The Hickman courier., 1869-04-03

things went on so for about month az
one Sunday | screwed up my sPank an
put the question to her She ssrte
laughed, and she sorter looked one ale
and finally told me she eouldu t givs m
, IN answer just then, but if I'd call 81 he
house next Thursday evening she d giv
me inalganswer Thinks |, "lsa 7
mine just as sure as there's fddleu be
low Whenever a woman takes the t
study she'll say yes >" Squire aonf po
cts say something about the ealuiEiol
Of men and rats goin' crooked?
Mice and men, Burns says, Ian
swcred.
"Well mice an rats is ali one an s.
IS men and fools sometimes, as I've flunC
out in my travels. | was so sure Ae'S
have me l went of and spent all M
money for fine clothes, thinking I'd layt
them ready for the wedding-au j lid
Confound her Thursday evening anne
IL last, though II was long tiIre SOU
1t, aud over / went, dressed intokts =
feeliR as big as Josh Mayer dissaet
he was elected coroner. / got the n xSeut
dark. ana found j rirshs smart cret aeoll
lected, which was nos on the bills, hit |
felt as big and IS good as the rest of en-
So | marched ie, ike blind mulein 6
potato patch, an took seat By thesre.
didn't see anything of the widow. bat
kept looking for her to come in an sad
for me, aud passed away the tire bY
cussin the crowd TO myself thinking hey
had no business there, and | would not
get 10 talk to my woman bit Preeut-
ly a door opened and IN walked PLY
aud that dad barned Doctor and a wlole
team Of boys aud girls fixed up sav.-e-
iy. tell you. l looked around FIR a
fiddler, thinking they were gsins TO lave
a ball, but | wondered what they all
kept so stilF-for, aud was about prop.sin'
= reel, when up gets little preacher.
and before y0u could swallow a live 9vs-
ter he had Polly and the Doctor married
faster than Mexican greaser could tie
a bulls horns l was so completely
aummuxed that I set there With my
mouth open ike | was going to sHaller
the whole crowd, an nay eyes looked like
two billiard balls TIL the ceremony was
ali over. when l jumped up and belleed
Il forbid the concern from bejuscon-
stituted :"
You are little too late, my friead r.
says the preacher, and they all com
menced laughing Ike they'd seen some
thing very funny
Il II be burned squizzled If I don, be
soon enough for somebody yeti says !.
for | was mad, Squire. aud no mistake in
the ticket do believe could have eat
up that doctor quicker than hungry dog
-Ould swallow : squirrel skin. If | could
have had fair chance at him. Il was
100 bad after had fixed up 70 marry her
myself, for her to walk right out before
ny eyes and marry that great baboon.n
1T was bad, that's fact" said /.
BAD" replied h1 1T was meaner
han eating fried coon. / hrst thought
= - L. w0ulan't spite aobosly-.-=a.-I /.
to stay and see If could not
-et satisfaction out Of somebody You I
Know / u the devil Oto get myself OF
else into scrape when take
notion, and I'd taken one that night
hat went all over me Ike a third day
hill, so I commenced studyin aut some 1
slan. I reeollected hearing the Doctor 4
ay that where he came from (but the 4
-.or3 only knows where that Kao the .
,ride and groom always washed their 1
aces together before they went to bed,
s charm agains; infdelity or inbecilty !
n some other long word While | was 4
tudying about that 1 saw the Doctors 1
addle- bags setting in 4 corner, 50 I wait T
d 'till they went to supper, and then /
rot the bags and looked TO see what / 4
.ouId discover. Nearly the first thing 4
aw was a piece Of lunar caustie, slip I
ed 1t into nv pocket, for haa nv plan 4
: soon as l saw il. Well l watched I
round till saw one of tie girls 90 to 4
he water pail with pitcher, and l went T
lut aud asked her what she was g0ing to
Tith It. She said she was going to carry
I into the room for the Doctor and Polly I
o wash their faces in. I kept talking 10
Ter while she was filling the pitcher. and /,
shen she turned her head away 1 drop /
ed the cauStic into it. 1t vas about bed I.
ime. and I got uiy hat and put out, but /
couldn't help laughing all the way /
lone. whenever I'd think about IT.
'.Well, Squire, they do say, when that
ouple walked up the next morning they
10Th had the hardest kinds of fits, each I
ne thinking they had hsen sleeping with T.
niger. Oh II WAS riehl He eussin'
nd tearin' up thugs, and she scream
ng and fainting. and coming 20 and and
roiug of again, aud me not there TO see
Z They made such an ungodly racket
hat the folks broke into the room TO see
ghat was the matter, and there they WIS
With their faces and hands as black IS the
inside Of forty year old stove pipe, /
given half ny interest in tother world
est to have been in soma place where I
.ould have seen the whole row. As soon
IS they found out that they were really
he same folks that married the night be-
ore. they called for warm vateraBd soap.
,nt Just then the Doctor happened to
hink about the pitcher and took II 70 the
loor to see what was the matter. There
yas little piece of carstic that hadn
dissolved, and as sOoa IS he saS II ne
'ays: -,
ats no use washing Polly. All the
ioap in New York ean't wash that black
III
THAT was the truth, Squire, soap and
-avs had no more effect than il would on
native born African, SDd all the chance
zas 70 wai,4lr II TO wear Of How long
1 took them 10 get whife again, never
'ound out but one thing l do know, he
concluded getting up to 90, the next
-ime saw the Doctor / had the haraest
fight. and come the highest getting Wn2ied
hat L ever did ID sil m5 born days.
IT Is said in Paris that well dressed
stranger was arrested oil the night OF the
18th of February. in attempting 70 force
his way into the bed-rO2m OF the Prince