The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-02-20
Fables by Tom McNeal.

tended for nOusenOlu peb. Inc uos
had an aristocratlc pedigree and an
eve that was as mild as summers
day. The mistress of the poodle had
IL carefully bathed and perfumed ana
a beautiful ribbon tied about its neck
for she was expecting a meeting or the
ladies' of the club at her house and she
wanted her little pet to show up In
great shape. She anticipated that Tue
ladies would be enthusiastic oyer the
net and take it III their arms and say,
"Isn't he just too sweet for anything"
But it happened that size was busy
getting ready for the club meeting and
the poodle made sneak for the out
side. In less than minute afuer he
reached the yard he was taking hand
in a game with six,town ours. Within
the next half hour he had the time of
his life; had chased six automobiles,
made a bluff at 10 different teams, laid
down aud rolled in three itferent mud
puddles aud made three different cats
hike up tree. When his mistress
went out to hunt him she found him
wrestling with a little measley brlndle
colored cur and covered with mud from
head to tail.
Moral: Many an individual sup
posed to be of blo0ded ancestry is
found when he is turned loose to be a
m ighty common tough.
There was once a man who had been
baptized 10 his infancy under the
name of Hezekiah Jones. His place OF
birth was in a way back district where
they never heard the toot of locomO-
tive, and the napkin was stranger.
Hezekiah ia his youth ran barefooted
| IL months.in the year and coon meat
was the richest thing in the shape OF
diet that ever tickled his gastronoln-
les. Up to the time he was % no bar
Der had had the opportunity to yet IN
his work ON HIM and his maternal an
cestor trimmed his hair by letting a
crock cover his dome of thought and
trimming the hair off round the edge
of the milk receptacle. About that
time HeZekiah came into possession or
the ancestral acres together with
razorback sow and seven pigs that
looked as If they could chase Il grub
worm into hole and root 1T out
of its nest. For 10 years Hezekiah
resided on the home place and lived
on razor back, coon and corn pone.
But one day some pro3pectorS came
along and commenced to dig around
on Hezekiah's place aud uncovered
the biggest vein of jack that had ever
been known. A month after that
HeZekiah SOLD out for half million
dollars, which he was finally persuad-
ed to salt down ia government bpad..
| Thea HeZekiah was persuaded 10
travel and see the world. He took his
family and went to the station Wnere
the covered cars were and started FOR
the city. He had some distant rela-
lives in the city who had never paid
any attention to him previously, but
when they learned that he had half
a million of the long green they con-
cluded thatit might be a good thing
to snuggle up to him bit. Therefore
his city relatives Invited him and his
family TO make them visit and then
they commenced 10 work the family
into shape. The wOrk-Over went 10
pretty fair shape, all things consider
ed, on the children, and even HeZe-
kiah's wife got used To city harness in
short time, but Hezekiah found that
his days were full Of trouble. His
shoes made him feel uncomfortable
aud he used TO steal away and taxi
them off and rub his chiiblalnS in so =
itude. The dress suit seemed TO gan
MIN under the arms and his collar
was an abomlnation. Before month
he commenced to pine away and at
the end of the second month told his
wife that she might stay there If she
wanted to, but that he intended to
hike out fer Arkansaw the next morn
ing. He said that he had sent word
to carpenter to put up IA slam bang
house down by where they used to
live and that he reckoned they could
live in style in AIkansaw as well as 10
St.. Louis. And HeZekidh went. A year
after that traveller stopped at the
mansion of Hezekiah Jones and found
him sitting on the front porch bare
footed and smoking a clay pipe. He
wore hickory shirt unbott"ned at
the neck and with tobOccO stains on
the frunt. Glitch, stranger, and
come in, said Hezekiah. "Weuns air
goin' to hey the bangupdest dinner
YOU ever see in bout half an. hour.
The con bread is a bakin' dn' the
con is mighty near done roasted
Come in an eat. YOu-all look as II
YOU had been Twin with them city