The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-07-03

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"Ah! he has departed, to that mys
terious country from whose bourn nc
traveller returns s,0s ~ aa
'Return? Well. I reckon not
Why, pard, he's dead o1 s.. ll +. ,
eyes, I understand. Irsq ..l 20.
ooh, you dos Well, thought
maybe you mightIbe getting tangled
, once more. Yes, you see he's dead
again" 5ssbi7il
again! Why, has he ever been
dead before" svz,o .... .rl.- rar.
Dead before5!a No Doyou reck-
on atman has got as many lives as a
cate But you bet he's awful dead
now, poor old boy, and I wish I'd
never seen this day. I don't know
no better friend, than Buck Fanshaw:
1 knowed him by the back;-and when
1 know man ike him-you hear me.
Take him all around, pard, there
never was bullier man in the mines.
No man ever lnow'd Buck Fanshaw
to go back on a friend. But it's all
up, you know; it's all up. 1t amt no
use, They've scooped himl"
''Scooped him."
''Yes-death has. Well, well, well;
we've got to give him up. Yes, IN
deed. It's kind of hard world, after
all, amt it? But, pard, he was rust
ler. You ought to see him get start
ed once. He was bully boy with
glass eye! just spit in his face and
give him room according to his
strength, and it was beautiful to see
him peel and go in. He was the
worst son of a thief that ever draw'd
breath.s Pard, he was on it. He
Was on it bigger than an Injunl'
: son it? On what?" 5E Taa
"On the shoot. On the shoulder.
On the fight. Understand? He didn't
give continental-for anybody. Beg
your pardon, friend, for coming so
near saying cuss word-but you
see Tn on an awful strain in this
palaver, on account of having to
cram down and draw everythhing so
mild. But we've got to give him up.
There amt any getting around that,
I don't reckon. Now, if we can't get
you to help plant him"
Preach the funeral discourse As
sist at the obsequies?"
"Obs'ques 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 goin'
to be no slouch; solid silver door
plate on his coffin, six plumes on the
hearse, and niger on the box with
billed shirt a plug hat-how's
that for high? And well take care
of you, pard. Wen fix you all right.
There will be kerridge for you; and
whatever you want Just 'scape out !
and we'll tend to it, We've got
shebang fixed up for you to stand
behind in No. Is house, and don't
sell clam. Put Buck through as
bully as you can, pard, for anybody |
that know'd him will tell you that he
was one of the whitest men in the
mines. You can't draw il too |
strong. He never could stand it to
things going wrong. He's done more
to make this town peaceable than
any man in it. I've seen him lick
four Greasers in eleven minutes, my
self. If a thiRg wanted regulating,
he warnt the man to go browsing
around after somebody to do it, he
would prance in and regulate it him
self He warn't Catholic; but it
didn't make no difference about that
when it came down to what mans
right was-and 50, when some roughs
jumped the Catholic boneyard and
started to stake out town lots in it, he
went for EN- too [ was there and
seen it myself"
''That was very well, indeed
east the impulse was-whether the
act was strictly defensible. or not.
Had deceased any religious. convic-
ions? That is to say, did he feel a
dependence upon, OF acknowledge
to higher .power?"
More reflection.
81 reckon you've stumped me again,
oard. Could you say it over once
more, and say.it slow?"
"Well, or rather hal he ever been
connected with any organization
from secular concerns,
nd devoted to self-sacrifce in the
of morality?" !
"All down but nine-set 'em up on
he other alley, pard!"
'What did I understand you to
ay?"
'Why, you are most oomuch for me, |
7ouknow. When you get in with your &
eft, I hunt grass every time" ,
'How? Begin again?" !
'That's it." E
every well. Was he good man,
md" s
''There-see that don'tput another +
hip till 1 look at my hand. A good G
nan, says you? Pard, it amt no e
lame for it. He was the best man l
hat ever-pard, you would have !;
oted on that man. He could lam ;,
ny galoot of his inches in America. n
was him that put down the riot S
ast election before it got start; and q
said that he was the only
ian that could have done it. He -
,altzed in with a trumpet in one a.