Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-18
THE HOwLING TERROR.
Mark Twain's "Arkansas" Rcdivivus.

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drink with you "
The speaker was a big, burly fellow
more than six feet tall, and large in pro
portion. while the person addressed was
an exceedingly iiminutive fellow, little
more than half the size et the speaker
The first desc ribed individual, who
callel himself Jack Hawkins, "the Howl
ing Terror of the Southwest" had made
his appearance in Mutt, small station
on the Santa Fe Road in New Mexico,
about a month previously. No one knew
whence he came, whittier he intended
going, nor what was his business in Mutt.
Ard no one had thus far had the temeri-
ty to ask for information on any of those
three points. When Jack first arrived
in camp he had made bluff at Matt
Carmichael, a faro dealer, who had rep
utation from away back of being bad
man, and had got away with it. From
shat time on Hawkia, had "ruled the
roost," and he had ruled it with high
hand. Not only had the denizens of the
little village of Mutt been bullied ard
brlIdozed by this modern Arkansas"
but the strangers-passengers who stop
ped ier there for the night, to take the
stage for the then booming camp OF Lake
Valley-were each and every one terror
lied into complete submission to the
reigning tyrant's whims.
The keeper of one restaurant had been
thus far afraid to intimate to the "bad
man" that he was accustomed to be paid
for GRUB" eaten at his table; the propri-
tor of the hotel Ia lafge tent containing
an unlimited number ofbuuks, for which
the lodger must furnish blankets if he
desired that luxury had never found
courage 70 suggest to him the propIiety
of putting up" for his lodging, and the
saloon-keepers had never been known to
refuse his royal bighness drink of "the
best yer got in the shanty, d--n yer." !"
In word, Hawkins had been ''living on
the fat of the land" and apparently had
no immediate intention of making a
change in his circumstances.
The individual to whom he delivered
the above characteristic remark was, as
we have seen, physically, vastly the in
ferior of the man by whom he was adj
dressed. No one in Mutt had, so far as
they knew. ever seen him before, and
they only knew that he had just arrived
eom the South by "tie pass" The couple
dozen loungers in the saloon of Three
Fingered Pat" had seen him walk into
the room, step quietly up to the bar, and
in civil tone ask for a drink. Hawkin:
who was one of the loungers, immediate
ly stepped up, as was his wont, and in
troduced himself to the stranger in the
words above recorded. On hearing
and feeling-Jack's salute, the stranger
3 turned slowly round, and, after coolly
surveying his assailant, drawled oit, in :
broad Irish brogue:
"O'im d ID if Oh know whether We
will or not"
On hearing this challenge every one o
the two-dozen listeners was trdnsHxeo
with fear and astonishment, fear for th'
life of the valiant little Irishman, ant
$ astonishment that any one should be 81
f foolish as to thus teulpt the wrath of tn
; terrible Hawkins. Every one breathless
ly awaited developments:
, The bully cast what he doubtless in
| tended to be a crushing look of contemp
4 upon his dininutive adversary, and salo
e -"See hyar, my little bantam, reckol
: as how yol don't pear to re'lize who
D be, DO yer?"
| Tbe "bantam," however, showed N
q inclination to be crushed. Once MOI
o he lock ked the bully over Coolly and cor
2 tempiuously, and coolly and cJntemptu
ously repliedi 49,.
"Wen, | reckin as how | don't raliz
/ who you be; but j reckin as how L d
d r'alize that | don't care d-n."
d Hawkins was furious. He, the IeIrC
IS of the Southwest, to be thus bearded l
V his den. and by Observation-Disclosures
o stranger 1t was maddening. He u
tered a terrible oath and sprang like
s. ger upon his prey. But he was doone
Il TO another and more humiiating surprls
l. than he had yet experienced. The NIT
r. fellow to whom he desired to teach
e lesson had been on the watch, and whe
d the bully sprang at him he agilely elude
mis- gasp and planted powerful blow
o. as he expressed it in speaking OF 1t ate
n wards-"under the butt of the air" III
a effect was wonderful. The giant stagge
va ed and fell to the floor like a log. /
Law there for few seconds, and then Q
tempted to get up. But this was not q
plan of the "bantam.' AS he saw J.
" burly opponent make an effort to rise
:. gave him ringing slap in the face, al
"' then set to kicking him.
a After thus amusing himself for VIII
ar he caught the bully by the back of t
a5 neck, yanked him to his feet and kick
c,I him into the street. Arrived here,
Iui AGAIN knocked him down, and follow
rs that act with some more kicks. Wh
en- he had at last tired of this amuseme
1rt and when he had got the Terror" co
n pletelv cowed, he raised him once m'
to tn his feet, waltzed him into the sale
Ow and up 20 the bar, where he deliver
IRE himself of tie following speech: =.
ny "Now. We dirty blaggard, take dhri
ch and remember in the futur' that whi
IN gintleman wants We 10 dmink wud 3
be- he'll Ak We to DO it. Shure. We u
.es. sphalpeen, I'd begrudge nObodya ohm
re- but Dim id if Oil allow any on
the dhrive me to thrate him. Now dbri
ust We bloody whoit magyar, and get out
the me way till Oh take me dhrink in pat
lit- The "wboit nayCur" took bis "dhri