The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-01-05

woman that went down Win the
minister, and they called pa an old
brute, and then Deacon Perkins
and ma started to the rescue, and
ma slipped and pulled the deacon
down, and | went to help ma and
| met the fiddler and we both fell,
and then everybody else laughed,
and when the fiddler got up he
found | had set down on the fiddle
and it WAS all broke up. | have
see pa cut as many fIp-haps
as he did 'rying to keep from fall
ing, and the minister vas so ar
noyed at the spectacle he present
ed that | dare not 60 to church tor
a week or two for fear | shall think
about it when he is preaching, and
snort right out in meeting. We
finally got them all on their feet,
and the dance was broke up but
they didn't blame me and my
chum. cause tho deacon told us to
wax the floor. Some of the sober
deacons in the church heard about
it, and they said it was Judgment
on the jolly folks for dancing. Do
you suppose it was a judgment on
us 2"
Judgment nothing" SAID the
groceryman. 1T was simply too
much beeswav. Lots of things IN
this world that are laid to Provl-
dence, is the result of too much
beeswax. A man gets to living
high and drinking hard, and some
day he is found dead, and the peo-
pie say it is a d~ispensation of Prov
idence. 1t is simply a case of too
much beeswax. A MAJ gets to do
ing an immense business on a small
capital, and he flies high, and peo-
pie getto thinking fine didn't make
the earth he had a controlling in
terest in the contract. lie walks
proud, and looks over his old
friends and seems to be seeking
new worlds to conquer, and all of
a sudden you hear something drop,
and the sheriff has the KEY to the
store, and the highhyer finds that
he is fiat on the ground. 1t is too
much beeswax. The beeswaX was
there all the time, but had not got
ready to be slippery until the high
flyer gottoo warm, 1t is just so in
every"
80, say" says the boy, Is he
saw the groceryman was wound up
for all day, you make me weary.
Did l tell you | was going into the
show business Z"
"No, you don't tell me-" said
the groceryman, "What is itl A
circus
"No, not any circus, ! have
been thinking the thing over, and
l think there is nor money in be
ing a living skeleton, than any
thug there is going, and | have
got an offer from a museum, OF
two hundred dollars a week as soon
as | can get lean enough, and !
have quit eating, since Thanksgiv-
ing. | have lost two pounds and
at hat rate | will be ready TO ex-
hlbit about Christmas. A living
skeleton can lay up all his money,
cause he don't have to eat, and
his clothes don't cost much, and it
is a regular picnic. They wanted
me to be a man without legs, but
! thought that would be bad il
should ever want to quit the show
business. They offered to get a
wax head for me if | would be a
two-headed Zulu, but | don't want
to be a deception. | had rather
be a freak of nature. Pa is en-
couraged since | have decided to
be a living skeleton, and SAYS
will mount to something vet. lie
thinks | had better 90 and board at
a cheap boarding house. Say, let's
go In partnership, and you be a
%iorilla, or a wild pirate. Your
head is flat enough on top, and
your ewes look Ike gimlet holes in
a boot heel"
The boy got out of the store inst
ahead of a Ratchet, and he stopped
and bought a pound of chocolate
caromels for to become a skeleton
on.