McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1885-03-05

men whom he had joined would have
drunk with HIM all day. They seemed
to have no other business.
Had you in The 'boose the last time
you were in town, didn't they, ehp"
asked Nat Boles.
''Yes, but that's none of your look
out. generally pay for my whisky
which is more than you can say and
tell the truth
81 didn't mean any harm by it. You
are getting to be such a crank that no
body can say word to you"
That's all right. You sit around
mere and guzzle every day, but if l
happen to come to town once in q
while and get little off, you go
around singing it"
81 don't do any such thing. l
merely spoke about it just now
"Oh, heard of you. Fine joke for
you. Why don't you drink your
whisky"
"Reckon | want to drink with a
man that talks to me as you do?"
Eyes you'd drink with the devil"
'I'll just show you
Taking up the glass, he made a mo-
ton as though he would throw the
whisky on the floor, but his appetite
being stronger than his resentment,
he drank it and said:
81 don't want to have any trouble
with you, Eli. We are too good friends
for that
They sat down around the stove, for
the weather was intensely cold. There
is no place on earth more dreary than
a saloon in a small town, but men stay
there. Yes, for man will stay any
where. When evening came. Eli was
beastly drunk. He had thrown away
the shoe, but the boy recovered it, and
to keep from offending his father by
the sight of it, carried it under his
coat.
"We'll 90 home now" he said, tax
ing hold of the boys shoulder.
ats awful cold for you to attempt
to walk; I'd stay in town, Eli,'' said
man who looked with pity upon the
child.
eve don't have to walk" replied
the boy. ''Our horse is at the stable"
mo, my little fellow, your horse is
not there. Your father sold the horse
when he slipped away from you before
dinner time"
The child burst into tears. His ia
Their declared that having spent all his
money, and that Us he could not get
whisky without it. he wouldn't stay in
the internal town. He vowed that
everybody was trying to rob him, q
belated but not altogether untrue re-
Election. ''Come on said he, 1--WE
don't care for the snow, do we, Tom?'
''No, sir"
But if you want to stay, we'll
stay
The child, looking at him reproach-
fully yet affectionately, replied, 81
wouldn't stay here if L knew we'd
freeze to death by going out in the
snow
..All right, Macoovey. Come on.
Drunken than an owl. Full as goose,
Tom"
eyes, know"
"What'll the old lady say?'
"She won't say anything, bat you
know she'll cry
'.Pretty good woman, Tom. Your
mother, amt she?"
Eyes. SIR
s.That's what / thought. Man new
er has but one mother, Tom. Never
heard of a man with two mothers, did
you?"
'.No, sir
That's what thought. When n
man tells you that he has two mothers,
call him 4 liar. He may have two
sisters and front yard full of broth
ers, but ne won't have but one moth
er."
They We're struggling along a lane.
The child's teeth chartered. Cant
90 any further tonight, Tom" said
the father, stopping in fence corner.
"Just so tired can't go any further.
You 90 home and tell the folks not to
be uneasy. I'm all right. Going
Tom?''
'sNo, SIR
Early next morning, traveller dis
mounted to examine something ne saw
in fence corner. Il will never for
get that sight" said he in speaking of
it. 1.-The boy had his arms around
the fathers purple neck, and had
pressed his cheek close to the rough
face of the drunkard. Both were dead,
and on the dead mans breast, there
lay little WORKOUT shoe '''-ArkanSda0
Traveller