The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-13
PECULIAR CASE OF BLUES.
IL Girl Gets Marked for Life Can She
Make You Marry Her?

Make You Marry Her?
A pale young man entered lawyers
Office and closed the door with his back,
like Vermonter, and said he wanted a
little advice. The lawyer told him he had
struck the right place, and asked him to
proceed.
s'Well, what want to know is, if man
marks me for life can ] collect damages
fron him9r
Tue lawyer said it was the easiest thing
in the world TO collect damages in such
cases.
YThen," said the young man, III girl
goes out riding with me u picnic, and
She gets marked for life, can she collect
damages from me?'
The lawyer scratched his head moment,
looked wise, then thought a moment again
with his forefnger on his forehead, looked
into a volume ofpatent office reports, and
finally expressed the opinion to the young
man that in the latter case there was no
possible show of the girls collecting dam
ages from him. The young man threw
down $40 as a retainer, and said that the
lawyer could consider himself engaged for
the season, to prosecute one case and defend
the other. The lawyer put the money in
his vest pocket mechanically, rs though ii
was q mere matter OF form, and told the
young man to state his case. Taxing off
his hat and wiping the perspiration Off his
forehead, he proceeded:
"Well want you to commence against a
livery stable keeper for $4,000 damages
You see, last summer hired team and
top-buggy to take girl out to
Oconomowoc to the yacht races, and
we we were going to take dinner at
the hotel. On the way out there the
almightiest thunderstorm you ever saw
came up. 1t drenched us from head to foot
There wasn't a dry rag on me, and the girl
said if there was on her she did not know
where it was. But it finally cleared off,
and we drove into Oconomowoc, and
around by the bank of the lake. and
got out in the woods. We had on white
clothes. | had on pair, Of white Mar
seilies pants. and the glil had on a white
muslin dress. Well, sir, do you know,
when we got out the whole back of us
us, from the knees clear To the small OF the
back, was as blue as indigo. The buggy
cushion was blue, and when it got wet It
Just fairly run OIL. and it was the bluest
blue that you ever saw. Well, thought
the girl would die. When she stood off
with her back toward me | could think OF
nothing but an Italian sunset on the Lake
Of Chrome. She was the buest girl, true
blue, aud no mistake. And my pants When
went away from her to get a better view
must have looked to her like some
old blue ruin. in n theater. Well, we
didn't dare 60 to the hotel for dinner, and
were afraid to stop at McDowells, where
lie Light Horse squadron was in camp,
where j knew all the boys, and we didn't
get anything to eat except glass of beer
and piece of dog sausage at Pewankec,
which had q Prussian bring rue to the
buggy. The girl got mad because laughed
little at her having the blues, and she
wouldn't speak to me all the. way home.
thought the affair would blow over; but
blast me If the blue color didn't set on
my skin, and nothing will take it off, |
have tried everything, but it is just as blue
to-day as it wasthe night / got home from
Oconomowoc. From my knees to the
small ofmy back am deeply, darkly, beau
tifully blue, and probably shall be during
my natural lie, and want the livery man
sued. If wanted to travel with the circus
as tatooed man, l wouldn't mind it so
much, but don't. ! never knew before
that blue was fast color.
"Well this is only half the trouble.
About II week after we got back the girls
father came to me with gun, and asked
me what kind of colored person was,
II seems the blue was Just as set in its way
in his family as II was in mine. explained
it to him the best way could but he said
there was only one reparation man of
honor Nlld make in spch cases, told hiu,
wastising all the different articles in the
drug,stores, one after another, to remove
the bluing, and as quick as / could find
something that would touch the spot [
would communicate with him. That stood
him off for month or two, but suppose
the girl and her mother kept at him to do
something about it, and he goes for mo
once week, and threatens me until my life
isa burden-a heavy, eightecn-carat burden
with a blue background. try to be 10y
Gus, but 1t seems to me as though every
body knew ofmy condition. The old man
says have got to marry the girl within
TWO weeks or stand lawsuit"
The young lawyer said he believed he
couldn't, but he would have to look up the
authorities and he took down a 'blue
book" 4of the legislature and told the Young
man to come again on Saturday with Sl0
more; 1t certainly will be one Of tho most
singular cases that has ever been before our
courts, aud will attract much attention, no
douot'-[New York Mercury.
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