The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-10-01
uuNTING PI.OvERMTExAs.

; In the gentle springtime the prairies
Of Texas, in some parts Of the state
are covered with AoWers and ployer.
Nothing more beautiful can be inaag-
med. When properly broiled tho plo-
yer has . more delicate flavor than
quail on toast and is 3 much easier
bird to shoot The plover il migra-
tory bird, like the Bank cashier. de
travels for his health. Il former days
3 great many birds came to Texas for
the benefitiof their health, and they
were not plCVer. either.
As soon IS + Is known in Austin
that the pioyer have arrived, 3 great
many people discover that they need
relaxation; 50 they hire spring wa
gon, and having Il loaded down behind
with demiiohne 50 that the vehicle tips
up in front. they drive out for days
When the plover see the delegation
Of visiting statesmen approaching they
do not take to themselves wings, like
riches, and fly away. It does not oc-
cur to the plover to initiate the quail
and the Jack rabbit and dee to the
mountains of Hepsidam. when 8 gen.
tleman comes around with gun and q
demiiohn. On the contrary, the plo-
yer sesm to feel that the visit Is COM
pliment to them personally. They
Strut about with their heads and their
tails up like militia generals. or as il
they owned the prairie. They, the
plover, not the militia generals, gaze
Is intently at the approaching vehicle
e. II they intended to have ono made
like it for their own use.
When the vehicle containing the
demiiohns has approached within fifty
yards, the plover huddle up together as
Il they were holding o consultation.
They bob their heads up and down as
Il they weresaying to each other: ''HoW
kind It Is for these city gentlemen to
come ont here and visit us. Perhaps
they viii invite Us to take ride with
them for the benefit of our health"
OF course, I will not assert positively
that the plover use these very words,
but they look as If they were saying
something a that sort. 1t is, however
Q matter Of history that the plover dc
get into the vehicle and ride home witt
the Nimrods-but / am anticipating
as we novelists say.
The supreme moment has now ar
| rived when the crisis can be no longer
averted. The plover, being stranger
in the country, do not believe that Tex
ans will shoot. The plover merely
look at each other, raise their eyebrows
and smile, as if to say: ''What new
political dodge is thisP" They do no
seem to anticipate any sudden chang
in the administration. They do no
seem to realize that they stand befor'
the country in the light of offensive
partisans and that they are liable to b.
| removed at any moment.
All at once the quietness of the prai
RE is broken by q volley of musketry
and then everything is still exceptin.
the wall of q wounded plover that pro
ceeds to accumulate space between
himself and the visiting statesmen. A
soon as the smoke of the battle ha
been lifted from the scene, the lat
plover are seen stretched on the flow
er-bespangled prairie in the cold EN-
brace of death. Their remains ar
placed in the vehicle, and then the rea
object of the expedition is disclosed.
One of the Nimrods winks and says
'tIs this a temperance picnicP" Anoth
or winks back and asks anxiously
What was it the governor of Mort
Carolina said to the governor of Sout
CarolinaP"
The large demijohn that looms u
in the back of the wagon like light
house on a barren island is tilted OVel