The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-08-09

| hold of it. Did you try?'
"1 did, says /. and twas like try
ing to dig n prairie dog out of his hole
| with peanut hull That pancake re-
| ceipt must be n jookalorum the way
they hold on to it
I'm most ready to give it up says
Jackson. so discouraged in his pro-
nunciations that [ felt sorry for him.
But did want to know how to make
them pancakes to eat on my lonely
ranch,' says he. L lie awake of nights
thinking how good they are
"'You keep on trying for it, | tells
him, and I'll do the same. One of us
is bound to get a rope over it's horns
before long. Well, so long, Jacksy'
You see, by this time we was on the
peacefuIIest of terms. When l saw
that he wasn't after Miss Willella |
had more endurable. contemplations of
that sandy haired snoozer. In order
to help out the ambitions Of his appe-
tite kept Oh trying to get that receipt
from Miss Willella, but every time |
would say pancakes she would get
sort of remote and fidgety about the
eye and try to change the subject. If
held her to 1t she would slide out
and round up Uncle Ensley with his
pitcher of water and hip pocket how
itzer.
Zone day galloped over to the store
with fine bunch of blue verbenas
that / cut out of herd of wild flow.
ers over on Poisoned Dog prairie.
Uncle Emsley looked at 'em with one
eye shut and says:
Haven't We heard the newsT
"'CattIe up?' | asked,
"'Willella and Jackson Bird was
married in Palestine yesterday says
he. Just got letter this morning
Il dropped them flowers in a cracker
barrel and let the news trickle in my
ears and down toward my upper left
hand shirt pocket until it got to my
feet.
"'Would you mind saying that over
again once more, Uncle Emsley?' says
|. Maybe my hearing has got wrong,
and you only said that prime heifers
was $3.50 on the hOof or something
like that
Married yesterday says Uncle
EmsIey, and gone to Waco and Niaga-
IA Falls on wedding tour Why,
didn't you see none of the signs all
along? Jackson Bird has been court
ing Willella ever since that day he
took her out riding
Then, says | in a kind of yellS
what was all this zizzaparoola he
gives me about pancakes? Tell me
that
when l said pancakes Uncle Ems.
ley sort of lodged and stepped back.
Somebody's been dealing me pam
cakes from the bottom of the deck, |
says and I'll find out. ! believe you
know Talk up says /, or wei mix
a painful of batter right here
Il slid over the counter after Uncle
Emsley. He grabbed at his gun. but
it was in drawer, and he missed it
two inches. | got him by the front Of
his shirt and showed him in corner
Talk pancakes, says /, or be made
into one. Does Miss Wfllella make
tem?'
She never made one in her life,
and never saw one says Uncle Ems
ley, soothing. Calm down. now, Jud,
calm down. You've got excited. and
that wound in your head is contain
mating your sense of intelligence. Try
not to think about pancakes
Uncle Emsley, says |, I'm not
wounded in the head except so far as
my natural eogitative instincts run to
runts, Jackson Bird told me he was
calling on Miss Willella for the pu1s
pose of finding out her system of pro-
dncing pancakes and he asked me to
help him get the bin of lading of the
suits as you see. Have | been sodded
down with Johnson grass by a pink
eyed snoozer or what?
Slack up your grip on ms Or IS
shirt says Uncle Emsley, and Eli tell
you. Yes, 1t looks like Jackson Bird
has gone and humbugged you some
The day after he went riding with
Willella he came back and told me
and her to watch out for you whenever
you got to talking about pancakes. He
said you was III camp once where ties
was cooking flapiaclSs and one Of The
fellows cut you over the head with n
frying pan. Jackson said that when.
ever you got overhot or excited thai
wound hurt you and made you kind
of crazy and you went raying about
pancakes. He told us to just get yon
worked off the subject and seothed |
down and you wouldn't be danger
Gus. So me and Willella done the best |
by you we knew how Well, well,
says Uncle Emsley. that Jackson BIRD |
is sure a seldom kind of a snoozer.' :
During the progress Of Jud's story be
had been slowly but deftly combining
certain portions of the contents OF his |
sacks and cans Toward the close Of it
he set before me the finished product, |
/ pair of redhot. rich hued pancakes on
a tin plate. From some secret hoard |
Ing place he also brought d lump Of I