Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-01-30
How Dragging Match was 0onducted
Between two Old Men.

Some days since, says the Blooming
ton Bulletin, the reporter was in the
lobby of one of the hotels of this city,
when he overheard a conversation
which he determined to give to the
public the first time local news became
SO slack as to force him to draw upon
his imagination a. little to ill up the
space allotted TO him. The two gray
haired disciples of Eli Perkins who were
managing the exhibition were from
different parts of the country, and
one OF them was regular down-east
Yankee, while the other was German.
The conversational powers of tho two
old sinners were brought into play BY
a fight between TWO boys On the side
walk. a
"vcn vas a poy." saidthe German,
II Wiped fife or ten poys vat vas two
tree dimes pigCcr den vas. till der
little rascals squeol like der duyfel vas
sthirrin 'em oop nit his boxer. Dem
leotie poogers vas. always pullin sHias
hair und sfnAckins me nit der faccslntl
vos git so tam mat I gould sthand
dere foolin' no longer some more, 80
von tay dold mine pig brutter dot
vas leek dose peez-wags out init dose
leedle rascals de ferry first dime dey
go init dot monkey pccsness nit mine
hair. Nexd tay dem poys pull mine
hair leedle more und yust leeft oop
mine hind foot und gick der bants clean
OF dot biggest poy und sthood him on
ees het in der CORNER vile schmack der
udder poys NIT der goat tail under, so, :"
and he gave the Yankee fearful Jolt
in the ribs with his clenched fist.
81. by darn! exclaimed he of the east
as he caught his breath. That story
minds me how l used to knock the
applesass out o. Bill Marker, down in
Yarmouth. Bill as mighty hard
chap to peg, now, tell ye, an he
used to thump us little fellers around
jest rs he darned pleased. till got mad
one day and went into his hide like q.
bull into straw stack The fust lick
] hit i'm felt just like that Jolt yer
planted over my breat her iust now.
By gum! I hit i'm so darned hard that
I run agin' his fist an fell over back
ards. Then ! never let up till our eyes
was blacker 'antwo hats like your'n,
and when ! went home from school,
mann thought the kyars had run over
me. / tell yc! / give i'm the con-
foundedest drubbin' he ever got
''Dat vas VERY goot mine frient Dit
you ever vip nobody ven you vas pig
like now?"
"Ycs stree! l was gallawhackin
around in Californy in 40, an the
hardest crowd that ever struck got
on tear one night, Mt Sacramento, an
run me two blocks past the state fore I
gin TO git mad. turned 'roun,l, and
when the first un was bout eight feet
from me whaied away with nv left
foot and kicked his upper jaw clean
off,"
"Gootness gracious, how awful long
dot keek vasr'
Yes, sir. an when great big fellow
with u bowie knife about two feet long
was .'cachiu' for my bread basket, let
drive with my right fist and knocked
him clean through the side o that ar
state house, an the last heard O him
he was pickin' the sandstone out O. his
eyes with q scoop shovel.
''Mine Gott in himmel! How hart
you must hit.'
Yes, sir. hit buffalo right be-
tween his peppers once, and ny fist
went clear through him.
''Ish dot SO. niue fricn,?"
''Yes, sir. And took ho.d - that ar
buffalo $ tail and wiggled it for him
two or three times an he died. / had
hit i'm so blasted hard he couldn't wig
gle il aud die himself, so had to help
i'm"
'Py Shimminy! Say mine frient, w
didn't you keep holding on mit dot
taile"
"Why, what dye want me to stand
thar on the plains tor and hold to that
ar bulls tail for an let the coyotes eat
me up?"
Ivy, eef you hold on init dot tail,
somepody mighd COON py unit pellet
i'm. But you let i'm go, unit now dot
tail ees Won tam lie."