The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-02-22
Ben Mildweed's idea.
Little Rock Gazette.

Little Rock Gazette.
A man named Ben Mildweed walked
into the office of a Justice of the peace
recently, and, taking off an old SLOUGH
hat, addressed the dignifed official
"Are you the court"
II am. What is your trouble?'
Ben betrayed agitation 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 on
eaSinesS."
Come to the point, Mr.. widowed"
suggested the court.
"You hear my story, Jedge. I'm sot
in my ways, and I'll get thar quicker
by running my own furrow down this
patch of trouble"
The justice settled his feet comforta-
bly, on the table, and looked rcsignedly
at Mr.. Mildweed, who continued:
Nancy is the purteSt calico in Rich
woods, and we hez hitched for three
ye'rs, not spliccd, you know, but wait
in for me to buy little home. The
men down to the settlement are jealous
because Nancy sot up to me, and they
hang round ike blackbirds in corn
patch" Ben hitched up his pants and
seemed reluctant to continue. "Now,
Nancy is a good gal, and her black
eyes hez fetched me, like churning
fotches butter, and she ken make me n
good man or bad man for her sake.
But, jedge, she knows it, aud laugh,
and carries on with Bill Peters when
I'm round. She goes to camp meetin'
with Hez Spilkins, when have told her
a hundred times that he was low
flung fellow, and she Aggregates me
terrible"
Come to the point, Ben" said the
court impatiently, lifting one leg over
the other.
II IN gcttn thar your honor Now
| old Uncle Marsh Turner and hcv talk
ed this matter over, and he ses tibet
Nancy hesn't any attachment fer me.
Thet like to broke my heart, ledge, I'll
swow it did. SEES Uncle Marsh, Ben
SEES he, hey you got an attachment fer
NancyT Yes, Uncle Marsh, scs |,
most powerful. 'IIez she fer you?
SEES he, I'm dubious, uncle, ses l.
Ben SEES he, solemnly, ef she can't luv
you with her whole hart, drap her like
a hot cake. FL she hosn't an attach
ment fer you tibet is strong, and true,
and honest, drap her. You'll be mis- a
bic boy I'm an old man. Ben, and
when ! sees a young man hey an al
tachment fer a gal, and she hcSn't fer
him as strong, | says to myself they is
foolish. They hadn't ought to splice. "
Your homer continued Mr. Mild
weed, carter Uncle Marsh Ses all this to
me, goes off and thinks | concludes
that he is right, and now | hev come to
the point. saddled the old brown
mare, and put some bacon and corn
bread in the sadlc-bags, and started fer
Little Rock, comes straight to you,
| ledge and want you to make out an
attachment for Nancy to me- knows
| tibet the courts ken make attachments,
and don't care what il costs. Jest
you make out the papers, and I'll make
the old brown mare do some of the tall
est travelling gettin back to Nancy
that you ever saw. Well, why don't
begin, jcdge'"
"The courts don't make love attach
ments,' said the court, taking It's legs
from the table.
81 don I care what it costs, jedge.'
"You have had a long trip for moth
ing, Ben it can't be done.
Ben pulled his hat over his ewes. WHIP
ed trickling drop from his cheek, and
walked slowly toward the door, mutter-
ing;
"ilI go hev the brown mare fed and
study about it. thought us how the
court mought hev done it, and then
ne stepped from the Justices door MS il
l Nancy was lost TO him forever.
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