River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-08-21

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.
Dye hear, you cadaverous galoot2 I'm
on If bigge'n WOLFF
Tibet all right amt obiectin'.''
You amt, ehF Well, | don't pose We
be, an, watts more / amt intendin ye
| she'll. Now look var, stranger. We say We
think 1t was dog fight or somethin' thet
clared this var bar-reom bit ago."
'Somethin' o tibet kind wasn't per-
! ticker anxious to hustle round an find
out, anyhow"
L biieve yer lynn, stranger; but atore
perceed any flu her 18th your case, IL
give ye the true dizziness; them huskies
Slid out o this var place cause they
saw me comm in thet var door over thar
see the door,"
| Its thar, l reckon, answered the lit
| tie man, who had turned mis- back TO the
stove, but who did rot take the trouble
/ to resume his former position for the pur-
pose Of verifying the bad mans assertion
f., that door absolutely existed in that par
| ticulai SIDE of the apartment
"Well, my consumptiyo friend, faint
too late fur you TO use that same hole in
the wall; you'll be in tlIhe to hear how
that dog fight you was speakin' about
come out, mebbe, if yer uncommonly
| lively"
Don't keer how it come OUT an
swered the Acknowledged individual, in
his most woe-be-gone tone of voice.
Don't, ehl Yer sure sc don't want TO
know witch dog licked!'
cain bet'in' 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 1t was
almost wholly chOked by the gloomy sad
ness of tone in whic ii was uttered.
Ats purity rough. blamed Of il amt,
soliloquised Dan, edging around toward
the end of the bar. nd ez soon tackle
a raft o measley babies, but it's got down
to ground hog case, an eff don't do
somethin' putty soon the boys II be
kickin me from one end o the county to
the otner. It's got to be did There's
no help for it. say, sickly, mebbe ye'd
like 10 say word or two atorc it hap
pens"
Wat happens!'
"Why, waits goin to happen Wen l
turn loose2
Amt got nothin' to say"
any place, pertickler, ye'd like ter
be hauled to after the matinee2"
"W ut matinecE'
Nv at matt &c! The matinee thets
gon' 10 open up in about one minute by
thet var clock.
Don't know nothin' about IT.
you'll know MOI en- you want to atore
git through 18th you. Amt got no
friends thet'll plant We decently in case
the Coroner he'd to sit on ye9'
Mary friend"
mo money!
mary dime
an I'll see thet it's spelled right in the
papers
"Cheerful Harry
"Age2'
Forty four"
Born anyWharl"
"Massoum."
"Biznessf
"Herdin' sheep.
Cheerful Harry-forty four born III
Massouri-sheep herder. Is tibet all kerr
rect?"
"Keunct."
"Mebbe you'd like Ter hey verse or
two o po'try tackled on:''
"W'at tur?'
Fur send of in case you don't sur
vive. Some folks is ruther pertickIer
bout such things; didn know but you
y rs one o :het kind"
Mary varse."
Don't feel like lightin out, s'poses"
I'm comf'table in my life
"Arc, are ye:
Never felt more conf table in my life.
BY tins time Dan had approached very
close to the little man, and he appeared
to be attempting to STR 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 cheerfuler eff you was out huntin'
up the perticklers o. that dog fight
The reply came laden with the very
quintessencc of contempt;
''You be cursed!n
There rs o sudden outstretching of
Eel River Dams long arm--a ringing
crash as the stovepipe came down-a
CLEAN of steel "a bending Of two forms
= a hoarse howl of rage and pain
another crash rs the blended forms reeled
over upon the card table, and through
that frai piece OF furniture to the floor
more cleaning steel-more hoarse
bowls of despair and pain-and Cheerful
Harry quietly returned to his position
beside the stove, uDconcernedly wiping
frightful-ooaing knife on his coat
sleeve
DIR. Squbbs was OF the opinion that if
Dan could survive the wound under the
fourth rib he might, i'll the course Of four
or i've months, be able to- teave his room.
Dan did survive the wound under his
fourth rib, but nobody saw him leave his
room DR.. Squibbs was again appealed
to and gave 1t as his opinion thst Eel
River Dan, no longer the redoubtable Eel
River Dan Of yore, had lett IN the night.
Be I at as 1t may, he never troubled
Pilot City again, although he must have
been aware OF the fact that Cheerful Harry
had returned to his pastoral pursuits in
the mountains of Trinity.