The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-02
TWO HAIR RINGS.
a STORY WITH NEITHER BEGINNING
NOR END.
FRAGMENT t.-ToLp ON THE TRAIN.

HOA ENbs
FRAGMENT 1.-ToLp ON THE TRAIN.
'sYes, sir; it's a queer thing about that
ring. as there's a mate to SOME res. L
dunno az | ever told any one how l
come by that ring, which the way of it
was little peculiar, but l don't mind
telling you IL you'd like to hear it.
sAll right, then, sir; put your feet up
onto that box o. mine IL you can ride
any comfortabler hathaway. Thankee,
air. 4 don't care If / do, seems you
offer it. You carry better cigars nor
mine, I suppose, but then you see, sir,
mine is to sell an yours is fer your own
smoking, won erful difference that
snakes-you bet.
swell, as you see, sir, my bizness is a
riding up an down the line sellin' news
Rapers. weekly an monthly pubs,
&yaller backs and SIGH. Make much
at itP' Well, yes, a goodish pile in the
long run, but not very much at a time,
air, Well, an so in the course Of my
route, you know, I see sight O. differ
ant people-course nothin' naturaler
You'll say-but what / mean is, I see
the diff'rance in 'em. Now good
many reg'lars we have, goin' up an
down, an fer all / hardly ever speak to
any OF 'em. nor them to me, 'cept in the
way of maxim change or such like.
Still I believe I could tell you as much
about the nature Of them feners as
their own families could, p'rapS more
That comes o. takin' notice. Hows'
ever that hain't the story Of this here
ring, tho .bearin' on 1t.
sfThe first time ever laid eyes on this
we're ring was about-lemme see-yeeI
about seven years ago. i was new on
the line then an took powerful sight
OF notice O. what was ,goin' on, tho
p'raps I take Jest as much now, on'y IN
q different way.
cit was in the fall O the year, jest
about this time, mebbe little earlier,
amebbe little later; anyway the drop
pin' leaves was thick on the track where
fer miles it runs through that stretch o
woods as we'll come to presently, an
recollek of standin' on che rear plat
form watchin' them a futterin', red an
brown an gold colOred some of EN-, an
the draft of our FLYNN Forty kitchen
'em an tumblin' EN- over an over, till
sway in the back distance with the sun
a shinin' on 'em they looked like red
hot Goals bobbin, along after us, try.
in to ketch up fer to have it out 18th us
fer disturbin' 'em. Queerish kind Of
a fancy that, too, come to think Of it.
but that's the way they looked to me
'There's little shanty about midway
in them Woods-we'll come to 'em soon
now, an you can see for yOurself-as
the train hands call Stump Station COS
OIL hr
shanty but stumps. Sometimes the
shingie-weavers and bark-peelers as
camp out way back in the woods come
out there to board the train, or to gil
provision, which is expressed up tC
them from the city, an sometimes in
the shootin' season city Teller or two
come up to hunt, gifts off there, but il
haint no regular station, an nobody
stays there an so it's very seldom we
stop.
"But this time Tn telling you of, anC
while was standin' out there on the
platform tryin' TO calculate how long il
would be at the rate / was maxim
money (times was better then) before
could saw some words I had in my minC
to saw. as soon as I was we'll enough
fixed, to q certain little dark-eyed gal
as was sure was waitin' patient and
expectin' of me t0say EN-. Don't minC
tellin' you this now, you see, sir, COS
that came out ALI right long ago, an
I've never had cause to 5esorry for say
in them words, but kinder think they
was the most sensible ones i ever said
Well. as I was a-standing there out
comes a Young Teller as had come VI
with US from Philadelphia. He was a
nobby-l looking Teller, dressed out al
regular in shootin' coat, peaked hat,
high-top boots, dogs an guns, an big
hamper In the baggage-cari quiet and
civil, a reg lar blooded gentleman, you d
saw at first sight, an he was very good,
lookin' with his wide-open blue eyes
and brown, curly hair and beard, but
still didn Z ute like i'm; not but what
he was pleasant an decent enough to
me, but whenever he spoke his upper
.snarly like; an when he laughed, which
he did OF ZEN an easy, it was o reg lar
one Of them ere dogs you We n1e0be seen
with their upper teeth stickin' out over
heunder 0nes-they can t bite, no ways,
but they're fearful on snarL But
had nv notion that this Teller could
9ite too. as we'll as snarl, if it so pleased
him. and / says to myself, thinking OF
him, You'll bear watching, you will,
an KEEP eye on him accord1n'.
EWell, sir, that gent wore on the little
finger of his left hand this same 1denu-
cal ring. It took my notice while
a-talkin' to him, though being made
out 8 two kinds o. hair, an one sort
I'd swear was off his own curly pate;
SO, by an by, talkin' O. one thing an ,
another, E works around to rings, an
finally made bold to say TO him
That's gurus kind OF a ring Tor
gent to weaTs sir. "
ssHe looked at it, twisted it around