"I give in!
I give in! _Don't_ break the little blue-chiny pitcher! You fetched it to
me the day little Bud was born! An' he drunk out'n it jest afore he died!
Fer Gawd's sake, Tobe, honey! I give in!"
Tobe set down the pitcher as gingerly as if it had been a soap-bubble.
Then, with a whoop which fairly lifted the roof from the cabin, he cleared
the intervening space between them and caught his wife in his arms.
Minty, with ready tact, dragged Little Sis from under the table, and
driving the rest of the flock before her, fled the room and shut the door
behind her. On the dark porch she ran plump upon Jack Carter.
"Why, Jack!" she cried, with her tear-wet face tucked before she knew it
against his breast, "what are you doing here?"
"Oh, just hanging around," grinned Mr. Carter.
"Gawd be praised!" roared Tobe, inside the house.
"Amen!" responded Jack, outside.
"An' Tobe Cullum," announced Joe Trimble at Bishop's the next day, "have
ordered up the fines' set o' shiny in Waco fer Sissy."
"It beats _me_," said Newt Pinson; "but I allers did say that the women o'
Jim-Ned, _ez wives_, air the outbeatenes' critters in creation!"
The Courtship of Colonel Bill
BY J.
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