My heart has been a raisin up in my throat all day.
Every time I see anybody a comin up the road I feel faint like and skeert. I think its the sheriff a comin to notify us that we are foreclosed.
If Jobe had only heerd how the election went he might feel better. I wish the Republicans got in. I wish it, though Ime a Dimicrat. I wish it for Jobe’s sake. It might help him bear his trouble better.
Jist to think, if we had only $2,100 of all them $683,000,000 of greenbacks that John Sherman burned up when he was in office—yes, and put Jobe and his likes in bonds to git them to burn—I say if we had only $2,100 of all them millions, we could pay off our mortgage and Jobe would be happy.
If Sherman had burned less of that money, I wonder if Jobe and his likes wouldent have more?
Do the people in the poor-house have interest, and mortgages, and foreclosures, and taxes and sich to worry them?
I have to quit. My heart is heavy.
CHAPTER IX.
A FEW REASONS BY BETSY.
THE Republicans swept the platter. They elected every officer from township clerk down, and the sheriff has sent Jobe a notice to appear before the Common Pleas Court and show cause why he should not be foreclosed.