Mexico weekly ledger., 1915-03-18

The Little Teller had been sick for
about a week with the measles, and
Grimms and Anderson and Water
Babies had gotten rather tame. I'm
Gle Johnny had been wrestling with
the rheumatism for about four weeks
and had not been over. But one day
here he came riding old Bet, his old
pacing mule, with his long used hick-
DRY cane hung over his arm. Little
Feller's face lighted with joy. "Un-
Gle Johnny says he, I'm a mighty
sick boy. Tell me an old time story
Of animals an men,"
Uncle Johnny squinted that ever
ready-eye an even ready sign of an
ever waiting story, took a pinch of
home spun hurley, turned the back
log andssaid, Little Teller / gin you
the oldest story l know 1t wuz
gin to me by my Grandad an to him
by his Grandad. An | know ct IL
SO fur they wuz all ~Goodnights.
"Way back yonder yer thing wuz
white, eff you don't believe me ak the
ole Scotch herder. He'll tell you all
the cattle wuz once Scotch cattle en-
white. AK the ole East Indian an
he'll tell you the Sacred Bull NV India
IL white, an carries a hump, The
sins of the world Look thru these
here newspapers. White Drama
chicks, best on Earth. An Chester
White hogs, only pig a goin'. AK the
Shepherd an he'll tell you thet there
is but n sheep, the Native. An
tibet these dirty yeller western that
play sech thunder with the market
air but a mongrel bunch. AK thet fell
Ter Hobson en- he'll tell you white en-
yellera not mix. So you see, Little
Teller, | amt lone in this ph~erlosophy.
"All wuz white but they got so
consounded uppish an lazy, an SO
rich an high ferluten thet they gin
to QUARREL. Then coined a plague,
some he'd black measles, an some he'd
red, some he'd yaller fever an some
he'd spotted. / tell you they weren't
many thet waren't sick.
"Well sir when they got well they
wuz the durndest lookin' sight you
ever seed. Sum wuz red, some black,
an sun wuz yeller, an others like
thet Pinto pony Nv mine. Yes sir,
an when they went to round up Their
cattle, an sheep an hogs an chickens,
they wuz red, an yaller an black an
spotted. Not many NV the sheep wuz
sick jest one er two, They being SO
kind an gentle that they didn't have
IL, just one or two meme enouf ter
take il. An tn this day, Little Teller,
you'll see one err two black sheep in
every drove.
"As | said there wuz black an red
an spots all mixed up. An Their
King him still being white CAN some
folks wondered how he ever got by). !
The King he sees all Their color skeme,
an not wantin' the country lookin'
like err rainbow, (being a dry weather
sign) he says he. Ever Teller git his
color an git. The whites all stay
here
$50 the yaller, he grabs the Jersies,
an yaller cochins, an moves east, an
the Blacks grabs the Gallowaye, an
Angus an Polin Chinas an Langshan
an pulls south. An the reds they
gets the Duran an Short-horn an
Road Island reds an pulls west. An
the Spots they gets the Herefords an
Holstein an Tamworth, an, not havin'
no other place pulls north.
"An' l speck eff some NV those Es- !
quimos nd toke er bath they nd be
spotted as err lepord. An next circus
comes err long, I'll take yer to see the
white ponies with pink eyes, an white
bars, an a white cage an er white
tent. An this same measles you is
havin' is a sign you mustn't get stuck
up, an when 70 is bad member that
is always n blak sheep in de flock.