The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1916-06-22
Sam andSue
By NJ. QUAD
Copyright, 1916. by the Mcclure
Newspaper syndicate
By NJ. QUAD

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the town of Eaton Rapids and orencd
n butcher shop.
Sue Smith had got eighteen wears old
She was a good looking girl. but pert
To the point of impudence
Sam brought bobtailcd dog over
from Grand Ledge with him.
Miss Sue owned a crosSeyed cat. She
was not handsome feline. but she
was an affectinnate one. Unlike most
cats. she would follow her mistress
about town like Il loving dog. When
Sue Smith heard that new butcher
had come 10 town and that he was a
young man who would probably he
| looking around for wife she did NOT
wait long before she presented herself
ut the shop and asked for Juicy piece
or meat for her companion. The cat,
or 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 a good look
Ing girl stood before him his bObtailed
dog entered the shop. There was
growl and snarl. and CrOsSeyed cat.
bobtailed dog. girl and butcher and
sawdust seemed to be all mixed III.
The row lasted until the cat few out.
and then Sue Smith turned to the
butcher and said:
would like 10 burn your dog. sir
exclaimed Miss Sue a. she flashed the
young man look Of Indignation.
"oh. as to that" he replied with a
1alnt smile, your old cat may sudden
~ disappear or the earth"
And that was how her crosseved
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 tend, but he dared stand right up |
10 her and sass back.
During that year they met time aft |
er time. Sometimes the dog and the
cat were along, and sometimes they
were not When they We're 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 II he lifted
his hat and made grand bow and
said
Il trust. Miss Smith, that your old
cat is dead and buried"
Sir she replied. wanting TO hit
him In new place this time. 81 was
watching your walk as you came up
the street. IL is not n walk: II is n
waddle. You walk like a 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"
It's that Sam Horton. He had the | {
heck, after what l have said about
llm, to accept an invitation to Molly |
Iard's birthday party last night. Yes, {
he was there. Not only was he there. 6
'ut Molly had several good words for I
lin. Oh, how hate him." |
There, there. daughter. Don't get T
% worked up about It," soOthed the
mother. This is a strange world. and
wouldn't he so very strange If love
anne to you both by and by" J.
Never" was the terrible reply. '
Sam Horton was hurt by having his a
Talk called waddle. but there was 2
obody to console him. Therefore as
e sawed beef bone in two he con- q
DIED himself by saying:
Darn that Smith girl! will marry b
er or die.'
One day Sam Horton had gone out a
ITO the country with his horse and
'agOn to buy a calf. On that same c
ny Miss Susie Smith had taken n walk e.
bout a mile and sat down on the IL
ank Of the river. She was bit wor- l.
ed over the young butcher. 1t was
ncOminG more and more difficult for
nr to find hard words to apply TO him.
hen last he had passed her his face b
most wore smile Il
She was meditating very deeply on "
lis weighty subject when Sam and b'
S cart and calf came I'm sight Of the lie
ad. He was driving like all butchers 1
i've. The horse was at his best trot,
ld the driver was looking around to
ew the landscape. That horse was
AIDED in an almost straight line for
e girl She saw it and gaSped. She re
W it and hastily rose up and rather III
ore hastily the treacherOus soil under III
r feet crumbled away. and she went tie
milling down the bank and landed I'm by
e river with a great splash She did al
t know when the butcher pulled up
5 horse and jumped from his cart.
e did not know when he came limp
2 after her. She did not know when or
dived after her and crawled UP the
nix with her dripping form in his tle
ms. She did not know when he ar
ed at her fathers gate with the
eerful calf and the half drowned
I in his cart. 20
n fact, Miss Sue Smith was not
lch on the know for a good many 20
urs and then came back to her nor
Il condition to hear her mother say
her father.