The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-27
THE EVENING STORY
Moses and the Girl.
(Rv nnnaId Allen

Moses Flint, farmer, had gone out
on the veranda after breakfast to take
a few whiffs at, his ripe when his wife
4 heard him grunt and looked out from
the dining room to inquire:
| whats busted now?"
DO you see that?" as he pointed
down the highway.
/ TITS that gal coming in her 'lectric
| runabout.'
And do you see that?" he asked, as
he pointed to a spot in the road in
! front of the house.
Our spotted hog
s'And do you remember what hap
pened four weeks ago ?"
| She ran over the hog.
"AEd two weeks ago?"
| 'She ran over him again"
| "And now she's going to do the same
| thing for the third time. Yes. sir; be-
cause stood up to her and told her
| try running over what they pleased
and grinning over it, she's como to
| show her defiance"
| you said you'd have her arrested
| II she did it again." said the wife.
"And won't /? BY smoke, but you
watch Moses Flint! If she so much as
grazes that hog with a wheel there'll
| Don't let her scare you. Moses. with
any of her big talk"
"Scare me! I'd like to see the wom-
an that could do it!''
Moses lounged down to the gate and
| leaned over it to glance at the hog
wallowing in the dust. The oncoming
| electric kept to the middle of the high
way, and the girl who was driving it
wasn't paying very strict attention.
| by gum!" muttered the farmer.
Don't shoe him up, Moses!" called
| the wife from the veranda.
| The hog slept on. Thirty seconds
more and it happened. A squeal-an
! standardization yells-and the hog
went limping away, and the farmer
sprang forward and saved the electric
from oVerturning.
| the frightened girl as she caught her
breath.
mo. of course not. If there had
haze seen it. People can't see what
they don't want to see!"
"Sir!"
ooh, you needn't go to String me.
That's the third time you have run
over that hog, and each time you did
| it a-purpose. You wanted to show
that you had all the rights there was,
and that I had none. Well, it's three
times and OUT
"If the hog has been injured I will
pay for it,
Hes been hurt, of course, but I
can't say how bad. He may be dead
shock to his feelins. He is asleep on
his own land, feelin' secure, and all to
once you bang over him.
II will pay for his feelings, tool"
You'll sure have to. Let's see.
You've run over that hog three times.
1t orter be with five dollars a time"
What? Fifteen dollars for the
hog and he not badly hurt!" ex-
claimed the owner of the electric.
1T orter be twenty
Its simply extortion and I won't
pay it, My brother Fred will drive
out here and settle the bill. Stand
clear of the machine, sir!''
fod
There's a speed law on this road and
you've been breaking it. I'm going
to have you before the 1ustice!"
But I was not speeding"
Lucinda, how many miles an
hour?" shouted the farmer to his wife
About twenty-five, Moses"
"It wasn't over five
Don't dispute US, young woman.
You are in a bad scrape and hadn't
better make it wuss by any sass. I'll
Browns"
You'll not get in here. sir!"
"Oh, that's it, eh?''
The wife came running down with
the fence and tied there. Then the
farmer said:
"I'll go on foot, and the judge will
fine you double for cutting up over
| it. Hello, who's this?"
1t was young man an auto.
and after lifting his cap to the young
| lady he asked of the farmer:
Been an accident?"
yes. This young woman run over
a hog of mine for the third time and
| is mighty sassy about it. She's got
to pay damages and she'll be fined
for breaking the speed law"
| The young man looked at the girl in
an inquiring way. but she made no
| explanation.
| .T am coDs+obla +ho,rh 49,.
never made any arrests" continued
the farmer, land L deputize you,
young man, to hold this gal prisoner
for me till L can get back with the
! judge. If she won't go to his house
/ I'll bring him here"
What damage has been done?"
II can't exactly say yet but you
go ahead and mind the prisoner. If
you let her escape
"Oh, understand
IF you want any help boiler to the
old woman up there on the veranda."
Il will"
Moses Flint started off and there
was a period of embarrassment for
the two strangers sitting in their re-
| spective machines. The young man
wanted to say something, but didn't
know what until the girl burst out
| laughing. He laughed with her
Its funny" she whispered.
Did you kill the hog?" he asked
mo. He scared me worse than /
did him."
But the farmer wanted damages ?''
1T is regular robbery"
81 had to pay three dollars for an
old hen 1 killed the other day, but I
am not going to see you robbed. Is
your electric all right?"
"Only tied up"
well, I'm going to slip down and
unite it, I am a deputy constable in
and for the town of Ransom. under
stand; but sometimes I'm near
sighted and hard of hearing If n
shouldn't see nor hear my prisoner
But how about you? There's the
woman on the veranda-"