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Show MOCCASIN CHARLEY'S MARRIAGE. The circumstances preceding and attending the ll marriage of Moccasin Charley, at Skunk Point, jl Okla., have not been fully understood says the Washington Post. Moccasin. Charley had been circulating about Skunk Point rather more fluently fH than seemed advisable In tho opinion of the vert- '1 eran inhabitants. He was known as the "Cowboy vl Pianist," and had made successful touru in Kan-sas,. Kan-sas,. Iowa, and Nebraska, returning to Skunk Point -H with considerable money, Wild West clothes made in Cincinnati and several six-shooters, H that were much too shiny for popular philosophy. H Naturally, ho wore his hair very long, like Buf- 'H falo Bill and Cherokee Jake and the rest of the :H swells. Likewlso, he cultivated a big drooping mustache, which always made the female semina-ries semina-ries up North break out in spots. Charley had just returned from a melodious raid on Kansas. He was wadded all over with money he hadn't anything jH else except his usual harness and he Hashed the jH long green at tho Catamount until it amounted to a sin for any one to keep even half-way sober. "I guess," said Charley, after the eleventh mmm round of Pike's Magnolia, "that I'm about the most desperate and fearless thing in the whole chap-tirral chap-tirral belt. I'll tackle anything that wears fur, fl hair, horns, or hoofs, and glad of the chance." Then he sab down at, the planner, and played and sang "Lorena," while the gang wept noisily. Moccasin Charley threw back his hair, ordered "pisen" all around, and then broke out into "Where is My Wandering Love Tonight'?" And just about that time the Widow Kelly bulged Into the arena, with eyes aflame and hair in fino frenzy rolling, and she jerked Moccasin Charley mm off tho piano stool and sat upon his heaving chest. mmm There were some incidental remarks on her part relative to liars, betrayers, serpents, and taran- mW tulas. Morovcr, she fished from the deep Charyh- 'Mmm dis of her petticoat a pair of shears, and took his lmm hair off till he looked like Rockofeller. Then they !mmm were married out of hand by a red-nosed gentle- mmm man in black, who had kept quiet and consoled himself with heeltaps during the excitement. And 'mmm this is the true and full history of Moccasin lM Charley's untimely nuptials. mmm |