Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 23: what you’re looking at

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BILL WARD'S ADVICE. 25 has had many lovers, but I believe she has treated them all pretty much alike.” “ Better give up the chase, my boy. Eagles are apt to fly too high fur rifle-bullets to reach ’em “But they have been known to sees and to be: conght. <2 “Tyne enough, but you had better give up the chase, and turn your tention to suthin’ useful. Pm thinkin’: they will spile a good hunter in tryin’ to make a: poor sojer of ‘you. You warn’t made to work ‘incharness, ’specially in a mule- team. Gals are onsartin critters, and they ken ruinate a man mighty easy. I'got hitched to one once, many year ago, but we never pulled together, and we agreed to quit.” “That is news to me, Bil: Tell me about it.” “I don’t want to think of. it,and wouldn’t hey’ spoke of 7 : it, ’ceptin’ to give you a wWarnin’) She was a Mexican, and a born beauty, and I was reckoned tol’able smart and handsome in those days. Her folks kinder got.around her, a-coaxin’ her, and thar’ was trouble, and I wiped out one of ’em, and we agreed to quit, as I said afore.” “What became of your wife ” “Don’t know. Let’s talk-about’ suthin’ else.” “Tor my part,” said Luke Royston, “I intend to follow the advice of George Washington, and to keep clear of entangling alliances. , IJ shall never allow any pretty face to draw me into trouble. \ I. believe ina light heart and a ee haver- sack,” ‘Perhaps <ighiulinditatineen and lightheadedness go: a in your case,” suggested Bent. ~ “ May-be so; but I had rather be gay nd: simple thatiwiiee and miserable. The only thing that bothers me just-now, is to know why we have been ordered back to this country of Sand and sunshine, fleas and tortillas.” “Spect likely thar’s trouble a-brewin’ with the Mexicans, a remarked Ward. “ What is the matter with them ?” inquired Bent. “T un- _ derstood that the people of New Mexico were peaceably in- Clined, that they had submitted quietly, and had transferred Bee allegiance to the United States.” © “Quiet-enough they may be at this minute, but thar’s no tellin’ how rampageous they will git inside of the next half —_ be connichoaks.com Z