Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-04-16
Of chat fruit, billed with the husks on,
would be agreeable. Two round-eyed,
tow-headed boys were sent out to find

Of chat Fruit, billed with the husks on,
would be agreeable. Two round-eyed,
tow-headed boys were sent out to find
'em. s55
Wen, there they; was, heaped up be.
fore ms Qnsa plate, in their nice white
kivers- dozen Of 'em AM Dave an,
me pitched 10. That wasn't all the
meal, though, f there Was jerked ven7
ison,s an as good bread as ever was
turned out OF q pan, an ginewine yallar
butter. But it was the eggs that ketched
me. Eggs an civilization go hand in
hand an shoulder to shoulder. Did you
ever thinksof that? We started in on q
egg apiece. S. s. So.
My first egg just struck the spot, an
I let ont my belt q couple of notches;
an took egg number Two. Dave lifted
his second one the ssanae time. So we
KEEP company, egg fur egg, right along{
At the fifth or fourth egg, don't know
which, Dave says: Jim, this reminds
me- Of old times I used to have little
bow-legged, hump backed hen I got off
one of the Brazier boys-Biu Brazier,
dead now; killed out on the pike, east
6f Gray's mill; throwed off ID his horse
down the steep hill there, an struck his
head on q bowlder.' s.l.. ~.
aThen we both reached for the plate.
II reckoned he'd lost count while
tellin' his story, so I says: Go slow;
old boy, that eggs nine ..-.,:szs
"'Not much says he, you're off
your nest -.
"Thiss was too much. l.fared right
up. 70 think he'd tried to blk an old
pard outen egg, afterall that pard had
done fur him, soured me clean to my
heels. You see, I'd shared everything
with him, drug him through his sick
ness, tended him Like q woman, an now
to have him come the hog game on me!
The devil was in me, AMI drawed the
revolver; it was leyin'on the floor be-
tween sus, an was goin' to let daylight
through him, when the woman screamed,
and the man of the house spoke up.
This brought me to myself; but I tell
| you had him down fine. We both got
up from the table, leavin', the last egg
on the plate, Dave takin' the shotgun
from the place where it was leanin' out
| side the door. I scorned to take any
advantage of him then, mad as I was,
an gave him fair chance to git the
gun. We walked on fur quarter of a
mile without speaking, each looking
out of the corner of our eye for fear the
other'd get the drop. Dave says I,
this business has got to be settled
eyes, says he, and some other
thing has got to be settled, too. I might
have been an honest, happy married
man in Indiany this minute if ithadn't
been for you, instead of the tramp ]
low am. It was my money you wanted
to bring you to. Californy, and you
made me run away from the only WON
an I ever loved i.G
"tYour money, you say; - you,
money. Do you want me to tell you
who the only woman you ever loved is !
She's my divorced wife
"This staggered him some.
"'Well, what of that-that wouldn't
prevent her from maxim me q good
wife, would tip = -
""'Daye Gilchrist, you was young, an
l wanted to save you. I had some
thingsFin my own life I didn't care for
even you to know. When I first met
you in the regiment had just served 8
term of two years in the Ohio peniten,
tiarv;',
$3.50 you're a prison bird, are YOU
"' Yes, I'm prison bird. loved thai
woman and married her. We hac
scarcely been married three months be-
fore We were both arrested charged
with stealing, and the goods, roll oil
black silk, was found in the house. Il
had been stolen from a dry-goods store
one day when ewere both in town.
had heerd of kleptermaniacs-people
who can't help but take things, and
couldn't call my wifes offense stealing
I couldn't bear to see her, young and
delicate, 60 to prison; so T confessed
that I myself had took it, and, on o plea
of'guilty, was sent up. Well, the part
ing between us was bitter one, but
thought I had done my duty. But in
less than six weeks that woman applied
for divorce from me, an got it, on the
ground of my bein' in the State prison
me, who had gone there to save her.
"'H you'd told me this sooner I'd
prob'ly have believed it. Now I thinl
you're tryin' to pull the wool over M
eyes some more
q well, stranger, this made me mad
der'n a bear with q gum bile, and ther'
was nothin' for it but blood. We botl
made our little arrangements in case Of
accident, and then each got behind {
tree. My plan was to watch my chance
and at the first show to let fire. Soon
see the top of his hat sticking out from
the side of tree, an was about to lie
him have it, when one of those Injul
stories came in my mind. Then I SCI
through his little game. Not much
says I to myself, an empty hat on
ramrod to draw my fire. Then stucl
my head out to draw his, not havin
much respect for shot.gun-the,
scatter so-an' thinkin' I could get m,
leg in again before he fred. But
didn't. He let me have it, an brough
me down. But I held on to the revol
yer, and, as I feu-he had come from
behind his tree-I fred, but missed
! Dave threw down his gun and rushed
toward me, crying like a baby.
drawed up to let him have it, but he
never finched. AL right, Jim, old
pard, deserve it as an ungrateful dog.
| THAT was too much for me, stranger
and I throwed the derned weapon away
for fear somethin' might happen. Next
I howed Dave had his arm around me-
huggin' me, and them fest got lost
completely. Guess it must a. been from
loss of blood. When things came round
again, I Yves in that cabin, and Dave
and the man of the house, and the tidy
little woman in the white apron were
standing over me, and blast my eyes ii
the owner of the cabin wasn't my broth
or Josh, which I didn't know him from
Adams off OK, on account of the ha'r
on his face. And I got well, all but this
limp, and Dave forgot the grass
widder. married. the tidy little woman's
youngest sister, and settled down only
three miles from Josh. But You bet
Josh's wife has been learned 4 lesson
she won't soon forgit. What? Why,
not to L-y out thirteen eggs for dozen
without notifyin' me. Oh, me? Why,
I'm the vagabond allus was. !.
"Here, barkeep', fill these up agin.
Anecdote Of Lincoln.
In May, 1862, great many civil ap-
pointments were made into the regular
4 army, and among them an old friend
and cornrade of Mr.. Lincoln, who lived
lin an o1in;n;,,e, no,,n+xyc 1vos, n 4