The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-01-23

"The same"
ssI am an evangelist-a missionary"
"Oh. you're preacher, eh ?''
ga minister of the gospcl-yes."
"What shop?"
"Shop?''
"Yes; which track are ye travelin'
-how's yer baggage checked ?"
ssI don't believe I understand you
"No? Well, what church are you
swearin' by ?''
s'I am Baptist"
"Good enough Baptist goes. You
say you was on the missionary racket
we'en you saw all this 90
81 was engaged in the task of at
tempting to convert the heather from
blindness, and teaching him the path
be should follow to obtain everlasting
glory v
"Heathen is good, too, but wait a
minute, an I'll tackle remark. Wha.
l want to know, was You givin' these
heathens, ez you call 'em, the true biz
ness on the ten commandments 20
ST was inculcating the divine law
which Moses received amid the thunders
of Sinai.''
"herrect an maybe ye give 'em the
bizness about liftin' man we'en he
calls ye liar ?''
81 don't counsel violence under any
pretext whatever: on the other hand,
taught them that fighting was sinful"
"Kerrect again stranger yer workin'
round to my side o. the shanty, an /
guess 1'll fetch ye into camp purity soon.
Ye told 'em lying wasn't a squar
game 90
81 told them that a liar could not
hope to be saved"
''Tol' 'em liar couldn't hope to be
saved ? You saw that duck git down
on his marrer bones ?"
81 saw the criminal kneel down
yes"
"Ye saw the other 18th two-edged
sword made mud, an plaster the back
o. the doomed wretch's neck go
81 did,
aye saw the sword>sharp chop his
head off?''
"Yes.''
"Say, stranger, look here. reckon
l've got you tighter'n Mexican cinch.
Pm thinkin' you've tangled yourself up
in yer own lariat. What year was you
out thar, anyhow" ?"
81 went out in 1874 but, my friend,
can't see what you are endeavoring
to accomplish by this question and
cross-question."
"Pll show ye afore I git through 18th
ye. Pm agoin' to prove to this yer
driver o. this yer stage that you can't
show down the hand yer claimin' We
hold. Pm goin' to show that yer
eivin' me game"
81 don't understand you, sir.'
"No? Well, s'pose give ye dead
away on the sword racket, fust :?
S'pose I was to say that ther' amt
nothin' bigger'n sixteen-inch bowie
in the hull camp? S'pose was to come
down to cases, an raid ye lied about
that mud bizness? S'pose I was to
bring proof that no man in the camp
ever he'd his cabesa cut off below the
ears? S'pose / was to bring hundred
men to back me in the statement that
hangin' was all the go, wen it was a
vigilante racket, an that nobody ever
died out thar 'ceptin' from hot lead an
col steel I? S'pose was to do all this,
what kind of game would ye gi' me
then {? / tell ye, stranger, l've been
thar, an Pm posted, am. Pm the
best posted man this side o. Denver, an
We can't play it cery low down on me,
much Z"
"Do you doubt my word, sir 20
ssNo, don't doubt yer word but
of ye'd put little more solid stuff into
what yer ssyin' I'd be more likely to
take stock in yer yarns"
"My friend, fear you are attempt
ing to beguile me. fear that yoa are
imposing upon stranger in strange
land am not accustomed to your
peculiar manners and customs and
you should not take advantage of me
in this abrupt and unceremonious way"
81 thought ye flowed ye'd been thar"
"Where?
"In Shyann"
'.Cheyen,e Not at all. never
saw the place. | thought you under
stood from the first that | was mis-
Sfonary to Siam"
"What! ,Sianp Well, swear,
| take it all back, stranger throw