Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1880-10-09

ed me in. 1t was quite well set back
from the road. the house was. and all
the lower windows were fastened on
the outside; and | suppose might have
starved there if il hadn't a been for
Riker's little boys comm up about five
in the afternoon to steal cherries. They
thought was a ghost, and SO brought
some folks up to look at me, and l got
let out.
Il was real mad, I kin tell YOU, and
first on l refused to hev anything to do
with the Squire; but he pleaded with
me, went right down on his knees in
his white pants in mud-puddle, and
was tender-hearted. Though I was
most sorry had give in when he went
down to the village and opened his
office one Sunday. I'd no idee what
he'd done until he came home 10 din
ner. Then he was lookin' at me, and
says he:
"'Jerushy. 1 guess there's goin' to be
weddin there's crowds of folks goin'
into the church.
ga weddin' Sunday?' says l.
".Lawr says he, 1 thought twas
Saturday, and I've been soften at my
desk, full face of all the folks. writin'
the hull morni1'-me deacon, toor
"1hen called him "A distracted old
critterr
However, l got over that. and he
seemed to be goin' along better than
usual, when one day he was goin' to
start for the city. He was all fixed up
and the Squire's personable man
rbou hoe not his hast olotbas ON he
was all fixed up, and had a new blue
cravat. and a white hat and kid gloves;
and was kinder adorin' him. when it
struck me that the clock had stopped,
and that shouldn't know the time for
all day.
".Adoniram,' says Il Adoniram, do
tell me the time SOS toset the clock
1.-The Squire he was just figuring up
to get expenses all right and didn't
want to stop, so he Onfastened his watch
off the chain, and handed it to me, and
went into the kitchen to set the clock.
l was quick as lightning, but bless
you! when came back the Squire was
gone. The buggy was most out of
sight.
"'What a provokin' thingr says l.
'Gone to town without his watch. He
won't know about the trains or any
thing And / fretted about it all day.
Well might; didn't know what good
reason had to do it.
1.-The boy brought the buggy back,
and said the Squire hadn't missed his
watch, and that he'd gone off on the
right train. And the Squire he got to
New York all right, as l afterwards
knew, and about ten O'Clock Cousin
Peter Jones stopped in, and said he
was going to New York, too.
81 wAnt to know says l. where
will you dine?'
1.-The Stuffem House. says he.
"'Oh,' says l. We'll, Adoniram,
he'll dine there. too. and you'll meet
him there. Jest take his watch along,
won't you. and give it to him.
$50 Peter says: All right, pleased
to do it, and put it loose in his left vest
pocket-his own was in his right-and
off he went.
"'Some chance of Adoniram's getting
home tonight, now says /, and felt
more comfortable.
Little l knew.
"Peter went down to the city-got
there at noon. and made straight for the
hotel. Adoniram wasn't there yet, and
Peter is always trying experiments with
himself; so he thought he'd go into the
BARRIERS shop and have his whiskers and
mustache shaved off and his hair shin
gled. And must say for my poor hus-
band that shouldn't have known him
from a crow. His ears sOt out so, and
he looked solantern-jawed. He'd worn
the beard ten years. and always had his
hair long; and having fixed himself up
after that fashion, he went out again. |
and there was the Squire coming up
the street.
"Now, Peter is always for having
his joke. and what should he do but |