Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1905-10-19

to let the remains get away from him.
They were having a nice convalescent
time, just afore 1t broke up, and hadn't
either of them been sick for ten min
utes, and dad had put his arm around
her shoulders, and was talking cum
ming to her, and she was looking low
ingly into dads eyes, and they were
talking of meeting again in France In
a few weeks, where she was going to
rent villa, and dad was saying ne
would be there with both feet, when l
opened the window and said, The
steward is bringing around lunch,
and have ordered two boiled pork
sandwiches for you two easy marks
"Well, you'd dide to see 'em jump.
What there is about the idea OF fat
pork that makes people who are sea
sick have a relapse, don't know, but
the woman grabbed her stummix in
both hands and left dad and rushed in.
to the cabin yelling enough, or some
thing like that, and dad laid right
back IN the chair and blatted like q
calf, and said he would kill me dead
when we got ashore.
Gust then an Englishnan came
along and told dad he better get up
out OF his chair, and dad said whose
chair you talking about, and the man
said the chair was his, and If dad
didn't get out Of it, he would kick him
out, and dad said he hadn't had a good
chance at an Englishman since the
revolutionary war, and he just wanted
a chance to clean up enough English
men for q mess, and dad got up AMI
stood at attention" and the English
man squared off like a prize fighter.
and they were just going to fight the
battle of Bunker Hill over again, when
run up to an officer with gold lace on
his coat and lemon pie on his wnis'
kers, and told him an old crazy Yam
kee cut on deck was going to murder q
poor sea sick Englishman, and the Of
ficer rushed out and took dad by the
coat collar and made him quit. and
when he found what the quarrel was
about, he told dad all the chairs wers
private property belonging to the pas
sengers, and for him to keep out 81
them, and he apologized to the Eng
lishman and they went into the saloon
and settled it with high balls, and dad
beat the Englishman by drinking two
high balls to his one. Then dad set
into a poker game, with ten cents ante.
and no limit, and they played along
for a while until dad got four jacks,
and he bet i've dollars, and French
man raised him $1,000, and dad laid
down his hand and said the game was
| too rich for his blood, and when ne
reached in his vest pocket for money
to pay for his poker chips he found
that his roll was gone, and he said ne
would leave his watch for security un-
til ne could 60 to his stateroom AMI
get some money, and then he found
that lis watch had been pinched, and
the Englishman said he would be good
for 1t. and dad came out in the cabin
and wanted me to help him ind the
widow. cause he said when she laid
her head on his shoulder, to recover
from her sickness, he felt fumblins
around his vest, but he thought 1t was
nothing but his stomach, but now ne
knew she had robbed him.
Say. dad and looked all over that
boat for the widow, but she simply had
evaporated. We landed at Liverpool
that afternoon, and dad waited for the
widow at the gang plank, and said he
wouldn't do a thing to her. l guess not.
"Some day I'll tell you II dad got his
money and watch back" added the
Bad boy, giving the dog parting kick
as he went out