The Jack Tales by Richard Chase

Author:Richard Chase
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And last time I was down there they’d done built ’em three pole cabins and they were all doin’ pretty well.

Jack and the Doctor’s Girl

Now, there was a rich old doctor lived in the same settle-ment where Jack and his folks lived at, had an awful pretty girl. Jack got to goin’ down there to see the girl and ’fore long she began to think a right smart of Jack. But the old doctor told Jack’s daddy that Jack was too poor to be a-courtin’ his girl. Said that ’fore anybody could marry her he’d have to be worth a thousand dollars.

Jack he studied about it a day or two. He was right bad struck on that girl. So fin’ly he decided there wasn’t any chance of him makin’ that much money there at home, thought he’d go off somewhere else and hunt him up a job of work.

His mother fixed him up a sack of rations and he pulled out. Told his daddy he was goin’ to earn that thousand dollars ’fore he came back.

So Jack went on, asked ever’body he met about a job of work, didn’t find none. Traveled on, traveled on, got ’way out in a wilderness directly, didn’t see no houses or nobody nowhere. Hit began to get dark and he still didn’t see no houses, not even clearin’s. Went on and went on till it was a-gettin’ ’way up late in the night, and then it set in to rain.

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