The Opelousas courier., 1895-05-18

- . II y 1 1 uuIu LUZ lIC DdSF
there in Geergy then, and 1 don't giv'
a CONT nenti al durn for him dowr
here at Dooley's Cross Roads now"
Played a Waiting Game.
Thus and SO the game stood for year!
and years. The Milligans over at Doc
ley's Cross Roads and the Milligan:
down on Deer Creek didn't mix ano
mlngle and keep company together very
much to speak OF. John Henry talked
d heap with his mouth around amongs,
the neighbors and tried his level bland
est to put out some scandalatious re-
ports on old man Ieb. and old nan Zct
he paid his double-breasted compli.
ments to John Henry in plain United
States without any Bibls words to
speak Of And naturally of course in
the run of time they 1prkel up a terri.
BILE high pitch Of haM and rivalmen.
amongst themselves, and the family
split got worse and worse and still more
wider every day.
Finally at last one day old man Zcb
sent for me in a monstruus hurry to
WAN IVA w thC NIosS hOduS llRHt
away Immediately. which he wanted to
hold a little confabulation with me.
When got over there the old man was
walkin up and down his front plaza,
Awavin his hands and gesturin and talk
IN to himself and c%arryin on at a high
add furious lick. He was so mortal
mad till he was foamin at the Mouth
anN cussin John Henry for every Twin
thing he could lay his togue to.
IF | cap but only live twelve months
longer I'll be doub1y dndburned if I
don't scotch the snake and kill it too"
says he. "Some people have called mo
everything they could think of, Rufe,
exceptin a fool. but if I can't beat John
Henry out at his own game, then I am
not only a natural. born fool, but the
durndest biggest fool-and more diff
ferent sorts Of a fool-that ever lived IN
this green old world"
wondered in my soul what in the
thnnderations had got the matter with
Old man Zeb all of a sudden! and I
didn't have to wait SO very long to find
out.
II have found out the whenceness az
to what brought John Henry into these
parts, and likewise also the wherefores
of his hangin around here so Internal
reglar and constant" the old man went
on presently. "He had found out some
how back there in Georgy that l was
tolerable well fixe1 in regards to this
worlds goods, and somebody must of
told him how l come by the old Callins
plantation down on big Wolf creek.
You see the plantation come down 10
us through my good wife 10 Anna,
which you understand she was a CAL
Inns before we married. The old Cal
Inns plantation, which is way yonder
the finest in these diggins, has come
down from one generation to the next
all along the line, and accordin to the
will of old man Asey Callins when we
are dead and gone it will go to the nest
of kin. The Callinses are all now dead
and buried, you understand, and me
and 10 Anna amt got no children to
take MISREPRESENTATION when we are
gone. Whereas if somethin can't be
done to block the game the man that
calls himself John Henry Milligan,
which he don't look like the Milligans
and have some durn serious doubts in
the case, will move his wasfin right on
down to the old Callins place, the finest
and most richest plantation in this
country. Somethiu must be done,
Rufe. Me and 10 Anna are both knock
in along down towards the foot of the
hill-both of us turned seventy and liv-
in on borrowed time right now. But
your uncle Zeb Milligan amt gone no
where's as yet, Rufe, and somethin must
necessary compelled to be done in or
derment to scotch the snake and kill it.
Proverbly John Henry thinks he can
play a waitin game and win that plan
tation. Well, proverbly he mought,
and then again proverbly he mought,
not. But at any rates if l can have my
own way about it, Rufe, that planta-
ton never will be handed down to a
that spells his name Millican, but
is neither r~ed-headed nor f~rechly-face-
ted nor web-footed.'
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