The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-18

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~'An' more than that. society at Lame
! Grow has been all torc zap. an Ia all tore
up this minute. 70 sec Roxianny an
Artemesy Bings never could hitch. nohow
an has had some amazin' spats. but nothin
like the one that has sot Lame Crow society
In ssckcloth an ashes. an II we're.
-'Only t'other night the Spartlets give
an appleent. Roxiapny an Artemesy was
both 10 Il. an things was ali hummin' along
smooth AZ a white pine board Jest from
tina Jack plane. whom OF a suddent Roxy
an Artemesy run aR'in one another over
the best way TO bile down apple butter.
~"Ths arguments hat follered was hot
enough to cook a bar stake on. an by an
by Artemesy throwed In ore that she
thought'd be a olincher.
well. anyway she says. an Artemesy
kin N things put toler'ble cuttin' her.
self. II don't nave 10 play second fiddle
to an old hemlock slab schoolhouse that
they've gone an painted brick color!
shs s.ys.
"'0h, you DON'T" says Roxianny. turnin'
up her nose ell the freckies On IL was
most oven with her eyes. or course you
dontl' says she. III they had wanted
you to play second fiddle to it," says she,
they'd a painted IL a dirty yaller! says
she.
-'The distinguishin' an particular pint
In that little sayin' o. Roxy's was that there's
considerable o. biliousness in the Bings
family. an Artcmesy 10 complicated some
thin like q saddle bag. consistently the
argument hit 90 close to home that Artemesy
sot her fingers In that rod head o. Roxy's.
an before they was got loose the mix up
was 30 general that the Spartlets applecut
broke up in a. all pervadin' q knock down
an carry out as the deestrio' ever en-
joyed.
A setch is the situation, eddicationally
an As to the doin's in society. in Lame
Grow Barren at the present writin', an
you kin eee that it amt encouragin'. lave
I led you up to tho p'int?' said the citizen
from that thus iii fated region.
Il told him that IL seemed to me there
was still q little something lacking in the
leading up. The visitor picked up his
'coonskin cap. looked at it as IL the rest of
tho leading up might be somew here in the
cap. and then resumed.
when I got that chunk Of Information
in your wisdom colyum.' said he, ] see TO
uns that I hadn't made no mistake about
In idee I had. an I come down to see about
it, an 7 got that other chunk OF informa-
ton on the spot here that you hain't got no
hshtin' editor. You bain't got no fghtin'
editor an VEIN goin' 10 git you one.'
Il guess ] must have looked as II the point
he was leading me up TO was still a good
way on. for be went right on and said:
Yes. We'm goin' to let you rome up
TO Lame Grow Barren an marry Roxianny
Shotpunk. We'm goin' to let you marry
her an fetch her down here to rtav, an
she'll be a ightia' editor fer you as will
make them he'll hounds of your opposition
paper on t'othcr side the street turn green!
An you'll give dedication in Lame Grow
Barren a smooth road TO foller, an settle
Lame Grow society back into peace and
quietness ag'in in a jifyr
II had led me UP TO the point, and I
was trying to think what sort Of reply tn
make regarding the cheerful prospect he
placed before me. when he put on his coon
skin cap. rose to 60 and said:
Will you 60 along with me now up to
Lame Glow. or whcnW you be comin'T
Il told him some day next week would
suit me better. and he went out. plainly
relieved in mind. Whether there would
have been q delegation from Lame Crow
Barren the next week 70 escort me back
to get tho fighting editor I was to have I
don't know. but I'violate no confidence
when I say that I went about with more
cheerfulness after something happened a
few days later. First I received this letter:
mir. edtur. Dear sur. it il too Bad. you
ort ter q come a long OF me that day to Lame
Crow baron a then you'd a got her. you mist
The chanst Of yure life a now eddycashun
10 sot Back a siety is Tosr up in Lame Crow
wussen ever.
The letter was plainly from my red
faced visitor Of the week before, but its
contents were q mystery to me until the
arrival of my weekly budget OF 'Limps
from Lame Crow One OF the items in the
budget was this
Miss R%oxianna Shotpunk. one Of Lame
Crows impulsive bellies. caused somethi M
Of . ripple In our society circles this week BY
running away with and marrying young
Simon Dippy. who rumcr has IL was engaged
to Miss Artemesia Binws. between whom and
Miss S%hotpunk relations have been strained
for some time past.
And 90, whether I escaped q fighting
editor for the Trumpet B,ds OF Freedom
or not, I put that weeks 'Limps from Lame
Grow in type with more pleasure than
anything l over set up before"