The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-01
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wsa passed to me,
Did Won have company f"g Christ
mas II you did hope yuu enjoyed
II. We had COMPANY visitor. rel
alive al mine. an old bachelor.
privileged character. and an iniol~
ttEabtf kIa%AHt9 49, 50 ofia4 F'FtHNs''t
~. He Is Eon. and darn him may he
stay gone Nv wifi. has always
thought I was fool and nov she
knows It, and this Christmas visitor
is the source OF her information !
like visitors but some OF them please
me too we'll. and right Cow | am
over ioyed with this visitor almost
TO madness. IN tell YOU all about IL
If YOU Will listen.
When | can first remember had
boy cousin about my own age
whom / played with every day. We
grew up together, played together.
| went TO school together, went off 10
college together. and got TO be men
about the same time. | came off 10
, Texas and he stayed at the old
home. | got married and he didn't,
| because nobody would have him
| who knew him and he wouldn't
| leave home | didn't make any mon
| ey but he did for he was too stingy
| to eat enough. | used TO write 10
him once in awhile but he wouldn't
! answer because stamps cost NOM
ey," so he said, About a month be-
fore Christmas | got a card from
| this dear relative of mine saying he
would pay me visit and for me to
| expect him about Dec. "a. He came
| on schedule time and when the car
! rage drew up at our gate we went
. out to meet him | expected to see
the same slender youth Of twenty
| years ago, but out stepped big,
fat, be-whiskered spectacle, gruff,
old galoot with a big valise in each
hand. He said, well, / see it Is
YOU" He never even offered to shake
hands with me, but proceeded to
hug and kiss my children and take
on over them, and then he repeated
the act on the rest of my family, and
that made me mad, but | never dar-
ed to let on for they all seemed TO
enjoy it so much. Then he went into
those grips and | never saw the like
of playthings and goodies for the
children, and such fine present for
my wife. He had got liberal for
once in his life and had showered
his liberality not Oh me, for he new
er gave me anything, but on my fam
lily whom he had never seen. Like
all old bachelors he Is eccentric and
is always doing he unexpected
They fed him and he fed himself, he
smoked his good cigars and told lies
on me. The children laughed and
danced at his jokes TOR they thought
he was better than Santa Claus ten
10 one. and when he would get off
some of his most unre asonable yarns
of my boyhood plumbers. my wife
would say. Il know that is so for il
is Just Ike him" Just before he
left he gave them an unauthorized
version Of my first courtship, highly
embellished of course. | will tell you
how il vas with the embellishments
left OF.
On my fathers farm in Kentucky
was abeautiful lake Of sixty acres.
The waters were clear as crystal and
the gravel banks were shaded by
Spanish oaks. IL was an ideal place
and many a picnic. we had there.
had boat all my owl. and when
the youngsters would come was
quite a favorite on account of my
boat ON. Saturday, a hay wagon
full of fun-s".kers came aud among
them was the daughter OF q farmer
whp lived som" ten miles up the
country ". tad a dance In the saw
dust under th' trees. "a 'brandana
We called b. aud ! viii confess that
thought, that girl vas the prottiest
thiuE that ever tfipped thc Hight fan
tnstic when She left fhat evening
she declared she had had inv beat
ims 90 ner lie and said she had only
ms fo hans, and asked ma" 10 como
fo -se nsr the next SUNDAY week !
w.u- sna .sH.-s III newer hear IN,
last 90 t uil Z am dead Ny step
unfh.f -'arch"d and iroHvd ms
white un.n sailor suit which ! wore