Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1903-10-29
BILL DOOLY'S LETTER
Old Lady Starts to Reading
Old Letters.
BILL PUTS UP A BIG BLUFF
And Saves His Bacon, But
Another Piece of Bacon
Gets Lifted. "
BILL PUTS UP A BIG BLUFF

Bill Dooley is in trouble as usual.
About the time | was going to be,
gin to write and had forgot most of
my troubles, l saw Mrs, Dooley go
to her trunk and bring out bun
die of well preserved letters and be
gin to look over them very cares
fully, and when she found one
suited to the occasion she asked for
my attention for a few moments,
and ] told her she should have my
undivided attention as long as
she liked. So she called over the
day and date, going back to the
early seventies. When she had
given me the date so far back be-
gan to feel somewhat easier than |
did at the start, never thinking it
was anything that would concern
me in the least, she came to a
sudden stop, and said Bill, this is
letter you wrote to me when l.
was swer sixteen, aud am now
going to read it TO you as a remind.
er of broken promises
Great Scoots! if there had been Il
knot hole in the ceiling large
enough for a mouse to have went
thro. gh | could have made my es
cape without touching either side.
After | had twisted about in my
chair few times | got so / could
speak. then my ey esight came back,
then got so | could hear, and ask
ed her to stop few moments until
| could say few words.
Now, Mis-. Dooley, if you want
TO go back to our infancy | have
got the same tools to fight with as
you have. have Il letter that was
written about II and can produce
it at any old time that would show
conclusively to any court of justice
that our marriage was business
transaction as we'll as a love affair
You said in this letter that there
was some objection to our marriage
because | was not able to support a
wife, but we would marry all the
same, If we had to live on bread
and water, and that | told her if
she would furnish the bread l
would furnish the water. every
word of which was fabrication of
my own make. but | knew her
recollection was bad. and l could
make her think she had said every
word of it. And | did make her
think she had said it, but on think.
ing she might call on me for the
letter, cut the matter short off by
telling her that | must go to the
barn, that | had heard some unus,
ual fuss at the barn and supposed
something might he wrong with
the stock, and went out and got a
half dozen sticks OF dynamite
thinking she would forget the let
ter by the time | done some blast.
ing that was very necessary about
the place and let 'er rip, and wher
/ got to the lot there is no snakes i
the old SOW that knocked the lad
der out from under me last sprint
when | was hid from the mob haC
MT turned up looking like she haC
spent the summer at some watering
place and was in the best of health
guess she had been at the Ho
Springs in Arkansas so | though
/ would give her few ears of corr
so | laid my dynamite down YER
carefully and went and got som
corn and just rs got back the var
ment was swallowing the last site
of dynamite. guess she though
il was corn, and knowing she wa
stealing ii, did not take time t
taste it. So called the dog bu
before he got there the old 90
started to run off at breaknec
speed and as she went through th
barn she went too close to a mea