The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-09-01


way of expressing myself but | had
rather take my chances, if | should
apply for admission up there, with
this lame dog under my arm, than
to take hers with a pug that hain't
got any legs broke. A lame dog
and a clear conscience beats a pet
dog, when your conscience feels
nervous. Now | am going to lay
this dog in the barrel of dried ap.
pies, where your cat sleeps, and
give him a little rest, and ! will
give you four minutes to tell me all
you know, and you will have three
minutes on your hands with moth
ing to say. Intuition your lip and
give your teeth a vacation"
"Well, you have got gall. How
ever, / don't know but you are
right about that woman that hurt
the dog. Still, it may have been
her way Of petting a strange dog.
We should try to look upon the
charitable side of people, eccen-
tricities. But say, | want to ask
you if you have seen anything of
my ma that delivers groceries.
Saturday night l sent him over to
your house to deliver some things,
about ten o'clock, and he has not
showed up since. What do you
think has become of him 7"
well, by gum, hat accounts
for it. Saturday night, about ten
O'Clock we heard somebody in the
back yard, around the kitchen
door, just as we were going to bed,
and pa was afraid it was a burglar
after the church money he collect
ed last Sunday. He had got to
turn it over the next day, to pay
the minister's expenses on his va
cation. and it made him nervous to
have it around. l pceked out of
the window and saw the man, and
l told pa, and pa got a revolver
and began shooting through the
wire screen to the kitchen window,
and l saw the man drop the basket
and begin to climb over the fence
real sudden, and began to groan,
as though somebody was dying in
the alley, and l brought in the bas
ket with mackerel and green corn,
and told pa from the grooming out
side l guessed he had killed the
grocery delivery man, and l want
ed pa to 60 out and help me hunt
for the body, but he said he was
going to take the midnight train to
go out west on some very inIpor
tant business, and pa lit out. I
guess your man was scared and
went one way and pa wae scared
and went the other way. Won't
they be astonished when they meet
each ether on the other side Of the
world Pa will shoot him again
when they meet, if he gives p shy
sass. Pa says when be gets mad
he had just as soon eat as to Xii &
man"
"Woll, I guess my man has gone
to q Sunday picnic or something,
and will come back when he gets
sober, but how are your theatricals
getting alongP asked the grocery
man.
80 that scheme is all busted"
said the boy. AT least until the
minister gets back from his vaca-
ton. The congregatior has MOTTO
ed a red spot on his h / for some
time, and the ladies SD what he
needed was rest. They said if that
spot was allowed to 60 on it might
develop into a pimple, and the
minister might die of blood poison.
superinduced by over work, and
they took up a collection, and he
has gone. The night they bid him
good bye, the spot on his hand was
a subject of much comment. The
wimmen sighed, and said 1t was
lucky they noticed the spot on his
hand before it had Slapped his
Young life away. Pa said job had
more than four hundred boils worse
than that, and he never suffered
from blood poison, and pa said he
could raise cat boils for the market
and never squeal. Ma saw the on
ly way to shut pa up was to let him
go home with the choir singer.
So she bounced HIM off with her,
and he didn't get home till most
'leven o'clock, but ma she set up
for him. Maybe what size said to
pa made him go west after pepper
ing your burglar. Well, I must
go home now, cause | run the fami-
ly, since pa lit out. Sry, send
some of your most expensive cam
ed fruit and things over to the
house. Darn the expense" and