The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-11-21
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roKEBERRY NOSE GETS EVEN WITH THE GAM
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roKEBERRY NOSE GETS EVEN WITH THE GAM
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MIsTUR EDDITUR Last Weks I cent d
vale Nv mizeFy. Now 1 rite q sam of joy.
We found that the frate-trane had run over
Josh Joslin's old kow, bout five mile up the
rode and mixed her all up with the mashinery
aud wheles. Shede bin running about the coun-
try ever sens could remember. an wuz so tuf
and stringy that it'd take EN- the rest NV the
day 2 ontwist her from the trane, sOze let it 90
ahed, and wede hev . waite till it wuz dun. So
stroled round litteI and who should mete
but Snag Tooth Miggols, who makes moonshine
Ticker up Liekskillet HOller. Snag- Tooth hez
he'd monstrous site of trubbel with the reyy-
moo ossifers and detectives and he hates EN-
wuSsen pizen. Hede 90 without his yttels any
day to get chans shute at wun on EN-.
brte idee struck me. Brite idees often strike
me- ez u no bettern ennybody els. SEE !
Snag-Tooth:
Three men that line ded sartin are detect
Tvs KUN up on the trane with me, and Tine
shore they're gwine hunt up"
Snag- Tooth's eye-he haint got but wun
tho luther wuz shot out in q scrimmage with
the revynoo ossifers-blazed up like kole ov
fire which bio the ashes of.
''Ths did" sed he. slippin catrij into his
Winchester. "Whare are tha2 Sho EN- me- y
They're down thar by the frate- kear," sed
I. "Wun on EN- hez hook-nOze, anuther hez
goggle-eyes, and the luther on EN- passes hisself
off for preacher"
"Ile hook-nOze EN-; lie goggle-eyes en- lie
preacher him." sed he, staTtin of on fast
walk. / follered see the fun. Tha wuz awl
settin together on store box, when Snag- Tooth
KUN up an kivyered EN- with his Winchester.
"Thro up yer hands" said he, "u pop-eyed,
smooth faced. hooked billed buzzards, or lie
| put holes into ye that kin ram yer fists
inter"
"Bruther, bruther." sed the preecher-k uss,
what meues this violens Why this thret-
nin2"
lie vioIens u; lie thretu u, k-tungged
sarpint," yelled Snag- Tooth. "Nun nv yore
measIy blarney. limo not soft-soddered
that-a-way. Up with them hands. everywun
Nv them this Irwin minnit. fur won't tell
u agin. line killer frum Killtown, am, and
lie larn u go spying round the country,
trying git honest foxes inter trubbel, you
white-livered skalawags. Up with them
| hands"
Anvil the hands went up ez Of sumbody he'd
fetched the springs.
"Poke go through EN-, and sarch EN- fur
weepins," sed Snag-Tooth, while l kepe EN-
kivvered with my gun"
dan ez rekwested, and emptied every polk
ket in thare kfpze. In the Preacher kuss's !
found four packs NV marked keards, that looked
| I,l ,y,d Il Il
| mint tibet dident seem . hev been yoused at awl
a flask NV whisky, self-kokin revolver, some
loaded dice, bout pint nv nikkels and koppers
hede taken in on collekshn, and wad Nv CREME
| bax.
al shude jedge" remarked swetely, ez
pulled nine-inch bowie outen his bute-leg:
"that only talk an okkashnel job NV minis
tering the gospil, while skinnin grenehorns is
yore stiddy okkepashn."
Don't misjedge me, my bruther," he sed,
! with @ whine; them evil things tibet i've
found on my pussen do not belong 2 me, but
wuz given me by bad men who hev repentid
NV thare sins, and desired me talk away the
sources NV temptashn."
"Wel, lie see that neither u nur them is
tempted by them emmy more" l sed, "speshally
by the munni! He put tibet in my SOCK"
The luther 3 panned out pretty much the
same way. Tha he'd moro whisky than the
Preacher, but not so menny grenebax and Mix
kols. He seemed 2 b the inanseer NV the crowd.
We've done give everything" they sed,
maxim mitey pore mouths; but kin talk it
an welkim, of ule only save our lives from tibet
| bad man."
promised EN- Ids try. and said Miggels |:
al don't bleve Ids kill en-. They desarve it,
but then they amt much nv detektives, only
beginners. just give EN- 9 good skeer, sozs
thals leve the kountry and never kun bak no
more"
! "Ils do it." sen hs. Thsn Q the uthaR fellers,