San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-30
A Particular Advertiser.

"How much will this cost in vou
paperp" asked a quiet looking man :.
he handed the following advertisemaas
at the Eagle counting room yesterdsx.
SMITH.-Busted atrace in tbis ola.
! Friday, Jest after dinner, Mary. w.t.
the undersigned and daughter Of ola
Sam Pratt, the leading blacksmith ~
Denver, Colorado. The corpse Wa.
highly respected by the high,tond,sss
families, but death got the drop on bss
and she took up the bucket with nss
feet confidence that she would have
square show the other side of the nj;
vide.H The plant transpires this afte,c
noon at her boarding house on Willow
street. Come one, come all. b. T
Dearest Mary, thou hast left us,
For you on earth there wasn't room;
but tits Heaven that has bereft us
And snatched our darling up the Hume.
Denver papers please copy and send
bill, or draw at sight. =
joss BY her late husband, sso,
eSelV To slis ..8 p. Smith.
II don't-believe' you.want il lust that
way, do you ?" asked the clerk, rubbing
his chin obviously. .s. :
"Why not, stranger?" asked the
quiet man. ''''' pstl
1T don't read quite right, does it?'
asked the clerk. MONA ~ rgt8
"Was you acquainted with the corpse
stranger?r demanded the quiet man
I"Was you aware Of the late lamented
while she was busting around in soci.
ETY. down ut that boarding house?"
+ 81 don't know that / ever met her..
responded the clerk.
/ $50 I reckoned, Judge; you wasn't I'D
to the deceased when she WASH the
living business. Now, Judge, the de.
ceased wrote that Grafton herself afore
she died,and want it published. Doyou
hook ON pardnerS'r s5isn "a fsg ta
"But it isn't our style of notice" OBJ
iected the clerk. isra .- .f .., 80 s'1.
":Nor mine, neither" acquiesced the
quiet man. ct was for having picture
of her and a lot more talk, but she said
she wanted to be quiet,and modest, SO
she who3ped that up. Say, stranger,
is it going into your valuable space
without auy difficulty"
At don't know" said the clerk, dole.
fully. " 'N
II know, partner. This celebration
comes off to morrow afternoon and that's
going in in the morning,if it goesin out !
of a cannon. I've got grief enough on
my brains now, stranger, without erect
ing fort on the sidewalk, but if you
want war I've got the implemen right
in the back part of these mourning
clothes. What dye think, Judge?
F "Does it make any difference where
| it goes?" asked the clerk. orE D11
Il want it in the paper" said the
mourner, "and it's going in, if it takes
Spite driver. Think you twig my
racket, stranger!"' '.'rrE' 5..M.1..l
"All right replied the clerk, 4Ill
put it in the salid,' among the other
mournful remarks. Four dollars
please"
That's business. and the quiet man
paid the money. IF you amt busy
come around tomorrow. I'm going to
give the old woman a send of, and If
that gospeller don't work a pretty good
programme before he gets to the doxol-
ogy, his folks will think he's been do
ing considerable business with saw
mill, She was good one, judge, and
she was pious from the back of the neck
to the bunion on her heel; you can tell
that from the notice, and the mourn
ing widower wiped his eyes on the sly,
and later in the day was fined ten dol
lars for thrashing the undertaken, who
had put silver handles on the casketin-
stead of gold. ,..8