The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-09

eHdIo bU0 joys Oh trlp Will NE, anu IL
/ conduct myself the rest Of the summer
as have so far she is going TO take me
TO Europe next year with her egg money.
(She is quite an agriculturist, and | had
ali could do to keep her from planting
the whole farm last year to hominy. 1
wanted to plant it to fish balls and hops,
SO that when we didn' t care to attend
ball we conld have hop.)
But once she went away for day,
and the train was so late that she wired
me she could not come home, but would
remain in the hands of her friends. She
telegraphed me where the key TO the
storeroom was concealed, but the tele-
graph operator did not get it clearly,
and so took the children down into the
watermelon paIch for tea.
We had just wiped off our chins and
started for the house when carriage
drove up to the door with outriders, a
coachman feet high and footman. Sew
eral people alighted and were shown IN.
They were people whom / met in Hell
delberg when was there accomplishing
myself % 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 a
little wine in their glasses at dinner,
which l had been taught to regard in
Laramie as great sin when there are
so many poor people in the world who
can only have wine every 80 days.
These wealthy friends had gathered
from what 1 said while at Heidelberg
that I had money TO burn, as the Ger
mans have it, and as many people on
the continent think that the American
keeps a corncrib full of gold and hay
loft full of currency for rainy day. 1
made a 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 Ley was concealed and the
cook gone to attend reunion Of her
children at Asheville.
| got the baron TO look at the CYCLIC
pedia while 1 went out and got heart
disease chasing the swift footed rooster.
The ladies l told to enjoy the view
awhile and to make themselves perfect
" free with our delightful climate. I
also brought out some drawn work,
which / was doing at odd times. and
permitted them TO revel in it while 1
excused myself and left one of the little
bows 10 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 rooster that shows no speed
whatever till everybody has left the place
and empty guests arrive from Heldel-
berg. Oh, how hot the weather seemed,
even here where a mean temperature is
very unusual!
inst as the golden sun babe goodby
10 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 wild, wild JOY.
wrans it long after his guilty soul had
crossed the county line and gone to
Salisbury, where there is weeping and
wailing and gBashing Of teeth.
His blood was on my white flannel
nantlets, though 1 had them rolled up.
In NV ungoveruable rage | overstepped
myself and cut off his bill, which gave
b;m a whimsical look, ike that OF a
member of the legislature whose claim
for mileage has been overlooked as well
as his pass.
had told my guests that L would
have to be excused a moment Tor YES
ners. and | don't know what they
thought if they heard aome of my state
nents as l stood there red handed IN the
presence Of death.
Inst then old Maud S revived at the
SIGHT of blood and bounded eight feet
into the air with a kind Of hoaTse croak
op5 shet the contents of his carotid ar
terv over my pretty new blazer.
I had 10 go up stairs the back way
and change every stitch Of my ralment,
and had just returned 10 the parior IN a
nice hot cardigan jacket snd low cut
sseruriug vest when the cook returned
and asked nee for the key of the store
room. / excused myself, and giving my
quests large scrapbook containing COM
ELEMENTARY press notices which knew
would interest them | went Gu weary
search for the key.
Night, with somber wing. was now
rathering over the beautiful valley, and
far away up the river could hear the
hound pups honest bark. The key was
not where any one could ever find IT.
That was the intention perhaps
Hunger began to stalk abroad. Burn
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