The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-01-18
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pfise with determination 10 pfoeoi
q senielohi maialeaahce--f
80 down, f'eel,. and help yohrse
70 some beer, Don't stand there bol,
lhg yonr hot Ike q tlind brrear vii
tbn paralysis What's The matte
With tou anyway Il never saV
you behave your Ell 70 IN ali nv bofr
days.
Peoblcs was knocked ont of tim,
I fVain, and had TO wander back for {
fresh start.
Mr.. Merriweslher: sn-It may mol
be unknown to you that, during an
extended period Of some five years, |
have been engaged IN The prosecution
Of o commercial enterprise. with O
determination to procure mainten-
ance-'
"A wichance? asked old Merri
weather; but PEBBLES held on to tho
last word, as If 1t was bis only chance,
and went on:
In the hope that some doy l might
enter wedlock, and bestow my earth.
ly possessions upon one whom / could
call my own. | have been a lonely
man, sir, and have felt il is not good
for a man to be alone, therefore,
Neither is it PEBBLES, and I'm all
fired glad you dropped in. How's the
old man?'
Mr.. Merriweathcr, sir said PEBBLES.
in despairing confusion, raising his
voice to yell, 1T may not be un.
known to you that, during an extern
ded period of a lonely man, | have
been engaged to en- er wedlock, and
Lestow all my commercial enterprise
on one whom | could procure deter
mination to,be good for sufficient
possession-no | mean-that is that,
Mr.. Merriweather, sir, it may not be
unknown
And then again it may. Look
here, PEBBLES you'd better lay down
and take sorething warm you amt
WELL.
xPecbles, sweating like fenr year
old colt, went in agian: !
MT. Merriweather-Sir: 1t may net
iro-foncfJ- for vnu to proseGnte ne
whom you call a friend for CONNER
,ial maintenance, but-but--oh, dang
t-Mr. Merriweather--sir, it,
oh! PEBBLES, You talk as wildly as
jackass. | never saw more first
lass idiot in the whole course Of my
ife. What's the matter with you
ny how?'
'Mr. Merriweather, sir said PEBBLES,
n an agony Of bewilderment, 1T may
ot be unknown to you t at you pros
cnce a lonely nan who is lot good
or a commercial period of wedlock
II some five years, but
See here, MI. PEBBLES, you're drunk,
nd if you don't behaYe better than
nat you'd better leave. If you don't
Il chuck you out, or I'm Dutch
AN
MI. Merriweather, sir said Pee
les, frantic with dispail, it may be
nknown that my earthly possessions
re engaged to enter wedlock five ,
ears with a sufficiently lonely man $
ho is not good for commercial main I
nance c
The bloody duse he isn't. Now t
ou just git up and git ole hoss, or c
II knock what little brains out of q
ou that you've got left.' t
With that old Merriweather took
eebles by the collar and shot him Q
TO the street asif he had just run
gains, locomotive going at the rate S
forty miles an hour. Before old {
erriweather had chance to shut the q
ont door, PEBBLES had collected his '
gs and one thing and another that /
ere lying around on the pavement, I
i'd arranged himself in a vertical $
'sition, and yelled out: I
Mr.. Merriweather Sir 1t may not '
known to you which made the Q
d man so savagely mad that he went t
t and SGT a bull terrier on PEBBLES p
40 went home half a pound lighter, t
lile Merriweather asserts TO this day q
at they had 10 draw all the dogs l.
,tb to get the flesh ou. of his mouth, q
r be had an awful holt for such a h
all animile.' JACK MCCANN. v
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