Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-09-18
MISS BLAZER.

1oung MIR. Sparks entered the law Office
or Judge Smith with a rather sorrowful cas-,
OF coGntenance. Drawing up a chair. he
gently inquired:
Does the law allow damages for injury
to a mans feelings, Judges"
Not often sometimes"
mot when you're cut up, mortified,
trodden on, insulted, mad 90
- can tell better when 1 know the facts. ~
Well, I'll state my case. You know.
Judge, that church fair that was held in the
nall last night? l went there, and John
Wormly introduced me to a most awfullv
pretty girl, Miss Blazer. / never met her
before. She was just splendid, you know.
uncommon agreeable !; and l treated her to
oysters and ice cream, and bought her a
plh-cushlon, and a lamp-mat, and a whole
lot OF fiddle-faddle. Spent about four dol
lars, you know, and she seemed SO mighty
pleasant that thought I'd made a hit dead
in love with her, you understand.
"Quick work, wasn't it ?"
Yes, but she was so very handsome and
SO oeWitchingly atfable. And so, about ten
O'Clock, | asked her if | might see her home.
ohe SAID might. | didn't know where she
lived and | didn't care. So we started. and
she struck out for the Woodbury. pike, and
l asked her If she was a neighbor to the
oinlleys, and she said she wasn't. Then we
walked on, and on, and on, until we got
clear lnto the country, and | inquired if her
Iather was in the farming business, and she
SAD no. So we kept going, and pretty soon
it began to rain, and as | had no umbrella I
asked her to let Inc throw my coat around
ner, and she consented, and l walked by
her side in my shirt sleeves,
Ibid she seem grateful?"
"Well, not much. But when we'd gone
about half a mile farther, she said she
thought she saw a highway robber or some
thlng a few yards a~head-dark as pitch. YOU
wouldn't | go on in advance and
see what it was. So l walked boldly on.
ana the first thing | knew, / ran against one
OF the side posts Of the toll-gate and skinned
my nose. Look at it! Made it bleed. too.
Then she said she knew where she was now.
ana we could 60 right along. I asked her
Il she lived near the toll gate, and she said
not SO very However, l knew 1 made an
impression on that girl, and l didn't care
much for distance. So we walked along.
until we passed Simpsons school house and
came to Huckleberry creek. She said it
just flashed across her then that the BRIDGE
was down, and she couldn't imagine how
she was to get across"
Couldn't swim, could she p,
Not deep enough, you know. So Ihem-
med and hawed awhile, and then I told her
that didn't like to make the offer. but I'd
wade and carry her, if she'd let me.n
!" Refused, Of course, | suppose ~
"She accepted on the spot, and / got her
across safely, although ( was wet up to INV
knees. So then we kept going along, and
along, until got kind of uneasy, when all
Of 4 Sudden she said she was afraid she had
missed the road, it was so dark, and wouldn't
go to that house close by and ask them If
his was the Woodbury. pike or Marlborough
I went, but before | could get to the
1oor-bell, a dog came booming at me, and
ran for the gate. Put your hand right
here, on my leg. Feel that? That's the
'andage over the dog bite. A quarter of a
Of flesh gone, at the very least"
Ibid she sympathize with you?'
Well, no as much as l expected. And
hen we walked, and walked, until 1 began
Q think she must live somewhere on the
,acific coast, when presently she said:
There's our house! see a light!"
There was one satisfaction, anyhow, for
knew she would ask me in, and have me
.rled, u maybe her mother might ask me
0 stay alb night, so that I'd have a chance