The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-01

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made .p asS mind at nnee. There @ss
/ uRr little huus. suli ot fodder tn
IN. lover end os III. pasture and I
got iuto that and concluded that |
would stas thnre stss a.-hs then go
home | never fhonghs of sha horse
aud saddle and hos my clothes
would give me away 4 little after
sun ap saw ms girl and her sister
coming TO milk. b.autifn. miikmaids
they We're, wlih their buckets on
their arms and their blue bunnets
thrown back Their big shepherd dog
was seut for the calves and here they
came chewing my coat and pants
and haf | wna looking through n
Knot hole fla plank. an Interested
spectator When the girls saw my
clothes and horse aud saddle they
screamed and ran back 10 the house
calling their father and talked OF
. wolves aud bears and said they
knew had been killed. In the mean
time, he old dog had freed me and
was barking with all his might. Dr.
rectiy the old gentleman came down
With his shot gun. | came from my
hidin. plac. and SAYS, Don't
shoot. He says. What does all this
! mean, my hoy?'' | soon explained to
his satisfaction, and the old scamp
laughed till | thought he would
burst and rolled all over the little
pasture He got me some OF his old
clothes which | donned. We caught
my horse and ] rode back home a
Inundated boy. He went with me to
get the clothes ! reckon. My folks all
laughed at me but my good step
mother. she took me in her arms
and cried over my mishap like !
had been baby. When the girls IA
ther left he says. Don't be discour-
| aged, young man, come back and try
| again" told him to go to the dew
IT, then my stepmother laughed.
| This self-concelted. egOstisttcal,
Hllimportant. old bachelor cousin OF
mine came all the way from Ken
Ntuckv y tell my wife and children
u this varl and a dozen more on me.
He couldn't tell the truth about any
thing. but lhsz ~ lf 1
funny. He il gone mt -
and this morning the first xf6SHx ny
little boy said to me was, DADDY
the calves have got your pants" Cl
bachelors. they ought to be chlort
formed,
] like jokes and | like Christina:
but before the week was out | pull
ed for the country to hunt subscrib
ers for the Enterprise. That is
picnic all the time and | pant for tn,
work "as a heart panteth after thu
water-brook. ! headed for Howard
and Nash My first man was Georgt
Holbert. He had taken my paper be
fore and said his children liked il
better than any other paper. He has
ii again and we intend TO keep him
I found NJ d. Robinson, who former
~ lived here on Williams street, out
there with two fine mules, and he
said he was there for the next year
I got nv dinner at w. A. Gothard's
He is a big-hearted fellow and treat
Cd me fine. His son, who has been
clerking at Maypearl was at home
and ! found him a polite. handsome
| |
Gothard sets traps on the creek and
catches a great deal of fur which hi
ships 10 St Louis and sells for a
good price He enjoys the sport and
makes many dollars besides X. T.
Wakeland had his hog killing appar-
atus ready to BUTCHER his swine but
Ae didn't get TO Kill for the weather
was too warm. \ great deal of meat
has been lost over tho county this
fall tor there has not been much hog
1 killing weather.
Il Il. r. Elliott invited ME 10 stay AL
II night aud / stayed with vim. tie
! nd his wife. who WIS Miss Wake
| and are KentuCEiaus and We wer,
| good friends at once. They had some
~ their Christmas dinner and some
boiled cutard left aud I cuIoyed %
20 the fullest Ma Eiliotts Two sons