Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-09-20

kind of hard world, after all, amt it But,
pard, he was rustier. You ought to see
him get started otce. lie was bully boy
with glass eye Just spit in his face and
give him room according to his strength, and
it @as just beautiful tc see him peel and go
in. lie was the worst son Of thief that
ever draw'd breath. Pard. be was On it.
He was on it bigger than an Injun =
On it On what !?
On the shoot On the shoulder. On
the fight. Understand? lie didn't give a
continental for-anybOdy. Beg your par
don, friend, for coming SO near saying euss
word-but you sec I'm on an awful strait in
this palaVer, on account Of having to cram
down and draw everything so mild. But
We We got to give him up. There amt 10
getting around that, don't reckon. Now,
if we can't get you to help plant him
Preach the funeral dise0nrse? Assist at
the obsequies?'
Obs s'qules is rood. Yes. That's it /: that's
our little game We are going to get up
the thing regardless, you know. He was
always nifty himself. and SO you bet his fun
cral ain I going to be no slouch solid silver
door-plate on his coffin, six plumes on the
hearee, and niger on the box, with billed
shirt and plug hat-how's that for high
And VIC Il take care Of you, pard. Wen fix
you all right There will be a keTridge for
you and whatever you want you Just 'scape
out and we'll tend to it. We've got she
bang fixed up for you too and it's behind in
/ No. E house, and don't you be afraid. Just
20 in and t0ot your horn, if you don't sell a
clam. Put Buck through as bully as you
can, pard, for anybody that &now'd him Will
/ tell y0u that be was one Of the whitest men
that was ever in the mines. You can't draw
it too strong. lie never could stand it to see
things going wrong. He's done more to
make this town peaceable than any man in
/ it. l have seen him like four Greasers IN
eleven minutes myself. Ii a thing wanted
regulating he wasn't a man to 60 browsing
around after somebody to do il, but be
would 20 in and regulate it himself He
warn't Catholic, but it didn't make no dil-
! ference about that when it came down to
what mans right was-and so, when some
roughs Jumped the Catholic bone-yari and
started in to stake out town lots in it, he
went for en- and he cleaned EN-, too, /
was there and seen it myself.
That was very well, indeed-at least the
impulse was--whether the act was strictly
| defensible or not. Had deceased any rel.-
gious conviction? That is to say, did he
feel a dependence upon or acknowledge ale
glance to a higher power?
More reflection.
| reckon you We stumTcd me again, pard
Could y0u say itover once more, and say it
slow =
We'll, to simplify it somewhat, was he,
OF rather had he been connected with any
organization soquestcrod from secular con
Germs and devoted to sclEsacriicc in the in
teTest Of morality2
All down but uinc-sc. en- up ON thc
other alley, plrd =
What did | understand You to s3y?'
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 your Ell but don't seem to have any
luck. Let's have new deal =
How? Begin again n2
That's it,
Very well. Was he good man and
There see that don't Tut another
chip till ] look at my hand. \ good man.
mys you? Pard, it amt no name for it.
lie was the best man that cyer-Tard, you
would lave dotted on that man. lie could
lam any galoot of his inches in America. 1t
was him that put down the riot, last cleo
ton, before it got a start and everybody
said that be was the only man that could
haze done it. lie waltzoi in With trump
ct on one hand and a spanncr in the other,
and sent fourteen home on shutter in less
than three minutes lie had that riot all
broke up and prevented nice before anybody
ever got a chance to strike a blow. lie was
always for peace, and he would have peace !;
he could not stand disturbances. Pard, he
was q great loss to the town. Il would
please the boys if you could chip in some
thing about that and do him justice. Here
once, when tho Mcks got TO throwing stones
through the Methodist Sunday school win
dows, Buck Fanshaw, all of his own notion.
shut up his saloon and took n couple Of six
shooters and mounted guard over the san
dav school. saws he. No Irish need Gp-
ply And they didn't. He was the bul-
lest man in the mountains, pard; hc could
ran faster, jump higher, hit harder, and hold
more tangle-foot whskey without spilling
than any man in seventeen counties. Put
that in, pard it'n please the boys more
than anything else you could say: And You
can say, pard, that be never shook his moth
er'
Never shook his mother p
That's it-any of the boys viii tell You
So
Wen but why should he shake hcr?'
That's what say-but some people
doesl'
Not people Of any repute?
Well, some that averages pretty $3.50.
In my own opin lion, man that would
offer violence to his mother ought to
Cheese it, pard you've banked your
ball clean outside the string. What was a
driyin' at was that he never thrOwed of on
his mother-don't you see? No, indeedy.
He gave her 4 house to live in, and town
b 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 if he didn't set up nights and
nuss her himself! Beg yonr pardon for say
ing it, but it hoped out too quick for your
C truly You're treated me like q gentleman
and | amt the man to hurt your feelings
Intentional think you're white. think
you re square man. pard. likeyou, anC
3. I'll lick any man that don't. I'll lick hin
: till he can't tell himself from last year
I corpse. Put it there - Another traterna
+ hand-shake-and exit
= The obsequies were all that the boys
= could desire Snch a marvel OF funera
" pomp had never been seen in Virginia City
The plumed hearse, the dirge-breathInG bras
band, the closed marts Of business, the flag
d dropping at halfmast, the long, ploddinl
e procession Of uniformed secret societies, mi
u litary battallons and fire companions, drape
al engines carriages of officials, and citizens i
G. vehicles and on foot, attracted multitudes G
$ spectators to the sidewalks, roofs and wiz
81 doWs and for years aiterward the degree o
J. grandeur attained iby any civil display i
Virginia was determined by comparison wit
n the funeral of Buck Fanshaw.-Mark Tran
STENCIL PLATES AND MATRmoSY.-Th
story of the old lady who bought dool
plate with the name Of Thompson on it
well known, but that old lady did not ut
W lie her acquisition as did a fond and &C,
y nomical mother in San Francisco latel,
The daughter of the last mentioned lad
r Ia ;n1;So-ae+l,- purchnsed n stencil bearin