El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-10-31

der the sofy an listened to
what they was a-Sayin', SO
after that there wasn't no chance of
keepin' it to themselves chuckled Old
Man Somaryndik. He allowed it was
better'n a circus. He won't tell all
they said, becus Abe's gin him as much
as six bits wuth o candy to keep his
houth shet."
I'D a-gin him a right good paddlin
if it was me-" said the storekeeper.
when set with a gal I allus ulster
look under the sofy an Sc there wasn't
nobuddy around, sides hangin' my hat
on the knob O. the door, lessn the lamp
was turned right low Eben Baxter
told the circle.
That's all right, too" approved
Washington Hancock. There's other
things, though, that ii stands a Teller
in hand to do. The lamp don't want
to be turned too blame low, for one
thing"
Why's that?" queried Sol Baker, in
teretsed1y.
We'll, you're apt to miss a heap" re-
piled Hancock. II ulster like to look at
gal an see how she was a-takin il.
It's right pretty sight, if you ever
took notice. An there's other reasons.
1 reckerlect a feller name O. Hud Jack
son-weli, it was this-a-way:
How Hud Did 1t.
"'Hud was one o. these yer bashful
boys. If a gal poked finger at him,
he'd turn all colors, he felt so cheap.
So. as a gin'ral thing, he KEEP away
from where the gals was until he met
up with the right one. She was a
mighty peart lookin' piece, name O.
SADIE Burroughs, an 1 reckon she took
I considerable of a shine to Hud.
Anyway Hud beaued her around for
quite a spell, but, from all I heerd, he
never said much O. anythin' to her. Jes
looked at her when she wasn't a-Iook-
in at him an got red in the face when
she ketched him at it-that kline He
toP me one time that his tongue felt
'sif it was tied in double knots when
he wanted to tell her what a heap he
thought of her, an it pestered him to
death. He couldn't sleep nights for
thinkin' of it.
"Finerly there was a show come to
Fairfax, an a passed. of the boys an
gals went over in a 5obsled to take it
in. There was Teller on the stage
that was a-makin love to all the gals
in the piece A turrible dude he was,
but he certnly did know what to say
10 'em. He'd tell 'em how bewchus
they was an how the ragin' fires O.
in his buzzum, standin' off about six
foot from 'em, an layin' it off like
Fourth o. July speech an windin' UP
by goin' down on one knee with both
arms out
'It was the slickest thing you ever
see, but Hud sat all through it with
his lip hangin' 'sif he'd lost a dollar
an found two bits. Oncet in while
Sade 'ud nudge him an say, Amt that
jest lovely, Hud?' But all he'd do was
nod his haid an look foolish.
Learning the Lesson.
when he got alone by hisse'f he
studied an studied on it, but the more
he studied the worse he felt. CANT
never say things like that to her, an
now she's heerd EN- she'll nachally ex-
pect en- he says to hisse'f What's the
use .a-tryin'?' he says.
All the same, he done tried to think
up mess o. stuff that he allowed SADIE
might like an he got a pen an ink an
wrote up to midnight after he'd got the
chores done, gauming himself up to the
eyes an around to the back of his ears
with ink an chewin' up a couple O.
dozen pen-holders. Then he'd go out TO
the woods an mem'rize it till he could
speak it right off peart.
Then he took SADIE out buggy ridin'
an started to say it, but 1t stuck in his
throat like a fishbone an the best he
done by it was to have SADIE to tell him
to be sure to rus his chist with lin'ment
an taller his nose afore he went to
bed.
The Crucial Moment.
IF I'd had sense an wasn't the
dumbest coot in ten townships I'd have
toll her that them was my senterments
when she nudged me with her elber at
the show says Hud. Daggone it, I'll
never be able to do it, he says.
@Finerly there was a frolic over
Gooseneck way an Hud took SADIE
along, O co'se. All the way a-goin'
there he was a-makin' up his mind to