The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-05-22
sup We play it alone. I've notified you

self and offers the following resolu-
tons and bylaws:
1" Friendship between man and man,
says l, is an ancient historical virtue
enacted in the days when men had to
protect each other against lizards with
eighty foot tails and flying turtles.
And they've kept up the habit to this
day and stand by each other till the
| bellboy comes up and tells them the
animals are not really there. I've of
| ten heard l says, about ladies step
ping in and breaking up friendship
between men. Why should that be?
| I'll tell you, Paisley. The first sight and
hot biscuit of Mrs. Jessup appears to
| have inserted a oscillation into each
| of our bOSoms Let the best man Of
US have her. I'll play you square
work. III do all of my counting of her
in your presence, so you will have an
equal opportunity. With that arrange
ment don't see why our steamboat Of
friendship should fall overheard in
the medicinal whirlpools you speak Of
whichever of US wins out
"'Good old hOssr says Paisley, shak-
ing my hand. And I'll do the same,
says he. Wen court the lady synony-
mously and without any of the prud-
cry and bloodshed usual to such occa-
sfons. And We'll be friends still, win
or lose
"At one side of Mrs. Jessup's eating
| trnnS
where she used to sit in the breeze
after the southbound had been fed and
gone. And there me and Paisley used
to congregate after supper and make
partial payments on our respects to
the lady of our choice. And we was
so honorable and circuitous in our calls
that if one of US got there first we
waited for the other before beginning
any gallivantery.
1.-THE first evening that Mrs. Jessup
knew about our arrangement l got to
the bench before Paisley did Sup
per was just over. and Mrs. Jessup
was out there with fresh pink dress
on and almost cool enough to handle.
81 sat down by her and made few
specifications about the moral surface
of nature as set forth by the landscape
and the contiguous perspective.
81 felt a kind of sensation in my left
side, something like dough rising in
crock by the fire. Mrs. Jessup had
moved up closer.
"'Oh. Mr.. Hicks says she, when
one is alone in the world, don't they
feel it more aggravated on beautiful
night like this?'
81 rose up off the bench at once.
"Excuse me, ma'am, says l, but
I'll have to wait till Paisley comes be
fore l can give a audible hearing tc
leading questions like that
"And then l explained to her how
we was friends tinctured by years OF
embarrassment and travel and com
plicity and how we had agreed to take
no advantage of each other in any OF
the more mushy walks of life, such as
might be fomented by sentiment anC
proximity. Mrs. Jessup appears t.
think serious about the matter for
minute, and then she breaks into spe
cies of laughter that makes the wild
wood resound.
sIn a few minutes Paisley drop:
around, with oil and bergamot on his
hair, and sits on the other side of Mrs
Jessup and inaugurates sad tale 0!
adventure in which him and Piefac;
Lumley has skinning match of Geat
, cows in 1895 for a silver mounted sad
! die in the Santa Rita valley during th'
nine months drought.
snow, from the start of that court
ship had Paisley Fish hobbled ant
, tied to q post Each one OF US had :
, different system of reaching out TO
the easy places in the female heart
Paisley's scheme was to petrify en-
with wonderful relations of event
that he had either come across person
! ally or in large print. ] think he mus
, have got his idea of subjugation from
called 'Othello.' There is a colcret
man in it who ACQUIRES duke
daughter hy disbursiE., to her mix
ture of the talk turned out by Ride
i Haggard, Lew Dockatader and Z:
J Parkhurst But that style Of courtin;
don't work well off fha stage.
/ "Now, give YOU ny own recipe f.
! | inveigling woman iiito that state o
affairs when she can be referred TO a
i nee Jones' Learn how TO pick up he
/ hand and hold it and sizes yours. !
t amt so easy. Some nsen grab at it s.
much like they was going to set a dis
t location of the shoulder that you cal
smell the arnica and hear EN- tearin.
! off bandages. Some take it up like
!, hot horseshoe and hold it off at arm
length like druggist pouring tinctur
! Of asafoetida in a bottle. And mos
| of 'em catch hold of it and drag
t right out before the lady's eyes like
) boy finding a baseball In the grass
/ without giving her chance to forge
that the hand is growing on the ent
of her arm. Them ways are all wrong
3 ''I'll tell you the right way. Did yol
ever see a man sneak out in the bacl