Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1907-06-27

Ben nodded.
The law won't help 'ei IT'S q
crying shame; but II was you Ia
help myself an hang the law"
| "I've tried often enough, surely.
rye done every mortal thing that l can
think Of"
you can Craze sheep in III"
yea"
"Or cattle?"
"Of course. What's that to DO with
the matter?''
"You might even let Your great, red
Devon bull, as takes SO many prizes
an have got such douce an all OF q
temper, run loose there, II you was
minded to-eh?"
by Gor!" said Nick Westaway. III
that ban't an ideal"
An so next day that bull was wal
lowing in a pool O. mud in the middle
Of the meadow an wondering at his
luck.
An when young Ben left Westaway
he went straight Down to see Mary
Jane Arscott. A crooked game he
played, sure enough!
They had a bit Of love-making by
the river; an then Ben arranged to
meet her next day an go out upon
Belstone Tor an pick whortleberries.
But he never said no word touching
his talk with Nicholas Westawsy.
Well, the girl, who lived in a cot.
tage down the valley, came up as q
matter of course by the field-path to
Belstone In the morning; an for that
matter Westaway had long since CIV
en- her special permission to do so.
Her was half way across the great
meadow, with nothing in her thoughts
but mushrooms and whortleberries an'
Benjamin Pearp, when there coined q
sound very high-pitched an ugly. It
got louder an deeper till she heard a
proper below, an there, right ahead,
she seed Nick Westaway's great red
Devon bull, a-pawlng an a-prancing as
If he was trying to dance the sailors
hornpipe.
She dropped her basket and ran for
her life. She weren't built for rum
ming, but nature will do great deal,
even for the proudest of us, in pinch
like this an, for once her got over the
ground in very fine fashion. She'd
reached within ten yards Of the hedge
when she heard a shout, an a man
came tearing down the flled-path; but
he was too late, Mary Jane went head
first into the hedge, screaming to the
Everlasting to spare her, an the bulls
horns Just gave her the ghost of a
touch-enough to swear by after-as
she went through all ends up. -
OF course, the man was Benjamin
Pearn. An he knowed really that the
feld-path ran nigh the hedge, an he'd
been dead sure as Mary Jane would
not get into no real danger. Besides,
he had planned to be there In plenty
Of time, an 1t wasn't till he actually
seed Mary Jane flying an the bull a.
believing after cher, with his tail up
an his head down, that he knowed
what he'd done.
ITO Think" gasped Mary Jane. ITO
think as l might be lifeless Jelly this
but for my own legs! II
you'm man, Benjamin Pearn, you'll
30 an get your gun an shoot him!"
They'd put me in prison for it-not
that I'd mind that IL you'd have me
when / coined out" said Ben very
eager like. But" he added as an
"the dashed luck Of It
Is l haven't got a gum"
Her black eyes flashed an her
zNpsv.dark face growed darkev still.
"You'd hest to borrow gun then"
The told him. Anyway, l won't marry
vou while that bulls alive; an If you
was a man you'd never sleep till you'd
mt bullet through it."
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JIck nonned in a word or two edge.
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