The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1914-01-14
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stinate and is certain 70 be selfish.
Mr.. Lynn Stafford was an only child
He didn't have divide his sweeteake
and Jam with anybody II peanuts
were brought into the house. they all
belonged to him. II he wanted to kick
the poodle or maui the cat that was
his privilege.
Master Lynn ran the family and the
house and the neighborhood until he
was about thirteen years old. Then
he got check-several checks. He
fought the boys to have his own way.
and he got licked every time he
fought
Miss Mamie Holden was another
~only." She had the same doting pa
rents She wozli have her own way
or bite and scratch and yell. and so
she was given her way. She became
naughty and snobbish and conceited.
but the remedy was at hand She
found the small girls Of the neighbor-
hood equal to the emergency.
At twenty-three years old Mr.. Lynn
Stafford graduated in medicine and set
up an office at Meadow Park II was
more to please a rich old aunt than be-
cause he was in love with the profess
SIGN and was anxious to win success.
Having no professional calls TO
make, Mr. Stafford took things very
easy. The first thing on the days
program after breakfast was a horse
back ride.
Miss Mamie Holden also had pro-
gram, and that program also included
horseback ride when the weather
would permit
It was a beautiful June morning
when a score of citizens OF Meadow
Park assembled In front OF the inn
When the horse the doctor rode came
walking out of the stable on his hind
feet Iie paved the air He squaled.
He Kicked, He rar at Simon Green.
ths grocer. and snatched the hat of
his head Then he kicked al the coop
er, squealed at the blacksmith and
Went dancing down the river road
Only the cook. the maid. and the
mother saw Miss Mamie mount her
horse and ride away that morning.
7 The steed contented himself with
vaulting a fence, kicking over an ash
barrel, and climbing a telephone pole.
There is a magnetic influence that
draws people together II 1t we're not
SO the professional bill collector would
never come face to face with some
debtors. This magnetism Is stronger
when the sexes are opposite rr. Stat
ford never had met the Holden girl.
The Holden girl did not know Dr. Stat
ford from roll OF calfskin.
Why didn't the doctor take the Clay
ton instead Of the river road when
his horse danced out OF the stableg
Why didn't Miss Mamie take the
Willow Greek instead or the river road
when her horse got through with the
telephone pole?
DR.. Stafford had slowed his horse
down to walk after run Of a couple
Of miles. and was breathing deeply
and viewing crow sitting on the
fence, when he heard hoofbeats. It
was Miss Mamie coming up and her
horse had bolted. Just past the doctor
she ran the animal into a thicket and
stopped him without being dismount-
ed As she regained the road the doc
tor advanced. and said:
He seems a dangerous beast for a
young lady to ride"
4 don't think sol"
Magnetism works like a sAwmill
when once started The next morning
Miss Mamie was the first to pass down
the river road She Lad gone about
three miles when a great clatter caus-
ed her to look back. Coming on the
dead run was the doctor on bis horse.
The horse had the 5it in his teeth and
had bolted, Just past the Girl he was
reiRed into thick growth Of hazelnut
bpshe and after iioundering around
for a spell he got his horse sense back
"IIe seems a dangerous beast for a
young man to ridel" observed Miss
Mamie as she advanced to where the
doctor sat his saddle with a humiliated
look on his face.
A rabbit ran out Of the brush and
across the road" he sullenly explain
ed
Il so happened that the next three
mornings We're bad weather for riding,
end neither horse was taken out. on
the fourth morning. however, things
were all rigsse and as The horsowoman
rode through the Sillage she knew
that she was the iirst one out. She
was ambling along, keeping a sharp
ere on her horse for tricks. when Dr.
Stafford came laundering down upon
.her It-was ANOTHER bolt SHE pulled
her steed back to give the other room
TO pass, and had her mouth all fixed to
call out II told you So" when the
horse seized the bit and was off like
deer And the bolting horses turned
out 1or farmers load Of hay, and
beth fell fat Neither ride was con
rcious when the farmer brought help.
The doctor had a broken leg and
number Of bruises. and Miss Mamie
had 6 broken shoulder, crushed
hand. and was All bruises.
And still ma gnetism played his part.
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