The Cairo bulletin., 1906-05-14
THE SYNDACKER GIRL
WHY CAL DAVIS STOPPED HIS
CouRTINa.

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Washington Hancock followed the
direction OF his fellow loafer's eyes
to where young woman In poppy
colored blouse and carrying a poppy.
icolored parasol was picking her way
daintily through the dust to cross the
street.
Look at them white gloves comm
way up to her elbows" whispered
Parsons Hold me, Wash. Take a
right good grip OF my arm an don't
let go till she passes. Cracky!"
She's with her pap" volunteered
the storekeeper. Him an her comes
down from ST. Joe The oil man s
in the lumber business an he's ben
around to look at that white oak tract
OF Sim Atterbury calculates to buy
It, ! guess"
See what you'd have ter buck up
against, Marve?" said Hancock.
II wouldn't keer," said Parsons.
Jest as soon keep her company as
not?"
II certainly would"
III don't do fer young man like you
ter De too reckless when there's gals
around fixed up that way You ought
ter be like Cal Davis over in Penrosc
township. Cal KEEP gal like that
company one time.
Her pap came down on business,
too, an brung her along to keep him
compny, only this business was a rail-
road. He was richer than mud an,
shoe. If you'd seen the di'munds an
rubies an rings an bracelets an
silks an satins that gal wore you
wouldn't have looked twice at this un.
"Wa-all, sir. Cal Davis seen her
passin' along the street one time In
Peterville. an he got struck with the
ldee that he'd like to see her right
clOst so what does he do but put on
his Sunday goto-meetins an call
around at the house they'd rented
with his buggy, He asst to see the
gal No, there wusn't nothin bash
full about Cal He was a good-lookin'
Teller an he knowed it an he knowed
most OF the gals knowed 1t. an he
owned 200 acres Of bottom land
We'll, they asst him in an after
awhile the gal came inter the room
where he wus awaitin' an Cal spoke
up an allowed he came to see If she
didn't want to take buggy ride with
him. He said she seemed to be sort
o. s'prised, s If she'd never been
used to havin' comp'ny call on her,
an then she LATED an fn'ly she al
lowed she'd go with him.
Mex night Cal wus around again.
That time he didn't have the rig
along He came to do regular
sparkin' The gal didn't seem noways
either, an when her pap
comes in she says Pa, this Is Mr..
Cal Davis. He's come to set up with
me. so now you're interdooced, We'll
excuse you An the oil man jest
kinder opened his eyes an looked Cal
over and then he lated an went out. |
Didn't seem noways rusty, Cal didn't |
luite know what to make OF 1t. He |
says she wus fixed up fit to kill
ruflles. an frills, an furbelows, an
Il 'munds sparklin' on her hands. |
Well, he jest sat there until she asst
him II he rely had gotter go.
"Sat'dy night he hitched up to the
buggy ag In an took her to the lit'ry.
She let on that she enjoyed that right
Up TO the handle an she lowed there
vusn't anythin' like it in ST. Joe. ner
Kansas City, fer that matter. Mebbe
here wusnt.
Course there wus right smart o
ak about ii. The boys deviled Cal
noren little. but guess they all
Wished they'd got his nerve Blamed
( he wusn't there mp at the house
ettin' on the porch or suthln' most
very night that he wusn't takin' the
,al out buggy ridin'.
We'll II went on that way fer about
month stiddy an then all OF sud.
len Cal married Lucindy Palmer.
'ayl You might have pushed me over
With a spear OF ticklegrass when
card about It. Lucindy wus mighty
me gal. but she hadn't no more style
bout her than a mud fence. She had
necklis o coral beads an a cameo
ing an that WIS all the joolry she
yer owned in her life. couldn't
'l!eve Il ontil met Cal day or two
fter an asst him II IL RELY wus so.
81 reckon II is he SAYS.
IAN you beauin' that gal Of CT
nydacker's around all the time?
avs.
"'No beauln' about IT, he says;
hat gal was the slickest dressed gal
yer come inter these parts. Gosh,
he had the purteist little white hans
n the derndest little feet an. Wash.
OH seen how she dressed. Them
xin's she has-why. Christmas Jest
, see an look at her or have her
sttin' alongside o. you in a buggy
n cit a Whit o that smellum- good
tell you never had sech a time in
~ life
Then why didn't you spunk up an
larry herr I says.
" Shucks,' saws Cal. DO you
sckon Id have took any pleasure in
Il that II had to pay for Il? Well.
guess not Them hxin's cost
oney.'