San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-02-24
BROKE THE LAW,
While Trying to Break His Wife
From Flirting.

an kn0Wed 1t, so when she come
at me rough says, GO slow, Zeb,
go slow; de fault amt all hern.' /
wuz talkin' to myself.
"But she want sa'sfied wild dat.
She come at me origin, and dis time
wild de stove litter, and she ketched
me one in de jaw. See dar? AM
den-well, 1 laid dat Niger out"
Uncle Zeb Harris looked to be 90
years old, but he was a rugged,
stout old darby, and his temper
had not softened with age. His wife,
a buxom woman 10 years younger
than he, stood beside him. One of
her eyes had retired from view be-
hind two dark, swollen, overlap
ping lids; the other was bloodshot,
and was turned upon Zeb most I'M
amiably. She broke in on her hus-
bands testimony just here.
otis de bigges' o. all his big lies,
Jedge," said she. II nebber started
to hit him wild no stove litter. YO'
couldn't hurt his ole hard haid eff
yo' t'row a whole cookin' stove a.
him. De way of it was he come in
wild a load, ez he mos ingen'rlly
do, and he was hot about somepin,'
an he jis' took it out on me, that's
alp
Then Zeb took a hand In the
testimony.
"Nah, Jedgo," said he in a
wheedling tone, "you amt gwine
ter set dar an be bamboozled wild
sich stuff as dat. Dey CANT I'M
nerstan' nothin' an YOU can't
make 'em tell de troof."
"Troof! Good Gawd dat Niger
amt tole de troof sence he wuz
bawnw exclaimed Eliza, his
wife.
"Jedge, amt yo' gwine to make
Lily shet up till 1 git thought"
81 will, if you will hurry up and
say whatever you have tie say, but
/ will not promise to hold her
still all morning" said His Honor.
"Yassah, OATS all right. Noh l
want to tell you sompin else. Yo'
wouldn' think it NV woman o. her
age, but she's all time a-gallivant-
in aroun' wild yaller niger whut
works in de rest'unt naiX do FIN
whar we lives"
"Shut up, you lynn ole" -
"That will do, Eliza; wait till
your turn" said the court. But
Eliza's blood was up, and she
made jump at Zeb, as she shout
ed:
Judge, yo' tink goin' to STAN
heah an let dat black debbil SLAM
ner me like dat No, sab, PIP
At this junture Officer McGurkin
pulled her back to her place and
pressed his hand over her mouth.
"Ez l wuz a-gwine on to say"
continued Zeb dryly and calmly,
she got intir'ly too thick wild dis
here rest'unt Teller, an 1 tole her so
time an ergin, an she knows it
durn we'll"
Here Eliza made another demon
stration, but the officer who had
her in charge put forth his strength
and did his duty we'll.
"Now, den, eff yO' want to know
de trOof o. de trouble tween me an
Lily yistiddy, | tuck her to tas'
little bout bein' wild dis stray coon
so much.
"She lowed 'twa'n't none O my
business no how, an when said /
wuz gwine to make it my business
she lowed l was gOOd-P-nuthin'
low-down tramp, an OATS de rea-
son / mOnstrated wild her"
allow was it that you demon
strated with herr" the court then
asked.
"W'y, Jedge, jis' 'mOnstrated
wild her like anybody else would a
done it,"
"But how"
"W'y ledge, l jis' went to her
an jis' tuck her in ham, like L
ought"
"Did you strike her?"
Goose, Jedge, I had ter smack
her jaws, it was my place to do
dat, to Greet her as l am her hus-
ban'?"
Yes, but husbands are not al
lowed such privileges under the
law"
"Well, Pm at de fust NV dat, I
nebber heard o'such laws as dat.
WY dats interferin' wild de pus-
sonal rights NV citizen, aim it?
doan understan no SIGH law"
Nevertheless, you will have to
be governed by it," said the Court.
"NOw, Eliza, have you anything
further to say?"
McGurkin let Eliza loose, and
she bounded toward Zeb as though
to rend him, but she bethought