The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1883-04-07

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with butcher knife. have received
my death wound, my boy, and my hot
Southern blood, that l offered up so freely
for my country in her time of need, is
passing from my body, and soon your pa
will be only apiece Of poor clay. Get
some ice and put on my stomache, all the
way down, for Tam burning up. went
to the water pitcher aud got chunk Of
ice and put inside Of pas shirt, and
while ma was tearing up an old skirt to
stop the flow OF blood l asked pa il he
felt better and il lie could describe the
villains who had murdered him. Pa
gasped and moved his legs to get them
cool from the clotted blood, lie said. and
went on: One OF them was about six
feet high and had sandy moustachc.
got him down and hit him in the nose,
and If the police find him his nose will
be broke. Tho second one was thick
set, and weighed about 200 pounds. l
had him down and my boot was OIL his
neck, and / was knocking two more
down when was hit. The thick set
one will have the mark of boot heels on
his throat. Tell the police, when am
gone, about the boot heel marks BY
this time ma had got the skirt tore up,
and she stuffed it under pas shirt, right
where he said he was hit, and pa was
telling us what to do to settle his estate,
when ma began to smell the liniment,
and she found the broken bottle in his
pocket, and searched for the place where
he was stabbed, and then she began to
laugh, and pa got mad and said he didn't
see as deathbed scene was such an al.
mighty funny affair, and then she told
him he was not hurt, but that he had
fallen ON the stairs and broke his bottle,
and that there was no blood ON him, and
he said, DO You mean to tell me my
body and legs are not bathed in human
gore! and then pa got up and found it
was only the iniment. He got mad and
asked ma why she didn't fly around and
get something to take that liniment of
his legs, as It was eating them right
through to the bone, and then he saw
my chum put his bead in the door, with
ono gallus hanging down, and pa looked
at me and then he said. 'Lookahsre, if
find out it was you boys that put up
this job on me, I'll make it 20 hot for
you that you will think liniment is ice
cream in comparison I told pal didn't
look reasonable that me and my chum
could be six burglers, six feet high, with
our noses broke, and boot heel marks on
our necks, and pa he said for us to 70 to
bed alfred quick, and give him q
chance to rinse of that linimsnt, and we
retired. Say, how does my pa strike
you as q good single.handed liar!" and
the boy went up to the counter while the
grocery man went out after q scuttle of
coal.
| In the meantime one of the grocery
mans best customers, deacon in the
church, had come in and sat down on the
counter over the darning needle, and as
the grocery man came in with the coal
the boy pulled the string and went out
of doors and tipped over basket Of
rutabagas, while the deacon got down of
the counter with his hands clasped, and
anger in every feature, and told the gro.
Gerry man that he could whip him in two
minutes. The grocery man asked what
was the matter, and the deacon hunted
up the source from whence the darning
needle came through the counter, and as
the boy went across the street the deacon
and the grocery man were rolling OH the
floor, the grocery man trying to hold the
deacon's fist while he explained about
the darning needle, and that it was in.
tended for the boy. How it came out
the boy did not wait to see.