The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-06-15
Stories Of an Inland State.

1f,nce in old-fasnioned, agricutural style
'Hello,' qEoth Watties paus.ng with q
rising infection as Il he were about 10 con-
| tinue.
And he did continue with a rapidity thai
| suggested the suspicion at once that he had
carefully planned what he was going to say
and In fact had selected the words them.
| selves. He said:
| Destroying the weeds irradicably, are
you?"
The hired man nodded, fearing to inter
rupt Wattles who was liable to begin again
. momentarily.
You amt got no feeling of religious
| sancitity yet, have you?"
| NO." answered the hired man, joey.
Haven't felt no happy blissfullness over
a spirit enrapturing you within? Eh?"
| 'Nixy," said the hired man.
| mo heavy oppression and ominous fore
warning that you are going to kick the
| bucket with an impure soul or entity?"
| ''No, sir
| Watties drew long breath and wiping Of
his spectacies said rather savagely and nat
| urally, too:
why in the seal green thunderation.
| joey, don't you?''
|
| 'WeIl there was the instance in my case,
that is homogeneeously speaking. I was
| just like you are, just had large expanse Of
| brain that was lying fallow and barren and
raising nothing but sunflowers, when one
| day felt something within me Ike tape
| worm turning over ON its side and the first
| .ning / knew / had religion and was Just
| a signing like widowed bull frog for the
| chance to perco;ate my eyes on that there
| olG Bible. You see IL had been laying there
on that old front table Ike tramp to the
| top OF fiat car on sleety night in the
| days of my unmarried bachelorhood, and
l Just felt a hankering to read it within
my scul which was Ike your feeling for
fresh potatoes after you've been eating
salt pork and salt-rising bread all winter
kind of sidled over to that cid Bible and
Whacked her open and took her up and
began TO read. Now what do you suppose
l ran across the first thing"
Il don't know
WELL it had been my conjecturauoI
that the Bible was a sort of an agricultural
report on the Jewish race. You see didn' t
expect 10 find by discovery a whole lot OF
daisy old stories in that book, stories with
points TOO and ii wasn't an hour until l
swore it was better than Abraham Lincol;..
Ard I voted for him twice. Wen nov
rustleate your brain a little and think what
hit the very first thing"
Il can't guess. About Moses and the
bull-rushes?'
"Nixy. Try again."
"Noans Ark?"
"No sir. About Davy and Goliath"
Whore they?" asked the hired man with
twinkle.
Never heard Of Davy and Goliath ?" ask
ed Wattles.
NO. Go ahead and tell me- said the
hired man. 'I'n hoe
well. you sac it was this way. The
Israel;tes and the Phiilistines were fussing
about something. the tariff 1 guess, or
finance, and Saul was leading the Israelites
up and down the valleys and over hills
until nobody bur the shoe store men in the
whole land was prosperous The people
was catching cold staying out at nights.
BY and by Saul and his army came up TO
where the Phihstines We're camped on
hill. Saul took his camp on the opposite
hill and they stood there that night and
called each other names across the val
ley"
wattles wiped his glasses ana continued.
"Weil. next morning, about seven O'Clock
and right after the army had had break
fast and was htching UP to go afield. big
son-of-a-gun about twenty-nine feet high
steps out from the Phiilistines and says:
Here you clodhoppers. WHAT are you
doing over there on that hill. I'm Goliath,
highmuck-a-muck of this here whole town
ship and if you want anything in the scrap
line call on me before going elsewhere. I'll
taft WI IN ont he
best thing on two legs you have in camp
and set him up here and we'll have 1t out
right here on the nice fresh buffalo-grass.
Ii l lick then you're to De our servants,
but if he licks then we will be your ser
wants.
Well the Israeltes Just trembled their
freckles loose, they was that scared OF th,s
zig duffer who had a spear in his hand as
big as that cottonwood tree and breast
plate on behind and one OF In front and
stove-legs wrapped abou. his shins and
big brass hat on that you could have scald-
ell pig tn. The lsrael:tes told him to ad-
journ few hours and then they went into
executive session and just turned as pale
as country girl in her first in-type. Now
along about this time Saul called his men
together and said that unless Goliath died
OF the appendicitis soon or something, the
jig was up and he was going TO pull his
freight for home. Now citizen of the
third ward IN Jerusalem named Jesse had
a kid by the name OF David whose big
bi others were all in Saufs army. David
and his Dad were herding cattle around
Bethlehem ore DAY which was free range
then when his Daddy told Davy to take
some cheese and old biscuits left over from
breakfast and go down TO the army and
give 'e.n TO the boys. Well when Davy
got down there. the two armies were fight |
ing Ike the old patch IN the valley and
blood was flowing in the brook Ike the |
drain pipe from a red-ink factory. And |
while David was handing over the food TO !
his broihers I'D strobe this big duffer Go
hath and again made his proposition. at |
which the Israelites cut nice tracks for !
home, the tracks in the sand showing the |
bunions On their feet, and corns- But |
Davy stopped them and said: What's the |
use Of being scared of that big old sneak? /
I'll fight him. FL knock the peeling OF OF |
him Then Davy's brother said: Get out.
you little monkey. You SUNK down here
TO see the scrap. Get home with you But
Uavy went on and said that IL he would
peel that duck, he reckonei the king
v yoraidn't DO a thing for him. And some
body spoke up and sad he would give him
tie pri.lcess and a first mortgage on tae
palace. Dayy went up 10 Saul and told
Tim he would lambsst the everlasting rosin
,ut of Goliath II ne said So Saul tod
Davy tina, ne was too young ana that he
couldn't hardly be out OF the third reader
ret Never you mind sad Davy. Never
fou mind about that Mr.. King. DIDN'T a
ion come along and steal enc OF my sheep.
,lso bear and didn't / track EN- and re-
,lev.n the goods s,ngle-hanGea and alone.
And II can play pullawsy with Ion and
bear don't you think car tumble this
I'd faise-face into a hole IN about three
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