Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-26

but couldn't You marry a couple that loves
each other, if some ieller had lowed Ii
cense'd be needed an brung hit alonga
TwAp't my putt in. butt
Nor roared d Hydom. 'IH-
The next moment Wicks was sitting astride
of Mr. Hydom, whose face was crowded into
the dirt and leaves in a shameful manner.
Spite Nv the objections NV the girls
fathers" asked Wicks.
''If didn't hear them objections
To gnard against the possibility of Hy-
doms voice coming from the leaves and dirt
to the Justices hearing, Shores and Pottle.
the accomplished listeners, moved BY a com
mon impulse, stood upon either side of Long
Jim Each had finger in judicial ear
while the ceremony was performed that
made the clinging girl tho wife of the young
fellow from Ohio.
| "'Hain't my putt in, said Wicks, when the
| released Hydom had risen to his feet, but
man who roars that away is liable to strain
himself!7
The invectives and maledictions that the
blood and dirt covered man hurled at all
present did not disturb the equanimity of
any one but the girl, who now chung
trembling to her newly made husband.
Pack yerselves out o the country quick
as tracks kin travel, fer I'll make hit too
hot to hold yel I'll never forgive vel
PIP
'Hydom," said the justice, slowly, "you
wanted the law. Wal, the Revised Statutes
says that no man what won't forgive his
daughter that looks like-wal, hit says he
sha'n't never fish in Red Hoss creek from end
to end, an -
"An' mo AM Shores an Pottle will back
the Revised Statutes. an see that they all
enforced, broke in Wicks.
''Eou betm agreed the renowned listeners
''Never-fish-in Red Hoss-aginf gasped
old Hydom
"Noap!n
Ten minutes later, after casting his eyes al
ternately upon his daughter and upon tn,
placid, coffee colored surface of Red Horss
creek, Hydom grunted out a reluctant for
giveress for the young couple
Squire, said Wicks, I've heard that tn,
Revised Statutes have BEN repealed
''They have"
oval, good-hy, Ohio.' Long Jim called
were leaving, and Shores and Pottle wer
SSSbAAiS LA4tll Ililto Ilib lut hdltI again
Never had no use fer Ohio, nohow, but
wish you mighty well7
''Why is he so bitter against my slater tn
young groom asked presently.
wal answered Wicks, him an lee wen
out together an seems like hit was Obi
soldiers we was allurs fightin', an hit wa
Ohio soldiers that socked US into Ohio pris
on, an'-wal, he h'ain't had much use fe
| Ohio sence"
People say that l look very much as M
mother did at my age" said Bessie, presently
You do, answered Wicks. Me an Lon
Jim-wai, he was sorto half way engage
to her when the war broke out, an we stat
: In the Ohio prison so long everybody herr
{ abouts lowed We was dead, an when we &C
back yore NAV had married your paw, thai
He WANT never so mighty pretty, eithel
but a woman's''-
, She's buried on the slope in the shade u
3 the redbuds," interrupted Old Man Hydou
gravely.
II got married after a WHILE" went 0
Wicks, presently, 'but, some way, Jim neve
Q followed my example"
As the hook and sinker of Long Jim's lir
=, entered the water with a gentle ''plunk
o Pottle said, drawlingly:
k II reckon Wicks sorto loved that girl
1 mother long ago.
= Me an him was pardners them answere
4 the justice AM We both But whar VIZ
:, l in my story Oh, YES, as l was a-sayi
when they organized the Lazy Mans clul
3 the season that the seventeen year locusses e
Q up the crops, they 'lected Ike Rawson pres
dent Nobody else got a smell at holdin' IL
o office The badge Nv authority was b
d Barlow knife Wal, Ike was so lazy that
e wouldn't pack hit around. Tied string
g hit an had his little boy foIler him sbou
i a-draggin' the Barlow"
t The oft interrupted story was finished
u last, and Shores and Pottle the accomplish
listeners, gazed solemnly into the coffee hu,
l waters of the best fishing hole in all r,
y Horse creek, and, like patient Oliver Twis
waited for more.
''She looked like her mother they heal
Long Jim mutter. Then the capture of
catfish concentrated the attention of all up
% the business at bandit. ?. Morgan in Fra
:! Leslie.