The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-06
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barreled shogun?'
mo-" the Mormon replied, ~ hain't got
nothin' but this here Enfield rife"
''Well," III the grief-st stricken man.
'I'll tell you what to do. You just go and
borrow u big doublebarrcled shot gun. and
put half pound of shot in each barrel,
and come down to my place and I'll show
you little canary bird hanging up by the
door--you can shoot that And then I'll
take you around the corner and show a lit
tie pet lamb and you can shoot that. And
there's a little squirrel down the street in Il
whecl-maybe you'd like to shoot that"
THE DEAD BODY.
SO saying, the indignant man gathered up
poor Dicks remains, wrapped them in a
sheet of brown paper, AMI started down the
street with the bund uudcr his arm That
night Dicks dead body lay behind the door
OF the restaurant Yeomans was inesnso-
liable. Men came into the r aiding room
all smiles, but Charles was as sad as
Niobe.
DO you remember poor little Dick" he
would say, ''that used to he playing around
the saloon here-a little pet badgcr?"
Yes. l remember h M"
"Well, there he is behind the door.
"Yeomans would continue in broken
voice. ''Some gingerbread headed Nor
mon shot him. You know how he used to
waddle in every night and take his little egg
like human-oh, it's rough to think that
he's dead! He was one of the incest little
fellows, too-Such great curiosity. You
known you hardly ever see tame badger.
| never saw one before this myself (draw-
ing long sigh oh, it's mighty tough to
think that he's dead" r. tears would start
afresh. "Takc drink Take drink !" he
added, while wiping his eyes.
TOUCHING AFFECTION.
All in the room sympathhs with Charley
by KING drinks. They wah' ii the dead
badger by accepting over fifty dollars worth
OF drinks from the bereavrd proprietor.
One LiluliSt took out hi pocket knife and
proposed to kin the animal lie suggested
that Charley would get it stuffed and put it
over his bar comans fired up in an in
slant. His devotion to MS dead friend was
absolutely touching. Drawing Derrnger
from hi, pocket, he said, IN put a hole
big enough for kangaroo to jump through
in the first man that puts the point ola lnife
H. Die, skin.
After this scene man named llolliston
went to q store and bought several yards Cf
Grape, The door Of the reading room was
draped in black. and by 8 p. m. the restau-
rant looked gloomy enough. I here was
considerable mirth among the spectators,
but Charles heart was frrighted with woe
lie never smi ed. Slowly and sadly he
drew an empty wine box from behind the
counter. Ii was filled with straw. and the
corpse laid therein. I hen Ycomans an
nounced that he would bury his dead friend
in the ward back of the saloon at 3 O'Clock
the following morning, lie invited his
friends t. he present Never was man so
sincere. He seemed to think that load
would be lifted from his mind il he gave his
dead companion a decent burial.
GRAND SURPRISE.
Recognizing his grief his friends restrain
ed their mrth while in his presence. They
went to the telegraph office however, and
sent dispatches to Ogden, Alta, n d other
places informing Yeoman's acquaintances
of the death Of Dick. and asking them TO
come to the funeral The morning trains
brought down Major Wheeler and Bishops
Erb and Farr from Ogden, and the Hon.
Standish Rood, the Hardness Brothers. Col.
Parlin, and Others from Alta.
BY 8 o'clock some I'll rty persons were
seated about the crape-drapcd reading room
sipping free drinks. The dead badger lay
IN the wine box as natural as life. Charles
was sobbingly relating incidents of his ca
reer, when a scraping noise and low growl
was heard at the door. In second Dick
loped over the threshold, and walked up TO
Charley in his old familiar style, showing
up his peaked nose for his lutte morning
egg.
If IN earthquake had occurred. Ycoman's
surprise could not have been greater. He
kissed the badger over a dozen times, and
glad v filled the tumhler with yellow yolks.
Dick was of course delighted, and pitched
in like n white man.
1t turned out that there had been another
pet badger in the city, and that this was the
animal which the much abused Mormon
had shot instead of Yeoman's. Dick had
been cavorting about more than usual on
the previous day. The sun was very hot,
and he crawled into his hole under the
house perfectly exhausted. He had slept
right through, making his temperance in
time for his usual morning meal. The best
of the joke is that the dead badger was of
the feminine persuasion, and none of the
grief stricken mourners discovered it until
Dicks return.