Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-05-19

Of time. Side by side for seven years
we had mined, ranched. sold patent
churns. herded sheep, took photographs
and other things, built wire fences and
picked prunes. Thinks / neither homi-
eide nor fiattery nor riches nor sophis-
try nor drink can make trouble be-
tween me and Paisley Fish.
zone summer me and Paisley gal
lops down into these San Andres
mountains for the purpose of a months
surcease and levity dressed in the nat
ural store habiliments Of man. We
hit this town of Los Pinos, which GER
tainly was a roof garden spot of the
world and flowing with condensed milk
and honey.
1--WE strikes the town after supper
time, and we concludes to sample
whatever efficacy there is in this eat
ing house down by the railroad tracks
BY the time we had set down and
pried up our plates with knife from
the red oilcloth along intrudes Widow
Jessup with the hot biscuit and the
fried liver.
'NOw, there was a woman that
would have tempted an anchoyy to
forget his VOWS. She was not so small
as she was large, and kind of well
come air seemed to mitigate her vicin-
ity. The pink of her face was the
in hoe SignO of culinary temper and
warm disposition. and her smile
would have brought out the dogwood
blossoms in December.
widow Jessup talks to us a lot Of
garrulousness about the climate and
history and Tennyson and prunes and
the scarcity of mutton and finally
wants to know where we came from.
"'Spring Valley says l.
"'Big Spring Valley chips in Pals.
ley, out OF lot Of potatoes and knuc-
kle bone of ham in his mouth.
'That was the first sign | noticed
that the old fidus Diogenes business
between me and Paisley Fish was end
ed forever. He knew how | hated q
talkative person and yet he stampedes
into the conversation with his amend
mentS and addendums of syntaX. On
the map it was Big Spring Valley, but
I had heard Paisley himself call it
Spring Valley thousand times.
Without saying any more we went
out after supper and set on the rail-
road track. We had been PARTNERS
too long not to know what was going
on in each others mind.
81 reckon you understand says
Paisley, that I've made up my mind
to accrue that widow woman as part
and parcel in and to my Entertainments
forever, both domestic, sociable, legal
and otherwise, until death us do part
Why, yes says l. 4 read it be-
tween the lines, though you only spoke
one. And l suppose you are aware
says /, that l have q movement on
foot that leads up to the widow chang
ing her name to Hicks and leaves you
writing to the society column to in
quire whether the best man wears q
japonica or seamless socks at the we'd
ding?"
'There'n be some hiatuses in your
program says Paisley, chewing UP a
piece Of railroad tie. I'd give in to
,you,' says he. in most any respect if
1t was secular affairs, but this is not
so. The smiles of woman goes on
Paisley, is the whirlpool of Squills
and Chalybeates, into which vortex
the good ship Friendship is often
drawn and dismembered. I'd assault
a bear that was annoying you,, says
Paisley, or I'd indorse your note or
rub the place between your shoulder
blades with opodeldoc the same as
ever, but there my sense of etiquette
Ceases: In this fracas with Mrs. Jes-