The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1913-09-11
II Camp at bailey. Bluf:;
BY l. 6. eYNuM

e hire lawyer or notary public Il
make it out. how big a bill will Bill''
will be if Bill will" Raise your heat
( up, Bill" l told him. 'I'm in trouble
t I've just got your will, Bill, and i
| you will, Bill, I'll assist you in get
, ting that horses foot off your ear
, No wonder you can't get up. Say,
, all you folks get up! You're the
LATEST bunch ever saw"
They did get up finally, but l had
to get breakfast. We lad bacon,
eggs, bread and coffee. Bill said il
was the finest breakfast he ever ate
at Halley's Bluff in his life. pinned
him down to it and he explained that
it was the only one he ever ate there.
As Bill looked up at me with one eye
almost shut, l thought, eyes, Bill, it
will probably be the last one. But
never mind, if you come back often
we'll have the ladies fix you up some
nice eggs, bacon, bread and coffee"
BY George, doesn't that menu make
you hungry for-something else to
eat? Actually, every night l dream
of hogs in wheat fields and chickens
flying to some of those coffee planta-
tons in Africa.
Mr.. Mule was our first visitor. He
was the friendliest mule l ever saw.
He wanted to shake hands with
everybody. Being half goat and half
mule, he believed in butting into
everything and everybody. We call
ed him "Chief of Police"
Breakfast over and the dishes not
washed we started to accommodating
about the bluff to see if we couldn't
see few of the Usage Indians sitting
around in some of the trees fishing,
but we couldn't find one. MIR. Ha-
ger told us they had left the Bluffs
back in the early sixties. l thought
what narrow escape those Indians
had had, as Veaze was armed to his
with a % rifle and myself
with frog pistol Of the same caliber.
We were bloodthirsty and to salts
fly our fiendish cannibal desires we
decided to 60 and get a drink of
spring water. It was thoroughly {
(for awhile) until the old S
thirst came back. We decided to 60
fish. We stealthily slipped around
and through strategem secured some
fish-hooks and lines, went
to the river and waded into the
water. We fought and grappled
with mussel and after overpower-
ing the dangerous beast we broke
he walls of his house and tore him I
limb from limb and cut out his heart
md showed it to him. It was an '
lwful fight. We used lots of mus t
lie. As we had several hooks, we I
lung the heart Of the beast on the II
decorating, demolishing hook +
nd executed King Mussle. After b
e stopped breathing and closed his '
yes in death we cast him into the r
,atery grave and left him. The n
ext morning we went down to have
uitable ceremonies and we didn't a
ct thing. Next night we did-a s.
lrtle. The next day we ate fish h
AIMED fish, fifteen cents per can. II
We set our hooks again that night p
nd about four o'clock next morning n
heard someone say: Fish on a n
ne and cane pole out of bank and n
lsh in brush" knew he meant 81
le, so didn't take many pains about d
ressing. just had on my thin
1ening dress and decided to make II
" first appearance in white, so me o.
n the river. My three guardians m
led to get me to come back and put Ii
4 some clothes more suitable for a tt
~ appearance, but had started to m
IN and couldn't stop until l reached Ell
le boat. it
l grabbed the oars and started up b
le river. l stayed in the boat, un-
srstand. would row, row, row, Of
little further l would row, row, "
w, and then that song came before 81
e wildly and dropped both my nj
hrs, slipped and fell on all TOURS It d
ade me sore, sore, sore. thought "
hat a beautiful picture l would 81
AXE for some artist, all in white on D
le beautiful river and rowing in
at boat / reminded myself Of the Al
nous paintinp "Alone" but after AZ