El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-13
/" WE'LL JUST PLAY ALONG ''
Ike
By KENNETH HARRIS.

skD ILLS one Of these yer fellers
who wants to have their pie
jist as soon's they set up TO
the table, observed Solomon Baker,
profoundly. He can't wait, Bill can't
I'm a right smart that-a-way myse'f."
said Washington Hancock. Il don't
know but what I'd ruther be like that
than like Ike Hennerberry. as used to
live over in Catfish Bend Pie allus
looked so powerful good TO Ike he
didn't have the heart to Spite its pear
ance by bitin' into it. Not but what he
aimed to eat il when he'd done ct his
hominy grits an grease and taters.
You kin see likes tombstun up in the
Tarkio berryin' ground by the Birkwell
vault now The lot blonged 10 the
family from way back yander.'
What about it?" queried the store
keeper.
"Nothin' much" chuckled Hancock.
II jist happened to think of it. But
it's a fact Ike missed many a dish Of
ice cream account O. bein' too plumb
full of polk an greens to relish it.
Right we'll fixed Ike was. Had a good
start from his daddy to begin with, an
wukked hard an skimped an scraped
TO add to it. 1t must have come pow
erful hard on him too. becus he was a
nachell bon spender. He'd own up to
that himself,
"'Some Of these yer fine days when
the winds from the southwest you all
will see me turn loose an make the
money fly says he. I aim to rip the
stitches outen the universe when I
get enough to make it with WHILE he
saws. 'Ontil that time comes, I'll jest
plug along, but there haint a-goin' to
be rothin' too good for me onct 1 turn
loose
'Bimeby Ike got married. 1 reckon he
told the gal heap about what he al
lowed to do becus she was kline O. dis
app'inted when he broke it to her that
there wasn't a-goin' to be no weddfn'
trip
Bright Promises.
" Not right immejit, honey he says.
You wait an we'll have the finest kline
OF a weddin' trip. We haint a-goin TO
stop at st. joe Well go right on to
Niagry Falls an Paris. France. We
won't do things by halves. L aim to
be fixed so expense won't be no object
when we start out. Well stop at the
best hotels there is an ride around in
hacks an buy anythin' we take no.
ton to- 1 allow there haint nobuddy
in these parts ever had sech weddin'
trip as Wen have. But ontil then he
saws. I reckon we'll jist plug along
well. she finerly come around to
lookin' at It the way he did, but she
allowed she wasn't a-goin to live in
no pigpen with a shake roof an a
puncheon floor. All is. you've got to
build us a good frame house with an
upstsirs an gallery says she.
"T am to do a heap better n that
says he Not fist right away, but
after a while. Bricks is what we're
goin' to have. A two story brick house
with all the fancy fixin's, an flower
gyarden an a picket fence around 1t.
An aim to fill that house bung UP
plum full Of the best kline O. furniture,
with carpets on the floor an a base
burner stove. When we build We'll
build right. I amt the man to hold
back for a few hundred dollars or a
few thousand dollars when it comes to
pervidin' my wife with what she wants
You'll see that when the time comes.
But ontil then says he. well jist sort
of plug along.
Well. mabbe it mout be jist as well
to wait says she. I'd like a brick
house mighty well.
"Jist to show 1t wasn't all talk. Ike
would sure enough buy somethin' ever