The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-06-29
Experiences Of
Wesley Slope
ny KENNETH HARRIS

her tradin departed with her bum
dies.
ITO see if the dye nd rum" replied
the storekeeper "Some of EN- always
does that They'll stgnd alongside o
the counter an chew on turkey red an
gingham an calico for the best part OF
an afternoon as fast as | can snip off
samples. 1t makes my jaws ache to
look at en- She only chewed on six
pieces before she got a piece to suit
her !"
shes hard to please" observed
Marvin Parsons.
Most women are said Sol Baker,
with q tinge of bitterness.
II don't know SO much about that,
objected Washington Hancock, who
was trying the effect Of a broad-brm-
med straw hat before the mirror in the
back Of the showcase :" = fairs my eX-
perience goes wimmen amt hard to
please"
Jest give EN- their own way an do
the way they want you to do an don't
contradict EN- an you can git along
fust rate with most of EN-" said Han
cock, ignoring he thrust. "Oncet in o
while there's exceptions. but | hain't
never seen many of EN-. The trouble
is we cont try to please EN- enough. |
never seen but one man that tried right
along an that was Wesley Slope
Don't he try now?' asked Baker.
lie does il thout tryin," said Han
cock That's the best way, after al
enough to keep from pesterin He pes
tered his woman inter marryin him in
the first place. She'd have been willih'
enough TO marry him anyway, but he
didn't know enough TO know that. an
the consekens was she allus could tell
how she give him the mitten three
times atOre she took him Well, Yves
didn't care for that He told her that
if She only take him he'd jest put in
the rest of his days tryin' to please her
an he started in ten minutes after the
preacher said no man was to try TO put
EN- asunder.
Il remember soon after they settled
down she said one time that the barn
ought to be painted an Yves went To
town 'thout sayin anythin to her
about it an brought Jud Harper an
five gallons 0 yaller paint back with
him. an while she was over TO her
mothers they painted that barn root
an all as yaller as a Dunkin. You'd hey
thought that would have pleased her,
but it didn't She said she didn't mean
it ought to be painted right away, an
there was things needed paintin 2
sight more than the barn. an II he'd
painted il anythin' why hadn't hs
painted il red an what was the use o.
payin Jud Harper three dollars, when
he could have done the job jest as wen
himself an save the money"
Well Yves plugged along an after
that he put his money in the bank an
when the woman begun to hint around |
she'd like somethin or another ~ |
didn't ray no 'tention to it, an then |
she lowed he didn't care a row Of pins !
what She got along with. That put |
Yves back where he started an the mex
time he went to town he come back
With & washin amchine an a mangle
an a blue plush album an a settin' o
brown leghorn eggs
INC, there wasn't nothin' Yves could
To- seemed like, that suited her though
ihe was a right pleasant sort o woman
o most everybody else. But Yves
'oHldn't please her. Yves done right
we'll with The farm. He was u worker
rom away back an a good trader an
lie made money whore anybody else
would have starved 10 death. He sim n
,ep' ZIP tryin' 10 please his wife an he
lad les about the same old luck
"WnlI, one time Mis- Slope went 70 {
own TN she seen a passle o. folks
,layin' this yer croquct on the grass
mt in front % Paul Pelbodys resi- {
ence, an she come back home an ,
lowed that 81 would be right nice IL /
hey lad a croquet set That WIS )
nough for Wes g course. He bitches I
IN the next day an goes - town an
ONES back with q box full mauls an {
alls IN wire hoops. e
Mis- Slope looked at 'cm an then ,
h" looked at Wes Yves Stope.' she Q
ays. / sh'd think some time you'd Cit !
little sense Now, what uec n y1u /
pose that there croquet Set IS with {
n them stumps right in the way OF /
he 1rches2 ,
THAT made Yves little mad. be- !
luse him nor bein' able to satisfy her
ad been workin' on him q right smart q
oeli though he was one o. these fe'- q
rs y never lets on. He shrugged his Z
louldcrs an sighed an went ont 10 q
ie barn an got two-inch anger an {
agun horin' holes in them stumps. Tho .
oman didn't notice what he was a. q
Din', helm round on the shady side of
ie mousse hansin' out a wash. until an n
a sCddent them blasts went off ST. q
infamous Il
"Wnen Yves come 10 the fust thing
noticed was hole in the side o. the
Duse as big rs double barn door
here the biggest half OF an elium Y
imp had busted through an brought
, against the parlor organ. Gavin IN
e front. an a chunk of rotten but.
rnat an some m.slanyous hickory an
ech had follered after an played Is
b with things gin'rslly n