Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-05-15

auu dpplul 10 hinu OF SUD HuarUlaf
to take care o. the whole thing on g
high salary. Ill come down heavy
suggested Horton.
| Ifye could get a chap to do your
feelin' for you at the same figure
don't know but it might suit, said
Fleet with decided sarcasm. GAS
for me l amt rich enough to buy ny
any chaps conscience
Eye may as well quit this foolin,-
broke in the Colonel, with q groan
"The games made, and we're goin
to wade in like men. Mebbee, suth.
in may turn up. Afore long some
one of us may get shot or buried in
a tunnel, and 80 get excused on the
squar. But just now we must wade
ill.,"
ooh yes, wade inrr said Hor.
ton derisively. "Do you know the
first thing we've got to doi Why,
write to that gal, and tell her tibet
her father was ID old liar, and
tibet her mothers been dead a year,
and now he's dead too, and tibet the
ID old FOOLS property won't bring
$500, and tibet we're goin' to give
her $4,000 for charity, and adopt
her, and il she's loving sort of a
gal, and high.sprited gal, she'll
like it, and like us all the better.
Oh yes!T he continued with sardonic
shrillness, sits easy enough to do
all that, of course. Wade in! Yes.
Wade in-drop right out O. the ford
into deep water over yer head the
first thing
The men looked aghast at each
other, and there was another omi.
nous silence. "Couldn't We let it
on easy suggested the Colonel,
despairingly, "sorteI begin to-day
with the mother, and next month,
when she's feelin' better and more
able to bear it, kinder light gently
down on her with the decease of her
father, and 80 on ontil, in the course
of q year or so, she'll take the char.
ity business quite peacefulr
But Joe Fleet dismissed the idea
fiercely. "Ef she's got any pluck
she'll take it in lump. You 60 to
work driftin' into her feclins like
that instead O. sinking your shaft
straight down, and you'll hev her
crazy here on your hands in q weekm
The latter idea was so awful as
to compel another gloomy silence
for its stern contemplation.
"Couldn't We drop it on her all in q
la@p-mOney, deceased parents,
ct cettery,7 suggested Capt. Rats,
with vague and imbecile good hu.
NOR, "kinder brisk and business
like
"Its gall said the Colonel,
shaking his head, "over A."
"HOid on and give Cap'n Rats q
show interrupted Fleet. OFF
there's man ez can do it it's him.
Didn't he edit the Record up at
Murphy'si Wade in and give us a
specimen"
The suggestion met with unani.
nous favor. Capt. Rats, not en-.
tirely displeased with this conf.
dence in his rhetorical skill, slid
angularly into chair with all al.
most audible creaking of his joints,
dipped pen in the ink, and then
put it in his mouth. Then softly
withdrawing it and waving it be-
fore him, as if tracing an imaginary
epistlc in space, he began:
ain the midst of life we are in
death, and not knowing what a day
may bring forth, we beg to inform
you-No,7 reflected the Captain
slowly, feeling some unfavorable
criticism in the air. "NO, that
won't do. Let's see! All! The
death of your mother, followed by
the illness of your father, resulting
in his decease, and the entire loss
"Aint them bricks follcrin' each
other rather closer suggested the
Colonel, family. The Captain stop
ped, rubbed his long chin thought
fully, and looked at the others. 1t
was evident that this was the pre-.
vailing impression.
"Well, yes; l was rather thinkin'
so myself" he answered, vaguely.
"And it's bein' gal, don't you
want to heave in here and thar a
little sentiment said Horton, "and
sorter touch her up gentlyi They
say when you make 'em cry easy,
they kinder like it, and get over it
quicker
"Jess so,7 returned Capt. Rats
cheerfully, III was thinkin' that very
thing, only jist now l was sorter
samplin' it; showin' 20 what could