Blue-grass blade., 1895-01-13

but the taking me by the beard, had
not been foe as chivalrous as was inf
del Saladin to Christian Richard Coeur
de Lion, would have been for Colonel
Shell jus. IS if he lad gone right up
TO masked battery, or thrown himself
on tho "thick bosses of Jehoyah's buck
ler." I simply had to make one move
to checkmate. was holding the Col
oners right wrist with his bunch of an
cestral toothpicks in his hand, while
Shankling was trying to do something
with me that have never yet got on to.
and can't say what his scheme was, ex-
cept that, so far as 1 noticed, he was
pushing at me like one of the Brownies
that are trying to make the donkey go
along, in the paint advertisement, when
the Colonel made a move that would
have given Showalter or Jim Corbett a
chill. The Colonel grabbed me in my
big beard, and swung onto it about like
l have had an icicle to do when l was
walking to Lexington through blizzard
that had just got here from Florida.
1t was now my move. Standings
both hands were occupied pushing at
ME like Trojan against the big wooden
horse of the Greeks, in an Intellectual
effort to move me out of my tracks,
while held the Colonel's right in my
left, and his left was in my beard,
and the only unoccupied vigor in the
trio was my right arm, with hog maui
fist on it, hanging perfectly unoccupied
and begging for job like Stonewall
Jackson in the first of Manassas, while
the face of Colonel Shelby, absolutely
ungarded. and at my mercy, was Just
about as high and as far from ME as l
would want sand bag if were going
to exercise my biceps.
would not slap any man. do not
think it is much above splitting in a
mans face, and / never intend to strike
any man until l think l ought to put
into it the same energy that character
ICES me in other things, and had done
that in Colonels Shelby's case, my fist
would just about have taken in Colonel
Shelby's entire countenance, with pie
crust indentations and scallops, around
the entire periphery, and all Of his feat
ures would have been graded to one
common level just like he had lain fiat
on his back and let the willipuswallipus
run over him, while his specialization
he wears them too-would have been
driven, glasses and frames and all, into
his eyes, and he would have gone wan
dering around like blind dog in meat
house. But, as l say was not built
that way, and rather than hit him as a
means of loosening his hold, we agreed
to truce that stipulated that should
let go his ancestral toothpicks and his
right hand, and he should
Take his hand from out my whiskers,
And his bust from out my door,"
after the 81 yla pf Dna's ssp ax,a,,
Soon the newspaper reporters were OH
to 1t, and came from anywhere every
where out in the world" like vultures to
the carcas, and while | was explaining
all the maneuvers of the engagement,
put my hand on my beard and found
that divers and sundry of them had been
uprooted, but were still on their native
heath, These gave to Col. Polk, late
OF the Transcript, and he wrapped them
up i'll two large newspapers, and struck
out for the Expo. to add them to his
very interesting collection of war relics
now on exhibition there.
If Colonel Shelby got away with any
OF them, he ought to preserve them as
hair loom, for they are the only whiskers
III his family, and if he will hang then
out and let the wind blow through hi.
whiskers, to his highly imaginative eal
they might make music as sweet as
troubadour, or as when
Her hair shedding dew drops
From all its bright rings
Fell over her white arms