The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-03-31

more, thai i ulu not Know ABOUT,
Jumped on me, and.l was getting
Tie best Of them, when one. ofthem
struck me over the head with n
crow bar, and the other stabbed
me to the heart with a butcher
knife. | have received my death
wound, my boy, and my hot south
ern blood, that offered up SO free
~ to my country, in her time of
need, is passing from my body,
and soon your pa vii. be only a
piece Of poor clay. Get some ice
and put on my stomach, and all
the way down, for | am burning
up / went to the water pitcher
and got Il chunk of ice and put it
inside pas shirt, and while ma was
tearing up an old shirt to stop the
flood Of blood, ! asked pa if he
felt better and if he could describe
the villains who had murdered
him. Pa gasped and moved his
legs to get them cool from the clot-
ted blood, he said, and went on,
One Of them was about six foot
high, and had a sandy mustache.
| got him down and hit him on
the nose, and ifthc police find him,
his NOSE will be broke. The sec
ond one is thick set, and weighed
about two hundred. | had him
down, and my boot was on his
neck, and | was knocking two more
down, when | was hit. The thick
set one will have the mark OF the
boot heels on his throat. Tell the
police, when | am gone, about the
boot heel marks. BY the time ma
had got the shirt 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 set
tie his estate, when ma began to
smell the linimcnt, and she found
the broken bottle in his pocket,
and searched pa for the place where
he was stabbed, and then she be-
gun to laugh, and pa got mad and
said he DIDN'T see as a death-bed
scene was such an almighty 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 liniment. He got mad and
asked ma why she didn't fly around
and get something to take that lini-
ment off his legs, Is it was eating
them through to the bone, and
then he saw my chum put his head
in the door, with one gallus hang
ing down, and pa looked at me
and then he said, 'Lookahere, if |
lind out it was You boys that put
up this Job on me, I'll make it so
hot for you that you will think lini-
ment is ice cream i'll comparison
| told pa it didn't look reasonable
that me and my chm could be six
burglars, six feet high, with our
noses broke, and boot heel marks
on our neck, and pa he said for us
to &c to bed ALFRED quick, and
give me a chance to rinse off that
liniment, and we retired. Say,
how does my pa strike you as a
good single-handed liar Z" and the
boy went up to the counter while
the grocery man went after a scut-
tie OF coal.
In the mean time, one Ofthe gro
Gerry mans best customers, Il dea-
con 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 then
went out doors and tipped over a
basket Of rutabagas, while the dea-
con got down oil the counter with
his hands clasped, and anger in
every feature, and told the grocery
man he could whip him i'll two
minutes. The grocery man asked
what was the matter, and the dea-
con hunted up the source from
whence the darning needle came
through the counter, and a. the
boy went across the street the dca-
con and the grocery man were roll
ing acros the floor, the grocery
man trying to hold the deacon's
fists while he explained about the
darning needle, and that it was in
tended for the boy. How it come
out the boy did not wait to see.