The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1874-01-09
MAY Ann DECEMBER.
Twenty.Eight and Fifty.Five.

They came from Arkansas. Some call
II sass; we call II saw-ArSansaw, for II
was one OF the first saws we were ever
taught. THEY consisted OF husband,
grizzly old iifty-6ver, his wife, n
lolly-polly, dimpled dumplingofpeachy
twenty-eight, some step children, for
that rusty old hfty-hve knot had been
married four times before, his present
consort making the fifth, and n swad-
ding hcreditament called baby.
"IIlgh'diddlc do dlddle, the cat and the nd
Thooow Jumped over tho moon,
The little dog laughed N see the sport
And the dish ran after tho spoon"
All of which went very well with
the milk punishcr, but which didn't
prevent twenty-eight from harvesting
n handful of hair from the summit
of Fifty-hve, nor stand rs lyrical bar
rierto Flfty-iive announcing to Twenty
Fights teeth, set rs they often wercat the
moment, that she was q she devil, with
the accomplishments of many other
animals. Now you will just "keep it
in your head that these elegant affairs
dc combat were inaugurated after the
advent Of the milk punisher, not
prior. They seldom do. So dating
them from the arrival of this domestic
hermonica, they opened about the
time they left Arkansas saw, mind
you, not sass, and increased In
intensity, beauty and completeness,
until the caravan entered Texas. Here
the spell suddenly dissolved. Mars
began to grow weary of his "pompand
circumstance Coming to halt in
the soft poem of the evening, just be-
You'd the western boundary Of the
shame and the glory of our regnant
and proud young city, they passed
Monday night-husband and wife, step
children and that baby.
Wednesday morning may have been
q good or bad day for husbands to
run away from their wives, we have
not examined the almanac to see to
which side that infallible counsellor
and seer leans, but whether suspicious
or inauspicious, Fifty-fve drove off
with all the family, minus Twenty
eight and that baby. And when that
little woman found that out, by George,
but she boiled! Gathering the two
legged hAmonica, she made most
beautiful time to the city; derting into
the Sheriff's Office she "cussed" as
legally required to the treason of her
lord, and just wanted that man of hers
brought where she could set eyes on
him, and so she waited. That night
Deputy Sheriff Floyd dashed off under
the ''still, pale moon" and frosty stars
after the traitor. A few miles below
Lancaster hiseye was greeted by camp
fire and the outline of a figure crouch
ing Silly and modify over the flame,
which brought his features out in
clearer relief the nearer Floyd rode
and which answering to the descrip-
ton given by the woman, Floyd
suavely requested him to lift himself
up, mount horse, and take the back
track. Suiting his action to the Depu-
ty Sheriff's command, they finally
reached the city. That morning Fifty
five, seated in his boudoI in
side the jail, held converse with
his yet turbulent half, better or
not we can't say, through the speaking
tube of an attorney. The number of
"won'ts' and "shan'tsn that passed
between Twenty-eight and Fifty-five
were quite beyond our count At
length the matrimonial skies cleared,
and Fifty-flve agreed to take Twenty
eight again on trial, and Twenty-eight
agreed to stand the trial, and the last
seen of the. twain they were smiling
at each other as though they had Just
discovered pot of gold, and that
blessed baby was furnishing milk with
the muscles of hungry cub.