Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1895-09-06
TUCSON JENNIE.

settled hlll~tI IN a tiluW. Inc question
had just been asked him
Well - he continued, re0cctively, puff
kng his pipe, Il was di>piSitioned that
away when I'm a colt. But that long
time ago. an | ain i'm line for no such
gymnastics no more My years is way
agin it, likewise females You ye got
60 kctch folks young TO marry en- After
they gets 10 bc 80 years they goes slowly
TO the altar. If you make out to marry
man after he's 80, you ma, To blindfold
him AN back him in. Females, of course,
ain I so obduratc.
mo; | spose this we're bein married Is
heap habit, same As tobacco an bug
juice \ man takes hand early; it's
al right-way good game, | makes no sort
Of doubt. But lei him get to pestcrin
round in the forties On him not begun
none yet, he don't marry n0thjn. OF
course there Is people that sordid they
takes to layin for some woman's stack,
wharby they even makes such a desperate
play as marryin her to win; but me an
you don't discuss no low games like that.
- Bar a oneXplainablo. difference with
the girl old man, | s'pose q Toe all mar
ricd right now | was maybe 20 them
times II was way back i'm Tennes &c.
This girl was a nice luscious girl-corn
fed too They all lives about II miles
from me, ont ON the Pine Knot pike, an
once in two weeks | saddles up an goes
over Thar was jest her old man an
mother an her in the family, an it's that
far alters made To stay all night. Thar
was lv two beds, au - | put 10 camp
along If the old man. the time, | stays l
wa, way bashlul an behind on all social
plays an plenty awcstruck about the old
folks never feel happy "a minute
where they are The old lady alters does
her hc>t 90 make mo easy an free too.
Comes ra' when l rides up an alters lets
down Tine bars Tor my hus> an asks me to
rc-t D. P h'' 1hc second IN in the door.
Well master, 20 on good cnuf until
maybe tlyci4hth time m thar | rcmcm-
bcr~ ,hc night an perfect Final gets
20 sleep a-layin along the aige of the bed,
aimiu 20 keep way from the old man,
who ,uorin an thrashin round an taiiin
on over i'm The middle
i don recall nuthin until comes TO
A-hoidin To the old man : Y ear with one
hand an a-hammcrin Of his features with
other. ! don't know yet WHY pose
! gets to allowin he's tryin 10 kill me.
Z ,'Wcl, son, its way back a long time,
but shudder yet when ! recall that old
mans language jumps up the second
realizes things, grabs my raiments, an
Cettin my boss out Of the lot goes p'intin
down the pike more mile fore stops
20 dress The last l sees of the old man
he's pitchin an tosSin, an the females
a-huldin Of him an reachin To get Haw
kin rife ~ hangs over the door. l never
goes back no more, cause he's mighty
vindictive about It, He tries TO make it a
gran jury matter next cou't time.
You can't tell much about women.
There was a girl who surprises us once in
"A way out i'm Wulfville Mis- Rucker.
who runs the O. X restaurant, gets this
female from Tucson TO fry fapiacks an
salt boss an he p her deal her little CASTRO
nomic game This we're 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 trade.
Cherokee Hall tells me there amt half
the money gets changed In AZ faro as usual,
an the New York store reports men goin
broke again billed shirts an similar dead
falls daily. OF course this yere first frenzy
subsidies a whole lot after month
If Jennie notices II, | don know but
she never tips her head 10 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 the boys, gettin
discouraged shoves back an quits. Final
they re all out but two, an one OF them
was never In SO far rs himself or any one
else ever sees These yere is Tut an a
man named Jim Wallace Tut is tall an
good lookn enuf, but backward an bash.
full. No one ever detects him once lookin,
an don't think he does. He confdes in
me all quiet after the smoke cl 'ars away
that he never thinks Of il.
But Wallace is different He sets i'm
10 win Jennie hard an heavy an tries 20
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 goin Wallaceg Enright asks
one day.
It's too many for me, says jim.
Sometimes thinks corrals her, an then
agin it looks like amt in it. Jest now
IN feelin some detected.
Something oughter be schemed TO set
Gle this yere, says Enright. II keeps the
camp in fever an may get serious.
4" 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 a bush pile-you has 70 shake things
up lot 20 make EN- come out. Now, II
Jim was dyin an she cares for him, she 5
shorely goin to show her hand
81 want To pause right yere to observe
Doc Poets was the smartest an best edu.
Gated man / ever sees in my life, an what
he don't know about sauaws in valueless
information But TO proceed:
" That's right, says Cherokee Hall,
but Of course is Amt goin TO do 70 shoot
Jim none
Il don't know, says Jim I stands
creasin little too quick If I'm shore 1t
fetches her.
q" What for a game says Cherokee,
would 1t be to jest play like Jim was shot'