The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-06
PECULIAR CASE OF BLUES.
If a Girl Gets Marked for Life Can
She Make You Marry Her?

A pale young man entered a lawyers
Office and closed the door with his
back like a Vermonter, and said he
wanted little advice. The lawyer
ted him he had struck the right place,
and asked him to proceed.
well, what | want to know is II
a man marks me for life can [ collect
damages from him?"
The lawyer said it was the easiest
thing in the world to collect damages
in such cases.
Then" said the young man, "if a
girl goes out riding with me to a pic
mic, and she gets marked for life, can
she collect damages from me-"
The lawyer scratched his head a
moment. looked wise, then thought a
again with his forefnger on his fore
head, looked into volume of patent
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 damages
from him. The young man threw
down $40 as q retainer, and said that
the lawyer could consider himself en-
gagged for the season to prosecute one
case and defend the other. The law
yer put the money in his vest pocket
mechanically, as though it was mere
matter of form, and told the young
man to state his case. Taking 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 Ihired team and a top-buggy
to take a girl out to Oconomowoc to
the yacht races. and We were going to
take dinner at the hotel. On the way
out there the almightiest thunder
storm you ever saw came up. 1t
drencned lis from head to foot. There
wasn't a dry rag on me, and the girl
nd if there was ON her she didn't
low 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
a pair of white MarseilIes pants, and
the girl had on a white muslin dress.
Well sir, do you know, when we got
out, the whole back of 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
the blue just fairly run off, and it was
the bluest blue that you ever saw.
Well, I thought the girl would die.
When she stood off with her back to-
ward me l could think of nothing but
an Italian sunset on the Lake of Como.
She was the bluest girl, true blue, and
no mistake. And my pants! When
l went away from her to get a better
view of the yacht race and swear a
little I must have looked to her like
some old blue ruini in a theater. Well.
We didn't dare 60 to the % ell to din
ner. and were afraid to stop at Nc
DowelPs, where the Light Horse
squadron was in camp, where l knew
all the boys, and We didn't get any
thing to eat except glass of beer and
a niece of dog sausage at Pewaukee,
which had a Prussian bring out 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 We came into
town after dark, and l thought the
affair would blow over; but blast me if
the blue color didn't set on nv skin
and nothing will take it of. have
tried everything but it is just as blue
to-day as it was the night / got home
from Oconomowoc. From my knees
TO the small of my back am deeply,
darkly, beautifully blue, and probably
shall be during my natural life, and
want the livery man sued. If | want
ed to travel with the circus as a tattoo
ed man | wouldn't mind it so much,
but / don't. / never knew before
that blue was a fast color.
"Well, this is only half the trouble.
About a week after We got back, the
girls father came to me with a gun,
and asked me what kind of a colored
person was. 1t seems the blue was
just as set in its way in his family as
it was in mine. ] explained it to
MIN the best way l could, but be
said there was only one reparation
man of honor could make in such
cases. I told him I was trying all
the different articles in the drug
stores, one after another, to remove
the bluing, and as quick as could
ind somethin that would touch the
spot would communicate with him.
That stood him of for a month or
two, but supposed the girl and her