Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-17
"Ain't bin loain' round that var stove
mOre'n q minute or two, hev ye?"

Dams tone was so insinuating, and
his intention to avoid hurting the poor
fellows feelings so evident, that man
with perccptive faculties developed to
any degree whatever would have under
stood the kindly motive. But the rash
man at the stove must have been abn or
mally obtuse, for he gurgled forth the
exasperating reply:
"Ever since those other fellows lit OUT
"What!"
Dams eyes were dilated with the in
tensity OF his emotion. Wrath was tax
ing the place Of pity.
The little man made no reply, but
rubbed his hands and held them, palms
outward, in front of the warm stove
'Mebbe you wasn't payin' pertickler
'tention to what made 'em yit up an
dust "
1t was a forced calmness that per
meated Dams manner as he made this
last remark.
didn't know but what ther was dog
fight or something down the street."
''DOg light or somethin'," sneered Dan,
reaching glass, "mebbe yer not acquaint-
cd 18th me-
"Who're you9"
The man at the stove did not make
this inquiry as if he had any particular
desire to ascertain the identity of this in
terlocutor, but gurgled it in mechani-
cal way, like photograph or an auto
attic taking machine.
"I'm Eel River Dan, stranger. an I'm
bad"
If Dan imagined that this announce
ment would discompose the vagran he
was mistaken. 1t had no more effect
than so much wind, and the stranger did
not even appear to notice the remark.
"D'ye hear, you cadaverous galoot? I'm
on it bigge'n WOLF
"Thet's all right amt objectin'."
"You amt, Ell? Well, don't pose We
be, an, watts more 1 amt intendin' We
shell. Now look var, stranger, We say We
think 1t was dog fight or somethin' tibet
clared this var bar-room bit ago?"
''Somethin' o. tibet kind Il wasn't per-
ticker anxious to hus tie round an find
out, anyhow
II b'lieve yer lynn, stranger; but atore
perceed any fu'ther 18th your case, I'll
give ye the true dizziness; them huskies
slid out o this var place a cause they
saw me a comm in tibet var door over thar
see the door?"
cts thar, reckon" answered the lit
tie man, who had turned his back to the
stove, but who did not take the trouble
to resume his former position for the pur-
pose OF verifying the bad mans assertion
that door absolutely existed in that par
ticular side of the apartment.
"Well, my consumptive friend, faint
too late fur you to use that same hole in
the wall; you'll be in time to hear how
that dog fight you was speakin' about
come out, mebbe, if yer uncommonly
lively
"Dont keer how it come OUT an
swered the hollow-cheeked individual, in
his most woe-be-gone tone of voice.
don't, Ell! Yer sure We don't want to
know witch dog licked?"
''Aint bettin' II continental red on nary
dog fight just now, an amt goin' to,
nuther
There was ghost of emphasis in the
latter portion Of this speech, but It was
almost wholly choked by the gloomy sad
ness Of the tone in which it was uttered.
''lt's purity rough. blamed eff it amt"
soliloquised Dan, edging around toward
the end Of the bar. I'D ez soon tackle
a raft O measley babies, but it's got down
to a ground hog case, an eff | don't do
somethln' putty soon the boys I'll be
klckln' me from one end O. the county to
the otner. It's got to be did There's
no help for it. I say, sickly, mebbe ye'd
like to say word OF two afore it hap
pens.'
"W'at happens?"
'Why, watts goin' to happen Wen 1
turn loose?"'
Saint got nothin' to say
"Any place, pertickler, ye'd like ter
be hauled to arter the matinee?'
| swat matinee?"
swat matinee! The matinee thet's
goln' to open up in about one minute by
tibet var clock''
| 'Don't know nothin' about It,"
"You'll know mole'n you want to afore
L git through 18th you. Amt got no
friends thetll plant We decently in case
the Coroner he'd to sit on ye?"
Mary friend"
mo money!"
"Nary dime"
scot name, s'pose; write it down.
an I'll see tibet it's spelled right in the
papers,
"Cheerful Harry
"Age?'
''Forty FOUR
''Born any whar?'
"Massouri.
''Bizness?"
"Herdin' Sheep
Cheerful Harry forty-four-Lorn in
Missouri sheep herder. Is tibet all kerr
rect?"
| "Kerrect."
"Mebbe you'd like tar hev verse or
two O. po'try tackled on2"
''W'at tur?"
Fur send off in case you don't sur
vive. Some folks is ruther pertickler
bout such things; didn't know but YOU
was one O. .het kind"
"Nary varse"
Don't feel like lightin' out, spose?"
"I'm conf table in my lite.''
care, are ye?''
! Never felt more conf table in my life.'
By this time Dan had approached very
close to the little man, and he appeared
to be attempting to stir up latent wrath
sufficient to ''open the matinee He hes
itated for the last time as he remarked:
"Say, Cheerful, you'd feel mighty
sight cheerfuller eff you was out huntin'
up the perticklers O. that dog fight
The reply came laden with the very
quintessence Of contempt:
"You be cursed!''
There was a sudden outstretchino of
Eel River Dams long arm-a ringing
crash as the stovepipe came down-a