San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-12-08
CAMELS AND CAMPBELLS.
New Orleans Democrat.


New Orleans Democrat.
One evening, as We sat on the gallery
in the moonlight, said ! to my wife;
"Dear, do you remember the camels
in Texas?"
"The Campbells on the Guadalrpe?"
she asked.
4Of course" 1 replied; "what other
oamels could I mean?"
"Oh!" said shea little perplexed,
but recovering herself Eyes, there was
the old Judge and his elder red headed
daughter, Mandy, who married the des-
perado; and Sally, who rode straddle-
wise, rs she called it; and there was
Paul, who played the exquisite and
Felix and-and-." r.
Jerusalem !"' I ejaculated:"I ask you
q simple question as to your recollection
of the m.e.l-s, and you wonder of
into an elaborate biography of the
Campbell family; but" said 1, "did
YOU ever know, dear, that I was some
what soft on Mandy when l lived near
the banks of Hynes' peaceful little
bay?"
"I am not surprised" she remarked
with tangible sheer. "Vermillion has
it's attractions sometimes"
eyes" resumed, ito use Texas
phrase, it have and to own up truth
fully, it was the fearful and wonderful
" redness of Mandys hair that first
drew me. was always of an inquir-
ing turn of mind, and the more l pom
dered over the exaggerated vermillion
of those tresses, the more l recognized
the fact that could I but solve the nat
uarl transition of corn bread, bacon
and beef into the most lustrous of car
mine tints my fortune in the patent
diving line would be assured. L was
young then, too young to anticipate
the difficulties which always spring up
in the paths of those searching after
scientific lore. / scarcely got beyond
the rudiments, although had arranged
formulas as to diet which [ thought l
would oct Mandy to go through with in
regular succession and see what the
effect would be on her hair. 1t is
rather delicate thing, as you may
have observed, to propose any augmen-
tation or amclioration of color of hair
to any high tempered, auburn tressed
female, and right there L stuck. Mandy
began to be somewhat sensitive on the
subject of inquiries as to what she ate
during the interval of my visits, and l
was forced, much to my chagrin, to
give up all hopes of celebrity and
wealth in the chemical line. But l
wander from the quadrupeds.
"Oh, no." said my wife, sarcastically
"do tell more Of your conquests, for no
doubt you mean TO iusinuate that Man
DIV threw herself at you--cattle, red
head AMI ALL"
"All right" repliedI, determined not
to be baked in telling my story by Il
few acetuted feminine filings. you
see that Japan plumb tree, so plainly
out lined IL the moonlight? Well, il
looiys to me exactly like camel with
distsndrd jaws that saw once, and OF
which l will speak directly. Looking
at that tree was the cause of my queS
ton with regard to your recollection
of the bumped quadrupeds, and YOU
answer, strange to say, brought up the
bipeis of similarly pronounced names.
"Iam right sleepy said my wife
suppose you put the rest of the story
till some other time"
Can't said /: I've started now
and If necessary I'll talk you to sleep
Well. about the year 1854 the Unitet
States transport tender or whatever
she was) Supply came into the mouth
of the Mississippi, having on board
about thirty camels, which were intend
ed to be used on the Staked plains, ant
in New Mexico, for carrying the mails
etc. They were transferred to tn,
steamship Fashion, and we're safely
carried by her and landed at Powder
Horn, nov Indianola). The voyae,