The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1878-11-29
with his musical entertainment was on

with his musical entertainment l was or
his back.
The beast seemed somewhat astonished
at this performance, and stood turning il
over in his mind for minute, while dug
my heels vigorously in his sides. He seem.
ed suddenly to come to the conclusion that
u change of administration would be an ex.
celent thing, and TO this end began going
up and down like saw gate. / really
thought I'd be split in two, and would pro-
badly have been pitched over but that, in
the midst of this pleasing exercise, Muley
caught sight of the horse disappearing at
a hard gallop in the distance. He seemed
animated by the laudable ambition of over
| taking the horse, and started so suddenly
that he came very near leaving me behind.
How that beast did run d! He gained on
the horse to such an extent that Araminta
might have offered two to one and no
takers. About mile out we closed in on
the cob, and as we passed Muley favored
him with salute that was most diaboli.
cally foul for, planting his two heels upon
the quarter of the honest Bucephalus,
heard u yell, and glancing around saw my
rival and horse go down in a most promis-
cuous manner. My steed of the desert kept
straight on. We had aride of eight miles
before us.
About five miles out we struck water
melon patch and went straight through
| could hear the melons bursting under me
like bombs and when we emerged from
the further side, specimens of this fruit
were strung on the mules legs like beads.
A mile beyond this | saw our excellent
minister OF the gospel vending his solemn
way across the prairies with wagon full
of infant Jacobs, and | saw that unless he
whipped his horse into most eXtraordina-
ry run, we would be into him almost in
stanter. I pulled hard on the near rein
with one hand, while steadied myself with
the chain with the other, but with no more
effect than if had taken pull on Pixies
Peak. We struck the parsons family amid
ships, and went through. never saw in
FAINT Christianity so scattered as on that oc-
casion.
left the parson gathering up his family,
and continued until struck the doctors
fence, and went flying into his front door
with the bull dog close at my tattered rear.
| knocked over the cradle and upset the
supper table. The doctor came to my res.
cue with kick in the ribs of his dog that
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pantaloons into the yard. | then told the
doctor in one breath-all | had left-that
Araminta's little deuce of brother was
dying of too much watermelon, and wanted
Il doctor.
We returned in about the same STYLE
The doctor having younger horse than
my rival had been favored WITH kept the
lead, his pill bags tapping in the air, while
his coat tails made a straight line behind.
If his horse tagged the mule started
him up again with vigorous bite on the
rump that seemed to infuse new vigor into
that medicated animal. We passed my
rival sitting on the roadside nursing his
off leg. He never came back, acknowledg.
ing his defeat in the most gentlcmanly man
ner.
The doctor soon put Araminta's little
brother in a perpendicular position, and
that night at the bedside of the little suf-
ferer, keeping well to the front, proposed,
was accepted, and the happy day was fix
ed. rode into Araminta's affections on Il
mule.