Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-06-23
THE AMERICAS LANGUAGE.

bury him in something like state. A COM
rade called on a "highfalutin" minister in
the neighborhood to get him to preach q
funeral sermon, bit bis way of making
known his object puzzled the reverend man
sorely. According to Mark, this is how the
negotiations were conductedI
A NEVADA FUNERAL.
The clergyman sank back in his chair,
perplexed. Scotty leaned his head on his
hand, and gave himself up to reflection.
Presently his face came up, sorToWtul but
confident.
'I've got it now SOS you'll cavy," said
he. "What we want Is a gospel sharp.
See?"
"a WHAT"
gospel sharp -parson."
"Oh! Why didn't you say so before?
Pm clergyman parsOn."
"Now you talk! You see my blind and
straddle it like man. Put it there !" ex-
tending brawny paw, which closed over
the minister's small hand and gave 1t
shake indicative of fraternal sympathy and
fstvent qualification.
"Now we're right, pard. Lets start
fresh. Don't you mind me shifting little
becuz we're in power of trouble. You SEE
one of the boys has gone up the fume"--
"Gone where?"
Cup the hume-throw'd up the sponge,
you know"
"Throw'd up the sponge?"
eyes, kicked the bucket"
"Ah has departed to that mysterious
country from whose bourne no traveller re-
turns"
"Return? Well, I reckon not. Why,
pard, he's dead"
eyes, 1 understand"
"Oh, you do? Well, thought may be
you might be getting tangled once more.
Yes, you see he's dead again
again! Why, has he ever been dead
before?"
"Dead before? No. Do you s'pOse a
man has got as many lives as a cat? 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.
l knoW'd him by the back; and when l
know a man like him-yOu hear me. Take
him all around, pard, there never was a
butler man in the mines. No man ever
knowed Buck Fanshaw to 60 back on a
friend. But it's all up, you know; its all
up. 1t amt no use. They've scOOped
himw
"Scooped him."
"Yes-death has. Well, well, well, we've
got to give HIM up. Yes, indeed. It's a
kind Of hard world, after all, amt it? But
psrd, he was rustler. You ought to see
him get started once. He 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. Pard, he was on it. He was
on it bigger than an Injun."
"On it? On what?"
"On the shott. On the shoulder. On
the fight. Understand? He didn't give a
continental - for anybody. Beg your
pardon, friend, for coming so near a cuss
wOrd-but you see I'm on an awful strain
on 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, l reckon. Now, if
we can't get you to help plant him -.
"Preach the funeral discourse? Assist at
the obsequies?"
"Obsquies is good. Yes, that's it; that's
our little game. We are going to get up the
thing regardless, You know. He was al
wars bifty himself, and so you bet his fune-
raj amt going to be no SLOUGH; solid silver
door-plate on his coffin, six plumes on the
hearse, and niger on the box with billed
shirt and a plug hat-hOw's that for high:
And Wen take care Of you, pard. Well
| fix you all right. There will be a kerridge
! for you; and whatever you want you just
| scape out and wen attend tOit. We've got
a shebang fixed up for you to stand behind
! in No. Is house, and don't sell clam
tl,rO,,rrl, hr1llyv T0arh
| for ANYBODY that knOwd him will tell you
! that he was one of the whitest men thai
! was ever in these mines. You can't draw
! it too strong. He never could stand to see
! things 90 wrong. He's done more to make
this town peaceable than any man in it
! Eve seen him lick four Greasers in clever
minutes myself. If it wanted regulating
be wasn't the man to 60 browsing arounC
for somebody else to do II"
"Had deceased any religious convictions,
That is to say, did he feel dependence
upon or acknowledge allegiance to a highe
power"
More reflection.
81 reckon you've sthmped me again
pard. Could you say it over once more
and say it Slow"
"Well, to simplify it somewhat, was he
or rather had he ever been connected wit
any organization sequestered from secula
concerns and devoted to self-sacritice in tn
interests of morality"
"All down but nine-set 'em up on IN
other alley, pard."
sWhat did l understand you to say?'
"Why you're most too many for me, yO'
know. When you get in with your left,
| hunt grass every time"
GLOW? Begin again.
"That's it,"
every well. Was be a good man
and"
"Thara-see that; don't put up anothe
chip till / look at my hand, A good man
saws YOU? Pard, it amt no name for il
| He was the best man that ever-pard, vol
would have dotted on that man. lie, COul
lam any galoot of his inches in America
It was him that put down the riot last cleo
| ton before it got start; and everybody sal
| that he was the only man that could havt
! done it. He waltzed in with trumpet il
one hand and a spaTker in the other, an
sent fourteen men home on shutter il
less than three seconds. He had the rio
all broke up and prevented nice before any
| body ever got a chance to strike a blow
He was always for peace, and he woul
have peace-he could not stand disturban
ces. Pard, he was a great loss to the town
1t would please the boys if YOU could chi
in something like that and do him justice
And you can say, pard, that he never shoe
his mother"
'Never shook his motheT?"
"That's it-any Of the boys will tell yoI
So"
sWell, but why should he shake her?"
That's what l say, but some peopl
does"
mot people of any repute."
"Well, some that average pretty $685..
''In my opinion man who would offe
personal violence to his mother ought t
| -
"Cheese it pard; you've banked your bal
clean out of the string. What was a-driv
IN at was that he never throwed OIL on hi
mother-don't you see? No, indeedy. II
gave her house to live in, and town lots
and plenty of money; and he looked afte
her and took care of her all the time; an
when she was down with the smallpox h
set up nights and nussed her himself.
think you're white. think you're a squar
man, pard. l like you, and I'll lick an
man that don't. I'll lick him till he can
tell himself from last years corpse! PU
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