The Washington herald., 1910-05-15
RUN OFF With
EnOs Simpkins Run off With 6
Nearly Kid Right in BingViIIe
by a ROss He Swept Heck Win
slow fOT---ThTilIing PartiCkIers
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There was awful goins-on TO Bing-
vile last Thursday afternoon about 5
p. m. witch VIII be remembered by all
our inhabitants for a long time to come
and mebby longer.
To 60 back TO the beginning we OFT
TO 90 away back 70 last Janooary. L
was then that Heck Winslow and ErOs
Simpkins begin 10 banter each other
about tradin HOSES. Enos he had a
sway-backed mare witch stood about Is
hands high without no shoes on, and
was l2-year-old by her teeth, and one
day when he was out drivin he met up
with Heck and he says 10 Heck saws he 4:
Heck. how would yew ike to swop
hosses?"
Heck he had 4 roam boss o-year-old
last spring, witch he bought eight year
ago and broke hisself, and mas used
her in single and double harness and
driv her 10 the county seat where they
was railroad trains and got her used
to them and hauled stone with her and
spavind her all up behint, and he says
to Enos, ct appears TO me that I ort
TO hev about S23 tew boot
Then Enos says, Gosh almighty.
yewr boss amt with half OF that fggcr
not countin my mare. witch kin pull
a load that ole skin OF yewrs couldn't
bulge, by hen, and if you want to
swop, yew'll haft tew come down a
little mite on yeur boot money"
Well, Enos and Heck they bantered
each other a while and didn't come to
no satisfactory agreement. 50 the mat
ter was drapt until the next time they
met. This has went on all spring Every
time they met they would begin 10 talk
about swoppin them bosses and they
was a-gettin a leetle nearer to a diokcr
every time they talked about it. Finally
they got to the pint where they was
only Is cts. between EN-. Heck offered
to swop if Enos would pay him the
Is cts. That was last week, and on
Thursday last at adzackly half past
! 80 p. m. Enos offered Heck 50, cents
to boot and was took up, and so they
exchanged bosses. Enos didn't have no
fifty cts. with him, but he give Heck
his promissory note TO pay it within
a year and so they parted.
Well, the next day after the trade,
Enos he hitched up his new boss and
thort he would 60 TO the county seat
after few groceries, being as he hasn't
delt with Hen Weathersby, prop. Of our
general store, since two year ago, when
he claimed Hen Civ him short weight
on half pound Of sugar. Enos he
| arrove at the county seat about noon
and ct a cold snack witch he had took
along with him and fed his boss two
quarts of oats at the edge OF town and
then he driv in and purchase the gro
ceries, and after visiting a saloon and
getting a little taste of Ticker he started
fer home. Long about It was that
he comes within sight of Bingville, and
he says to hisself, I'll jest show the
peepul o this town whut an almighty
fired fine critter this boss is, by grass Z"
So Enos he hit the boss a welt over
the rump with whip and planned to
go through Bingville in about six Or
eight minnit clip. The boss Enos got
won't stand a whip nohow, but Heck
had went and forgot to say a hate
about this TO Enos and so when he
brought the whip down on her, blamed
] if she didn't come ALFRED near jumpin
outen the harness and tal1in the bit
betwixt her teeth and started through