Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-12-17
BEN mlLOwEED'S IDEA.
He Thought a Court Could Issue
an Attachment 10 Make
A1is Girl Love Him.

Little Rock Gazette.I
A man named Ben Mildweed walked
into the Office of justice of the peace
yesterday, and, taking off an old
slouch hat, addressed the dignifed
official:
Are you the court?"
Il am. What is your troubleY'
Ben betrayed agit,tion in the nervous
manner with which he fingered his
old hat.
"Jedge, Nancy, my gal, hez bin run
ming around with two or three men
lately, and hez caused me heap Of
Oneasiness.
Come to the point, Mr.. Mildweed,
suggested the court,
"You hear my story, ledge. I'm
sot in my ways, and I'll get thar
quicker by running my own furrow
down this patch Of trouble"
Che justice settled his feet comfort
ably on the table, and looked resign
edly on MIR. Mildweed, who contin-
ued:
Nancy is the purtiest calico in
Richwoods, aud we hez hitched for
three ye'rs, not spliced, you know, but
waiin' for me to buy little home
The men down to the settlement are
Jealous because Nancy sot up TO me,
and they hang round like blackbirds
| in a corn-patch." Ben hitched up his
pants and seemed reluctant to con
tinue. Now, Nancy is a good gal
and her black eyes hez fotched me
like churning fotehes butter, and she
ken make a good man or a tad man
for her sake, But, jedgS, she know:
lit, and laughs and laughs and carries
on with Bill Peters when I'm round
/ She goes 70 camp meetin' with hel
Spilkins, when hev tolu ner .,%1 "-
dred times that he was a low-funl
fellow, and she agervates me terrible.
Come to the point, Ben, said thC
court impatiently, lifting one leg Ovei
! the other.
"Tm gettin thar, your honor. Now
old Uncle Marsh Turner and he
talked this thing over, and he ses the
Nancy hesn { any attachment fer me
Thet like to broke my heart, ledge
| III swow it did. Ses Uncle Marsh
Ben, ses he, 'hev you got an attach
meut fer Nancy Yes, Uncle Marsh
ses /, most powerful. Hez she fe
you? ses he. I'm dubious, uncle
ses [. Ben, ses he, soltmnly, 'ef sh
can't luv you with her whole hart
drap her Ike a hot cake. Eff sh
hesn't an attachment fer you thet j
strong, and true and honest, drap hel
! You be mis- fable, boy. I'm an oil
man, Ben, and when sees a youn
man hev an attachment fer a gal, an
! she hesn't for him as strong, ses
a myself they is foolish. They hadn
{, oughter splice. "
Your honor" continued Mr.. Milk
weed, "arter Uncle Mars b ses all tn
! 20 m5, ] goes of and thinks. ! col
J. cludes that he is right, and now
d have come to the point. saddle
u the old brown mare, and put some b
con and corn bread in the saddle bag
II and started fer Little Rock. | com
/, straight to you, jedge, and / want "
as to make out an attachment for Nan
a to me. knows thet the courts k
make out attachments, and | dol
care what it costs. Jest you ma
a out the papers, and I'll make the
OF brown mare do some OF the tall
nd trayelin' gettin' back t1 Nancy Il
ofl you ever saw. Well, why don't y
" begin, jedgeY'
ST. THE courts don't make love alta
ow meRi..ss. said the court, taking its !
from the table.
u don't care what it costs, jedg
"You have had loHg trip for no
be ing. Ben. 1t can't be done
- Ben pulled his hat over his o.
,e ,, wiped a trickling drop from his che
he and walking slowly towards the dc
ut muttered,
ks "Tll 90 hov the brown mare
NJ and study about it. l thought as !
'"' the court mought hey done il,
ms then he stepped from the JUST
dy. door as it Nancy were lest To him
led eyer,-[FEe,