Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1879-03-12
Novel Ei0pement.

\ decidedly new thing in clopc.
mcntS is reported from Trigg comfy
Kentucky, where lover and his
httrothed Hea from the paterHal
mansion not upon stced of any
breed known 70 romance, rcd,roan,
berry brown, coal black, milk.
white or other, nor yet in a Grctna
Green poStchaiSc. No; the lovers
departed On saddlcoX specially
trained 10y the swain, who had
taken Il leaf out of the history of
the Puritan maiden Priscilla. The
stern parent took down his shot.
gun and pursued the fugitives.
whom Oh his fiery charger or sore
footed Kentucky mule he soon
oeefhaulcd, and. though the maiden
chung desperately To the horns of
the OK as if they had been those of
the hymcneal altar. he tore her
away aud lett her haplcss lover Ia.
mcniing.
II must he confessed that for
purposes of ciopcmcnt, where the
object of the tugitives is TO ami.
hilate both space and time and
make each other happy, the leg.
plating OK is by 10 means sue.
cess. Here at least the most preiu.
diced debating society must he
compelled to admit that the horse
Is the more noble animal, "a he is
the more romantic. We cannot re.
! call II painter OF poet who has de.
plcted knight and lady fair flying
along beneath the sympathetic
trees on steer of the purcst Devon
breed, while the angry fathers
buitdozers fast behind them lurch.
This sort of thing may do in Africa.
where the t.,tSc fly acts rs IA practi.
cal embargo on the importation OF
/ horses. though in countries where
marriage hy capture is the custom
1t Is the wife and her father who
usually eudeavor to elopc from the
lover. II the angry pareut had no
other recourse bnt 10 saddle Old
Brindlr OF his good muley COW
there would he something to say in
favor OF the Trigg County plan,
but where the head Of the family
has IA horse the fugacious lovers are
as badly handicapped as an Eastern
couple would be if they took the
wings OF the morning express train
while the old gentleman tclcsraphcd
to the chief of police at the next
station. In exceptional seasons of
eplIootic alone the OK might lit
himself on high-Nhich is the
scrlpinral way Of saying "misht
hump himselt--and scorn the horse
and his rider. Jules Verne could
write an interesting book on such
an incident. his hero and heroine
or a., least the Notwithstanding Il
COW, and the pair snb>.>ting during
their Hight on her milk and on
steaks cut IN the Ahyssian style
from her hinder.quarters and cook.
eel i'll the Tartar fashion beneath the
saddle. Or again, it the lovers
should depart on Texan steer.
who. as broadway and the avenues
know. comprises within himself the
qualities ct speed, agility. combat.
iveneS>, hriilancy of conception
and rapidity and effectiveness of |
execution all in their highest per.
lection, it might be possible for !
them, when 0rertaken by the stern |
parent, to abandon their beast, |
Chamber up tree and from that |
safe emincncc watch him while |
with crumpled horn, like "a black
bull of Navarro in q Madrid CORR. !
ia, he lifts the old man over the
telegraph wires on one side of the
road and the old mans horse over
a six rallied fence on the other.
so rare, however, are the cases in
which an elopement on OK back can
possibly be advantageous that it
will be wiser as rule for intending
to initiate the simpler
though sterner plan of another
Western lover who stole away his
bride before dawn, married her at
laybreak, loaded his trusty shot
gun and, in reversal of all the pro.
prieties and precedents, appeared
rs the breakfast bell was ringing at
Ter home, and covering" his un.
willing father-in.law conveyed the
irst intimation of this runaway or
'ather staDd-up-to-it match in the
words, "Old man, Susan and l {
nave been married: what are You