The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-05-12
A Nice Sense Of Honor.
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such mirages as we used to git. Dun.
no whether the clyments has changed
or my eyeslght is breakin' down, but |
don't see no more land llftin' with ev.
erything drawed as II 1t war a paintin'
under your nose such as | seen often
when fust come to the country"
"What kind Of mlrages do you have
down here. asked the gentleman from
Massachusetts. "those that elevate OBJ
jects or those that show objects hav-
ing no existence"
"Waal. I reckon you'd call 'em ele
vators."
I've seen mlrages on Lake Mich
igan." said the Chicago man. but !
never knew whether they were the
eastern shore elevated or the western
shore reflected
"There amt no reflection down here"
remarked the rancher. what you see
you see. saw somepin oncet that
| changed the hull course of my life
| II want no reflection. you bet yer llfc."
How wns thnt?" asked the Massa-
| chusetts man.
"'Twas this away: When ! war n
J young man | worked at COW punchln'
for n man as lived on ridge that
looked over n like ridge fifteen mile
away. The river run between each
| ridge midway. and the ground on each
side the river war as like as two pens.
| Tanner lived on the east ridge--he
war the man worked for--nnd fifteen
miles away on the other ridge his
brother-inlaw. Brant, had built q
house after the same plans. The same
architect had planned 'em both. and
lumber had been sawed for the two OF
'em at oncet. Each stood In the cen
| ter OF big ranch.
Tanner had daughter, Eunice.
| that tukH kHasshine to me. I war an in
nocent young feller In them days and
hadn't no notion o. hoolIin' up with
any one and tried TO keep her off my
scent. bnt she folered me like blood.
hound. and somehow. though could
| git rid a. most things. I couldn't git rid
o. her. Whenever I'd try II she'd set
down beside me kind o. lovin' like. and
that d be the end o. my tryn' to
| shake her. p-,ar
| "Waal, at last she hived me- and the
fust thing knowed had gone to the
| ole man and axed for his gal. He was
| willin. and so we was engaged, as
| they say In the towns. Eunice oncet
havin' lassoed me gimme good deal
| o. rope. iist ms though we was married
and | couldn't git away nohow.
| 'What made 1t hard on me was that
| wanted another gal. That gal war
Sally Brant, Eunice's cousin. Sally
war a quiet little thing and didn't run
| after nobody. couldn't see very much
| of her cause Eunice regarded me as
her property and wouldn't let me of
i eyenin's to ride over to the Brant
ranch. and daytimes war lookin' after
| the cattle.
"One mornln I found myself lost.
There had been heavy fog all night
and instead of takin' my bearins be
fore 1t settled and goin' to sleep whar
war | tried TO pull through It. But
student, about 10 o'clock In the morn.
in, the fog lifted and found myself q
mile from the Brant ranch house
Thinkin' 1t would be a good chance tc
go and tell Sally Brant that wal
goln' to be married, rode over. Sally
was on the front veranda knittin
socks. i fined her and as soon as
could git up spunk told her that | wal
settled to be broke by Eunice Tanner
She didn't say word; she jist BEN
down, and ] could see that she wal
cryin'.
"Of course thar war iist one thing tC
do. set down on the bench beside
her, put my arms around her, and"-
"Klssed herT asked the Chicago
man.
"Kissed her? No; war hon'able
war engaged"
1 "Well. go on"
1--WE war settin facin' the valley. and
suddent lifted my eyes and thar he
fore me and lookin' hardly a stones
throw away war the Tanner ranch
house. And thar on the varanda SAT
a fcller and gal In each others arms
or course ! don't mean to say that !
could recognize people fifteen miles
away. but ! knowed the couple mus
"a been Eunice and some feller Al
though | would like to git rid of Eu
nice. It made me mad to see her In
another fellers arms. jumps up and
drawin' my shootln' iron plugs away
at the man. What did he do but the
same to me.
81 felt kind o. foolish as soon as Il
war over, thlnkin' my weepon would
carry so far. and set down ag'ln. The
fellcr must n felt as ! did. cause he
set down ag'in. too by his gal. Just as
did by mine We turned our backs tC
'em. but we didn't like their lookin
even at our backs, so we went into til,
house.
81 tole Sally that loved her ant
wanted her to marry me. She re
minded that ! was pledged to Eunlce
and reminded her that. thanks to the
mirage. had found Eunlce out, Sally
then said. that bein' the case. It wal
right for me TO shake Eunice. but II
went back to her she'd asso me ag'in
Recognizin' this ns true. proposed W,
be married before goln' back. And 81
we war.
"When ] went back a married man
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