The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-06

back. But the wilder didn't, an tool
Simeon Puterbow ipste'd. An she'd {
married him, too, an Simeon d Der
right in clover, if he hada't pooled al
my ancister, and had plugged his bar
full O. lead.
Simeon KEEP the bar tied to a pole
an one mornin' he got up an foune
that the bar had slipped the rope Offer
his neck, an were roamin' round the
premises. But be didn't seem to want
to go way, an didn't make no objec
ton to bein' tied up ag'in- This nice
an peaceful way o the bar made ST
neon larf more an more at wat my an
cister said.
why says he, that bar wouldn',
ez much ez scratch dog, let alone
clutch me-
g 4 didn't say he'd clutch yer says
my ancister. But bewar', Sineonr says
he. That bar mebbe won't eat We, but
wussr says he.
Long about then some one took to
stealin' sheep from the clearin's an get
tin away with 'em. Two or three chaps
ez lived in the deestric' was suspicioned,
but tina couldn't nothin' be found ag'i
'cm. Nothin' were talked 1bout but
the sheep stealin,' an one day my an
cister were to Simeon's an he saws to
Simeon:
It'll go hard with that sheep-steal-
in cuss wen we ketch him. says he.
It'll be states prison fer him from the
word CO. says he, If it's fer twenty
year, says he.
| MY ancister recommended AFTER
w'ds that the bar wer lynn down ez if
| he were snoozin'; but when my ancis-
ter said them words the bar opened his
| eyes an looked up student and queer.
Then he riz up pooty soon, an took to
thinkin' like, now an then turnin' his
eyes to'ards Simeon.
=" Simeon says my pop, 'bewar' O
that bari says he.
''Poofr says Simeon, an my ancister
went away. The mex day he started
fer trip down the river with raft,
an he were gone three weeks. The day
arter that Job Sawyer, ez lived mex to
Simeon, got up at daylight and went
out to his sheep pastur', an, b'gosh,
three O. his sheep was gone. He foun'
the trail O the thief an follered it till it
stopped.
"'Great spooksv says he. who'd a
thun4 it?'
$50 Job goes right back an wakes up
Squire Colduff an says he wanted a
war'nt. ez he had diskivered the sheep
thief The squire asst him who, an
wen Job told him the squire most fell
often his cheer. But he give Job the
war'nt, an Job went an woke up ST
Salter, the constable, an they started
to git the sheep thief. They went
straight to Simeon Puterbow's. Fore
they woke Simeon up they stopped at
his milk house. There hung Jobs three
sheep! An they was skinned. Then
they went to the barn. There was the
three pelts often them sheep layin' on
the barn floor! That's all they wanted.
They got Simeon up, sarved the war'nt,
an marched him off, spite of all he
could say. Job said arterw'ds that ez
he were gettin in the wagon he looked
back an see Simeon's bar dancin
round his pole an a-huggin' of hisself
ez if he was Dustin with Joy over
sumpin'; but Job said7he didn't think
nuthin' of 1t, bars bein' queer.
"Wull, they made short work o.
Simeon. Tha couldn't be no goin' back
on the sheep bein' found in Sirneon's
milk house an the pclts in his barn.
Court sat in three weeks, an they give
Simeon four years. The news got back
to Sugar Swamp jist ez my ancister got
there from his trip down the river He
hadn't heerd a word about Simeon bein'
arrested nor nothin', an wen he heerd
the news he were jist goin' inter Sine
on's yard, ez he were anxious to Parn
how he were gittin' along with the
bar. The bar were layin' down by its
pole an my ancister stood lookin' at it,
ponderin' like, wen Job Sawyer kim
along an hollers out to him:
" 'Hooray! Simeon goes to jail for
four years! Hoorayr
with that the bar jumped up an
begun to dance an hug hisself, an
most hollered hooray, too.
81 warned him. my ancister hol-
Tered I warned him ag'in that bar,
but he pooled at me! The bar stole
them sheep an put it onter Simeon!
Sure ez guns, the bar stole them sheep
an put it onter Simeon
1.-The bar quit dancin' an huggin'
itself, an laid down lookir' sneakin'.
Ny ancister tried his best to git Simeon
off, but everybody larfed at the idee of
bar stealin' sheep an putin it onter
some one else. an it want no use.
Course, the Widder Sluppy throwed
Simeon up right away, an the onfortnit
man who pooled at the warnin' of nv
ancister, who know'd bars from A to
lizard, an know'd that bar that were
ketched asleep were bound to git even
with his ketcher even if it had to make
him out sheep thief. had to serve out
his time. Squire, the bes' thing you
kin do is to send this here Joe Ball
warmth"
There was a spell of silence, and
then the Squire grunted disdainfully,
and said,
Simeon Puterbow were an ancister
O. mine. an it's queer l never heerd
nothin' bout bar maxim him out
sheep thief
What" exclaimed the Old Settler. I
Simeon Puterbow an ancister o. !
your'n! Wull, wuli! Kin it be, then.
that the bar didn't steal them sheep
arter all?"-Ed Mott. in y. y. Sun
Insurance Is thoughtful provision |
For the unfortunate and The frebuc
Little Piece OF Philosophy.
II deeds were easy IS they seem,
And words as .orccful as they sound,
Then lie would be Joyous dream,
o. pleasures an uneuding round
Truth /