Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1910-06-03
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between mon. Why should that be?
Ill tell YOU. Paisley The first sight and
hot biscuit of Mrs. JcsSup appears to
have inserted Il oscillation into each
of our bosoms Let the best man of
us have her. III play you a square
game and won't do amy undetermined
work. Ill 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 boss" says Paisley. shak-
ing my hand. And I'll do the same
says he. Well court the lady synony
mously and without any of the prud
cry and bloodshcd usual to such occa-
sions. And we'll be friends still. win
or lose
cat one side of Mrs. Jessup's eating
house was Il bench under some trees
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 gallivantrry.
"Ihc first evening that Mrs. Jcssup
knew about our arrangement got +"
the bench before Paisley did. Sup
per was just over and Mrs. Jrssun
was out there With Il fresh pink dress
on and almost cool enough to handle.
II sat down by her and made Il few
of nature as set forth by the landscape
and the contiguous perspective.
II felt kind of sensation in my left
side, something like dough rising in II
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 Il 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 | can give Il audible hearing to
leading questions like that
And then 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 m,lshy walks of life. such as
| might be fumcnteu by sentiment and
proximity Mrs. JrsSup appears I"
think serious about the matter for Il
minute and then she breaks into Il Spe-
/ ces of laughter that makes the wild
wood resound.
I'm IL few minutes Paisley drops
around. with oil and ber"amot on his
hair. and sits on the other side Of Mrs.
Jessup and inaugurateS a sad tale OF
adventure in which him and l'ieface
Lumley has Il skinnny match of dead
cows in 1895 for Il silver mounted sad
die in the Santa; Rita valley during he
nine months drought.
"Now, from the start Of that court
ship l had Paisley Fish hobbled and
tied to Il post. Each one of us had Il
different system Of reaching out for
the easy places in the female heart
Paisley's scheme was to petrify 'en
with wonderful relations of events
that he had either come across person
ally or III large print. think he must
have got his idea Of subjugation from
one of Shakespeare's shows ! see once
called 'Othcllo.' There is Il colored
man in it who acquires a dukes
daughter by disburSinS to her a mix
ture of the talk turned out by Rider
Haggard, Lew Dockstader and DIR
Parkhurst But that style Of counting
don't work we'll off the stage.
'\ow. | give you my own recipe fol
inveiyiny Il woman into that state OF
affairs when she can he referred to Il.
nee Jones Learn how to pick UP hel
hand and hold it and she's YOURS. Il
amt so easy. Some men grab ut it 81
much like they w:S going to set Il dis
location Of the shoulder that you eau
smell the arliic:l and hear 'em tearin:
off hallda"cS. Some take it up like
IL
length like !, druggist pouring tinctur,
of asafoet,ll III Il bottle. And mos
of 'cn catch hold of it and drag i
right out before the lldy's eyes like ;
boy tintlin. !; baseball in the grass
without Yivin" her II chance to forge
that the hand is growing on the cn,
Of her arm. Them ways are all wrong
I'll tell YOU the right way. Did yo,
ever see Il man sneak out in the bncI
yard and pick up rock to throw at
tOncat that was sitting OH Il fcnc
looking ut him: He pretendS he hasn'
got Il thing in his hand and that til
cat don't see him and that he don
see the cat. That's the idea. \cve
drag her hand out where she'll hav
to take notice of il.
zone night when | beat Paisley t
. :. the bench Ivy one pipeful my frient
: ship gets subsidized for minute. an
: asks Mrs. .!esSup if she didn't thin
u Il IL WAS easier to write than IL j
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