not Southern Provlnelallem}
Are Net Even True
Americanisms, ,
Northerners who visit certain
parts of the South and Southwest
are sometimes amused by what they
call southern provincialisms. Among
them are “wc-una” and “you-uns.”
Aa a matter of fact, the expres-
sions are not strictly southern, but
are used by those who live—or used
to live—in the Alleghenies. The
mountain population seems to be
largely homogeneous, as if descended
from a common stock. The moun-
taineers have mingled little with the
people of the lower country, and,
being isolated, have preserved some
of the peculiarities of speech and
custom brought from the mother
country, which the rest of us have
abandoned.
“We-une" is not even a true
Americanism; it is common even
now in Scotland, whence it was
doubtless imported to our country
by the Scotch immigrants. Now the
phrase is an ancient one. It may
be found in Tyndale’s New Testa-
ment, where in Matthew HI, 9, can
be read: HAnd see that ye ons
thinke no so saye in yourselves. We
hare Abraham to our father.” As
l’yndnle’s translation was printed in
1636, nearly 300 years ago, this ex-
pression has the prestige of age and
belonged to the language of our
ancestors—Kan*** rity S**v
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half to change costumes.
Second Chorus Girl—Good! That
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CHAPTEft III
What It a Brown Mouaaf
Immediately upon the accidental
election of Jim Irwin to the position
of teacher of the Woodruff school, ho
developed habits somewhat lilts s
ghost's or t bandit's. That it, ha
walked of nights and on rainy days.
On fine days, be worked In Colonel
Woodruff's fields as of yore. Jim's
salary wus to bo Just $300 for nine
months' work In the Woodruff school,
and he r. as to find himself—and his
mother. Therefore, he had to Indulge
In his loose habits of night walking
and roaming about after hours only,
or on holidays and In foul wsother.
The SImuis family, being from the
“mountings” of Tennessee, were rather
•turtled one night, when Jtra Irwin,
homely, stooped and errandless, si-
lently appeared In their family circle
about the front door. They had lived
where It was the custom to give a
whoop from the big road before one
passed through the palin'* and up to
the house. Otherwise, how was one
to know whether the visitor was
friend or foe?
From force of habit. Old Man Simms
started for hla gun-rack at Jim’s op-
OIS Man tlmma Started for His dun.
pearance, but ths Lincolnian smile and
the low slow speech, so much like his
own In some respects, ended that.
“Stranger," said Mr. Simms, after
greetings had been,exchanged, “you're
right welcome, but In my kentry you'd
find It dsngersome to walk In tblsa-
way.”
“How tof queried Jim Irwin.
“Yon'd more'n likely git shot up
some,” replied Mr. Simms, “onlssc
you whooped from the big road."
“I didn't know that,” replied Jim.
“I’m Ignorant of ths enstoma of other
countries. Would you rather I'd
whoop from ths big road—nobody
else will."
‘1 reckon,” replied Mr. Simms
“that we-all will have to sccommodsts
oursc'res to the ways hysh."
Evidently Jim was ths Simms' first
caller since they had settled on the
little brushy tract whose hills and
tress reminded them of thslr moun-
tains. Ia>w hills, to b# sure, with only
a footing of rocks where ths creek
had cut through, and not many trees,
but down In the creek bed. with the
oaks, elms and box-elders arching
overhead, the Simmses could Imagine
themselves beside soma run falling
Into tho French Broad, or the Holston.
The creek bed was s withdrawing
room In which to retire from ths
sternal black soil and level cornfield*
of lows.
The soli was so poor, la compari-
son with those black uplands, that ths
owner of the old wood-lot could find
no renter but It was better than the
soli In the mountains, and suited the
lonesome 8lmmse* much mors than a
better farm would have done. They
were not of the Iowa people anyhow,
not understood, not their eqnals—they
were “pore," and expected to stay
“pore”—while the Iowa people all
seemed to be either well-to-do, or ex-
pecting to become so.
Jim Irwtn asked Old Man Rimma
about the fishing In the creek, and
whether there was any duck shooting
spring and fnll.
“We git right smart of these little
panflsh,” said Mr. Simms, ”sn‘ Csllsta
done shot two butterball ducks shout
'titer-plantin' time.”
Csllsta blushed—but this stranger,
so much Ilka themselves, ronld not see
ths rosy suffusion. The allusion gave
him a chance to look about him at ths
family. There was a boy of sixteen,
a girl—the dnck-shooMag Csllsta—
younger than Raymond—* girt of
eleven, named Virginia, but called
.Ttnnle—end a smaller lad who rw-
jolced in tho u-u-u of McOeehef. but
was mercifully railed noddy.
Csllsta squirmed for something to
sav. "Raymond runs a line o' traps
when the fur's prime," she votnn-
tetrad.
Then cams s long talk on traps and
trapping, shooting, hunting and the
Joys of the mountings—during which
Jim noted the Ignorance and poverty
of the Simmses. The clothing of the
girls wus not decent according to local
standards; for while Cullstu wore a
skirt hurriedly slipped on. Jim was
quite sure—and not without evidence
to support his views—that aha had
been wearing when be arrived the
tame regimentals now displayed by
Jlnnls—a pair of ragged blue overalls.
Evidently t>v» Simmses were wearing
what they hod and not whut they de
sired, llte father was fuiled. patched,
gTay and earthy, and the hoys looked
better than the rest solely because we
iffpect boys to by torn and patched.
Mrs. Simms was Invisible except as a
gray blur beyond the rein-barrel. In
the midst of which her pipe glowed
with s regular ebb and flow of embers.
On the next rainy day Jim called
again and secured ths services of Ray-
mond to help him select seed corn. He
was going to teach the school next
winter, and he wanted to have a seed-
corn frolic the first duy, Instead of
waiting uxlttl the Inst—and you had to
get seed eorn while it was on the stalk.
If you got ths bent.
No Simms could refuse a favor to
the fellow who was so much like them-
selves. and who wus so greutly Inter-
ested In trapping, hunting snd the
Tennessee mountains—so Raymond
went with Jim, and with Newt Bron-
son snd five mors they selected Colo
nil Woodruff's seed corn for the next
year, under the colonel's personal
superintendence.
In the evening they looked the grain
over on ths Woodruff lawn, and ths
colonel talked about corn and corn se-
lection. They had supper at half past
six. and Jennie waited on them—har-
ing assisted her mother In ths cook-
ing. It was quits a festival.
Jim Irwin was the least conspicuous
person In the gathering, but the colo-
nel, who was a seasoned politician,
observed that ths farm-hand had be-
come a fisher of men, snd was angling
for the souls of thess boys, and thetr
Interest In the school. Jim was care-
ful not to flush the covey, but every
boy received from the next winter's
teacher some confidential hint ns to
plans, and some suggestion that Jim
was relying on the aid and comfort of
that particular boy.
Newt Bronson, especially, was
leaned on os a strong staff snd a very
present help In time of trouble. As
for Raymond Simms, it was dearly
best to leave him alone. All this talk
of corn selection and related things
wts new to him, and he drank it In
thirstily. He b*d an Inestimable ad-
vantage over Newt In that be was
lUml wl>lwi Jtfnwt VII VttcfftliAd-
with “advantages" for which ho had
no use.
“Jennie,” said Colonel Woodruff,
after the party had broken np, “I'm
losing tho best hand I ever had, snd
Tvs been sorry.”
“I'm glad he's leaving you,” said
Jennie. “Ho ought to do something ex-
cept work In tho field for wages.”
“I’ve had no Ides he ronld make
good as a teacher—and whst Is there
In It If ho docsr
“Whst has ho lost If ho doesn't?”
rejoined Jennie. “And why can't be
make good?"
“The school board's against him, for
one thing,” replied the colonel. “They'll
fire him If they get * chance. They’re
the laughing-stock of the country for
hiring him by mistake, and they're Ir-
ritated. But after seeing him perform
tonight, I wonder If he can't make
good.”
“If he could feel like anything but
an underling, he’d succeed,” said Jen-
nie.
“That's his heredity,” stated the
colonel, whose live stock operations
were based on horedlty. “Jim’s n
scrub, I suppose; bat he sets ss If he
might turn out to be a Brown Mouse.”
“Whst do you mean, pa,” scoffed
Jennie—“a Brown Mouse I”
“A fellow In Edinburgh,” said the
colonel, "crossed the Japanese walts-
Ing mouse with the common white
mouse. Jim's peddling father was •
wsltslng mouse, no good except to
Jump from on# spot to another for no
good reason. Jim's mother Is an al-
bino of a woman, with all the color
washed out In one way or another.
Jim ought to bo s mongrel, snd I've
alwaye considered him one. But the
Edinburgh fellow every once In •
while got out of hla variously-colored,
wsltslng and albino hybrids, s brown
mouse. It wasn't a common house
mouse, either, but a wild mouse unlike
sn> he had ever seen. It ran away,
and bit and gnawed and raised hob. It
was whst ws breeders call s Mende-
lisa segregation of genetic factors that
had been In the waltsers snd albinos
ell the time—their original wild an-
cestor of ths woods and fields. If
Jim turns eat to he a brown mouse,
ha may bs a bigger man than any of
ns. Anyhow, I’m fttr him.”
“He'll have to bo s big man to mako
anything out of tho Job of a country
school teacher,” said Jennie.
“Any Job's as big as the man who
holds It down.” said her father.
Next day Jim received a letter from
Jennie.
“Deer Jim,” It ran. “Father says
you are snre to have a hard time—the
school board's against yon, and nil
that. But he added ‘I'm for Jim, any-
how I’ I thought you'd like te knew
this. Also he aakt. 'Any Job's ss big
ss the man who bolds It down.' And
I believe this also, and I’m far yen,
tool Ton are doing wonders even bn
fore the school starts In getting the
pupils Interested In a let of things,
which, while they don’t belong to
school work, will make them friends
of youre. I don't ere bow fbla will
help you much, but It's a fine thing
and shows your Interest In them.
Don t be too original Tho wheel rags
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