The Opelousas courier., 1894-12-22

ell. IA.n 70 Miss S"eetie ~closter than a
ha.t3tl 20 Il pan of milk. He is
49, iIght no" this very minute cause
n a:M nun about first dusk tutin his
"s NJ ~ that direction to beat the devil.
so" snosln about 10. o'clock tonight
DIG man Hank was I'd drive IN IN frent
on his own door at his oyyn homa md
.olief whoa there Kit:-what do YOU
reckon would then ,cortts:s IL bass aroi,nd
.hem premissss3 There lest simply amt
nc tei1ln. boys. what all would come to
pass under them circumstances, but if
Q will both enter the game and &C
with me I'll be doubly dadbu-n II We
oont n out, #ilf put on the gear
hnd let San all hitch me IN to this
wsS1n, and here we go. No difference
II ola man Hank is froze up and wealth
CT y over in the hill country. he
oag maybe happen to come home
uhDeknoWance to his folks. and you can
see That the general circumference of
the calamity would be about the
same.:' WAN
Right here I am bound to own up
ma 1t want nd very big job for Andy
70 rope me and Blew into the harmless
sittle game like that. and so a few
minute before 10 o'clock we hooked up
rolled off towards the Willis place.
And it Come to Pass.
According to our private arrange,
ments Inc and Blew went on ahead 80 "a
TO be on the grounds when Andy pulled
up and take good notice of what would
come to pass. 1t was then pitch dark
out doors, but q bully bright fire was
burning ia the company room. and
IN re set julie and Miss Sweetie courtin
Ald lallagagin and ~carryin on to beat
Eobtail,
presently here come Andy. hitched up
! the wagon, talkin to himself and
fi"ckln and goin with Kit for all the
world exactly like old maj Hank Will
lis. The house set clost out to the big
road and Andy ratified up rights before
the front door. He kept a mighty rat
tin with the trace chains, and then all
OF q student he dropped the shaft down
aud hollefed who there Kit?' at the
Top of his voice.
Now, my hearers. maybe you mought
think something didn't drop through
the back door about that time; but I
rather think it did, and to the best of
my knowledge and belief it was julie
Majors. He went out like a cat shot in
the back with a quart of eight ounce
tacks. He lit in the back yard head fore
most, when he did hit the grit he hit it q
pitching and a flynn. Old mai Hank
three or four terrible bad dogs III tho
back yard and about this time they
jined in with the general performance.
In his big hurry to move his washin
away from the Willis place julie run
into a wash pot full of fresh soap and
{@r.n loxr,- fv-o r~-rJr 10 4l- ~aJa
palms, and finally at last he was neces.
spankin new hat and about three rear
sections of his Sunday breeches for the
yard dogs to chaw on in during of his
absence.
l thought in my soul that Andy and
Blew would have to turn loose and lay
down and laugh themselves to death
and die. All the lights in the house
went out by hat time, and 500 as we
could unhitch Andy from the wagon we
made a break and put out down the
road towards home. When we got
in the bottom across the mill branch we
slowed UP. cause that was also the road
to the Majors place and it was more
than probable to us that julie would be
comm along now presently. And torect-
ly here come julie down the road, run
min like a quarter horse and putin and
BLOWN worse than a pair of forty horse
power bellows. BY this time it seems
like he had likewise also lost one shoe,
and with marry sign of a hat and only
the shattered remains of his breeches
he was runnin throw nov and ice half
leg deep and sweatin great drops of cold
perspiration.
Whats the use to hurry off in the
heat of the day without your blanket?"
as julie run up into the crowd lookin
like a scared rabbit.
But amt this bully weather for
%courtin and stayin out late at night?'
says Andy.
WHATS all the good news over at the
Willis placer says L.
We went on carding julie in that way
till it looked like he wanted to fight,
but of Jul that was all vanity.
You fellers can talk big and poke
fun at me this time says julie present
ly. but if you only but knowed what a
through tonight you would wonder how
l come out Twin and not dead" And
with that he pulled out in a swinging
trot for home. There Blew and Andy
laid down right there in the snow and
rolled and laughed all over themselves,
and | had to stop and wait till they
could git enough and quit.
i Il \
1t Was Always So.
To hear Andy Lucas tell it the next
day, it was the durndest most strangest
thing that had ever come to pass in the
Rocky Creek settlement-the way his
one-horse wagon got ove to the Willis
place the night before. 1t was jest
simply way yonder past his general un-
-derstandin, and If he could only but
prove up the facts in the case somebody
would have to tote q blame good lickin.
But when julie Majors found out that
old man Hank Willis was still weather
bound somewheres over in the hill coun-
try, and likewise also that a one-horse
wagon belongin to Andy Lucas was
found standin at the front gate over at
the Willis place the next mornin, he
didn't need no slate and pencil to figger
out the facts with. He went about
mighty nigh spilin for a fight two or
three weeks, but / reckon he didn't
know who to start with-Blev or Andy
or me-and there want no tellin exactly
how long it would take him to git
through with the job. So / reckon he
must of come to the conclusion that it
mought maybe be best for him to turn
around and go back before he started.
So far al anybody knows of julie Ma
bors never did go back to see Miss
Sweetie any more after that, and hence
forwards from then on he has been
dead square agin Andy Lucas in every
thing that comes along. If Andy was
to take up a notion tomorrow and go
and join the church julie would call for
his letter and take out and quit inside
of next week. About the onlyest thing
that would make a Democrat out of julie
Majors would be for Andy Lucas to
dron tho old Aaer and mt bic mernhor.