The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-04
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been pretty clus~ tu home except u
feS trips | have made "a the rail-
road towns. Dne day last wpey did
80 IN tho buggy 10 Howard and Col.
Tiers Chapel but u ralned that night
and ! had To come ia home On ruy
way out called on W = CLARK aud
found him. a. usual. hard at work
bat with lots of cotton aud corn ia
show ~hat he had done went by
10 Ree my good friend ] w Free.
man. and as It Was dinner time /
got fine dlnner of pork and pump
Kin that had been prepared by his
Wife and two pretty daughters
enjoyed their company for an hour
or moro. but | noticed that some
thing was mighty funny 20 the girls,
as usual | contributed their iocularity
10 my good looks Hat finally Mrs
Freeman says, I'm toll YOU what
those girls are laughing about they
have . calf down at the loI named
Milfin' and IL eats chickens Well.
| had heard of hogs eating chickens
but when II came TO a calf having a
taste for such deliCacieS | WAS for
once, trumpcd We will 20 down
md STE him. ssys Mr. Freeman, he
ia aenlie out be- L. d chicken fiend
we started, but as We stepped out
the door We heard a chicken seuawk
aud before we got TO that calf he
had devoured q frier, feathers and
all. We went into the pen and that
son OF Taurus" came at us with his
bristles up. | kicked him on the
nose SO hard that kicked a heel off
my new shoes. | turned him a SUM
mersanlt; in other words, ! reversed
his position. When he came to him
self he jumped u seven wired fence
and strayed. | saw Mr.. Freeman in
town Monday and he said that calf
was still strayng He says, Il may
name a calf Beelzebub some day but
no more 'Milfins' for me -
Edwin b Clark lives out there all
alone. He is a bachelor from choice
and don't have TO be bossed by a rag
and a bone and a hankaof hair just
as you or l." He dresses in a fash
ion peculiar to himself The day |
was there he wore a white duck suit,
topped by white cowl of the same
material, and his high boots remind
ed one of the greaves that history
says the ancient knights wore. His
beard is pointed like the pictures of
Sir Walter Raleigh and his iron gray
hair hangs in we'll kept curls over
his shoulders. ! looked at him and
thought, strange man you are, and
no doubt could some novelist know
him and weave around his person
ality the glamour of romance, he
could give us a story that we would
delight to read. Mr.. Clark has a
printing press out there and once in
while he gets out a newspaper for
his neighbors and friends to read. He
is well read and likes to talk and
have company. He is pleasant;
nothing morOse about him, and when
left he asked me to call again and
] shall for | like him.
O. A. Fudge and J. w Newsom |
saw on this trip. They are both
good friends to us and always have
a good word j. d. Helms is an
other of our good patrons. He and
all his neighbors have immense cot
ton crops and that means money now
adays. ! spent this night with MI.
Legge, who used to live in WaXa-
hachie and was my neighbor. He
and his wife were just back from
Wichita Falls, where they had been
prospecting. They like the country
fine and may move there. Whlle
ont there Mrs. Legge got very badly
hurt by their team running away.
Mr.. Legge came from Mississippi a
little over a year ago, but he hkes
Texas and ! am sure VIII stay. lie
still owns his plantation back lhere,
on which are many mounds supposed
TO have been built by prehistoric men.
lie showed me some of the staiual}
taken from these mounds II LOOKS
like the Egyptian. but | don know
anything about it and neither docs
anybody else We con eoulunclure
that is all. Next morning ~ was
raining and l came back 10 Kay.
met W. A. Gothard, Newt Nehar-
aud Mr.. stephenson, an bully m''
aud fellows | like 90 meet. Ihrl
jolly mc about getting r1u-hl "H
Loo such weather and Iri ur H'
ON, da, + got lonesome aud wen
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