The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-01-27
Vocabu'arious Brefogle Tells Of His
Experience With Desert
Inamorata and
Jackasses
BY Clarence e. Eddy The Poet
Prospector

mercy On jackass. said Breyfogle
Bill, after whispering to himself.
Them societies for the prevenshion
OF krooelty to animals is all right
for galoots that's never been up again
it. but I reckon they'll never coin
no medals for me.
II there's fellers that wants to
put themselves on equality with
jackasses by trying to coax and rea-
son with SIGH, amt got nothing to
say, except this Is free country and
some is born equal; but as for my
self figgers that jackasses has got
to be ruled with firmness. They've
been my ruination in some respects
or I'd be a married man and raising
a respectable family.
After which philosophy Bill con-
tinued to the following effect:
1t were back in the early boom
days that courted gal up at Gold.
field. Being grass wilder she war
rot so very young and inexperienced
but jolly, she were a good locker and
a'one in the world to some extent.
Sc when we kind Of got acquainted
and I figgered T. wouldn't be too
much Of a shock to her system,
says to her, How would it strike
yer to git married? I says for were
powerfully in love with the gal.
She kind Of hesitated and thought
I were a goner, till finally she looked
ur sorter timid and says, Bill. says
she, I'd like to git married, especial
" to you. but ain't got no clothes.
hadn't noticed that, SEE | but here
is a twenty, and l handed 1t to her
and she took 1t kind of hesitating
and bashful, and then speaking more
sweet and softly like she says. Bill,
says she. the way prices is and hav-
ing to pay freight I couldn't git no
suitable wedding outfit for less nlan
5000 and besides 1t wouldn't be do
ing proper honors for me to appear
in nothing cheap. want to be mar
ried in pure satin. she says, with q
little dash Of color, for I amt no
mere young thing and pure white is
only appropriate for first marriage.
Well, as luck would have It I had
wad I had left for safe keeping
with a bartender Of one Of the lead
ing saloons of Goldfeld, and knowing
1t were a matter Of honor says.
Tilly, says l, yer kin have 1t but when
is to be the happy occasion?
She took the $500 and give her
hand hard squeeze and she says to
me, Bill, yer the best Teller in the
world, and I'm a going to begin to
commence 70 git ready for the we'd
ding, but on account of my health l.
think we ought to wait two years
but won't place no restrictions on
yer meanwhile, she says, II you VIII
jist pervide for myself and wilder
ed mother and sister and five chill
dren. a.
Swallows the Hook
To all of this l agreed excepting
as to the date for the wedding. TWO
years, / says, is a long time when
1t comes to waiting for the object OF
yer affeckshions and supposing
should die, says /.
Well, Bill, II would be hard blow
says she, but I'd be resined to 1t
somehow II 1t happened. That re-
minds me, she says, yer'd better
take out life inshoorance, payable to
me. and pervide me with a will and
SIGH to settle yer estate, A man
single and unmarried is reckless
about money and It takes woman
to manage. What would become OF
me II you were dead? she says, kind
of solemn.
Well. we argued good deal,
having our first love quarrel as
finally figgered it, but the upshot was
that / got my life inshoored, after
being nearly talked to death by in
shoorance agents and SIGH, and they
showed me how that after paying my
: docs regular for twenty years
could git part of the money back
l without having to die for it. This
did not cut no figger in my case for
whether | were dead or alive 1t were
l all to be paid TO the. gal.
- Next | had my viii made good
: and solid, paying a lawyer $50 for
- the same so that all my property and
mining claims and SIGH would go to
Tilly, my intended II ! happened to
shuttle off this mortal kohl as the
poet says.
Call Is For Coin
Everything seemed to be purity
satisfactory to Tilly now except a