The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-12-12


build the camp fire was to get up high and
heeled shoes and walked over everybody in
the bottom, BY the river bank. But. Il did
not fool the mosquitoes. They fol-
lowed right away and pounced on
the whole family with fearful havoc of
cuss words, which the family all used ex-
cspt the mother of the children. While
Mrs. DE Soto was getting supper of sweet
potatoes and sausage, the old. man went
down town to. Buehrmsnn's and bought u
rose colored MOSQUITO bal, which he brought
back and planted near where the ealaboOse
now stands. The students at the normal
school saw it and commenced to shout
aloud and stamp their feet They thought
II was the American flag. They didn't
know any better then. That night they all
slept ander the 'Sbar." When morning
came they paid no attention to il, and
staid in bed. Mrs. De Soto awakened the
old man up and told him it was time to
get no. But it was dark, and the old fell
low still sn0red aloud on the feather bed,
which had been borrowed from the st.
Charles hotel Tor the OCCASION. ..t
Mrs. De Soto got disguised at the sloth-
fulness Of her husband, and finally kicked
him ont of bed and told him to build
fire, as it was time to get up, if II was not
light. -s. 80, i'%-. ~ --.-
De Soto scrambled around in the gravel
and got from under the "bar," when it was
daylight and sun up. The mosquitoes had
come up from the river bank, and after
being joined by another small family of
their kind from near Delta, they hid made
raid on the bar" and covered it all up,
hence no light got to the sleepers.
This is another reason Why a husband
should always do as their wife says, for they
know best sbout-some things
That morning, after eating his breakfast
of Goldfish balls, fried mush, canned corn
beef. buckwheat cakes and old Java coffee,
he walked awav from the fire and looked
toward Jackson. the county seat, and he
saw, in the distance, tall objects. which he
took to be dahlias. He thought they were
flowers, and called out to Mrs. De Soto,
and said. privately:
There is something which reminds me
Of my mother in-law's place, opposite the
in Paris
SEE THE DAHLIA."
The next week, after he got his mules
shod, he started northwest, for the Queen
City, which Mrs. De Soto named Sedalia,
as a joke on the old man for installing the
forest for the well-known flower posy
dahlia.
On the way up, he stopped at De Soto,
lon, enough to make the acquaintance of
j. Frey. superintendent of the /. NJ &
$. Ry. He drove a stake there, and Jake
wanted to name the place "Train," in hon
or of George Francis, but Mrs. De Soto
insisted in naming the place for her bus
band.
"Let her have her way" said J.ke,-
"Sbe'd have it anyway"
THAT'S So" said the old man, the pers-
piration running down his cheeks, and I've
known her longer than you have"
When they arrived at Sedalia, the police
had all got new hats and De Soto thought
they were all marshals, and he could not
distinguish Shy from the balance, which
vas a calamity that will be corrected when
Alderman Hill makes another speech,
which can be understood by no one but
himself.
Old man De Soto met Charlie Allen,
while here, and they both got on the right
side of wheat and, after buying Mrs. De
Soto seal skin sacque. they returned 10
the southeast by the way OF the narrow
guage.
They landed at Warsaw, when Col
met them With . brass band.
They left the same evening for the soath-
east, since which time they have not been
heard Of