El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-27
fur he's got the nerve to try it.

cit pears like I come to know all
about this Freeman business kinder &C
cidental like. You see, long mlddl1n
airly las spring l got ole Nance one
day an rode over to ole Freeman for
to borrer his harrer. 1 was a-gittin my
| garden ready, an it was that grassy it
was plum boun for to be harrered.
''When I got over there Squire Diggs
an some more men was jes' ridin away,
an the ole man met me in the gal'ry
lookin like he'd been a-cryin an says he:
i '' I'm a-fxin for change, Lie, says
/ he. 'Jim's aSoin to get married Sun
| day, an me an the Old woman is Jes'
| decided this place, an him an his wife
| is a-goin to take keer o us the balance
O. our days You don t know how happy
it makes me feel. I'm a-goin to have
| me big cheer an set out here in the
gal'ry where kin watch the cows goin
to paster, an Jim plowin in the fur
field, an where the ole woman kin listen
to Jim's wife potterin round the house.
you know, an kin kinder oversee an
tell him how to do things, fur Jim don't
know SO pesky much about armin.
" You better ho' on to that deed till
you die, says 1 in a warnin voice, and
let the takin keer come first, an, gra-
cious, the ole man was so mad he coE.e
mighty nigh not lettin me have the
harrer.
"Well, shore enough, Jim he married
an brung his wife home an got his deed
safe an SCUM, an for a good while
ever thing was as nice as pie. Ever time
I passed there the ole man an ole wom-
an 'u'd be settin up in the gal'ry in two
big cheers, lookin like they owned the
earth an a good sized chunk O. the
moon.
"Stid O. fadin away an dyin as any
body d "a thought they'd "a done. the
ole man an ole woman begin to pearteJ
up an git fat When went over there
along in June for to take the harrer
home, the ole man said he blieved he
was good for Is more years yet.
'tJim an his wife heerd it. an twasn't
long after that before Jim S wife begin
to fix for settlin the old folks hash
She got awful mad because the ole man
chawed terbaccer. an she jes couldn't
stand it, nohow, an she couldn't eat
at the table with either of 'em because
they ct with their knives an she made
'em move into one O the back shed
rooms because their snorin disturbed
her, an when. about month ago the
ole woman got sick, she jes' ripped an
she sno1ted, Jim's wife did. an said
they'd better hunt some other quarters,
for she was plum tired O. waitin on
'em.
''When the ole man heerd that he
materially chimed in, an 'twan t long
before she was a-screamin an goin into
hlghstrikes an sayin that she was in
suited in her own house. an other
things like that.
Jim, he heerd the row, an he come
at arin in an says. Dad, can stand
this no longer. You n ma IL halter git
out Awful backwoodsy Teller Jim
was. Always seemed like he couldn't
take no polish.
Git out Well halter git out will
we?' yells the ole man, an before YOU
could morn'n wink he jumps on to Jim
an throws i'm down, an recht up along
the wall for the Vaughn whip that was
hangin up under the gun, 'lovin to use
the handle on Jim.
''The whip was outen reach. but he
grabbed the tongs that was baugin up
at the end O. the chimbley board. an
he give that boy sech a larrupin with
them tongs as amt never been heerd
on in this part O. the moral heritage
'He beat Jim, the ole man did, till
he promised to deed the place back, an
then he set on i'm an held i'm down
while one O the hands went for Squire
Dlggs an some witnesses, an one of EN-
was me. The minute the deed was
made the ole man says to Jim: Now
bring the Vaughn roun', an be quick
about it, too, for you re goin to light
out tonight. The ole woman an mes
gittin middlin anxious to have the
place to ourselves. Step lively now
IAN Jim, he moved into that cabin
on the Hi Walters place
'It pears to me like it was all the
fault O Jim's wife, said old man
Bolivar refectively. eff a man once
begins to allow his wife to boss. there
amt no help for him after that Jim
never had no sperrit nohow.'
''That's the way it strikes me- re-
joined Mr.. lockwood meditatively.
''These things has got to be done right
in the first place or you might as well
let 'em alone. Women's queer critters,
the best you can do with EN- an if YOU
oncet let 'em git the upper hand they're
a-goln to keep it, you hear me- If it
had a-been me that married that wife
D Jim's, would astood up before her
the very first day, an says 1, Now,
V angyleen' -that's the name she goes
Dy-'I'm willing to be accommydatin
On all occasions, but when set my foot
Town it's sot, an it amt no use to try
% make me go any other way. I'm the
head O thissher family, you kin depend
IN that
Into the silence that fell as the soft
1rawl ceased came the cry of the whip
ooorwiI, sent back in softer echoes from