Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-01-01
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"What Is it about your pa and ma
having . scrappng match In car at
the depot the other day said the
groceryman to the bad boy, as he
showed up with his market basket one
morning fhe man at the depot
who sings out for trains says your pa
tried 70 kiss an old maid and she
scratched him, and then your ma
Jawed him, and be jumped on the
car and let your ma go On to Chicago.
Your pa must be an old heather, !"
and the groceryman took knife and
began to whittle the lead cut OF the
bottom OF . two-pound weight.
sWell, You would dide il you
had been there, said the bad boy as
he cut OF q piece of sausage and be-
gun to unbutton its overcoat With .
knife. "You see ma Was going to
Chicago to buy some cheap comfort
ers for beds, cause she read in q
paper that comforters that was in q
fire, and was watersoaked and smelled
frowy, could be bought at your own
lprice, and she said they were good
enough for boarders. l and pa went
down to the depot to see her off.
We went in the car and got ma seat
and pa went out to get mas valise
checked. | though pa would come
back just about the time the train
started, SO I told ma she better take
a seat way back in the stern Of the
car. cause it would be out Of the
draft, and just as she got up u
change an old maid about a hundred
years old came in the car with a bas.
ket and lot OF things, and said,
Madame, you can have this seat,
and she thanked me and squatted
down IN 1t. Honest, l hope to die Y
thought pa would come in and hrle
the oid-maid, but pa is getting kind
OF nigh-sighted, and when he showed
up in the door OF the car my hessr'
thumped 80 l could hear 1t. de VA
walking up to the old maid and look
ing smiling, and ma said, You bettel
go and tell your pa that i havt
changed my seat, and l started t.
tell pa, but didn't hurry. Dom
you know a boy sometimes fingers
when he ought to be quite sudden
Pa says he can see just as well as h'
ever could, and 1 know darn sit
hetter. He gets mad every time an.
OF us tells him he Is losing bis eye
tsighe, and when saw him going N
to that centennial female, looking q
though he had known her since tn
war, thought it would be goot
time to demonstrate to pa that hi
eyes were a little on. y, but dldn'
she look sassy at him when he said
Here's check got for you SO yo'
wouldn't get lost. Just then tn
conductor shouted all aboard, an'
pa took hold OF the strange woma
by both sides OF her head and pulle'
her mouth around and said, Com
back at S:l5 to your own chicks
blddy, and then he smackedeher 9
that people In the car all heard u
hopsst, the conductor outside hear
it and thought it was the air brak
busted. Well, l don't know th
woman hit pa, but 1t seemed q
though she must have rared right q