Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-04-17
"DOn't try IL. Moae.

yer stanin' thar and shed tearsl
Here lately it peers like everybody that
comes round mo wanster blubber.
Amt got time ter talk ter yer, Nose.
Git ep," pulling his pillow line. "When
yer git SO yer ken talk, come over and
see us.
Shortly after Sanders left the field,
Nick, looking up when he arrived at
the end OF '%lane," saw Wiley Thomp.
son, sitting on the fence.
"Watin' fur yer, Nick" said Thomp-
son, as he got off the fence and shook
hands with the plowman.
s"Wall, I'm here.
$50 l see. an now that yer air here.
l waIter tell yer somothin'. Las
night me an a passul Nv Their boys bad
a meetin' an we all lowed that Nick
Page wuz develish good timber fur
sheriff. The 'leekshon amt off an
yer can be 'lected easy as fallin often
q lawg.
wiley, yer don't mea whut yer're
sayin'P
"Sw'ar l do.
ivy. said Nick, as he cleaned the
mold board OF his pillow with his foot,
'ef they wuster 'lect me l might
momox Their office.
mo danger NV that, fer ell yer want
is to git or clerk ter do yer writing
part. Jist think, Nick Nv Their money
yer can make. Thar amt no doubt
or bout yer 'leckshon fur yer names
in eveybody's mouth. What do yer
sayp
"All right, eff they 'lect me, I'll
sarve.
He was elected. Everyone was so
anxious to see a ''pore boy, whom all
had denounced, rewarded for his
daring achievement, that no
candidate in opposition to
Nick, was announced. Short
ly after the new sheriff was installed,
and while he was sitting alone in his
office, old lobe Crabtree, after much
~exertion in wiping his feet at the door,
entered the room. Nick quickly arose
and brought a chair for the old man.
'Mr. Page, said lobe, Il amt seed
yer sense Their woods wuz burnt.
"No, Nick replied, mot sense Their
weather set in. How's all Their
folks?"
ooh, midlin'.
isis is well, l hope"
"Yas, she's well but she amt pert.
Amt been pert sense that night when
yer had yer Engagements ter meet her
in Their woods.
"Why'nt she Gomez
"Wall, III tell yer, Nick" He then
related the incident which had &C.
Cured on the night OF the contemplate
ed marriage. When old lobe had fin.
ished his recital, Nick, who had sat
gazing at the floor, looked up and
said:
II think mo- Nv her fur it. It's the
love l have fur her that-wall, thar
amt no use'n talking erbout poler-
ticks" summoning an air of careless
ness. "Everything'n come out all
right airter while. Amt got no 'jec-
tons ter me marrying Sis now, have
yerp
"None under Their heavens.
"Jest b~ercause 1 bantered Their mob
and saved a mans life. ! recken.
"No. not by or blame sight, old lobe
replied, vigorously punching the floor
with his stick. Not because yer want
Altered Nv or boss an plow. l do
b'leve that creek bottom fiel NV yourn
| will make Their finest con in Their Gu
munity. l tell yer that such con as
that oughter be er Recommendation ter
any
Zine glad yer've con- round all
right, ole man, said Nick.
"Who wouldn't come round all
right! lobe replied. tell yer whut's
er TACK that con will ketch Their best
Nv en-. l hearn thet yer've got Nose
Sanders an Tai Smith as deperties.
I'm glad Nv it, Tobe added
when Nick had answered affirma-
lively. Tai had or mighty close
call. Say Nick-muss call yer by yer
fust name-spozen yer come long
home with me.
"It's q laung ways, INK lobe, an
we couldn't GIT thar afo' night.
81 know that bein' sheriff is like er
man eatin' pop con, takes all mis- err
t%ention, but shet up yer shop an
come.
Nick had resolved owe to 60 to
Tobe's house again, but now that he
knew why Sis had failed to meet him,
and now that old lobe im%portuned him
he consented. AS the two men rode
along he wondered what Sis would say
when he entered tho house. A tremor
seized him as he entered the place.
"Yander goes John ter feed thor cat
tle." said Old lobe. He was goin' ter