Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-11-01


red in the face and snuggle IN and
squeeze hands. and look fondly, and
swallow your emotion, and try to wait
patiently until it is dark enough SO the
spectators won't notice anything, and
In sea sickness you get pale in the face.
and spread apart, and let go of hands.
and after you have stood it as long as
you cah you rush to the rail and act as
though you were going to jump over
board, and then stop sudden and let
er-So-gallagher, right before folks.
ana after 1t is over you try to look as
though you had enjoyed it. 1 will say
this much for-dad, he and the widow
never played duet over the rail. bur
they took turns, and dad held her as
tenderly as though they were engaged
and when he got her back to the
steamer chair he stroked her face and
put camphor to her nose, and acted
like an undertaken that wasn't going
TO let the remains get away from him.
Iney were having nice convalescent
time, just afore it 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
ning tc her, and she was looking low
lngly 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 ns
would be there with both feet. when I
opened the window and said, The
steward is bringing around lunch,
and | have ordered two boiled pork
sandwiches for you two easy marks.
We'll, you'd dide to see 'em Jump.
what there is about the idea of fat
pork that makes people who are sea
sick have 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 IL the chair and blatted like
calf, and said he would kill me dead
when we got ashore
Just then an Englishman came
along and told dad he better get I'D
out of his chair and dad said whose
chatr you talking about, and the man
said the chair was his, and if dali
didn't get out of it, he would kick him
out, and dad said he hadn't had good
chance at an Englishman since the
revolutionary war, and he Just wanted
chance to clean up enough English
men for mess, and dad got up AMI
stood at attention." and the English
man squared off like 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 were
private property belonging to the pas
sengers, and for him to keep out Of
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
into poker game, with ten cents ante.
and no limit, and they played along
for while until dad got four jacks,
and he bet five dollars, and French
man raised him $4,000, and dad laid
down his hand and said the game was
too rich for his blood, and when he
reached in his vest pocket for money
to pay for his poker chips he found
that his roll was gone, and he said he
would leave his watch for security I'M
til he could go 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 it, and dad came out in the cabin
and wanted me to help him find 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 it was
nothing but his stomach, but now he
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 thing to her. guess not.
Some day I'll tell you if dad got his
money and watch back" added the
Bad Boy, giving the dog a parting kick
as he went out.
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