Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-01-23

A. but II bad tasted blood and vas
feeling mighty airy. II only cuied
~ the boy. but II laid him out and
an at once Glover heard the row and
ran out Of her tent and down the
street after IT. And say, she had her
belt. little elastic business with
pretty buckle on it--you know the
kind girls wear-and she put that
around his neck and led II back 70 ita
wagon. How's that7 Plucky7 yes.
While the boys wero hanging back
with pitchforks and nets and hot
irons"
Another time II had toothache and
they got a dentist In, and she made
him give 1t an anaesthetic. Little
things. but they made that heather
cheetah animal love the girl as II II
had been a pet cat.
Pop was thinking OF selling out
along this time, and the prospective
buyer came on from Kansas City to
look the show over. Instead, he
looked Glover over, and spoke to Pop.
Intentions? don't know anything
about them. son. II he had any good
ones he certainly kept them out Of
sight. But he made Clover the bonus
IN the business deal and he bought
the outdt that night Long about
1880 he comes out Of Pops quarters
and makes for Clover She hadn't
zone to bed. She was over At the
cheetah's wagon talking to It and to
the hid. II was moonlight those
nights In August when the moon
comes up like a great fiame-colored
blossom, and they we're in Kentucky,
near the Ohio border The kid was
playing on a mouth organ. real soft
and decent when the big chap came
over, took hold OF Clover's arm and
told her what the deal was.
when Glover screamed Pop him
self came out and tried to reason with
her. She was to go on that night to
Kansas City and marry the fellow
there and then back to the show. Pop
said he was sick and tired of the
whole show business and was going
abroad to seek a long-deserved rest
from his labors. And he struck her
with one of those short whips they
use on the animals when they lift
their upper lips and growl."
There was a brief silence. The
train was speeding along at fifty
miles an hour. Sammy stared out Of
the smoker window contentedly, In
terestedly, and watched the landscape
Of New Jersey take wings to itself
and roll up like the scroll Of parch-
ment
Then what?" he said finally.
'The kid let the cheetah loose, "
said Murray slowly. And when the
two Of them grabbed her and tried to
carry her on 1t leaped on. their. backs.
That's about all know Pop left the
hospital 1--WE smonths later with scars
that he'll bear all his life and the
other fellow lost one arm. That chez
tab was a discriminating animal It
died from a bullet Pop managed to
land right finally; but It had done its
work well And the other two skipped
out that night, the kid and Clover. |
always thought they made for where
her mothers folks lived, in Indiana
sowewhere."
That's just What they did" broke
In Sammy happily. And the folks
down there was good to them. They
lot the kid work around the farm, and
Glover got well and pretty, instead Of
looking Ike q wax candle most Of the
time. They lived there mp TO q year
ago. II vas q pretty UoOd farm. You
haven't seen MYs. Clancy, have yon--
Mrs. sammy Clancy3 No? thought
not. ehs's going 70 meet M in Phiia-
delphia tonight She StiIl likes the
business. somehow. l. guess its just
because she's Glover, and I'm that hid
that lnokad Altar The chaAAahn