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Show Little Incident That Puzzles Mr. Johnson "Sorter funny thing happened at my place yiste'd'y," in the crossroads store related Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. "I was dozing on the porch when an old car driv' up and a lady jumped the fence and lit in on my wife with a loud yell and a good-sized good-sized club. They went round and round for a spell, wife defending herself her-self as well as she was able with the soap paddle she'd been using. I was about to holler and ask 'em what in torment was coming off, when my dogs got to fighting. A couple of the old ones jumped onto a young one, and " "What did the strange lady want to whip yore wife for?" asked the proprietor of the emporium. "I hain't the slightest idy. By the time I'd got the big dogs pried loose from the little one the strange lady had dumb Into her car ag'in and was-gone, was-gone, leaving wife in a faint on the ground. And when she come to she didn't know any more about the cause of it than I did." |