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Updated: June 16, 2025
Joplin continued to live as comfortably as before, and seemed not to miss the wages of her husband, nay, she rather now, as if before kept back by the prudence of the deceased, launched into a less thrifty mode of life, and a gayety of dress at variance both with the mourning her recent loss should have imposed, and the austere tenets of her sect.
From the Joplin stretch as a nucleus, lines of development have been steadily projected since 1874 to this day. There are not a great many undeveloped big acreages of land left in any of the southern Missouri counties. Of the few that remain by far the largest and most promising is the country known as the Tigmore Stretch.
Why, who but old Peggy, the 'oman wot you put out at Clapham." "Well, never mind Peggy, now, Bill; I want to ask you what you have done with Margaret Joplin, whom, sly seducer that you are, you carried off from " "Why, man, Peggy be Joplin, and Joplin be Peggy! And it's for that piece of noos that I got all them pretty new picters of his Majesty Bill, my namesake, God bliss 'im!"
But before he goes he expounds to Joplin Joe, his foreman, the nature of a peer and how his wants is apt to be a heap fashionable, and that when he asks for anything to grasp the can-opener and run to the store-house—Cacta, you put on the coffee! "That peer arrives in the afternoon, and he never makes a request any more than a corpse.
We had a geological expert who got sadder and sadder every time we spilled out of the waggons and speared around in the rocks for a little while. And we had a great deal of bacon. Still, when we reached Bessietown, where we struck the steam-cars, the Joplin crowd broke for the train on a run.
But you can larn where she be at Mr. Warney's, if so be he's still above ground." "And did this woman still go by the name of Joplin?" Bill grinned: "She warn't such a spooney as that, that name was in your black books too much, Mr. R , for a 'spectable nuss for sick bodies; no, she was then called Martha Skeggs, what was her own mother's name afore marriage. Anything more, gemman?"
His review closed with an expression of regret that an educator connected with the great Joplin University could have been guilty of such an error, not of figures, but of logic.
"Too vet and too fodgy all dime," was the way he accounted for his laziness. Last came Joplin a man of thirty-five; bald as an egg and as shiny. And his fads did not stop with his food; they extended to his clothes everything he used, in fact. "Are you noticing, gentlemen, the way in which Joplin handles his mother tongue?"
I am aware that attention has already been called in the daily newspapers to certain curious features of the astronomical discussion between Professor Macadam of Joplin University and Professor Morgan of the same institution; but newspaper comment has related only to the scientific aspects of the case, lacking all references to the origin of the debate and to the inevitable woman and the romance.
The next morning, when the procession formed to escort him through the Old Gate, every man answered to his name except Joplin he had either overslept himself or was taking an extra soak in his portable tub. "Run, Tine, and call Mr. Joplin," cried Marny "we'll go ahead. Tell him to come to the dock."
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