The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-13
YELLOW WHEELS"
Joe Jefus' Hatred for Them and
Their Owner.

Joe Jefus drove a coal team, a grea,
numbering t%wo-horse coal team, and
every day OF his life, Sundays ex-
ceptcd," perched high above his bust
ness, he Numbered with his dusky load
through the streets of the busy town.
One large concern used quantities of
soft coal, and Joe had found out that
the easiest haul there and back was
along the fine broad avenue where
those who owned trotters speeded
them, and those who did not sat upon
the fences and made disparaging re-
marks.
But OF all those who flow past Joe as
he labored along the road, not one ex-
cited his ire half so much as a man
with yellow wheels"
Sometimes it was a horse OF one color
and sometimes of another, but always
yellow wheels" Joe just hated the
very sight of him. He was so we'll
dressed, he was so self contained, his
team" was so spick and span, and he
drove so we'll that to himself Joe had
wasted upon him all the choice cpl
thets that he had learned in the army.
Joe Jeffus had driven a team OF
some kind ever since he could remcm-
her, and it was therefore most natural
that he and the war maturing about
the same time, he should enlist as a
WAGNER and become the driver OF a
mule team.
He saved his bounties and his pay,
and at the close OF the unpleasantness
concluded to settle down aud 90 to
work. But he missed being under Or
dcrs, and looking about him, wooed
and won his next-door ncighbor, a
fragile little light-haired factory girl,
and swOre allegiance to her for life.
His hands and face were not black
md grimy then. and his dark curly
hair crowned a head Of youthful, man
ly beauty.
Youth had long since gone from Joe,
the little light-haired girl had become
a delicate, ailinc woman, and his
r ~~o' and many a time as
he climbed up the dingy stairs to MS
attic home. The little woman"
though, had proved on the whole, a
good investment, Every month a lit
tie from his pay went into the great
stone savings bank in the center OF the
town.
"WOuldn't the time ever come" the
little m kept asking. when they
could buy the little corner lot they
could see from their windows. and over
which the soft summe breezes coming
up from the river kept the grass and
trees so green"
And then Joe would light his pipe
and go down and sit upon the door step,
md think. always think about the
yellow wheels"
Now this feeling was not so very
strange after all, for into every body's
life at some time or another, in some
way or another, there enters something
very, very nearly akin to the man with
yellow wheels" And so it came to
pass that n day succeeding the time
worn wish from his tired wife, that,
laundering along the avenue, he
sight OF his enemy.
He had pulled up toward the side
walk to see a man. A line OF heavy
a coming in the opposite
Joe kept bearing closer
and closer down upon the yellow
away from the approaching
he had taken in the situation
At a glance. The yellow wheels could
rasped and cut into by the end OF
MS clanking whifhetree, If the man
1idn't pull out literally upon the side
Now Joe could clear him lust
Is well as not il he wanted to; but he
,
Unconscious Of all this, the owner OF
he yellow wheels laughed and ,
,alkcd with his friend on the side
walk. On and on came Joe, his face E
than usual, threatenings and {
laughter In his heart and evil in his |
,ye. In less time than that it takes to
it tho heavy whifle-tree was play ,
ng hide-and-seek among the yellow t
the horse had jumped and
almost thrown out the man,
Knocked his hat off in the mud and +
'ut n foot squarely upon it, while
unconcernedly, face to the front, s
vas clanking along the road. Very
Don Joe knew the mar was coming
or him; he heard the horses hoofs
carer and nearer, and now the vel i
DIV wheels" were ahead Of his team. r
II say" said the man, what did a
GU do that for?" t
go long" answered Joe, appar- t
to his horses, really to the man. 3
II say" repeated the man. what h
i'd you do that for"
And then Joe. using the most iorci- 6