The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-07-01
Sam and Sue
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1916. by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.
By Nj. QUAD

| two years old. He had a waddle like
a goose when he walked. He moved
| over from the town of Grand Ledge to
the town of Eaton Rapids and opened
| a butcher shop
Sue Smith had got eighteen years old.
| She was good looking girl. but pert
to the point of impudence.
| Sam brought a bobtailed dog over
| from Grand Ledge with him.
Miss Sue owned a crosseyed cat. She
was not handsome feline. but she
was an affectionate one. Unlike most
cats, she would follow her mistress
about town like a loving dog. When
| Sue Smith heard that a new butcher
/ had come to town and that he was
young man who would probably be
/ looking around for a wife she did not
| wait long before she presented herself
| at the shop and asked for juicy piece
/ of meat for her companion. The cat
/ of course, followed her. She had also
heard the news, and she hoped for
change from the old butcher.
/ While the young butcher was smil-
ing and bowling and filling the order
and saying to himself that good look
/ ing girl stood before him his bobtailed
dog entered the shop. There was a
/ growl and snarl and crosseyed cat.
bobtailed dog. girl and butcher and
sawdust seemed TO be all mixed up.
The row lasted until the cat flew out
and then Sue Smith turned to the
butcher and said:
Il would like to burn your dog, sir
exclaimed Miss Sue as she flashed the
young man a look of Indignation.
"Oh, as to that" he replied with a
faint smile, your old cat may sudden
| ly disappear off the eartht'
| And that was how her crosseyed
cat and his bobtailed dog first met, and
there were no cooling doves around to
make them remember the first meet
| ing with pleasure. Miss Sue went
| around telling all her friends that the
new butcher not only had the heart of
| a fend, but he dared stand right up
to her and sass back.
During that year they met time aft
er time. Sometimes the dog and the
| cat were along. and sometimes they
We're not. When they were not there
| was just as much cause for sarcastic
words as when they were. For in
stance, when the butcher was about
to pass Miss Smiths gate one day and
Miss Sue was hanging over it he lifted
his hat and made a grand bow and
said:
4 ST trust, Miss Smith, that your old
/ cat is dead and buried"
"Sir," she replied, wanting to hit
him in new place this time, II was
watching your walk as you came up
the street. 1t is not walk: it is a
waddle. You walk like goose. SIR
And they glared at each other and
glared and glared, and Sam finally
passed on, and Sue went into the house
with tears in her eyes. to be asked by
her mother.
Whats happened now?
'1t's that Sam Horton He had the
cheek after what l have said about
him. to accept an invitation to Molly
Hard's birthday party last night. Yes.
he was there. Not only was he there
but Molly had several good words for
him. Oh. how hate him.
"There, there. daughter Don't get
so worked up about it, soothed the
mother This is a strange world, and
it wouldn't be so very strange if love
came to you both by and by
i Never was the terrible reply.
Sam Horton was hurt by having his
walk called a waddle. but there was
nobody to console him. Therefore as
he sawed beef bone in two he con-
J soled himself by saying:
"Darn that Smith girl! I will marry
her or dier'
! One day Sam Horton had gone out
into the country with his horse and
, wagon to buy a calf. On that same
day Miss Susie Smith had taken walk
! about a mile and sat down on the
bank of the river. She was a bit wor
ried over the young butcher. 1t was
becoming more and more difficult for
her to find hard words to apply to him.
When last he had passed her his face
almost wore smile.
u She was meditating very deeply on
this weighty subject when Sam and
his cart and calf came in sight of the
road. He was driving like all butchers
drive. The horse was at his best trot,
. and the driver was looking around to
view the landscape. That horse was
headed in an almost straight line for
the girl She saw it and gasped. She
saw it and hastily rose up and rather
more hastily the treacherous soil under
her feet crumbled away, and she went
tumbling down the bank and landed In
the river with great splash. She did
not know when the butcher pulled up
his horse and jumped from his cart
She did not know when he came limp
, ing after her. She did not know when
he dived after her and crawIed up the
bank with her dripping form in his
arms. She did not know when he ar
rived at her fathers gate with the
cheerful calf and the half drowned
girl in his cart.
! In fact. MISS Sue Smith was not
q much on the know for a good many
hours and then came back to her nor
| NAL condition to hear her mother say
: | to her father:
There, That settles it You see if