Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-02-22


good many round by ar as sides will
Tutt-the man that's shot. But | tel
Iyer twas a far fight. Take some
whiskey? No. Well, I will if yer'l
excuse me-
"You see," continued the Captain
setting the empty glass on the table
in an emphatic way, "Bill was up ir
his room playing seven up, or four
hand, or some of them pesky games
Bill refused to play with Tut, who
was professional gambler. Yer see
| Bill was a scout on our side during
the war, and Tut was a reb scout
Bill had killed Dave TUFTS mate, and
atween one thing and another, there
war an unusual hard feelin atwixt EN-
Ever since Dave came back he had
tried to pick row with Bill; so Bill
wouldn't play cards with him any
more. But Dave stood over the man
who was gambling with Bill and lent
the feller money. Bill won bout two
hundred dollars, which made Tut
spiteful mad. Bime-by he says to
Bill:
Bill, you've got plenty Of money
nay me that forty dollars YER owe me
in that horse trade"
And Bill paid him. Then he said
Yer owe me thirty-fve dollars
more; yer lost In playing with me
t'other night
/ Dawes style was right provoking
but Bill answered him perfectly gen
tlemanLy:
4 think yer wrong, Dave, It's on
| ly twenty dollars. ihave a men,
orandum Of it in my pocket down
stairs. IF it 5 thirty-fve dollars III
give il yer.
Now Bills watch was lying on the
table. Dave TOOK up the watch, put
lit in his pocket and sail: I'll keep
this yere watch till yer pay me that
! thirty-fve dollars
/ This made Bill shooting mad fur
don't Yer see, Colonel, it was a-doubt-
ing his honor like, so he got up and
looked Dave in the eyes, and said to
him: | don't want to make row in
this house. It's a decent house, and
| don't want ter injure the keeper
You'd better put that waych back on
the table
But Dave grinned at Bill mighty
ugly, and walked off with the watch
and kept it several days. All this
time Dawes friends were spurrino
Bill OF to fight there was no end tc
the talk. They blackguarded him in
an underhand sort of way, and tried
ter get up a scrimmage, and then
they thought they could lay him out
/ Yer see Bill had enemies all about
He's settled the accounts of hear
of men who lived round here. Thi:
is about the only place in Missour
whar a reb can come back and live
and ter tell yer the truth, Colonel
and the Captain, with an involuntary
, movement, hitched up his revOlve
, belt, as he said, with expressive sig
, niicance, "they don't stay long rOuno
here
= Well, as was saying, these reb
: don't like ter see a man walkin
t round town who they saw in the re
army as one Of their men, who the
4 now know was on our side, all tn
: time he was sending us information
: sometimes from Pap Prices heac
/ quarters. But they couldn't provok
: Bill inter a row, for he's afraid of hi
5 self when he gets awful mad: ard h
t alters left his shootin iron in his rooI
/ when he went out. One dav thes
If cusses drew their pistols on him an
Ii dared him to fight, and then they tOl
d him that Tutt was a-goin ter pac
5 that watch across the square next df
II at noon.
st | heard of this, for everybody W;
j. talking about it on the street, and ;
e | went after Bill, and found him in h
e room cleaning and greasing and loa
N ing his reToIycrs.
Ie Now Bill, says l, yer going ter g
- inter fight
rs Don't you bother Yourself, Captai
r says he. IT, rot The first time I
Vt. been in q tight; and these d
u hounds have put on me long enoug
I'd You don't want ter give up any he
or, do yer?'
g. No, Bill says I, yer must keep ?
ne honor
Next day about noon, Bill We
he down on the squar He had said Il
SIS Dave Tut shouldn't pack that wat
across the square unless dead II
It, could walk.
ay When Bill got outer the squar
er- found a crowd Standin in the corr
he of the street by which he entered
ed sQuar, which is from the south,
lg. know. In this crowd he saw lot
to TUFTS friends; some were cousins
er- his'n just back from the reb arm
Ter and they jeered him, and boasted t
- Dave was a-going to pack that wa
he across the squar as he promised,
vas Then Bill saw Tut standin n
zen the court house, which yer remem
no is on the west side, so that the Gro
to war behind Bill.
avs Just then Tut, who war ale
Ost started from the court house
all. walked out into the square, and II
1ge ed away from the crowd toward
cen west side of the squar. Bout fift
wi PAGES brought them opposite to e
ice other, and bout fifty yards apar
of Tutt then showed his pistol.
will had kept a sharp eye on him, and
fore Tut could pint it Bill had |
of out.