Show I I DRUG That's What Was Did to Dolly Slocomb Who Is Deacon Slocomb's Slocomb's Sio combs comb's Old Mare Mare Mare-It It Was Tur Tur- rib Ie While It lasted lasted- The De Deacon con Was Up Some Too Deacon Slocomb one of our most a stanch stalwart stalwart stal stal- wart art piller of the Bingville church also one of the most expert horse swappers swappers swap swap-J pers pen in m this neck of woods being as the Deacon has never ne-er yet been in ina a horse dicker but on th the other hand alms allus gits th the Est st of the bargain and has off more old piles of bones I Ion on his nabers than enny other person I in Bingville had a at the Co seat scat last Thursday Thursday- which was verry while it it lasted has I the he Deacon a lesson which only goes to toI show that we are newer too old to I lern tern I On the day aforesaid the Deacon his wife Amelia dr to the Co seat scat to make a few purchases in the way of Xmas gifts Ever er Hen Heij Weathersby prop of our general store put a wad of shoemakers shoemakers' wax on a chair in in the store which Hank Dewberry Dewberry Dew Dew- berry herry allus got airly in the morning and set on until night so w that Hen Ien got so sick of h having ing Hank Hj around the store that he fixed some som w wax on Hanks Hank's chair thinking that Hank would come in in and set down on onit onit onit it and stick fast and then git mad and go away in deep disgust and not loaf in the store so much after that that well well of Hank coming in as per usual who should come in but Deacon Slocomb Slocomb comb and before Hen could holler hoUer at him he lie went and set down on the wax and being as Hen hadn't warned him soon muff he he wouldn't say sa so the Deacon set there until the wax got tot warmed up and when he went to git up the chair thair stuck to his Ms- self elf and Hen lien had bad to take a pair of of sh shears ars cut a of th the Deacons Deacon's pants off to git it him extricated from the wax wu and in doing so 50 he du dug the Deacon with the pint of or the shears which only made matters matten worse and when the Deacon Deacon Dea con got loose he accused Hen of settin ettin the wax trap for him and ando so 0 o swore wore hed he'd newer vcr buy a nother another worth of goods from him as Ion long I as ashe ashe ashe I he I lived ed and went ent off home maddern madder maddera a wet hen to git his pants rants patched wb why the Deacon allus anus goes gaes to the Co seat scat to trade traM even cn if he loses lose money by it counting countin his time and nd the wear and tear tear on his road horse Wen Well last Thursday after the Deacon and Amelia had got most of their done and andas was as about r ready dy to tol l lea e Ie the Co seat scat for home and was wu in fackt outer town Amelia got gother gother her eye on n t some me red Xmas tish tishy paper bells in a store winder and would do but she must hare haxe one and would do but the Deacon must I go in the tbt store with her to help heIr buy it it So they both got ot the I but there wa waste nt no place to hitch the horse to handy hand until the D Deacon saw 51 a freight train idle on the railroad track and Jo so o the D Deacon Deaton aton hitched Dolly v to the thelast thelast last lut car car DoUr Dolly that's the old baid bald faced mares name who the Deacon was in p. p Then Thep they both went In the tore store and was wat and hamn about a bell and yin ti-yin to beat beM the map down n on the price when all of a the Deacon heerd the train start and ran ears the store and there wn was II the movin off down the track with Dolly it At first the train didn't go very fast but it had a good start on ont t the e Deacon then that h bye he e and bye be it went faster and Doll Dolly had to break into a alope alope alope lope to ke keep p up with it and behind come coma the Deacon as fast as he could run trying try try- in ing to ketch up and hollering for the to for goodness sake stop the train or else he would pull the old mares mare's fool head o off but of course coure the didn't hear and the train was gom goin faster and faster and the wagon was along over er the ties and spi out what they had bought all along the R. R R R. R track and Dollys Dolly's neck was stretched out straight and her eyes was bugged out being as she was nearly nearly near near- ly Iy to deth but she couldn't stop Finally when the train got to goin about 40 miles an hour or so providence and the hitchin strap broke and Dolly stopped all broth breth while hile hiler r the train rain went on Jest as the strap broke the Deacon stubbed his toe and fell feU with his face in the cinders cinders cin cin- ders which up his nose considerable considerable consid erable and filled his mouth full of dust and dirt Soon as as the Deacon could spit this out he fell to and the way he cussed that train and railroad corpora- corpora was something Amelia went up to him where he was his fist at the train and g givin gitin vent to sich aids awful and told him to remember that he was a Deacon in the church and ort to be ashamed to use sick sich in pub pub- lick Then the Deacon swore at Amelia and she broke down and cried She said in the forty odd years that her and the Deacon had been married he never swore sore at her before The Deacon got Dolly and led her offers offen the R. R R R. R track and picked up what had spilled the and they both got in and started for Bingville Bing- Bing yule ville without enny Xmas bell Amelia AmeJia says the Deacon didn't speak to her all the thea a way home but tuk out his spite on Dolly Dony and walloped her with the whip until she traveled tra so so 50 fast that when they reached Bingville she sloe was all aU set up and covered with lather Let this be a lesson not to hitch your our horse to a freight car |