The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-08-14

We'll, my consumptive friend, faint
too late fur you to use thet same hole in
the wall-you'll 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.
"Don't, Ell? Yer sure ye don't want
to know witch dog lickedf'
"Aint bettin' continental red on
nary dog fight Jest now, an amt agoin'
to, nuther.7 There was a ghost of en-
phasis in the latter portion of this
speech, but it was almost wholly choked
by the gloomy sadness of the tone in
which it was uttered.
"It's purity rough, blamed eff it amt"
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 ef l
don't do sOmethin' purity soon the boys
will be kickin' me from one end O. the
county to the other. It's got to be did.
Theirs no help for it. I say, sickly,
mebbe ye'd like to say a word or two
afore it happens"
"Wa't happens?'
"Why, watts goin' to happen wen 1
turn loose"
"Ain't got nuthin' to say"
"Any place, pertickler, ye'd like ter
be hauled to arter the matineeP
"W'at matineeT ..t
"W'at matinee! The matinee thet's
goin' to open up in about one minute by
thet var clock" yI-.w
Don't know nuthin' bout it,"
| 1Ju'll know more'n you want afore
/ git through 18th you. Amt got no
the coroner he'd to sit on your
"Nary friend" fsta4 -
No moneyP
"Nary dime"
"Got name, / s'pose it down
an I'll see thet it's spelled right in the
papers" AE.ISF-
"Cheerful Harry"
| "AgeT'
Forty-four" 50
"Born anywharg'
Missouri" .4ts... ..lt
"BiznessT
Herdin' sheep"
Cheerful Harry -four-bo
in Missouri - sheep herder. Is that
kerrectT
| "Kerrect." ....
"Mebbe you'd like ter hev a verse ol
two O po'try tackled on?'
| "W'at furT'
eur send-off in case We don't sur
vive. Some folks is ruther perticklel
bout SIGH things; didn't know but you
was one O. thet kind"
"Nary varse."
/ Don't feel like lightin' out, I s'pose% p
4 "Pm conf table" i-
care, are yep E.i.
"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 laten
wrath sufficient to "open the matinee.
He hesitated for the last time as he re
marked: - 't --ft-i q
"Say, Cheerful, you'd feel a might,
sight cheerfuller eff you was out huntin
up the perticklers O. thet dog fight"
The reply came laden with the yer.
quintessence of contempt:
you be -V
There was sudden outreaching o
Eel River Dams long arm-a ringin
crash as the stove pipe came down
CLEAN of steel-a blending of two form
"a horse howl of rage and pain anothe
crash as the blended forms reeled owe
upon the card table, and through tina
, frail piece Of furniture to the floor
more cleaning steel-more hoarse howl
of despair and pain-and Cheerful Harr
quietly returned to his position besid
the stove, unconcernedly wiping fright
full looking knife on his coat sleeve.
3 DIR. Squills was of the opinion that
Q Dan could survive the wound under tn
s fourth rib he might, in the course {
= four or five months, be able to leave h
t room. Dan did survive the wound III
9 der his fourth rib, but nobody saw hil
d leave his room. DIR. Squilis was agai
t appealed to, and gave it as his opinio
] that Eel River Dan, no longer the r.
r doubtable Eel River Dan of yore, ha
+ left in the night.
n Be that as it may, he never trouble
# Pilot City again, although he must ha,
e been aware of the fact that Cheerf'
l. Harry had returned to his pastoral pu
Il | = II