The Yale expositor., 1894-11-16
ON HIS TRAIL.
The Ola Farmer Wanted n Settle ment
With tho Neartbrenker.

With the Ueartbreakor.
''Is this the place where people
come to relate shameful casesp" he
asked as he walked into the Central
station at 10 o'clock the other night.
The sergeant raised his head and
sized the caller up as man on the
downward side of life from a back
township, says the Detroit Free Press,
and quietly answered.:
Eyes, we listen TO shameful as we'll
as other kinds of cases. What have
you got to tell?"
my hull family has been shame
fully treated by Teller named Bill
II oyt, and want him arrested.n
| We'll, what did Bill Hoyt dop"
ale cum along to my place last May
a-seiiin' wire clotheslines and was
token sick. My wife she tended him
as IL he had been her own brother, and
cot up with him and klited on him
as ! would my own fathcS."
81 see."
"Bil was sick and layin around for
three months, and all the money he
ever offered me was $40. He had
chicken soup and custards and mashed
'taters and the best in the house, and l
told him he needn't worry about what
he owed. T'other night when j was
milkin', he came out in the barnyard
and asked for the hand OF my darter
Mary. He'd fell in love, he said, and
he wanted TO marry her right Off"
Il am listening" said the sergeant,
as the old man paused.
wall, ne talked so smooth and nice
and made SIGH promises, that told him
to 60 ahead. He said he was a leetlo
short o. cash; and / lent him $50 to
20 ahead with. Next day he started
for Detroit to git his clothes, and we
hainS seen hide nor hair of him since.
We've heard of him, though.
What did you hear?"
"l've got three gals-Mary, Sarah
and Jane. The blamed scoundrel
was engaged to marry all three Of
EN-, +"
| "No!"
True as You live! There are five
other gals in the nayburhood and he
had three of 'em on the hook as well,
maxim six gals he was gOin' to mar.
ry."
HE was hustler" said the SER
geant.
Eyes, he was. Yesterday my wife
owned up that he tried to coax hel
into elopin' with him, and the wife Of
one Of my nayburs says he writ hel
three love letters
| well, declare!'
"And we suspect he was also en-
gagged to the school teacher, in low,
With two hired girls and had his plans
; all laid TO catch a wilder. Isn't that q
shameful case?''
Il should say it VAST
There's sighin' and weepin' anC
iawin' and lamentin' fur six miles ur
and down the road, bat Bill Hoyt he
cometh not"
''And you want him eaughtPn
: Eyes, | want you TO ketch him.
think he's right here in town and en-
, gagin' hisSelf to a different woman
every day. If you ketch him wan
to be locked in a rooB with him ful
about fifteen minutes"
.'For what reason?"
, EUR the reason that | want to take
, of my coat, spit on my hands anc
} make him speech. | want to say e
him: Bill Hoyt, durn yer picter, you'v,
, rot TO produce them $50 you borrowed
o me or ia hammer We within an
, inch O. yer life"
but about his love-making?" asked
the sergeant.
!, "Wall, | dunno. Sometimes
kinder think / orter lick him fur
Dustin the hearts o. my three gals
} and agin feel kinder sorry fur a poor
cross-eyed Teller who has never known
mothers care. 1t will sort o. de-
pend, guess"
depend on whatp"
III he hands me over them $50 and
about 81 fur my trouble, and sorter
cries and says he's sorry and wishes
he hadn't done it, I'll probably let him
OFF, but. sir-but, sir"
''But what?" asked the sergeant. as
the old man pounded on the desk with
his fist.
"But. sir, shall give him TO en-
ohatically understand that the next
time he asks one O. my gals TO marry
him-one O. my gals, sir-thS very
next time. sir, he's either got to walk
up to the rack or-or-n
"Or WHAT"
"Or I'll hunt him down and tyxe
him by the throat and make il cost
him at least $24 to settle the case.
Yes. sir, I'll do it, sir, and goodnight
and ketch him if you kin, sir!''
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