Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1901-07-04
HAD SOME SCRUPLES.
Bat Bert Chandler soon Gave Him
Ease Of Conscience.

beside the mule that was dintir-
guished looking. The calliope
over at the mill had just warbled
its last noontime gurele today, as
he hoisted himself out Of a rut in
the corrogated vertebrae Of that
animal, and entered the court
house.
Bert Chandler was just de-
cending the steps, after taking a
half hitch in a semi.colon, in his
type writer, to prevent its work
ing over time, as the stranger ad.
dressed him:
"Wbar's the cote2" be asked.
"Gone to dinner" answered The
affable Bert.
"War l s'pose III tote Sal on
up TO g hum then. We mus be
hitched befo' her pa Gums"
whats your trouble asked be,
who knows a victim when he sees
one.
Looking to get married, If her
pa don't cum, but s'pose he'll call
the trade off, if he does,' dubi.
ously answered he Of the mule.
"You don't need the court. Get
Sal, and bring her up, and Pll
give you a diamond hitch in wet
rag time, that will make pa look
like a selling platter at"
"Hold on stranger, do you mean
you kin do IT,"
"Do il |" screamed the aroused
lwisler OF matrimonial knots, "my
record is Al beaiihc souls, and
one gizsard, the latter a spav.
ined coyote, from Pryor Creek,
who donated 30 cents to me per-
petuation, in me, lies wurruk,
that has been blended into one
twittering, twutiering-"
Hold on, again, stranger, you
don't know all"
"Who Gays don't know ALI"
81 mean bout me an Sal, I"
apologetically murmured he of the
mule.
"You and Sal eau be h-h-hilch.
ed, If she's slop sided, slatterns
ribbed, run.down-at.the. heel"
"Irs not 'xaclly Sal, its her
pa"
"What have you got to do with
her pa2 It's meme and Sal,
that will attend to your troubles
get her quick; | feel the inspired
moments aeeting-get her quick
or | will be unable to throw in the
customary horoscope at two bits,
or read your past at the custom
ary-"
I'm get her y once, stranger.
only mus tell yer bout the hog
punciuated he Of the mule
"To the everlasting stygiau
depths of--Arkansas, with IN,
hog It's me, you, pa and Sal
that have the right Of way here
This is no stock yard" yelled h,
Of the fee prospective.
"But yer see SAILS the hog, o.
ruther che war rep'senled by thu
hog; an the hogs dead, aud bel
pa says, it war no trade"
go on, go onl" weeped he o
the fee disappearing.
"Wal, il war this wayl | ha,
hogs, an h-r pa had d'arters. Sa
war his yearling, but she wa
troubled with rheumatics. | ha,
hogs but tn war troubled will
cholerie. Her pa offer'd to trad
Sal and rheumatics fr hog an
cholerie. He said We had eq'i
chances. Th' hog is dead, an h
says tn swaps of. But gifts Sa
aud hides 'er over in the bottom
an if yer says it's a squar' swap
I'll tote her long"
Tote, young man, tote. In tn
the celebrated case of Tied v,
TwisIer, it was clearly shown, ,tha
under strikingly similar circum
stances"
81 guess I'D better git her beiC
her pa Gums, JUS a mint, strar
, ger, an III tote her long" An
he disappeared toward the Dol
tom.
n There was a demoniaoal ca
preston, that fitted across tn
physiognomy, Of the matrimonil
Morgan, as he swept the wrinkle
! from the Lybrand worsteds, this
, had effected change OF venue by
three king" predjudice, and lurr
ing toward his baliwiek be hoas,
iy muttered; "No guilty one eI
capes me-"
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