The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-10

1 DON'T care so much what she's Ike as
do about her daddy; and have often
thought that could look at gal and
tell all about her daddy. just nachul-
ly want the old man to be hummer.
reckon must be sorter crazy on the
subject"
''Ain't 1t money you're after?' Bill
asked.
mo, I don't care if the old man
hain't got cent. jest want him 10
be different from other folks. don't
know why I'm that way, but I am and
1 can't help it. Oh, could have
married lots of putty girls with money
and bosses and all that sort of thing,
and 1 like them well enough, under
stand, but wouldn't marry 'em be-
cause their daddies didn't strike me
right-had nothin' to distinguish
themselves with, SO to speak. Well,
he added, getting up and stretching
himself, ''reckon I'll go up yonder on
the hill and sorter look round. may
like up there and may not; can't
tell. Do you s'pose the old mans at
home?"
Yes. and the girls there, too"
''Oh, don't care whether 1 see her
or not. Well, believe I'll go up and
sorter prod the old teller. Mebby he'll
satisfy me and mebby he won't. Good
day"
He sauntered up the hill The old
colonel was standing at the gate.
Glow are you?"
"Mid'lin'," said the colonel. The
.lank fellow placed an elbow on tho
fence, ''wollopped" his tobacco about
in his mouth time or two and lazily
Hooking up at the colonel remarked:
81 don't live in this here neighbor.
hood Live good ways from here.
Yes, and lowed that before the sea-
son got busy again. I'd drap over
here and gether me up chunk of a
wife"
1.-THE hi you did" the colonel ex.
'claimed.
eyes, before the season gets busy
again But I'm mighty hard to
please, tell you Don't care much
about the girl, though. A Teller down
yander advised me to come up here and
marry yo' daughter, but 1 replied that
/ was so blamed particular ="
They picked up the lank fellow and
hauled him to boarding house. And
when he came to he made certain in.
quiries concerning. himself and then
said that he reckoned that it was all
right. He said that some men had one
way Of handling q subject and soma
another. "We live and learn" he res
marked. ''Ef we furgit somethin' to-
dav we're mighty apt to think of some
thin new tomorrow"
The old colonel called on the fellow;
he was as tender hearted as he was PEE
culiar. The lank man forgave him and
they talked pleasantly of the shooting
scrapes they had seen; and an intimacy
of pity on one side and peculiar aim.
lessness on the other grew between
them. One day the lank man, sitting
in a rocking chair at the window
looked up after few moments of pom
,dering and remarked:
Colonel, 1 wouldn't marry you,
daughter, sir"
"Well, CAD, that's cool. Wouldn't
marry her? Why, hang it, you have
never seen herl'
81 know, but that don't make any
difference, since she'd have nothing to
do with it anyway. have discovered
that there amt nothin' remarkable
about you, anyhow. don't know of
more ordinary man than you are, and
couldn't afford to have you for daddy.
tin-law."
"Why, you impudent scoundrel, I'm
the most prominent man in this COM
munity; and, CAD, sir, I'm kin to the
Peppers"
II don't care If you are kin to the
lettuce and the onions, you don't strike |
me as amountin' to much. No, don't |
want your daughter"
"Why, confound your lank picture,
if you bully me I'll make you take |
her"
"Oh, reckon not"
"What. Now look here-I never |
was bullied in my life and never intend |
to be. Blast me if you shan't marry
her this very day. I'll teach you to |
come bullying me, you good-for-noth-
ing wretch"
The old man went away snorting, |
and the fact is that the lank fellow |
and the girl We're married that very |
day; and now everybody is laughing at |
the colonel. for the peculiar fellow and
the girl had been engaged to each other
for more than year.