The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-07
HIGGINS AND THE WIDOW.
BY 5 IL, or ALABAMA.

some minutes he sat still watching me
inlcatly as if he was trying to make on.
by the sound Of M pen what I was
writing.
squire" said lie at length, "dil I
ever tell YOU about my serape with the
widow Eorry, mp here On the riyer:"
"Sayor did" sa;d !, laying down my
pen, diets hea. it.
"Theg'ro curious creatures, widows
is" said he in q meditatiyo tone, "aud
the mcro you study abou. EN- tie more
you don't know anything about 'cm.
What was this thing I've read about in
Egypt or some other country, that no.
body could unriddlo?"
"Ihc sphynx, probably" I replied.
"Wcll," he continued, chat was a
widow as sure as youeyor had q granny.
Everything else in the earth has been
found out hut them, and they're as much
a mystery to-day as the length OF the
North Pole.
You may read the history of The world
from Genesis to Revelations, and you'll.
h"d that widows has been at the bottom
or top Of five quarters Of all the devil
monJ that's been cut up. Was you ever
IN love with onoY
"hots otthem' SAID l.
"1oure great Gander-thats what
YOU are, smd he, "a man that loves
one and gets over 1t won't never sit bit
ny another II he's got as much sense as
a ground hog. don't consider that
I've got any sense at all, but I'm a little
grain too smart to let another Of thcm
| get all the trumps on me. The widow
Horny that l was speaking Of, is little
the han"someat woman, I reckon that
cyec looked Il man into fits, and / ought
to be u Judge, for I've Soon lots Of prot
ty womon N my day. She was about
twenty-five years Old when | went up
there to work, just i'll the bloom OF her
boar'?, and RS luiI OF "cysiuy as three
year Cd mu.e colt. There WAS Il bail
over ut Jenkins, and Of course l went,
or always 90 where there's any fun
G5il- OF, uud generally act the fool be-
t.re get away, Of course.
..o widow was there, dressed as fine
IS i,I!cs and flying around as
.r Young lamb IN Il rye patch.
-..,"uctd to her and ask her to
..".c E with me and when She flashed her
&. 40 Mc and soId 'yts, dumped up
'i"e had set down ON n hot Giddle.
IoN n"y tall, about sensation, but when
took hold Of ny hand and ! sorter
4a. e2'd II, l ie,t 4 sensation RS hig as 4
.'ao OF WOOD, and 1t kept running up
ana dow" my back Ike Il squirrel with a
Da"" after Inn. I'm very fond OF dane
ing, hut Il! be hanged if know whcth-
er / enjoyed it that night or not, for
every time she took hold OF my hand
I'd commence feeling curious behind my
cars aud up and down my back again,
and then l wouldn't know whether l
was on earth or IN a balloon, or on n
comet, or anything about it. TWAS I'M
douDtcdly case OF love at first sight,
anda powerful bad case at that. For q
wonder l got through the frolic without
making myself conspicuous or cutting
up any extras, as 1 IN III the habit Of DO
ing when go into public. I'd set my
pegs to go home with the widow after
the bah, but just as l was fixing my
mouth to ask her, up steps a big, long,
lcather-iocod doctor, named Mabry and
walked her right off boloro my eyes.
Ihat rIied me little, but l kept my
tongue stliI, hWaloIy swearing to break
h.s bones the very first opportunity that
presented ltseli. saw there was no
use II saying anything, so L went home
and went to bed, and all the rest CT the
night was dreaming about rainbows
angles, butterflies, hddles, widows am
doctors, mixed up worse than Dutch
man dinner
""eIA Squire, to make a short story
OF 1t, | made up my lalnd to have the
widow, or XII myself or somebody else. "
$50 made 1t convenient to be on
hand where she WIS, upon all occosions
! couldn't eat nor s.eep nor work, and if
he thing had held on, ! wouldn't Lave
had sense enough left to skin rabbit
Blu. was determined it shouldn't last