Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1906-07-26

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was, says, Here says, Is where
save my son and heir from passed.
Of butchers, says, before they have
him scalded and dressed and hung up
outside the shop for the holiday trade,
says, with the red paper rosettes
stuck In Henry's chest / says"
"Are the New York girls 80 design
ing?' asked Percival.
"Is Higbee's ham good to eatf" re-
piled Higbee, oracularly.
go" no continued, when made up
my mind to put my foot down l Just
casually mentioned to the old lady
say, she's got an eye that would make
LIQUID air shiyer-that cold blue like
an army overcoat-well, mentioned
to her that Henry was a spendthrift
and that Q wasn't ever going to get
another cel.t from me that he didn't
earn Just the same as IL he wasn't any
relation Of mine. l made it plain, you
bet; she found Just where little, Henry
boy stood with his kind-hearted, lib
eral old father
"Say, maybe Henry wasn't in cold
storage with the whole family from
that moment. see those fellows in
the laboratories are puttering around
Just now trying to get the absolute
zero of temperature-say, Henry got 1t,
and he knows nothing about chemistry.
"Then 1ounced Hank. proceeded
to let him know he was up against it
right close up against it, so you
couldn't see daylight between 'em.
You're 25,' says, and you play the
best game of pool, I'm told, Of any
OF the chapples in that Father-Made-
the-Money club you got into / says;
but I've looked it up says. and
there amt really what you could call
any great future for a pool champion,
says, and IL you're ever going to
learn anything else, it's time you was
a. It, says. Now you go back home
and tell the manager to set you to
work l says, and your wages won't
be big enough to make you interesting
to any skirt-dancer, either says.
And you make astudy of the hog froP
the ground up. Exhaust his possible
ties just like your father done, and
make a man Of yourself, and then
some time 1 says, you'll be able to
give good medicine to cub of you1
own VIXEN he needs it,"
"And how did poor Henry take all
that?"
well, Hank squealed at first like
he was getting the knife; but finally
when he see he was up against it, and
especially when he see how this cir
and her family throwed him down the
elevator shaft from the tenth story
why, he come around beautifully. He's
really got sense, though he doesn'
, look it-Henry has-though Lore
knows / didn't pull him up a bit too
quick. But he come out and went Il
work like told MIN. It's the creates
thing ever happened to him. He ain
SO fat-headed as he was, already. Hen
ry'll be a man before his dads through
with him"
But weren't the young people DIS
/ appointed?" asked Percival; "weren'
! they in love with each other?"
"In lover" In an effort to expires
) seorn Adequately Mr.. Higbee came per
ilously near to snorting. What d
E you suppose a girl like that cares TO
' love? She was dead in love with tn
4 nice long yellow-backs that I've pile
/ up because the public knows good har
5 when they taste it. AS for being i
4 love with Henry or with any man
D say. young fellow, you've got some
t thing to learn about those New Yor
8 girls And this one, especially. Why
4 Its been known for the three year
z we've been there that she's simpl
: hunting night and day for rich hus
/ band. She tries for EN- all as fast a
, they get in line"
Henry was unlucky In finding ths
kind. They're not all like that-thos
New York girls are not" and he ha
+ the air of being able If he chose
name one or two luminous exception
"silas," called Mrs. Higbee, "ar
you telling Mr.. Bines about our Henr
and that Milbrey girl?"
'Yep," answered Higbee, 81 told him.
"About what girl?-what was hi
manner" asked Percival, in lower ton
"Milbrey's that familys name-Hol
ace Mtlbrey-
why" PerciVal interrupted, som
what awkwardly, 81 know the famil
the young lady-we met the famil
out in Montana a few weeks ago"
"Sure enough-they were in Chicae
and had dinner with us on their wa
out"
81 remember Mr.. Milbrey spoke
what fine claret you gave him"
Eyes. and wasn't stingy with iC
either, the way those New York Poop
always are. Why, at that fellow
house be gives you that claret wine
4 warm as soup.
4 "But as for that girl" he adde
z say, she'd marry me in a minute
| wasn't tied up with the little la,
over there or course she'd rath
At marry sub-treasury; she's got abo
e., that much heart in har--cDid -hlood,