The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-02-08
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ilits lit ever useu common slang
orvulgare expressions, or horse-iocke.
language like that man you're al
ready to run after all over the coun
try?"
NO. reluctantly.
"You never heard him d a big
big d, even on the ballfield when h
was hit on the head with n foul tina
nearly killed him, and yet the mel
with whom you play tennis Otter
swear the most wicked swears whel
they missa ball?"
"Yes; to be sure"
and he's much brighter than thu
usual run isn't he?"
"Ob, he's all that" im~patiently
"but we don't like him; we dom
want him; We can get better ones"
81 suppose those are the eighteen
year-olds, who always have the tops
of their mouths, because it's such 6
short time since they gave up the
bother" and with this Parthian shaft
the defender of Jones withdraws in
wrath. to her tent.
She fought for Jones single handed
against all the feminines and most
of the m~asculines' of her world. She
danced with him whenever she could,
and created much gossip and some
ill-humor. In one or TWO cases she
suffered sights through her unfortun.
ate protege. OF these she C told
me with rage and fury.
She had a lover, an agreeable,
harmless, and rather vapid young
man, who, like Football, was the
pride.
1t rarely obtruded itself, but it was
ingrained in his nature. In the depths
of his heart he thought that the dam.
sci to whom he offered his empty
but aristocratic hand should sink
down in a joyous swoon, like Esther
before the raised sceptre ofAhasuerus.
fancy, but it CALLED him to have to
acknowledge the plebeian Jones as
q rival. He plotted to overthrow
him.
One evening, at u dance, the lady
sat in a corner, Jones beside her, and
llerfoot on thelowerrungot III empty
chair. To occupy this throne did
her other admirer seriously incline.
He looked upon itlongingly and cog
itated. Finally, he determined on q
bold coup, crossed the room, sat
down on the vacant chair with his
back to Jones (Of whom he took no
notice., and cut their talk in twain.
His manner showed plainly his inten-
ton of freezing the other out by ig-
noring his presence. With commend
able GOODNESS he grabbed the CONVEX
sation, and before they could recover
from their mental collapse, had di-
rected it in q course unknown to
Jones. Such was the situation when
the lady said in tones of ice: Mr.. So
and-So, don't you know my friend,
Mr.. Jones?'
The high-born youth blushed to the
parting on his brow, and said, witha
halfnod: ''Mr. Jones-happy to
meet you"
Then there was an awful silence.
The lady bit her lips in rosy anger,
the man of lineage felt himself at a
disadvantage. Jones alone remained
imperturbable, but there was that in
his concentrated gaze, which said:
''Come one, come all, this rock shall fly
From it's firm base as soon as l."
It was the aggressor who eventual
ly fled from the firm base of the
coveted chair, frozen by the ice re-
serve of his divinity, who would hard
ly look at him. She subsequently
dragged him ANONYMOUSLY at her
chariot-wheels, which is a poetic way
of saying that she wiped the ground
with him." This is an archaic GUS
tom, which dates from the day when
Achilles dragged dead Hector round
the walls of Troy.
At another time, also a dance, she
sat c%onversing with an admirer and
an incipient admirer. In their charm
ing circle Jones penetrated; suing for
dance. He sat down and the
introduced him to her COM
panions. The admirer was polite in
his Acknowledgements, the incipient
admirer suddenly stiffened as though
The lady walked off with the
cause of stiffness. LEFT alone" said
the I. A. to the A.
"What induces Miss Brown to en-
courage that man so? He's simply
insupportable. That's the third
I've been introduced to him, and
always cut him the next day."
"Why?"
"Oh-I don't know-most of the
do"
II see; it's the correct thing !"
Here the A. saw his loved one
out of breath, by a pillar,
Jones gone on a quest for a leraon-
ade, and he flew to join her and i'm
part the above conversation as
particularly choice.
And after all this she married Jones?
Alas, no! There comes a time when
finite benevolence ceases to exist
San Francisco Argonaut.