The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-11-03
CHAPTER XVII.
49,
all Dale Laughs.

from the st0ne-and-ciay Chilli
| i ,he cabins of>the Littlefords on
s,er side of the river the bowling
matched sprays Of blue WOOL
!. The NloreIands had gone to
,vips around Gainesville in the
\ on each of which a falr-slzed
.rment had been made. the Dor.
eapital was to remain borrowed
mother year, The More'an a. were
4, losing their outlan1dlshhess
rowing into universal respect.
d Morelands dream was at last
realized 70 or,r,
u Dale frownod heavily. If only
amid do as much for Babes peo-
mt he couldn't. The men OF the
Words still worked the coal NINE
I[lVi"'
received almost twice the custom
wages, but even that wouldn't buy
farms and educate their children
,ler his eyes lay two unanswered
Z from his parents. He found
Enclosure in answering their let
H. he was still somewhat bitter
"A them-toward his father be-
Of his fathers i'll treatment OF
4 Moreland and David Morelands
i. toward his mother because she
IIet him 60 hungry for mother-love
baby, as a child, as a boy and as
toward them both because he
,een reared a do-nothins.
door opened suddenly, and BY
came stamping in with a gust OF
air at his back. He carried in
hand the mail satchel; in the other
bis eyer.present rifle. After throw
M satchel to the floor at Dale's
he turned to the glowing wood
s. dang nigh friz, BILL he chat
MY gosh, I couldn't be no cold
xhat | EN- eff I'd ha' elm the
s pole neck.ed. Say, Bill, why'n't
"a coal Std O wood? IgOd, it's
/"
IL Is worth money. Wood isn't"
ran through the mail hastily
lew aside a letter from the Alex
Crayfeld Coal corporation, which
LIE entire output of the mine at
raordinary figure, and picked up
4 which bore the postmark of his
dty.
MS from Babe LittlefOrd. Since
u 30 little attention to the letters
parenrs, they had requested hel
he to him-they wanted him tt
home for Christmas dinner
ut he come?
arose and paced the office flool
M or three minutes, then he sal
Il his desk and dashed off a let
IL contained only two sentences
Heck, sat beside the stove ant
III his god with thoughtful eyes
nderstOod, he believed. How an!
- on earth could turn down
me Bill Dale was utterly beyont
Dy Heck was a great deal like
(MMred dog.
1lll would only laugh, it would b.
Il him. 1t had been so long sine
~ heard Bill laugh. BY Heck de
y that he would make Bill Dali
dboy"
ldlY
\ ye want me to tell We a funn
drawled Heck. He barely hear
lAswer:
guess l don't mind, By"
Ms sympathy made him gull
l. swallowed the lump that cam
Ibis throat and began bravely:
Ole time the was a Teller name
" Odd name, Bill, amt it? 'Hos'
NTH, they called him, cause
slid at he could easy shoot
often a hoss's ear and neve
hide on the animile. He was
=, too. One time Hossfy, he wa
~ 10 git app'inted the chairma
e sort o politics doin's, and 0
MIne day he was a-drinkin' sol
able heavy. They agreed
nm the temp'rary chairman, b.
he didn't want that. So /
lht up In the middle O the NEE
he hollers out and says:
yter citizens he says, i wal
Ne permanent chairman I! ! ain
70 act in the capacity of
temp'rary chairman; l abs
RELY ain't!'
Old inemy, Ed Wright, he vel
"a says smart-like: set dow
hoSfiy,' says Eb-'you're drum
3 don't know the difference
kmp'rary and permanently
they knowed Eb had 1t
2 him right then, and they II
II HOssfy, he addresses Il
neetin', and this here is VIII
,saays:
: s citizens says he, : I
\ Thar lows | don't know the d
atween Temporary and perm
~ prove to you that l do kno
j. Assenee. Eb Wright says I
! 90. That's Temporary.
y = poke-nosed idjit. Tha,
tlntr"
Mlshed with a lazy laug
aw, haw! Hee-haw, hee-haw
story" Dale said weari1
en toM0n dozens of politician
pseOme a part Of the history
ate."
ny gosh!' moaned BY Het
asnt deeply for a moment, 1
~ Bill Dale wouldn't laugh
y q Tom Jones' plg-whi
Y all Of a gallon.pall Of b,