Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1872-06-27
and pass the buck

oh hiS. w iistN oe we We hotH got tue
bulge now You don't smoke Inc and
| don't smoke you. You see one OF the
boys has passed in his checks and we
want 10 give him good send or, and
50 the thing I'm now ON is TO rout out
somebody 10 jerk a little chin music
for It's, and waltz him through hand
somek.
My friend, | seem to grow more
and more bewildered. Your observa.
lions are incomprehensibie to me. Can.
not YOU simplify them in some way
At first thought perhaps understood
You. but now grope. Would it not
expedite matters if YOU restricted
Yourself To categorical statements of
fact ulincumbered with obstructinc
accumulations of metaphor and allie.
CORY:
Another pause. and more reflection.
Then Scotty said
III have TO pass. judge
How
You've raised me out. pari.'
i still fail to catch your meaning.
Why the last lead of yourn is too
many for mc-that's the idea. cant
neither trump nor follow suit.'
The clergyman sank back in his
chair pcrplexed. Scotiy leaned his
head on his hand and gave himself up
10 reflection. Presently his face came
mp. sorrowful but confident.
I've got it now, SOS you cavy,' said
he. What We want is gospel sharp.
See
4 WHAT
'Gospel-sharp-parson.
why didn't YOU say 80 before:
am a Clergyman parson.
Now YOU talk. You see nv blind
and straddled it like a man. Pa, il
there Extending brawnv paw.
WHICH closed over the minister's small
hand and gave it shake indicative of
sympathy and fervant qualification.
Now we're all right, parl. Lets
start fresh. Don't mind me snuilling
little, becuz we're in power Of
trouble. You see. one Of the BOYS
has gone up the fiume-'
Gone where
Up the lume-throw'd UP the
sponge, you know.
Thrown up the sponge
'lcs-kickcd the bucket
'Ah, Has departed to that mysteri-
ous country from whose bourne no
traveller returns ~
"-....". "vn, reckon not. Why
parl, he dead.
Yes, understand.
'Oh, YOU do: We'll. | thought may
hc YOU nigh, be getting tangled once
more. Yes, you see hes dead again
Again Why had he ever been
dead before"
Dead before, No. Do YOU under
stand man has as many lie, - i.
cat? But you bet he's awful dead now
poor old boy, and | wish iii never
seen this day. | don't know no bet
ter friend than Buck Fanshaw.
/ knowed him by the back aud when
know a man like him-you hear me.
Take him all around, pard, there never
was buliier man in the mines. No
man knowed Buck Fanshaw 10 90 back
on friend. But its all up, you know !;
is all up. 1t amt no use. They've
scoopcd him.
'Scooped him.
'lcs-death has. Well, we've got
to give him up. 1t is hard, after all,
amt II: But, pard, he was rustlcr.
You ought TO see him get started once
lie was bully boy with 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 90 in.
lie was the worst son or thief that ev-
er draw'd breath Pard, he was on it..
He was on it bigger than Injun.'
'On it: On what?
On the shoot. On the shoulder On
the fight. Understand, He didn't
give a continental-for anybody. Beg
your pardon. friend, for coming 50 near
saving cuss word but YOU see I'm
on an awful strain in this palaycr. on
account of having 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. if we can't get you to help plant
him
Preach the funeral DISCOURSE As
sist at the obsequies:'
'Obsequies is good: Yes. That's it
that's our little game. The thing is
going t. be got up regardless, you
know. He was always filthy himself,
and so you bet his funeral amt goin
10 be no slouch; solid silver doorplate
on his coffin, six plumes on the hearse
and nigger on the box with billed
shirt and plug hat, how's that iol
high: And we'll take care of you. pard
There will be kerridge for you; and
whatever you want YOU just scape out
and well tend TO it. Now, we've got
a shebang fixed up for you to stand be
hind in No. Is house, and don't sell Q
clam. Put Buck through as bully as
+ you can, pard, for anybody that know q
him will tell you that he was one of tht
whitest men that was ever in the mines
. You cant draw it too strong. He new
er could stand it TO see things q
wrong. He's done more to make this
"" pCaSNaDit II
I've seen him lick four Greasers il
eleven minutes myself. If thing
wanted regulating, he want the maj
TO 90 browsing around after someon,
, to do it he would prance in and regu
late it himself He warn't Catholic
but it didn't make no difference aboa
that when it came to what a man.
right was, and so when some rough;
jumped the Catholic boneyard and
started IN to stake out town lots in it
he went for 'em! And he cleaned 'em
too l was there and see 1t myself.
f That was very we'll. indeed-al
, least the impulse was-whether the ac
was strictly defensible or not. Hat
deceased any religious convictions
That is to say, did he feel a depen
dence upon, or acknowledge allegianc,