Huntsville gazette., 1889-06-29

reflection 'It happened the night o. AleclE
Simpsons birthday party. Aleck had kind
o. give out that his party was to be one Of
the finest affairs they'd seen in that neigh
borhood, and so Imade preparations accord
ingly. I'd got the promise Of Emily Peters
company. Emily was smart little critter
goin' on seventeen, and the purtiest gal in
the county. All the boys were wild over
her. Her checks minded you of straw
berries and cream and she had way OF
! fashin' her big brown eyes at a feller that
used ter set my heart a thumpin' like a
woodpecker hammerin' on a holler limb.
II hitched the sorrel colt up to pap's new
| top buggy, and l jist calculated me an
Emily d lay 'em all in the shade. knowed
the other fellers 'ud be jealous Of me for a
month to come. But we had ahttle spat on the
way and by the time we got to the party l felt
more like layin' down in the haymow than
goin' in 'mongst the crowd. l could a stood
it though if Emily hadn't got up Irritation
with Fred Gibbs, q spindle-shanked leather
head that despised top O. the earth, and
give me to understand that she was goin'
nome with him.
''That list made me red hot [ went out
doors and sot to work to think up somo
plan of revenge. BY and by the thought
struck me that / could get even with Fred
and Emily and have great joke on 'em at
the same time by stealin' the bars often
Fred's front buggy-wheels SOS the buggy
d tumble down with EN- on the road home,
and l went right straight to tend to il.
After I'd throwed the bars over into the
cow-lot | went off and laughed till was
sick, a. thinkin' how Fred and Emily "a
be piled out on the prary and have to walk
home.
''Soon as I could straighten my face up
went in and cut sich splurgc among the
girls that | reckon | must y made Emily
| jealous; anyways, she left Fred and kind
O. made up to me. BY the time we was
ready to 90 home we was as sweet on one
another as though nothin' had happened
''The first half mile of our road was
smooth as floor, but | didn't hurry none.
told Emily the sorrel colt was young and
1t wouldn't do to drive him too fast, and
she lowed was right.
"We got along splendid till we came to
little creek we had to ford. AS the wheels
went down the bank there was q Jolt and
then wobble, and out we went into the
creek, ker-chunk. Jeminyl You could
a. heerd the screech Emily give as sha
souseG into that icy water clean over into
the next county. felt like hollerin my
self, only my mouth was 50 full Of mud and
| gravel / couldn't. Quick IS | could | helped
Emily out. BY that time we could hear the
sorrel colt a-tearin' down the lane half
mile away, jist tlickety-brindle; 50 there was
nothin' left to do but walk back to Simp-
sons. 1t was along towards the latter eend
| Of October, and our clothes froze stiff.
Emily's mouth must "a froze shet, too, I
reckon, fer she's never spoke to me to this
day. OF course / felt awful, but fer all
that 1 couldn't help chuckl1n' every time I
thought of the trouble that Fred and his
girl 'ud git"
"Did Fred's buggy wheels come off in the
creek, too2" asked Bronson, after waiting
| in vain for the old man to finish41is story.
| ''Noap. Didn't come off at all. Ye see,
Fred's buggy stood right side o. mine that
night; il was darker N a sack o. black cats,
and was in a dreadful hurry, and-well,
| sle fact O. the matter is, / fixed the wrong
| buggy G. F. CARTER.