The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1910-07-28
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BY OSCAR cox.

Hodges daughter Lucy she was wal
ing q stream. Her shoes and stool
ing she held IN her hands and lite
her skirts to her knees. Her hair ha
fallen down her back. and her stra,
hat hung from her neck over the hail
She was a. pretty q piece Of human
flesh as 4 eyerlaaw. 1 fell in love wit
her righu aways and. luckily for me
didn't have much trouble getting he
consent to ask her father to give he
to me.
The old man owned q stock farm
Among the animals on 1t was a ba,
filly. pretty - q picture, that yer,
much wanted. That was at the same
time wanted his daughter. He se1
great store BY Lucy, and I knew that
It would break him all up to lose her
it's no fool Of q Job to go to man
and ask him to give up the girl he's
raised from babyhsod, and I didn't
have any fancy for 1t. I rehearsed all
would say TO Farmer Hodges.
would introduce the subject by ask
Ing II he would sell the bay ally, praise
her to the skies. then offer him q big
price for her. This would put him
In q good humor. taking advantage Of
which | would ask him for Lucy.
! parted from Lucy at 10 o'clock on
moonlight night at the gate, 1t be-
ng arranged that I should 60 up to
house the next evening afte.. supper
when her father was smoking his pipe
IN the porch and then and there pur
n my application. I didn't say any
hing to Lucy as to my intentions with
'egard to opening the subject, for
when we separated l hadn't thought
lnything about that just told her
was going to brace up and ask for
Ter.
II was hot evening when called,
md the farmer, instead OF sitting on
he porch. had put his rocker on the
rass before II, where he could get
more air. He asked me to have a
hair that stood beside him, and / sat
own for the hardest job Of work II
ver did In my life.
Selling much stock Just now, Mr..
iodges?" 7 asked.
"0h. I get rid OF few animals now
nd then. but ! can't say I'm dom
cry much"
Reckon I can take one OF 'em on
our hands II you and I can agree on
price. I've taken q shine to that IT.
e bay ally with ore white foot and
white spot on her forehead"
You mean Lucy. I reckon"
II was speaking Of the bay illy,- I
hammered. suspecting he had fore
tailed my real object.
Shes Lucy. I've called her after |
" daughter. She's a rattlfn' fne sni-
lai..
You bet. fastened to chime In re-
lrn.
Kind and gentle as q suckin' dove.
mean tricks about her, easy goin',
'edient 70 the ribbons-in fact she's
g best little girl I've got on the
ace
That's just the disposition I want.
wouldn't like any baking or kicking ,
anything like that. I don't believe
using the whip. but IL there's any
ing vicious I think II ought TO be
"a on we'll"
Il wouldn't mind putin her through /,
r PAGES 10 show you what she can
'oh. Il isn't necessary. I've seen :
T going. She's mighty well put up. !
}. What do You want for hersg n
AZ that moment, looking up. I saw J
cy herself-the real Lucy-at the j
ndow. Her fathers back was TO- :
I'D her. so he couldn't see her. I'll
ed her. She wore very peculiar i
preston. Indeed. she looked mad !
,ugh 70 bite through a nail. What !
4 occasion this alteration in her !,
&c the last time had seen her
lldn't for my life imagine. The ap. :
'it!on threw me completely out Of =
reckoning. =
II You want Lucy" the farmer re. 4
ID with the deliberate twang or !,
selling a horse you can have her n
try. II you like her you can keep n
on any terms satisfactory TO you. n
sou don't like her you can turn her q,
X 10 me-"
low much Of this my love heard I q,
NJ know. for before II was finished
ducked. =,
You'll have 20 excue me Just now" n,
tinued the old man. There comes ',
nan 70 make dicker for some O. ys
racin' stock. Do as you pIease vi
nj Luck.r r,
was a terrible disappointment 10 III
no further In the matter. or. rath. Dc
not to get 10 the real object Of my
:. buF a man came In az the gate IN
the farmer went TO meet him. on
ted up at the window where my trI
had appeared. but she was not lur
.. I waited tilI there was nobody de
Ut, when she came down and.
ching right past me. made for the Of,
!. followed and called to her: so