Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-08
An an Wool Tuie of Life.

and a scholar from away np the ereek
Beauty, too, had lowered her with rippling
tresses of the deepest Ventian red, and him
with tawny locks of pure jet; lis lnush-
tache and tall boots were blacked carefully
each day. Her eyes were blue and soulful
with brows of ecru, which rapidly changed
TO creamy white, with eye-winkers of the
same. Her nose was as daintily carved as a
sculptOr's dream, while her delicate nostrils
ut times would dilate in response to her
snrging thoughts like the gills of an excit-
ed Goldfish. Her mouth was small, like a
coral cleft, and her teeth was mostly her
own. AS soon as she got them paid for
they would be entirely her own. There
was, too, an expression in that rose bud
mouth that betokened strength of will and
adamantine resolve.
He was sinewy and tall, with piercing
eyes and eagle nose. He had long, easy
stride, wealth of limb, an air of noble
daring. He was the sturdy oak with wide
sweeping branches, around to whose noble
trunk clung Keno Maud, the dove-eyed
hollyhock from up the gulch. 1t would
be well to remember that he was a darling
and she was no slouch, while the most un-
observing and careless of the great jostling
crowd could see, ut glance, that she was
his'n and he was her'n.
You could see that lshe would cling to
him right through want and shame and
chattle mortgages. Yet there was no fear
of these, for he was highly educated and
owned beside the prospect, known as the
Snoring Bride, at the head Of Owl Creek.
So, when the shimmering moon simmer
ed down through the leaves of the signing
pine, she shimmered down on two people
who were solid on each other.
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The next time the moon shimmered on
these people things were changed. A few
short hours, and the trail ofa taranulla was
visable. Plute Panl entered the cotton
wood villa of Keno Maud with look of
apprehension. He was right. She looked
up at him quickly, like startled deer, and
threw an antique neck-yoke over towards
him with great force.
He gracefully evaded it, and coming over
to where she was, took her by the ear and
held her lovingly fora moment while he
asked her why this was so thus.
81 will try to be calm," she said i'm reply:
VI will net lose control of myself and fill
your palpitating gizzard with lead as you
richly deserve. Hence from my sight. Go
or you shall know my fury. Scat"
''Maud' said Pluto Paul as his breath.
came thick and fast, and horrible appre
henison began to worm its way into his
navy-blue soul, 4" are you mad"
MAD" said she, as she rose to her full
queenly height, and kicked two dollar tr,-
reen off the table, Il should say l was
mad"
"But, Maudie, why 10 yen keep me i'm
expense? Why do you not tell me, even
though it break my heart? / have never
saw you thus before. You was not prone
to monkey about it in this manner in the
glorious hence. Why do you shun me
and grow cold? Why have you combedIme
with long handle shovel and rudely
smashed my nose with a neck-yoke?
"Tou were not always thus. Once you
was kind and loving, and leaned onto my
breast and all was well. Now you look
upon me with distlain, and knock my teeth
down inside of me with an agricultural im-
plement. 0 MaudI DO you wreck my
whole life and leave my features magnifi-
cent ruin. with my once commanding nose
piled up in one corner Of my face, and my
eyes gazing wastfully at each other across
the bowling waste.
20 come to me like stricken kangaroo
and lean on those bosom of thy own fond
lover and be at rest"
"No," said Maud, as she rose to her full
height and reached for the family shot gun.
"You can never be to me aught but friend
nd rather distant and reticient friend at
that / do not love you as 1 once did, 1
have grown cold. I have changed my
A@A1N SA'~N We AoSe uiCts w UCL uCIu ttidl
you had two wives and nine children in
Southwestern Kansas i looked upon it as an
eccentricity of genius. When found that
you had been run OFT Of Leadville by a
vigilance committee, said that it would
never do for us TO make bridal trip to
Leadville, but when t,rmbled to the racket
last evening, that you had salted the Snor-
ing Bride and sold it to the red man. and
that the Jim Crow pay streak had pinched
out before breakfast this morning, I said
that fortune had placed little barrier in
the way Of our union, which !, poor woman
could not overcome, deeply though loved
yor. Now, II You will climb over that
salt barrel, and move towards the great un-