The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-05-18

cuss word-but you see I'm on an awful
strain In this palaver, on account of hav.
ing to cram down and draw everything so
mild. But we've got to give him up.
There amt any getting around that, /
don't reckon. Now, IL we can't get::you to
help plant him"
"Preach the funeral discourse2 Assist
at the obsequies 2"
"Obsequies is good. Yes. That's IL
that's our little game. We are going to
get up the thing regardless, you know. He
was a ways nifty himself, and SO you bet
you his funeral amt going to be no
SLOUGH; solid silver door plate on the cof-
I'm six plumes on the hearse, and mig
ger on the box with billed shirt and a
plug hat--how's that for high2 And
we'll take care Of you, psrd. We'll fix
you all right. There will be kerridge
for you; and whatever you want you just
'scape out and we'll tend to 1t. We've got
u shebang fixed up for you to stand be.
hind in No. Is house, and don't you DO
afraid. Just you go in and toot your
horn, il you don't sci! clam. Put Buck
through as bully as you can, pard, for any
body that know'd him will tell you that he
WAS one of the whitest men that was ever
in the mines. You can't draw it too
strong. He could never stand it to see
things going wrong. He's done more to
make this town peaceable than any man
in it. I've seen him lick four Greasers in
eleven minutes, myself. Ifa thing wanted
regulating, he wasn't u man to 20 brows-
ing around after somebody to do it, but he
would prance in and regulate it himself
He warnt u Catholic, but it didn't make
no difference about that when it came
down 10 what mans rights was--and so,
when some roughs jumped the Catholic
boneyard and started in to stake out town
lots in it,, he went for EN-! And he
cleaned EN- tool l was there and seen it
myself"
"That was very we'll, indeed--at least
the impulse was-whether the act was
strictly defensible or not. Had deceased
any religious convictions that is to say,
did he feel dependence upon or acknowl-
edge allegiance to higher power p
More reflection.
~ reckon you have stumped me again,
pard. Could you say it over once more,
and say it slow p "Well, to simplify il
somewhat, was he. or rather had lie been,
connected with any organization seques-
tered from secular concerns and devoted
to self-sacrifce in the interests Of NOR.
tality"
Gall down but nine-set EN- up on the
other alley, pard"
What did / understand you to say 2"
why, you're most too many for me,
you know. When you get in with your
left, hunt grass every time. Every time
you draw you fill but ] don't seem to
have any luck. Let's have a new DEAL
How Begin again2"
"Thats it,"
"Very well. Was he good man,
and"
"There--I see that; don. put up an.
other chip till lock at my hand. a
good man, says you. Pard, it amt no
name for it. He was the best man that
ever-pard, you would have dotted on that
man. He could lam any galoot Of
his inches in America. 1t was him who
got start, and everybody said
have done it. He wsltzed in with
q trumpet in one hand and a spanner in
the other. He sent fourteen men home on
a shutter in less than three minutes. He
had the riot ell broke up and prevented nice
before any body ever got chance to strike
blow. He was always for peace, and he
turbances. Pard, he was q great loss to
the town. 1t would please the boys if YOU
could chip in something that would do him
justice. Hero once like when the Micks
got to throwing stones through the Meth
Odists' Sunday school windows, Buck
Fanshaw, all of his own notion, shut up
his saloon and took couple of six-shoot-
ers and mounted guard over the Sunday
school. Says he, mo Irish need apply i
And they didn't He was the bullest
man in the mountains, pard he could run
faster, jump higher, hit harder aud hold
more tangle-foot whisky without spillinp
than any man man in seventeen counties.
Put that in,Opard; it'll please the boys
more than anything you could say And
you can say, pard, that he never shook his
mother"
"Never shook his mother ~ l.
That's it-any of the boys will tell you
So"
"Well, but why should he shake her ~
That's what / say-but some people
does"
Not people Of any repute p
swell, some that averages pretty $685."
"In my opinion a man that would offer
personal violence to his mother ought
to"
"Cheese IT, pard you've banked your
ball clear outside the ring. What was n
drivin at was that he never throwed off
OH his mother-don't you see? No, in
deed. He gave her a house to live in,
and town lots and plenty of money; and
he looked after her and took care of her
all the time and, when she was down
with the smallpox, I'm damned II he
didn't sit up nights ard nuss her himself (!
Beg your pardon for saying it. but it hop
ped out too quick for yours truly. You've
treated me like gentleman, and / amt
the man to hurt your feelings intention
ally. / think you're white. I think
you're a square man, pard. like you,
and I'll lick any man that don't. III lick
him till he cant tell himself from a last
years corpse! Put it there !" Another
fraternal handshakc-and exit"
The obsequies were all that "the boys"
could desire. Such marvel funeral of
pomp had never been seen in Virginia.
The plumed hearse, the dirge-beatng
base-bands, the closed marts of business,
the flags dropping at half-mast, the long,
Flooding procession Of uniform secret So
cieties, military battalions and fire COM
panies, draped engines, carriages of off,
cials and citizens In vehicles and on foot
attracted multitudes of spectators to the
sidewalks, roofs and windows; and for
years afterward the degree Of grandeur
attained byany civic display in Virginia
was determined by comparison with Buck
Fanshaws funeral.