Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-08

mind don Z know the heart can t RreiVe.
Come on, lets see them off. -
The little procession was just trotting
down into the bottom. The boys were
barely in time to see the last of them.
"'That's Mr.. Cobbs on the lame mule,
ain t it? Say, that mule can out jump
airy boss on the place. said drawing
voice at CHS elbow; and the man called
Mitchell sat down beside the two boys.
Both of them turned on him eyes full
of interest. "Oh, Mr.. Mitchell, - cried
Ally, eagerly, yet trying to be cautious,
''did you hear anything or lot of folks
going to lynch old man Dawsey. last
night.
Mitchell whistled. "Well, now, even
the kids have got onto to it. Yes there
ben considerable of crowd round thar,
las night. rid up thar myself hearin
thar was likely to be O row. But some
how the old man didn't been at home;
and Mr.. Cobbs he Quoted them down all
right. Some folks sayd the old man got
warning, some way. Anyway, he'd lit
a shuck and thar wasn't nary critter
about
"Then they didn't do nothin?'' said
Ally, his mind divided between relief
and a certain disappointment. "Of
course l didn't want them to do any
thing - he added, quickly.
eva al no, nothin' was did. Looked
like thar wasn't nothing to do. Some
way he ID cl Jared out all his stock. Did
hear he sole some of 1t almighty cheap
to Mist Cobbs and that mule he had,
they was sayin', had run of. Sam was
for burnin'l down the house, but Mist
Cobbs, dissuaded 'em. He kin talk,
cayn't her 1 don't guess airy mother
man eud of quoted them dsrkeys down
like he done. An yet they say he's
plum agin niggers tew, doan' like t.
have 'em roun -
'That's Il lie, - said Ally calmly.
'Why, understood he ben havin'
trouble with some of the niggers, Sim
mons an Hotchkiss and some others. -
''That was only cause they were so
trifing an6 let their pigs into his gar
dem
''Oh, that war it, war it?" said
Mitchell with the air of one convinced,
'toby shore. Wa-al, he's a mighty
nice man, MIST Cobbs is, and right
good rider. Kinder funny he likes that
mule much better N boss, and it lame,
tew.'
at can tire out any horse on the
plantation, for all its hip Short said
Ally, "and 1T terrible fast, too. -
"shucks! He's fast, you say.
Reckon you all don't let him stay in the
bottom. Keep him up in the stable.
Cobbs would hate terrible to have any
thing happen to him, judge.
''Well, l should say so" Ally agreed
warmly; "Cobbs was out all night
hunting him once, when he broke loose
from the barn and run off. -
o6nIl rrit
flatterIng interest.
the next day. He just naturally jumped
over the fence and lit out
mot that big picket fence? Well, 1
couldn't believe that less somebody saw
it,
"Cobbs saw it himself; he was
there"
"Anybody slse?''
Ally resented the implication of the
question. He answered holly: "C1bbs
word is good g dozen. He was there.
"Oh, L ain Z meanin' to impugn Mr..
Cobbs' word, - Mitchell fastened to say.
ar was just asking, that's all. Does the
mule do such tricks much!' He was now
addressing Cecil.
az don It know Cecil answered. ''I
never heard of any of them before. He
must have done high jumping before
came.
at was the night before you came"
said Ally. Then he laughed. IAN sorts
OF things happened that night, kukluxes
and everything.
"To-by shore,' said Mitchell, ''but
1 csynt get over that big jump. That
fence must be rising of six feet. He's
mighty nimble mule.
s'He ain 4 SO nimble as Mr.. Hender-
son, Aunt Valleys mule, said Ally.
"He's Mr.. Henderson IS brother.
kinder queer name for mule, Mr..
Henderson,
''They call him that cause he's so
sharp-smart' man, papa said, and
he named him Mr.. Henderson; his name
was Rube Henderson to start with. Why,
he is the schemeisst fellow Every place
he ever goes TO and stops he knows and
you take him by that place again, he'll
stop"
"Bsd beast to ride If your doing
meanness, - said Mitchell.
Ally laughed, but Cecil was struck by
q new idea which made him very grave
and silent, and rather relieved when
Mitchell was called away to shoe some
body's horse.
Then his new idea was given TO Ally.
''Ally. that fellow was just pumping
usi'
Ally whistled.
"'why would he want to pump u.s..
81 don't know. But ! am sure he
was. -
Such an answer from Illogical Sally
would have met q prompt demand for
some reason; but Cecil, who lived North
and had crossed the ocean, and knew
how to do examples in interest in the
arithmetic, was quite different person.
'Come to think of it, he was kinder
insisting with those questions of his, {"
said ALLY mnsingly.
could he suspect Cobbs, by ehance7p
Ally's stolid blue eyes kindled; his
light eyebrows met; he exploded st
once; ''Suspect Cobbsl well, he must
be fooll''
sob. don't say he does. but he