The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-08-28
Envy


most think l9noch Bates bad moved In
lomewhere along ON This stretch OF
'ond and had got eudge agn some
lody from the thank-ye-ma'mns there
here"
The wagon iolted perlously nn'l the
minfner b0arda" haH TO hold her hat
, @lqhe one Hdhd but sheafound breath
20 ask questl0ns. o q lHN fa,t
"who was this Eno6h Dates?l Some
Ocal celebrltyi'
"He want RELY what you, could call
celebrated, 3 / know Of" Caleb Sarl
houghtfully 'pnd yit he was Some
acted herenb0uts for certain things
"Just what form did his notoriety
.akey' persisted the boarder
"Wel." said Caleb iudleiously, "for
one thing he was about the suggest
nan that you most ever saw, in
money way. He raised lot Of stun
on his farm and sold everything he
could git cent for, and lived off'n the
ieayins. / don't s'pose he ct ten up
plies year though he was fond of
EN-. He sold en- all and put the
money away. And as for eggs ! pre-
SHINE likely he'd forgot even what they
tasted Hike for eggs are bout the same
as money here. snoch used to keep
big fiocE df hens and tllen he used
to buy 1poeRgs ana SHIP EN-, a couple
Of ifundiHdiuozeh at a. bllp. Sometimes
''I'0 slow@ou how he valued nm egg
He had boy'workn' for him one time
and he eihentNtlre shDH tnlthe henhousei
to eethef tho eggs.Rnd bewas gone a
specii lonRern Hnoeh thought htineedful
II happened thatithere was more eggs
than the boy could get tntp the bas-
ket, so he put couple into his pock-
at. When he got back to the
house Enoch took him to do bout
bein' gone too long--took holt Of him
and give him shakin', 8 I remember
1t, and IN doln that he made out to
break one of the eggs in the boys
pocket.
"When he found out what had hap
pened It madded him so that he start
ed In to give the boy a reg'lar lickin',
ana so doin' he busted the other egg.
( and that set him purity nigh demented.
He finished by giving the boy a good
trouncin' and sent him back to the
poorhouse, where he got him.
"'Nother thing bout Enoch was that
he had Il jealous dlsposition-mean and
envious. you know. 1t took nuiii-
her Of shapes, but the only one that
matters in this case rs about JOHNNY
Doan's boss. He had d nice steppln'
little drivin' shoss and he liked to shove
her right aalong--nothlD' to- hurt her
for the hpss liked 70 go as we'll as
Johnny liked to have her But it
thorned Enoch to see Johnny kite past
his place goin' so smooth, and he
havln' nothin' but wind,broken old
animal that could scarcely get out Of
his own way,
"There was a wet place in the road
'twixt Enoch's place and Johnnys and
the slectmen hired Enoch to fix it.
While he was workin' on 1t he got a
mean idea and went and made some Of
them thank-ye-maam iounces, like
them we've Jest come over, right cross
ways Of the road.
HHe. said he done it to turn the wa
fer out into the ditch; but everyone
knew well 'nough that he done 1t SO
Johnny couldn't speed past 'thout bein
in danger of lamin' his hoss or springin'
m ex. or somethin' like that.
.Nvell one mornln' day or so after
he'd got the road,au hxed for,Johnny
Fnoch was loadin' up his wagon with
scxs 70 take EN- to tile station. He had
The h6Ss hltched in and WIZ iest gos4
IN nnt the last case OF eggs into the
.oactsdt he wagpA yllep tPel RoE
that he'd trounced' and sent away
went by the house. What possessed
snoclEs L dont know, but ! sposec ne
wo y. onlys trvini 8psscare the hoy. BE
that as it may. he grahhed bis horse
wfsp and started toward him. yellin'
md switchln the whip, and he made
.uch n touse that the old hoss started
Ind ran away with the load Of eggs in
he wagon acd the tailboard down--a
,nndred dollars worth Of eggs If there
was cents ,wuth
"wen. Enoch was maxim SO mueh
rscl,et himself that the hoss got good
81. ,fare he realized It. and then It
a. o late ketch him, and down
n,r road dc hass went straight for
thar journey strip .-at Epoci had
made TO ketch Iohnny
"Wen.r continued Mr.. Peaslee with
grim enjoyment. Il dknow as there S
much more to add TO IL When the
hoss struck them louaees the eggs be-
gun 10 go into the air, a whole case at
a time-and when case Of eggs goes
aut Of The tall Of a wagon and lights
On the frozen ground it makes quite
mess Yes'm. quite a mess