The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-10-31
A Texan Epic.

clsSltudes oil c0urtSnp III saluuIlouS
Southwestern society is from the pen
of very clever comic contributor to
the Louisville Courier Journal, whose
facetious success is a novelty:
SUING SUSAN.
Susan Brown and William Brady,
lovers in the Lone Star State, one calm
night, all snug aud shady, side by side
in converse safe. Twas on old man
Browns piazza stars we're brighten
ing all the skies, and the moon above
the piazza was just then upon the rise.
Twas the hour for love or liquor
calm, sweet hour in early June; love
nor wine will ever flicker OH such a
night with such moon.
Susan was as fair as Hebe dressed in
all her Sunday clothes-fairer than
YOUR cousin Phoebe, who is fairer than
the rose. AS for William-never Wild
wood sheltered youth more stout or
hale he was from his very childhood
what the Texans call whale. There
they sat for long hours talking of their
lows and hopes and fears talking of
} their loves and chalking out their plans
, for coming years. Talked they also OF
their marriage, limiting of distant
/, day when q little crib and carriage
4 4 mi ght perchance come into play.
Thus they sat, her hand in prison
! not prison harsh nor stern-for twas
merely locked in his'n, as his lips were
+ pressed to her'n.
. But alas the course of true love
0 smoothly runs, oh never, never! Hearts
@ enlinked in old or new love soon or
o late must sigh and sever. Oh that in
} a sea of rapture, where the heart most
IS sweetly floats, fate PIRATES sure to
!. II capture half our joys and cut our
,r throats
,e Hark the smell of shot and powder
If rises like funeral knelll Louder,
l. louder, and still louder rumbles that
-, heart.rendering smell !-Susan's sihyl
Of soul prophetic knew that rumble meant
lg but ill--knew that old man Brown err
Oh ratio was upon the hunt of Bill l!-Biil
I'd the lone star, whom she follows, with
n er-asking, caring not; now she teel'
~ a. that fifty dollars we're poor pay to SCI
ed him shot.
n Oh, the earnest love OF woman
r. Little for itself it seeks; it is not
te thing uncommon for its fame to las
ly six weeks
IS All at once door is busted close t.
ne ne where the lovers sit-William had 60
no M and busted but it was too late t
he cit. Ere he dreamed of flight or tea
NJ nd
d. man Brown made his appearance wit
ls- his double barreled gun. Susan's knee
M ~, shook fast and faster; Williams ais
of shook, tits said, till they tumbled dow
be the plaster from the ceiling overhead
nrs drs Susan screamed, her dark hair hyln
nd like a meteor streaming far, springln
ate to her feet and crying, "Please don
cts shoot. O cruel pa v'-But that pa,
the cold and cruel, swore he'd send Bill
leir that cline where there's too much ii
,a% az and fuel for TO have a pleasant tim
Iiv- Then he raised his shooting iron, ra
no ing much and swearing more, till Il
ilos les air WAS b!ue-but why run on tn
to telling how he sworeP What, oh, VIII
'elz, was William doing while thus raw
ioff ioh the old galoot2 Seeing plainly VIII
AY was brewing, he was likewise OH Z
SAID shoot.
,,d@ 5, to "Hold, rash pal' exclaimed t
urn urn daughter; all unheeded were her cri
lour as also the sweet saltwater streaml
pre- from her lovely eyes. Standing thu
- in all his rigor, old man Brown n
. in aimed his gun, pausing ere he pull
i ,tIht the the trigger, thinking maybe Bill To'
the the run Bill, though, was not Of the C
In tie which will neither dare nor d
20 but when once showed into battle,
- was sure to see it through. Ne
since the siege of Ilium was suspe
FAY felt more profound for a nom
more. and William had been made
as. bite the ground.
'' Quickly drawing his repeater
which he carried two or three, cock
kh' It at shortest meter, drew bead
o. NJ. B. Few things swift as lil
MY ming are there Swift thus came
rinal pistols roar, and poor Susan's hap
: per father lay there weltering IN his GO
Williams sure, unerrihg bullet
.eoIod nGSI Internal slug, no doubt--took o. M
istors in the gullet, and he waltzed right
y ~ an. iO the spout.
"p- And the coroner, living nigh
,ound came but William didn't run, fee
L. at at sure they'd Justify him in the deed
oiS0- he had done. Which they did,
allow papa's fury, Susan, weeping toll
in all o'ar ond Ia William said the Jury:
5oou'' my sou, and shoot no more"
under Here my muse must stop and ia
desire oil sha knew il in this Law whe