The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-15

| care for my COW and ! don care 10Y
/ you. l wish you wouldn't splash
around SO and roll the water all up. !"
Mr.. Baker set up yelling for help.
He had a strong voice, but he was
down in round hole. The yells whlrl-
ed round and round, and by the time
they got to the top they had turned
into rat-like squeals. The man also
| toarsened up very soon and came 10
realize that the woman in the chaif
above him had an advantage. Thefe-
| fore, by and by, he said:
THE law cleared me, but I'll pay
you bye dollars for the COW.
you mean s35, Mr.. Baker.
'1'll see you blessed first"
| Every well. When you get ready to
| talk business let me know"
FIVE minutes later Mr.. Baker raised
/ his bid to $40. a
| Nothing doing.
Then to $15-$20-$25.
| rs the water warming up any," so
| licitously queried the widow in answer.
I've been told it's the hottest well
In town when it gets to going!"
will you take $50 and go for help?"
Il said $35, and that's what must
stick to-
1t was ten minutes before Mr..
Baker could be pried loose from that
other ''V," but at last he called up:
| Well, I'll make it s35, and now you
hustle. Bring as many as four men and
stout rope
| Yes, but we are not through with
our talk yet. Your hogs rooted my
garden last June, and Elder Fairbanks
said the damages were at least SO.
1T wasn't my hogs"
But | can prove it was"
''But won't pay cent. It's eS
tortion,''
"Oh, well. think it over. It's four
hours to shutdown yet"
At the end of twenty minutes the
shivering, chattering man called up
| that he stood ready to compromise at
| s12 This was agreed to, and he
added:
X may be dead man when the
men get here, but they can haul my
dead body QUIT"
"Yes, I'll see it's hauled out. but
there's no great hurry about it. I've
often thought I'd like to talk with you
and now I've got the chance"
Great smoke, but is something else
coming!" groaned the owner OF the
only mummerette in town.
ITS about Mary and Tom. You've
come between them and raised a row..
y won't let Tom marry her"
II heard you'd said so. Well, Mary
will have to look further, though she's
sot on Tom for sure. Goodness mel
IA help coming at last?" Chartered
the man.
Help? Oh, no. You see I'm getting
drowsy here in the sun, and | found
myself nodding. II should fall in on
top CT you"
Don't you do it! Shove back a
ways!"
"I'll try not TO, but what about Mary
and Tom
5"I'H be hanged If give in on that"
| "But if you don't you are a dead
man in well, and when you are gone
Tom will do as he pleases.
That was good logic, and after ten
minutes to save his face Mr.. Baker
not only agreed to withdraw all OBJ
iections, but to being Toms best man
at the wedding"
"A@d now that's all, and you get
me out O this" he added
But just word MORE" said the
widow.
MY heavens, woman."
You need a wife. You need one
every hour In the day. I am as good
as any you can find in the whole state.
I'll go for help to get you out, and
when you bring me that money this
evening you tell me what you think
of my proposition. Double wedding,
you see. Don't cost any more to mar
ry two couples than one. I'm woman
that knows how to save and econo-
mize"
At s O'Clock, that evening. Mr.. Ba-
ker, still shivering at Intervals.
brought the money and said:
81 have thought it over
Yes
We'll make the double wedding
two weeks from today"
And he hadn't been married a month
before people were saying:
1.-THE cold water in the widow Arm
strong's well froze that mummerette
out of Jim Bakers system, and he's
got to be one Of the best ever again"
Copyright 1918. by the Mcclure News
paper syndieate.)
Not Bothered In the Least.