The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-09
goods clerks, "has often been stained
with human blood"


goods clerks, "has often been stained
with human blood?"
Stranger, she hev. Tho hlst time
you come up and see me at my wickiup
in Montana-secUnd lodge on the right
beyond the Yellowstone river-and be-
sure you turn to the left up by the bigs
boulders three thousand miles this side
ask any Injun and sell him yer want
to see Bluh7ler Ben, and eff he don't
scalp yer, he'll show yer the road
plum straight. III show yer Old Bulls
Eye, my rife. She's old Kaintuck
stock likewise the barreD AID is six
teen feet long, md whenever I wipe
out white man make notch on the
barrel, and there's notches all the way
up on enc side and nine feet on the
other. Event up to see your grave
yards at Cavalry and Greceland. They
are a god deal IKE my private grave
yards, more posies and statues and so
on, they amt 50 spacious. Now, jist
about three months ago, I turned loose
in barroom down to Lafayette, Ar
kansaw, and the coroner was kept busy
for three days affer attending to seven
inqaests. And this was Just because
durn skunk stood up at the bar and
improved his mind with my conversa-
ton and never asked me if / would
take
Here one of the dry goods clerks
caught Bluf'ler Ben's eye and STAN
mered out an invitation to fill her up
again. Mr.. Bluffler Ben irrigated
himself, and in reply tOa question con-
eerning his solution of the Indian
question, said:
"InjunsI Wall, no; I never keep
count of the reds / wipe out. Fused
to when 1 was young, and sort Of vain,
but i grew oufn it. 1t looked too
much like vanity. 1 suppose Eve ta-
ken the trouble to lift the har off of the
last one hundred and fifty or two hun
dred Indians I have killed. Before
that I was kinder particular that way
and took so many sealps that I bust
the Frisco chignOon market and sew
enteen dealerssn false hair went into
bankruptcy. Injins Is poor trash.
Gimme q whole tribe Of fem and I'll
wipe EN- out as fast I can load my re-
volver and put it to my shoulder"
Here he paused again and was
promptly refreshed. Then he eOutin-
ued:
"Itell you, boys, if you want tosee
the choicest country on the foetstool
| jest you go to them ar Black Hills.
The only thing agin the country is the
buffalOes. They hatch here; and when
they take to fiigh it's awful to see them
in clouds so thick you can't see Ties sun,
and when they light they chaw up
garden sass and sour apple trees and
telegraph poles, but there's gold in the
Black Hills. / have seen it myself.
When you get down to the bed rock
you strike $50 and $40 pieces and you
wash out eagles and dollars in the
streams, and UP in the roots Of the
grass you find small scrip and nickels.
No nuggets as know on, though 1
did hear at Shyan Of one worth $780,
OOO."
Thus with anecdote and information,
Bluff Ben Whiled away the time.
When the four dry goods clerks had
settled for the drinks - their bill
amounted to s6.S5-he babe them an
sffectionate farewell and made them
promise to call at his if ever they
were up in Montana. When they had
gone out the bar-keeper paid him his
twenty per cent commission on tho
drinks sold through his instrumental
ty, and told him to recollect next time
that it was grasshOppers that flew, not
buAalOes.-[Chic Tribune.
I AGreaf Infugffee.