The Clifton clarion., 1888-03-07
PAP wAs.A-usEp UP MAN.


 Wyo., for dinner. Anothe
 covered wagon, headed west, Wal
 already camped there and Do!
 was takingEcare Eof the horses
 while a girl about 14 years ol(
 was busy frying some bacon ovel
 fire near the wagon. We man
 aged to scrape an acquaintance
 with the girl, and asked her if hel
 and her brother were travelling
 alone.
 ''Oh, no," she replied, ''pap an ma'm are in the wagon. Pap's laid up, an ma'm's doctorin' him."
 Hurt in an accidents"
 "Yes, all bunged up. Other fellow was sight quicker, an pap flowed he was. Lor' but he did make some lively motions"
 "What was the trouble?"
 %, jes' a fight. Say, l want to know if lhe.men keep gettin' wus the further west you get?"
 "Well, it's hard to say; dosthey. seem to?"
 That's about it. When We lived back in Pennsylvania pap flowed. he-could!. licksany man in Miiiin county, an he used to do 1t, too. lection days an Fourth O July, an camp meetin's. Three months ago we pulled out for the west, an says pap: I shall leave line of men on crutches from Lewiston, Pa, to Helena, Mont. I shall tie together the Alleghaners and the Rockies by a line of crip- ples, I shall unite the east and the westsswith spavined and used up fghtersl I shall shut up the optics and fiatten out:the smellers of these western galoots and learn them that all the bad men don't roost west of the Mississippi" Pap said.he was pizel on western blowards, and they wanted to sing low when he had his boots op."
 "Well, was he as successful as he expected to be-"
 Not by 8 good bit. He pounded man.all to pieces near Pittsburg an licked two more crossin' Ohio. They seemed to get tougher in Indiana, but pap whaled a livery stable man at Decatur an chased a Tippecanoe county man a mile an q half. When he struck Illinoys they 'peared to get still wuss, an pap only kinder. tired .out three of 'em an didn't lick 'em reg'lar. Then we crossed the Mississippi at Bur lington, an man that was load ing lumber down by the river kinder tired pap out. Then a man at Ottumwa that run s'ioon pretty near licked pap reg'lar, an at Osceola he'd got poundin if he hadn't run; still he didn't get | hurt much till We struck Ne braska."
 "They got still worse, did they?"
 That ain't no name fJr it. At | Fremont, one of the county com | missioners came down where we | were camped an put it all over pap in about ten minutes, an at | Long Pine pap shook his fist at the conductor of a passenger train an the conductor stopped | his train an came over and | whipped pap till he squealed. At Valentine the principal of the school chased pap out of the school yard when we tried to camp there, an at Chadron he picked on the. mayor little when he was tryin' to trade horses, an the mayor up an socked it to him 'thout pullin' his coat or sayin' word. Still, pap wasn't laid up til he struck Wyoming. Back here at Lusk pap got to talkin' to q little fellow bout religion. Pap's a Prespeterian an the little fellow said lie wasn't nothin' but he leaned toward the 'Piscopals and never took much stock in Pres peterians. Then pap jumped up a couple of times an told the lit tie fellow to look out 'cause he was comin.' An then pap went for him with his head down, an gosh, you orter seen the motions that little fellow made! Pap was licked fore he got his second wind, but somehow the cuss WAS so little he kept fightin' him in place of runnin' like he orter, and he konsekence was men nam had . 10 hist him into the wagon an fix m cOr,,0 ,DIoean-- Eo,, IL. .Il