Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-19

II racks my brain, which has kind o con-
gealed from long disuse; but on the way
back scheme strikes me forcible. So when
ambles into the quarters l calls Clint off to
one side an says:
"Do you love Miss Dorothy?'
"He answers up real naughty, same as her,
an wants to know if it's anything to me.
lust like young ones, you see. Made a botch
O. things; but don't want no help.
Son, says, fastenin' my optics on him,
you listen to me an you'll git some in
formation!'
"Then l handed him passel O lies that
would have made Ananias sit up an take no.
tice o my ability,-how Dorothy had been
told to come home a month back, but she re-
fused; how she had received letter that
day, sayin' since she preferred to paddle her
own canoe without advice from the home
office she was welcome to do so; how she was
absolutely an Internationally broke; how
she had applied for the lucrative position O.
waitress at the Deming Harvey House an
was to start slingin biscuits the next week.
Sounds mighty unreasonable, you say?
Yes, it would have to anybody but Clint;
but you got to consider he was plumb locoed
about the little lady an all he thought of was
her slingin' biscuits to a bunch O sassy
drummers.
"'Bill,' he says, I'm gone!' an he makes
a flynn jump through the door an begins
runnin' towards the house before his feet
hits the ground.
MAC comes down after awhile an fetches
me up to the house. Clint was settin' inside
with Dorothy, and she jumped up when she
saw me, throwed her arms aroun' my neck,
an kissed me. She sure did, an she says,
Uncle Bill, you're a perfect dear!'
"They had things all planned out too.
Mac had received an offer from Diamond
M, an was goin to take it. He was to be
range boss for their outfit, an it meant a
raise over what the Walkin' x was payin'
him as foreman. The company hadn't got
anyone to take his place yet, an as he
changed outfits in bout week he thought
he could get the job for Clint. Which he
was right in his expectations.
THE infants got spliced the next mornin' I,
an when Mac left they moved into the
house. Clint made good foreman, an the
little lady made a good foreman's wife. She
pitched in an done the cookin' an house.
keepin' as happy as you please, let Clint
think she was plumb broke, like told him,
an they cert'ny was one blissful pair; just
natchully tickled to death with each other.
"But the best is yet to come. Which
1 don't mean I'm glad the old duffer
dies; but it sure were dispensation O
Providence just the same, an l reckon
they've got more fun out o the money than
he would have, if he hadn't croaked. 1t
were Clint's uncle, an he left him heap O.
the mazuma. We changes foremen imme-
date an sudden. Clint buys the Walkin' K
from the company an moves to Denver.
Hes in the bankin' business up there
now, head O some big trust company; but
he comes down to the ranch every two or
three months an punches cows for few
days with us as a kind o relaxation. When
the boy come they named him after me, an
some O these days I'm goin' to mosey up
to Denver to see the kid"
Bill threw away his cigar and concluded
his narrative with the sage remark that,
"They can't no man, which is a man, stay
mad at a pretty woman if she smiles"