The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-09-12
TUCSON JENNIE.

"'whyever amt a married manT says
you" So spake the old cattleman as he
settled himself in a chair. Tho question
had just been asked him.
"Well," he continued, renectively, puff
1ng his pipo, II was dispisitioned that
away when I'm colt. But that's long
time ago, an I amt In line for no such
eymnastics no more. My years is way
agin IT.; likewise females. You've got
to ketch folks young to marry 'cm. After
they gets to be 80 years they goes slowly
to tho altar. If you make out to marry
n man after he's 80, you has to blindfold
him an back him in. Females, of course,
amt SO obdurate.
mo; l s'pose this yere bein married Is
o heap habit, samo as tobacco an bug
juice. A man takes hand carly; it's
oil right-way good gnme, makes no sort
Of doubt. But let him get to pestcrin
round In tho forties an him not begun
none yet, he don't marry nuthin. OF
course there is people that sordid they
takes to layin for some woman's stack,
wharby they oven makes such n desperate
play as marryin her to win; but mo an
you don't discuss no low games like that.
Bar onexplainablo difference with
tho girls old man, s'pose I'd be all mar
ried right now. / was maybe 90 them
times. 1t was way back in Tennessee
This girl WINS a nice, luscious girl-corn
fed too. They all lives about IL miles
from me, out on the Pine Knot pike, an
once In two weeks 1 saddles up an goes
over. Thar was jest her old man an
mother an her in the family, an it's that
far 1 alters made to stay all night. Thar
was only two beds, an so l put to camp
along of tho Old man, the times stays.
was way bashful an behind on all social
plays an plenty Gwestruck about tho old
folks. 1 never feel happy a minute
whero they are. The old lady alters docs
her hest to mako mo easy an free too.
Comes out when rides up an alters lets
down the bars for my hoss an asks me to
rest my hat the second I'm in the door.
"Woll, matters go on good enuf until
maybe the eighth time I'm thar. / remem-
bers tho night all perfect. Final gets
to sleep a-layin along the aigo of tho bed,
aimin to keep way from the old man,
who's snorin an thrashin round an takin
on over in the middle.
81 don't recall nuthin until comes to
a-holdin to the old mans year with ono
hand an a-hammorin of his features with
t'other. / don't know yet why-I s'pose
gets to allowin hos tryin to kill me.
"Well, son, it's way back long time,
mans language. l jumps up the second
realizes things, grabs my raiments, an
gettin my hoss out of the lot goes pintin
down the pike more n a mile fore stops
to dress. The last l sees of the old man
he's pitchin an tossin, an the females
a-holdin of him an reachin to get Haw-
kin's rifle as hangs over the door. ! never
= goes back no more, cause he's mighty
vindictiye about it. He tries to make IL o
gran jury matter next cou't time.
you can't tell much about women.
There was girl who surprises us once in
way out in Wolfyille. Mis- Ruckor,
who runs the o. X. restaurant, gets this
female from Tucson to fry napjacks IN
salt hoss an hep her deal her little CASTRO
nomio game. This yere girls name Is
Jennie-Tucson Jennie. She seems a nice,
good girl too, an In less'n two weeks
there's half the camp jest whinin to marry
her, 1t affects business, it's that bad
almost changes the channels of trado.
Cherokee Hall tells me there amt half
the money gets changed in at faro as usual,
an tho New York store reports men goin
broke again billed shirts an similar dead
falls daily. OF course this yere first frenzy
subsidies whole lot after month.
II jennie notices 1t, don't know, but
sho never tips her head to nobody, jest
shoves these foolish youths their daily
beans an ignores all winks an looks COM
plete. At last one of the various hands
goes In the discard, an tho boys, gettin
discouraged, shoves back an quits. Final
they're all cut but two, an one of them
was never in SO far as himself or any one
else ever sees. These yere is Tut an
man named Jim Wallace. Tut is tall an
good lookin enuf, but backward an bash
full No one ever detects him once lookin,
an don't think he does. He eonades In
mo all quiet after tho smoke Glars away
that he never thinks of It,
"But Wallace is different He sets in
to win Jennie hard an heavy an tries to
crowd the game an get action for his mon.
ey. 1t looks like he's doc to make the trip
too. Miss Rucker is backin his play, and
Jennie herself sorter lets him set round In
the kitchen an watch her work, which this
yere is license an rot itself compared with
how she treats others. Occasionally some
of US sorter tries to stack up for Wallace
an see whar he stands with the game.
How 1t gOln Wallacep' Enright asks
one day
:. It's COO many for me-, says Jim.
Sometimes 1 thinks 1 corrals her, an then
agin it looks like amt In it. Jest now
I'm feelin some detected
Something oughter be schemed to set
tlesthls yere, says Enright. 1t keeps the
camp in a fever an may get serious
II somebody would only prance.in,'
says Doc Poets, an shoot Jim up some,
you'd have her easy. Females is like rab.
bit In bush pile-you has to shake things
up a lot to make 'em come out. Now, II
Jim was dyin an she cares for him, she's
shorely goin to show her hand
~ want to pause right yere to observe
Doc Peets was the smartest an best edu-
Gated man ever sees in my life, an what
he don't know about sauaws In yalueless
informationi But to proceed:
" That's right, says Cherokee Hall,
but Of course 1t amt goin to do to shoot
Jim none
~ don't know, says Jim. Il stands
oreasin little too quick IL I'm shore u
fetches her,
What TOR game says Cherokee,
tHopla n be 10 t0st inlay Ike jim uns shckf