San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-17
LOVING HEAVENS VENGEANCE.
mas Takes a Drive with Minister Sound
ne p >. the Atonsmont, but Ignorant OF the
ways OF Old PAGERS.
Peck's sun

Ways OF Oiu Thcefr.
Peck's Sun.
4well, great Julius C@sar's bald
,..dsd ghost, what's the matter with
hea 's" said the grocery man to the
you how. as he came into the grocery
Da % usrutches, with one arm in a sling,
One eye blackened and strip OF
QUO master across one side of his
eou "Where was the explosion, or
h IaSo, YOU been in fight, or has your
na heen giving you what you deserve,
p ;,S Ia a club? Here, let me help you.
w wian sit down on that keg of apple.
; in Well, by the great guns, you
I' aO as though you had called some
S Ivv liar. What's the matter?"
And the grocery man took the crutch-
ss and stood them up against the
90, there's not much the matter
With me-" said the boy, in voice
t g sounded all broke up, as he took
a BIG apple off basket and began
neeling it with his upper teeth. IF
Tou think 1 am wreck you
oouaht to see the minister. They
had to carryhim homein installments,
the way they buy sewing machines.
lam all right, but they have got to
stop him up with oakum and tar be-
fore he will ever hold water again"
"Good gracious, you have not had
a fight with the minister, have you?
We'll. l have said all the time, and I
stick to it, that you will commit
crime yet, and go to State prison.
What was the fuss about?" and the
grocery man laid the Ratchet out of
the boys reach, for fear he would get
excited and kill him.
80, it wan no fuss. 1t was in the
vay of business. You see, the livery
man that I was working for promoted
me. He let me drive horse to haul
sawdust for peddling first, and when
he found that I was real careful he
let me drive an express wagon to haul
trunks. Day before yesterday, l think
It was-(yes, L was in bed all day
erday)-day before yesterday there
was funeral, and our stable furnished
the outfit. 1t was only common
S11 funeral, so they let me go to
drive the horse for the minister-you
know, the buggy that goes ahead Of
the hearse. They gave me an old
horse that is 80 years old, that has
not been off of a walk since nine years
ago, and they told me to give him a
loose rein and he would go all right.
It's the same old horse that used to
pace so fast on the avenue, years ago,
but 1 didn't know it. Well, I WANT
to blame. I just let him walk along
AS THOUGH HE WAS HAULING sAWDUsT,
and gave him o. loose rein. When
we got of Of the pavement the fellow
that drives the hearse, he was in q
hurry, cause his folks was going to
have ducks for dinner, and he wanted
to get back, so he kept driving along
side of buggy, and telling me to hur-
ry up. wouldn't do it, cause the
livery man told me to walk the horse.
Then the minister, he got nervous,
and said he didn't know as there was
any use of going so slow, because he
wanted to get back in time to get his
lunch and 60 to the miniters' meet
ing in the afternoon, but [ told him
we would all get to the cemetery soon
enough if we took it cool, and as for
me l wasn't in no sweat. Then one
of the drivers that was driving the
mourners, he came up and said he
had to get back in time to run a we'd
ding down to the 1 o'clock train, and
for me to pull out little. l have
seen enough of disobeying orders, and
l told him a funeral in hand was
worth two weddings in the bush, and,
as far as was concerned, this fun
eral was going to be conducted in a
decorous manner, if we didn't get
back till the next day. Well, the
minister said, in his regular Sunday
School way, My little man, let me
take hold of the lines, and like dern
fool, 1 gave them to him. He slapped
the old horse on the crupper with the
lines, and then jerked up, and the
old horse stuck up his off ear, and
then the hearse driver told the minis
ter to pull hard and saw on the BIT
a little, and the old horse would walB
up. The hearse driver used to drive
the old PAGER on the track, and he
knew what he wanted. The minister
took of MS black kid gloves and put
his umbrella down between u.s.
and nulled his hat down tight on his