The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-06-23

NC COlufSu WOuldu WAS AuuL lllud
the cook. and the goat was a goat un
known.
"Oh, Miss Ruth" gasped the cool
as she fell on the grass.
For the lands sake, Tilda. but
what Is it?"
ut was grissly bar, Miss Ruth
and he was gwine eat me up!"
"Tilda!"
Il declar' to goodness 1t wasl"
Fl saw a black goat fleeing down the
road"
wall, mebbe 1t was goat, but 1t IL
the same thing as grissly bar. Lem
me git up to de veranda an I'll tel
you all about it. Now, den, went
ober to Morton's didn't IT.
eyes"
ITO see Hammer, de cookT'
YES"
well, saw her. She was in good
speerits. She axed me when you was
gwine to git married"
"The impudent thing!"
Oats zactly what said to her
She said she wasn't, but she had had a
dream dat you was gwine to fall in
love wild somebody and git married.
She said dat sunthin' wild horns on
was gwine to bring 1t about. And
goats have horns, and dar you ami"
Go to your kitchen!"
Two hours later Miss Ruth Parsons
.ook little saunter up the highway.
She had not progressed over ten rods
when she heard snort and saw that
black goat bearing down upon her.
She had just got inside the gate and
swung it to when the horns of the
goat struck lit She had screamed
once or twice en- route, and the cook
was on the veranda.
"Befo' de Lawd, but dar's de sunthin'
wild horns dat de Hammer woman
dreamed of"
At ten O'Clock next forenoon Miss
Ruth had a caller. He was a young
man who gave his name as Charley
Ashley, and he explained HIS errand
by saying;
Il am at my sisters. eight miles
away, on my school vacation. She is
rather eccentric about pets, and has
big black goat which is nuisance.
He broke the rope with which he was
tied the other day and disappeared,
and I am looking for him. We have
heard that he was seen this far away
yesterday"
'Yes. he was here" was the reply.
He wanted to kill me, but was for
tunate enough to escape"
Il am sorry if he annoyed you"
Il was going to have him shot II he
hung around here"
Very proper. OF course, you don't
Anow which way he went?"
II was too frightened to take no
tice."
The conversation began at the YER
anda steps and ended at the gate,
where the young man had his auto
waiting. With the remark that he
would go on a mile or two further, he
raised his hat and stepped outside the
gate, and there was the goat! He had
been in ambush. He came, for the
gate head down and heels up, and
snorting like a grampus at low water.
Mr. Ashley exclaimed, "Thunder!"
and leaped into bis machine.
Miss Ruthsyelled "Oh. my!" and ran
or the veranda.
By all the rules of logic this goat
ought to have sprung into the auto
after the young man, but he did moth
ng of the sort He took after the
girl instead, and half way to the house
Ihe went down under his catapult.
Mr.. Ashley was not man to beat
! retreat In the face Of the enemy,
tut just the man to rush to the rescue
# forlorn damsel He rushed. He
lidn't have gun handy in his hip
pocket, and SO the goat had the advan-
age. He turned from the PROSTATE
maiden and met the hero half way.
1t was bad for the hero. A ton Of
rick struck him in the solar plexus,
nd after a grunt and gasp he re-
ired to the land of nothing and no.
'ody. When he recovered conscious
Tess he was lying at the foot of the |
teps, whittier he had been dragged by
Hiss Ruth and the cook
Il hope the goat didn't do you any |
erious injury" he said.
mo, not serious replied the girl.
Are you much hurS?"
"Only the breath knocked cut of
ne for the time being. Do you happen
D have firearm In the house2"
Il have a revolver, but no car
ridges for it,
Then will wait to get him homo
D kill him. Sorry to have brought
bout this annoyance"
But it Jest had to be brung about"
the cook.
.Mr. Ashley called three days later.
The goat had been shot.
AS Tilda put it when he went away
fter lcng call:
Now, honey, you haint got nuthin'
} do but fall in love and git married,
nd you go right at it,"
Copyright 1914 by the Mcclure Newspa-
per syndicateo