The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1881-08-11


The DAT family. pater. mater and
ht o. ones, pieuieked on The beach
beyond Fott Point yesterday 81
do love uaihure," remarked Patrick
Dub, who Is q proud snd frequent
voter Of the Seventh ward, as be m
hitched the dray horse from the fam.
ily ealryall, which bore the family
arms, "Duns Xpress The cares
Az political LOFT and giueral express
ing require that man shud relax his
moind midst the grand roposh av
tireless nathure's reshtful bosom. I'll
ring that sentiment into my next
warrud club spache, Mary Helen be
me sOWl, / will Lave hould sv that
coWld boiled ham, james Henry, or
IN throw ye into the traokless tide
The lunch basket was safely de-
posted in the shade of a rock, the
youthful Dufs disp0rted bgre legged
in the mild surf, and Mr. anu Mrs.
Duff wandered, fee from care, DER
the green hillside. Presently Mrs
DUFF discovered tumble-bee in the
deep recess OF a wild flower she
| pluoked. Alas, she had never seen
q humble bee before "Luk here,
| Patrick" she exclaimed. "Yez never
saw The loike av thatia Kerry, Pat
Mr.. Duff was too much of a poll
tician to commit himself as TO bis
knowledge, or lack oft, without frs
considering the subject Taking sh,
flower from his wife'a hand, he eyed
: the bee critically, and then assented
at is purity burrid, Mary Helen.
Then he carefully picked the bee on
Of the flower between his thumb an,
fore6nger and repeated slowly:
ayes, it is very purity burrid;
think il is a.
/ Before Mr.. Duff bad explaine
what he was pleased to think the be
was, he had dashed the flower in hi
amazed wife's face, jumped excited
: in the air, landed hatless and wit
hair erect, and again repeated, sti
. slowly, but with popping, glarin
, eyes, and in a voice husky with pal
4 and anger;
e 1T IS a purity burrid, but, hol
= murther, how hot its little ful is %
/, "Patriek Duff, have you been hi
n ting that whisky bottle in the lunt
a basket ?" exclaimed the indigna
= Mrs Duff.
n. Patrick, in dumb beWildermeE
az gaged an his swelling and iuflam'
N thumb and then at the wife of
al bosom before be replied
he "Hod yez run yer needle throul
30 that burrid, Mary Helen, before y
,o CAV it to me r.
he Don't yez be too funny, PA
I'd said Mrs. Duff, testify.
al "Shure, I'm not funny at all, Ma
ar Helen, and ycz needn't look that W
tb at me, nather, or I'll break yer va
mi tebre," said Mr. Duff, getting ms
nj der as bis thumb got bigger.
Is "Yez had better not be thryi
ev your lhricks wild me, or I'll land
no wan side az that ugly jaw Of yol
that 'ull tach We who is boss Of I
Or. Duff family" Mr. Duf's voice rC
nd as he realized the full extent Of
,st hurt.
IL "Yez have been drinking yers
Dis into trangltory Jim jane, Pat, q
as yeg had better slape it of Def,
IA lunch" replied the lady in a COM
les iatory tone, which only served
iii aggravate the gentleman's tenn
in. into exact sympathy with bis thun
am for with an irresistible impulse
he made good his threat, and in q n
ri ment the sweet solitude Of the 81
lis and day was rulely broken by bio
the which fell Nith uneonjugal force 8
led rapidity on both lie beads OF
to Duff family, while the humble
the hummed drowsily Of, moraliz
he over greatness OF evils Nhen
18th known.