The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-03-23
I'm nnalternhlv onnnsed. "

dlll uudllSluDIy OppOStu.
"Yes it seems to me have heard
such report going around. But II
you wont build fort, let us flee
thence to the shelter of the settlemen
and take refuge therein. What
sayeth thou, brave sir?"
"That's about the size Of it. / will
make one last appeal and into it
will throw all the wealth of my ma
tive eloquence. Then if that avail
eth not, we Will flee, fly, flow, hew."
"Now you're shoutin'. We will
take mother, Hammer and Bill and
if the boss of the ranch insists on
presenting his scalp lock for the adj
ornment of the red mans belt, so be
it. He can't throw 1t up to us after
it is oyer" "
but Rose there is one thing, perr
haps you may consider it trifie,
but should father refuse to flee with
us, mother, Hammer and Bill will
probably stick to him and-really |
don't like to mention such little
thing-but-"
"Oh, cough it up!"
"Rose do you think 1t will be Just
exactly proper for young and un-
protected man to travel alone with
woman in these times of calumny
and gossip? OF course you may
view this as weak and frivolous in
me, but Rose, you know how price
less is my good name, She who
steals my purse steals trash, but"
"Well ifit has to be, it has to be,
You know that in spite ofyour hab-
Its and worthlessness, | love you,
and if you desire it, will make you
my husband. Therefore square
yourself and embrace me-"
"Bless you my sweet Rose, my
Eosey posey, my hearts treasure,
bless YOU"
"Yes, yours, and yours alone, If
you need that assurance. You may
kiss me-"
"um, yum, YUM"
us 90 my hahy9"
"Es ! is 90 baby, Does 90 love 90
hubby dubby?"
"Fs ! love him too, fee bushels"
"My itty babyH'
"Es 90 itty baby, and nobody else's
ltty baby"
Tiss 90 baby adm"
"Tllere don't muss my back hair.
/ hate to have my hair mussed,"
And hand in hand, the happy
couple went down to hash,
Reaching the house, Albert learn
ed from his mother that during the
day suspicious looking traveller
had passed the premises and had
called at the back door to solicit an
invoice of cold victuals and offered to
come back in July and shovel snow
in return for her kindness. The
stranger was attircd In passe suit { (
clothes, similar to those worn by
Lancaster newspaper men, and was
very much on his uppers in other re-
spects. When he left, he kept his
eye toward the rear as though fearing
an attack and the basement of his
trowsers had an appearance that
would seem to justify the presump.
tion that he had, at some point in his
travels, q somewhat animated dis
cussion with somebody's watch dog.
AS he passed out of the front gate, he
paused long enough to make some
peculiar hierog' yphics with piece
of red keel upon one of the gate posts.
All this was told to Albert and very
naturally, In these troublous times
made n deep impression upon him.
A few moments later Albert met
his father and had a long and SER
ious talk with him. The old gentle
man listened with little patience to
his son. He had little respect for
Albert because of his disposition to
shirk work, while Bill wore corns
all over himself from hard labor.
llO ~ iHOu iDlll uhi III IlIll,
but with Albert he was always surly !
and reserved.
He sneered at Albert's fears and
attached no Importance to the visit
of the somewhat dilqpidated and
literary looking stranger, He also
deprecated the action of Rose en-
gaging herself to Albert, which fact
Albert had announced to him during
the conversation and suggested that
she was taking her pigs to poor
market and that she would have bet
tered her condition if she had select
ed Bill.
Albert was nettled of course by |
the slurs of his father and he showed !