The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-04-22
STRAY STREAKS
(By Tluke McFluke.)

(By Fluke McFluke.)
We are again forced to remind our
readers of the fact that every thing
appearing in this column is original,
new and true, IL not otherwise. That
ought to satisfy Fonza Midkiff, so IL
seems to us, as there's our solemn
word for It.
My wife's got a covey or two of
young chickens and she says neither
salt or other seasoning is good for
little chicks, therefore and hence,
she does not put either in my corn
bread, and thusly she is prevented
from waking the second baking, as
the first Just suits said chickens.
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Providence. indeed, doth work in
mysterious and uncertain ways. We
are by no means sure that we al
ways know best, but had Gabriel m
suited us about the matter, he would
most assuredly have footed his horn
for the once Kaiser Bill, instead of
calling that good wife of his.
The supposition is, that George
Johnson has found and procured a
good supply of sawdust as he has
been operating his flour and feed mill
several days, after being idle
nearly ever since Charlie Garden ex-
hausted the supply of wood cuttings
in this community and traded the
Mill to Johnson.
We had a letter from our old
friend, Ed Mischke recently, and he
made particular inquiry as to wheth-
err Bat Nall was riding any white mule
these days. Ed will likely be glad
to learn that Bat has gotten to be a
real decent sort of fellow, don't cut
any of those wild-western plains
stunts any merchants to the most
excellent influence of Mrs. Nall
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About one or two weeks hence,
we are goin fishin, provided we be
not providentially hindered, and
there is a bare possibility that John
Henry may be waited into these
parts on some i'll wind about that
time, and if he is, YOU can believe
every thing You see in this sheet dur
| ing that week, or not believe, just
as you please. If John does hang
around town that week we have aXed
Duke and Peggy to blue pencil what
ever they might think we wouldn
endorse and condone, if here in per-
! son.
It's a good thing for Fonza Mid
! kiff, that there is not to be any
grand jury convened at the coming
May term of Court, as we would miss
our annual fishing trip to h0e that
! guy indicted for maliciously casting
reflections upon our character for
truth and veracty. 1t has come to
us from two If not three sources that
Kiff has intimated upon more than
! one occasion that he has seen at
least two accounts in our paper, OF
things happening or objects existing
that he does not believe to be alto
gether true.
We noticed in a paper a few days
ago where some of the people were
appealing to legal authority to take
some action to regulate the height of
skirts to be worn in his baili-
wick. Said legal authority being
wise guy and it seems far seeing
sort of a man, very properly decid-
ed to leave the ladies skirts up for
/ adjustment, to themselves. A very
sensible decision, just what we would
have done had we been called upon to
view the premises. We mean had
the high skirt been put up to us.
Doggon the luck, what we meant was
had the high skirt been put up to
us to shove down we simply would
have kept our hands off. Durn the
luck! 1t looks like we can't ever say
what we mean, what we wanted to
say is, that we would have calmly and
! resolutely declined to but in, that's
the word, but in.-Contributed by
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