The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1879-02-06
4 FOREIGN NATIVE"
4 TuStle with Conscience ami Whist
Came OF Ii.

Do Won remember. some weeks sinc5
/ WAS greatly annoyed by an inquisi
tive man down in Maine, and abrupt
/ closed nv letter for the purpose a
.Sturiing the aforesaid man.
Well | stuffed him.
Much Of a place, your town." hu
] asked.
-Oh, YES" / said. with the matter-of
I course cdrelessnsSs Of q citizen Of th
I great western metropolis. -lb1u
( furty-hye Thousand / guess
The man eyed me with keen inter
est. 80 big as that :" he said.
| nodded, ana he presently said
/ We'll, ! had no idea there was such
large city in Iowa state must b.
/ pretty we'll settled up. | reckon"
said, ~ -. il was. Some portion:
Of II pretty wild, though"
Any large game in that state:
Herds Of II, ! said. Il killed deu
last winter not two miles from tle
Burlington Court House"
| pacitied NV conscience for this fe
by explaining To that rebelliOus ami
EOciferOus monitor that there Was ID
burlington Court House; that it wa
( burned down seven years ago, and thI
county was waiting until il could buy
a secondhand Court House for SI.T:
before replacing it. Therefore. could
truthfully say that killed all the deel
that came within two miles 0fuur COuTi
House.
Il want to know" the native ex-
claimed.
do yOu, though :" thought /; then
III tell YOU And 50 | went on
why. the wolves only two wears ag,
made 4 raid right into Burlington
and killed all the chickens on SUutl
Hill"
Conscience raised 4 terrible protest
At this, but hushed il up too quick
by citing the We'll known case of Meig.
Schenck's wOlfthat got loose, and in Ont
single summer night ate up every
thing on South Hill that wore feath
ers. The native looked astOnished and
douhly interested,
ANY Indians :" he asked.
Land, yes" | told him. yawning
weaTily, as one who talks of old, stale
things. Sitting Bull was educated al
the Baptist Collegiate Institute in Bur.
lingtOn, and was expelled for irving Il
scalp Professor Workman with Il horse
shoe magnet"
You don't tell me- exclaimed the
nttiTe, in wild amtLement. By that
time ! was perfectly reckless and told
conscience 10 keep hIs month shut and
give lqe chance.
"Oh, yes" said. ~ fellQg Wulf's old
medicine lodge Is still standing, right
out on West Hill. The Indians come
into the city very frequently, tearing
through the streets on their wirv little
ponies"
Eyer have amy Ir0ubl- with them =
the man asked.
"Oh. no" | said, cIrelessly, "the cit
liens seldom do. The COW bows, who
come up from Texas with cattle, hate
them terribly, and occasionally drop
one of them in the streets just for re-
vOlyer practice. Bnt nobody interferes
in their fights
81 suppose" the m,In said, you all
carry reYOlyeis strapped around YOU
out there!"
"0h, yes" | replied. "0f course. We
have TO; man never knows when he
is going to haYe trouble with somebody
and in case Of any little Wisgnder-
standing, it wouldn't do for fellow
not to be heeled."
think the man shuddered little.
Then, fearing he might ask to look at
my revolver, / casually remarked that
| never carried my barkers when
came East.
He said no, he supposed not. Then
he looked out Of the window a long
time and said nothing. Finally | ask
him in what part OF Maine he made
his home. He looked up at me in sur
prise.
Me-" he said. Lord, ] don't live
in this rock patch. I'm only On here
visiting some relatives
In a feeble voice | asked him where
did he live then.
The man yawned, and again lUuked
liStlesSly out of the window.
"Oh," he said, II live on 4 farm Just
ont by I.effier's. about six miles out of
l wish / wa back Uivto
now"
80 did |, ~ do /, wished he had
never left there.
We didn't talk together any longer.
after that the weather chang
ed, the air grew very cold, and | went
into the smoking ear to look for fire.
.Burdetts Letter TO the burlington
HdICkeye.