The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-16

an find out, anyhow"
81 blieve yer lynn, stranger; but
afore I perceed any fu'ther 18th your
case, Pn give ye the true bizness: them
huskies slid out O. this var place a
cause they saw me a comm in thet var
door over thar-see the doorT"
"It's thar | reckon" answered the
little man, who had turned his back to
the stove. but who did not take the
trouble to resume his former position
for the purpose of verifying the bad
mans assertion that door absolutely
existed in that particular side of the
apartment.
"Weli, my consumptive friend, faint
too late fur you to use thet same hole in
the wall-you'u be in time to hear how
thet dog fight you was speakin' about
come out, mebbe, eff yer uncommOnly
lively"
"Don't keer how it come out" an
swered the hollow-cheeked individual,
in his most woe-begone tone of voice.
4" Don't, eh? Yer sure ye don't want
to know Itch dog hcked?'
'.Aint bettin' a continental red on
nary dog fight jest now, an amt agoin'
to, nuther." There was a ghost of en-
phasis in the latter portion of this
SpeSCu, DuL IL WIS dlllOSI WuO1ly CAOh6N
by the gloomy sadness of the tone in
which it was uttered.
"It's purity rough, blamed eff it ain +" "
soliloquized Dan, edging around toward
the end of the bar. "pd ez soon tackle
a raft O. measley babies, but it's got
down to a ground hog case, and eff I
will be kickin' me from one end O. the
oo1.nfu 70 +ba otbar Tt'S orof fO ba did
Theirs no help for it. l say, sickly,
mebbe ye'd like to say a word or two
afore it happens"
"Wa't happensp'
"Why, watts goin' to happen wen I
turn loose"
"Ain't got nuthin' to say
"Any place, pertickler, ye'd like ter
be hauled to arter the matineeW
"W'at matineeT
"W'at matineel The matinee thet's
goin' to open up in about one minute by
thet var clock"
"Don't know nuthin' bout it."
You'll know more'n you want afore
/ git through 18th you. Amt got no
friends thet'd plant ye decently in case
the coroner he'd to sit on vouT'
"Nary friend"
"NO mOneyP
"Nary dime"
"Got a name, s'pose-write it down
an I'll see thet it's spelled right in the
papers"
"Cheerful Harry"
"AgeT'
FOrty-four."
"Born anywhar?
Missouri"
"BiznessT'
"Herdin' sheep"
"Cheerful Harry forty-four-bo born
in Missouri - sheep herder. Is that
kerrect|
"Kerrect"
"Mebbe you'd like ter hev verse or
two O po' try tackled On?"
"W'at furY'
Fur send-off N case ye don't sur
vive. Some folks is ruther pertickler
bout sich things; didn't know but you
was one O thet kind"
"Nary varse."
"oDon't feel like lightin' out, 1 sposeY
"Pm conf table,"
Are, are yep
"Never felt more conf table in m'life."
By this time Dan had approached
very close to the little man, and he ap-
peared to be attempting to stir up latent
wrath sufficient to "open the matinee"
He hesitated for the 1s9t time as he re-
marked:
"Say, Cheerful, yg.rd feel a mighty
sight cheerfuller eff 1ou was out huntin'
up the perticklers y 'thet dog fight"
The reply caU0 laden with the very
quintessence of contempt:
You be --r
There was a sudden outreaching of
Eel River Dams long arm-a ringing
crash as the stove pipe came down-a
CLEAN of steel-a blending of two forms
"a horse howl of rage and pain-apothel
crash as the blended forms reeled over
upon the card table, and through that
frail piece of furniture to the floor
of despair and pain-and Cheerful Harry
quietly returned to his position beside
the stove, unconcernedly wiping fright
full looking knife on his coat sleeve.
DIR. Squills was of the opinion that if
Dan could survive the wound under the
fourth rib he might, in the course of
four or five months, be able to leave his
room. Dan did survive the wound un-
der his fourth rib, but nobody saw him
leave his room. DR.. Squills was again
appealed to, and gave it as his opinion
that Eel River Dan, no longer the re-
doubtable Eel River Dan of yore, had
left in the night.
Be that as it may, he never troubled
Pilot City again, although he must have
been aware of the fact that Cheerful
Harry had returned to his pastoral pur-
suits in the mountains of Trinity.