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Show Everything Lovely. "Howdy, Gap !" saluted an acquaintance, acquaint-ance, upon meeting the well known Rumpus Ridge citizen on a shopping expedition in Tumlinville. "How's everything going with you?" "Finer'n frog hair, Jurd !" triumphantly triumph-antly replied Gap Johnson. "Of course, my wife has been sorter puny, j'ur of late, and several of the children have got the measles and mumps and one thing and another, and the lightning struck the corner of the house tutlier night and like to have tore the whole place to pieces, aud one of the kids fell out of a tree and broke his arm, and a feller took a shot at me day before be-fore yesterday and ventilated my ear, and such as that, but I swapped for a running horse last week, and a couple of. my hounds have got six pups apiece. Aw, I tell you, they can't keep a good man down I" Kansas Kan-sas City Star. |
