The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1895-09-22
AFTER THE ROOSTER.

share the joys of IL trip with me, and if
L conduct myself the rest of the summer
as have so far sho is going to take me
TO Europe next year with her egg money.
(Shc is quite an agrculturist, and had
all could do to keep her from planting
the whole farm last year to hominv. 7
wanted toplant it to fish balls and hons.
so that when we didn't care to attend Il
ball 40 could have hop
Bnt once sho went away for IL day,
and the train was so late that she wired
me she could not come home. but would
remain i'll the hands of her friends. She
tclcgraphcd mo where the KEY to the
storcroom was concealed, but the tclc-
graph operator did not get it clearly.
and 50 l took tho children down into tho
watermelon patch for tea.
We had just wiped off our chins and
started for the house when a carriage
drove mp to tho door with outridcrs, a
coahman feet high and footman Sew
eral people alighted and were shown in.
They were people whom 1 met in Hell
delbcrg when Twas there accomplishing
myself 25 years ago They were people
of title and great wealth, and in their
own country thought nothing of going
to mill with tallyho. They also left
little vino i'll their glasses at dinner,
which had been taught to regard in
Laramie as a great sin when there are
SO many poor people i'll the world who
can only have vino every 30 days.
These wealthy friends had gathered
from what | said while at Heidelberg
that I had money 20 burn, as the Ger
mans have it, and as many people Oil
the continent think that the American
keeps corrcrib full of gold AMI a hay
loft full of currency for rainy day. 1
made good impression, though, as
heaven is MY judge, little VOTED that
they would ever accept my invitation
to visit me and then come when the
storeroom key was concealed and the
cook gone TO attend reunion of her
children at Asheville.
| got the baron to look at the cvclo.
pcdia while went out and got heart
disease chasing the swift footed rooster.
The ladies | told to enjoy the view
awhile and to make themselves perfect
ly free with our delightful climate. I
also brought out some drawn work,
which l WAS doing ut odd times, and
permitted them to rcvcl i'll il while I
excused myself and left one of the little
boys to amuse them with his innocent
ways, though he secretly, and, in fact,
openly, wanted 'to go and help paw
overtake that old clay bank rooster. -
| hate a rooster that shows no speed
whatever till everybody has left the place
and empty guests arrive from Hcidel-
berg. Oh, how hot the weather seemed,
even here where mean temperature is
very unusual!
,inst as the golden sun babe goodby
to the grim front of Pisgah L chased old
Maud S, the first white settler on Hoo
per's creek, into joint of stovepipe and
wrung his neck with Il wild, wild Joy.
I wrang it long after his guilty soul had
crossed the county line and gone to
Salisbury, where there is weeping and
wailing and gDashing Of teeth.
His blood was on my white flannel
pantlets, though had them rolled up.
In my ungovernable rage 1 overstepped
myself and cut off his bill, which gave
him whimsical look, like that of a
member of the legislature whose claim
for mileage has been overlooked as we'll
as his pass.
1 had told my guests that would
have to be excused = moment for YES
pers, and | don't know what they
thought if they heard some of my state
ments as l stood there red handed IN the
presence &C death
just then Old Maud S revived at the
sight OF uio3d ana houndcd eight feet
into the az with kind of hoarse croall
and Shot the contents VI hi. carotid ar
terry over my pretty nav blazer
i had 20 80 up stairs the back way
and change every stitch OF my raiment,
and had just returned to the parlor in
nice hot cartii5d jacket and low cut
lecturing vest when the cook returned