Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-28
JIMMY EMMENCE,
MATCHMAKER of
CIRCLE N.
By C. CUNNINGHAM


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Yes, sir, seen trouble on the trail
when that young woman commenced
sort o maxim UP to Tod. Who? Him
Why, that fellsr's Jest nateher1ly so
'customed to females THROWN their
selves at him that it don't jar him
Nav!
Mebbe am little bit proud Of Tod
Yes, I reckon that's right Orta be,
consideriR' that raised him from q
yearlin'-iH experience, mean, cause
he was about twenty when / corralled
him. To hear hiR tell IT, I'm the
whole Circle N: and nebba have
helped him right smart bosEin' these
yeller-skinned punchoFs. But Jimmy
q. knows his place, and never till he
got his gnuntlets tangled up in a mans
MATRIMONIAL affairs did he ever get
the downright hee-haw.
This here vsspsr Lovatt-vesper!
Kind o bells, haiK-t thsVf That girl
must n been = beauty out east, where
candy clothes and pretty girls grow on
every currant bush. But cut here,
where you don't see calico fer years at
q stretch-only them n0-sood kind that
hang cut ut the saloon ahanties at Ben
tens Chance-well, when you see a
giri-a lady girl. mind you-you Jest
want To eat that bunch o. honeysuckle
At one bita-
But knove1 It wouldn't do no good
fer her to try to brand Tod. He wau
too old maverick. Wise boy, Tod!
Vesper's paw was q 'lunSer." He
came out here for ais health, and Yes
per and him boarded with Mrs
Frenchy Ksniger, over at the P. G O.
And mo. bOin' far-sightsd and more up
to the wiles o. women, could see that
she liked the looks o. Tod ever $3.50.
One day, after the kid had been out
a-rfdin' with her on one OF them long
trips they used to take, 1 led him aside
and perceedSd to open up.
Teddy" says, slow and deliberate,
some like hangin's a 0reassr, do you
know that you're in dAnger?"
He sort O throwed his head up and
slipped his cartridge belt little looser
onto his hip. and says he, some lively
What do you mean, Jimmy?"
l see he was interested, all right.
why, boy, Miss V0apor IL spoony
on you'll"
That's Jest the way / sprung 1t. Say
he Strengthened up and blushed like a
girl, and the gimlets got into his eyes
Jimmy, l can't allow you to speak
this way" he splits out Then he con
unues, bit cslmer: why, Jimmy, cd
pard. you're way Of. She wouldn't
have me. Why do you think she
might?'
cause I'm an old bird, young gos
lin" I says, pretty pert. 81 knows
their ways. I was most married v
self once. Now" says, st amt a IN 4
to show a Teller bein' q bear trap and
then not sight him to a way % sit
around it." Says l, Sonny, your on '
salvation is turniR' her eyes to Han D
den"
'Who?" ne kind O. hollsrs. That
lunger?"
Sure" I says; he probably wan s
to git hitched-siclkly people are al
ways achin' to marTy-gives 'em some
thing new TO worry over. reckon, and
she kind O. takes to him. Not like she
does to you, though" says. right
hasty, wantin' to impress his danger
on him Thorough. But we could en-
courage her. You talk to her about
what a fine Teller be Is, and I'll kind o
jog his msmery about what bunch O
candied cherries she is. ThatT do the
business. Hundreds OF lsve affairs
start from no more than this"
You speak a. one havin' authority.
smiles Mr.. SmartT, ana see he tool
1t some as joke-
Il do" l answers, dignified, but witt
creepin' shudder, ~and If you'd beer
as near married rs was once, you'd
look at 1t the same. / know what the
danger is. The question II right here:
do you want to be saved? And kin
depend on you to do your part?
You bet yer life, Jimmy. Thank vol
for putin me next the facts" and he
grabbed my hand ana shook It till hi,
gratitood was plumb painful.
Well. Tod he went over to the P. &
D. right often after that, and I seer
him and her ridin' out and talkin' earn
est.
The next day I meets this Hampden
He boarded at the p. & OFT was
quite a hangcut for lungers. We pulled
up and passed the word o. greetin'
like two western gents, and he opens
up:
II was hopin' to run across Mis- Low
att out here somewhere. She's gone
riding, and have missed her."
/ WALL / ami ss4A nothiR' Of hsr.