The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-03-09

arms resting on the table and, as looked at them
l unused "Ah to be choked TO death by those
arms would be q euthanasia that god might pray
| for"
81 have been down into the woods" said I.
"Have your" she asked with interest. (Which
way?"
"Of to the left of the turnpike"
did you hear bell?"
NO" answered, with flush, did you ring for
me at supper timer"
"Oh, no. my little cow failed to come up this
evening, and didn't know but you might have
heard her bell. Pa gave her to me when she was a
calf, and have nursed her almost ever since. Let
me give you some more coffee"
mo, have plenty, thank you. The woods are
beautiful at this time OF year.
Yes" she replied, taking her arms oil the table
and smoothing back her hair.
Full of poetry" | remarked.
Yes, and snakes" she reioined
| wanted TO butt my head against the wall. Was
il impossible for me to interest her?
"Your uncle does not seem TO think that the
young ladies of to-day are equal to those of years
ago"
"Unele Buck cannot realize that this is 1888
instead of ls49. lie remembers his keen enjoy ment
OF life when ne was young and not knowing that
much of his lack of pleasure results from the fact
that he is getting Old finds fault with things of the
present Pa is not that way. There is none OF the
old tOgy about him. To him the lost pleasures of
youth are made good by books that he has learned
TO love-"
W Hcu We went INTO the pATlOF l was introduced
to Miss Annie Bumpus and to Captain Joe jimmy
and Major Eli Hammonds Miss Bumpus' life
spanned many wheat harvests, yet she affected the
ways of kitten. To her every thing was delight
full, or magnificent, or awful. She had buttermilk
eyes and raveed rope hair, long neck, thin chest
and happened to notice-long and shapecss feet.
Contrary TO what might expect, her COM
pexion was not pale, but was of uneven reddish
brown, and was subject to many variations. She
was unquestionably in love with Joe jimmy.
Mao dc MI IF IL
and SO strong hold did this fancy take upon me
that should not at any time, have been surprised
had he cried, "mck, mick" and then rammed his
head against the wall. He getting along IN
years, and his whiskers were streaked with gray
He was inclined to be nervous, and would occa-
sionally shift his position with sudden jerk. When
he chewed tobacco, which he did almost necessarily
he worked his jaws like goat, and when he wanted
to spit, desire which came to him whenever
a remark was addressed to him or whenever he
wanted to say anything, he would grasp his whis-
kers with one hand duck his head about, and then
spit at the fire place, regardless of distance lie
was from Virginia, was proud of his family, and
was fondly waiting, soon learned, for some rela-
tive to die and leave him estate. None of his
relatives had estates but in his easily encouraged
trustfulness, he believed that at least one of his
people would become rich and then die as matter
OF duty. lie lived in rented house and transcribed
deeds in the county clerks office in Emrvville
Captain Jimmy had been private in the Confed-
crate army and had lost his leg at the battle of
Manassas. He had been compelled to submit to
close an amputation that art could not in the way
of wood or cork, came to his assistance, so he
walked, and rather gracefully, too, with one
crutch. His head and face were large. He was not
tall, and hated the idea that he was gradually
increasing in flesh, and, above ALL oathed the idea
that he was becoming bald. Some one had told
him that he resembled the late Louis Napoleon,
and Immediately afterward he strove to heighen
the resemblance by training his whiskers and
moustache after the fashion of the emperor. In
deed, studious did he become in this direction
that he kept print of Napoleon banging near his
looking glass; that, in making his toilet he could
truthfully follow his pattern. He was extremely
neat in dress and wore his sleeves showed back
so that he might show his spotless cuffs He kept