The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-05-28

| " Yes, l understand"
N"Oh, you do? Well, / thought may be
you was getting tangled once more. Yes,
you see he's dead again"
again Why, has he ever been dead be-
forep'
dead before? No. Do you reckon a
II man has got as many lives as cat2 But
you bet, he's awful dead now, poor old boy,
and / wish I'd never seen this day. / don't
know no better friend than Buck Fanshaw.
knowed him by the back; and when 1
know man like him freeze to him-you
hear me. Take him all around, pard, there
never was II bullier man in the mines. No
man ever knowed Buck Fahshaw to
go back on a friend. But it's all up,
you know; it's all up. It amt no use.
They've scooped him p
"Scooped him.
"Yes-death has. Well, well, we'll,
we've got to give him up. Yes, indeed.
It's kind of hard world, after all, amt itp
But, pard, he was rustler. You ought
to see him get started once. He was bull
ly boy with a glass eye Just spit in his
face and give him room according to his
strength, and it was just beautiful to see
him peel and go in. He was the worst son
of thief that ever drawed breath. Pard,
he was on it. He was on it bigger than an
Injun ~
con it? On what ?'
"On the shoot On the shoulder. On
fbn Gnbf TroJaretonIO T. l..5A
continental-for anybody. Beg your par
don friend, for coming SO near saying cuss
word-but you sec I'm on an awful strain
in this palaver, on account of having to
cram down and draw everything so mild
But we've got to give him up. There amt
no getting around that, 1 don't reckon.
Now, if we can get you to help plant
him.
Preach the funeral discourse Assist at
the obsequies you mean?'
"Obesquies is good. 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 funeral amt going to be no slouch;
solid silver door-plate on his coffin, six
plumes on the hearse, and a nigger on the
box with billed shirt and a plug hat
how's that for high? and We'll take care of
you pard. Wen fix you up all right.
There will be kerridge for you, and what
ever you want just 'scape out and we'll
tend to it. We've got shebang for you
to stand up in behind No. is house, and
don't you be afraid. Just go in and toot
your horn, if you don't sell a clam. Put
Buck through as bully syou can, pard, for
anybody that knowed him will tell you that
he was one of the whitest men that ever
was in the mines.s You can't draw it too
strong. He never could stand it to see
things going wrong. He's done more to
make this town peaceable than any other
man in it. I've seen him lick four Greasers
in eleven minutes myself If thing wan
ted regulating, he warn't man to go
browsing around after somebody to do it,
but he would prance in and regulate it him
self. He warn't catholic; but it didn't
make no difference about that when il
come down to what mans right was-and
SO when some roughs jumped the Catholic
boneyard and started to stake it out into
town lots, he went for em, too l was
there, and seen itmyself."
"That was very well, indeed-at least
the impulse was-whether the act was strict
ly defensible or not. Had deceased any re-
ligious convictions? That is to say, did he
feel dependence upon or acknowledge
allegiance to higher power?"
More reflection. I
81 reckon you've stumped me again,
pard. Gould you say it over once more,
and say it slow?
swell, to simplify it somewhat, was he,
or rather had he been connected with any
organization sequestered from secular con-
Germs and devoted to self-sacri6ce in the in
terests of moralityP''
All down but nine-set 'em up on the
other alley, pard." oa
'What did understand you to say?'
"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 new deal"
"How9 Begin again?" N1na
"That's it,"
"Very well. Was he a goca man, and"
"There-I see ttihat; don't put up anoth-
er chip till l look at my hand. A good
man, says you? Pard, it amt no name for
it. He was the best man that eyer-pard,