Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-08

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''Take um of! Take um off They're . stobbun me! There-'' & ,s
 There was Q rush forward of all the crowd. But tho loud voice of Bill Dikes
 sounded threateningly:
 ''Stand back, menl He ort to be killed. Stand back! Let um finish i'm. ''
 And the crowd swayed back again
 before the drawn knives of the Dikes, revealing to my mortified gaze the for eign client down upon his back and two of the Dikes stopping down to make sure that their keen knives should go straight to his heart
 But bursting out of the iimson jungle and with a growl that "fairly rig my hair offun my scalp" as Seef Dary afterward told told Bogus Leatherwood crashed through the crowd as Q buffalo bull might have crashed through this slender plume of gold-twig willows in a mad race to quench long and parching thirst
 What he did, or what he said, mo- body know exactly, so far as tho immi- nent peril of the client was concerned.
 However. when tho crowd, includ- ing the court and tho bar and the rival physicians. had gottcn n little way up the road toward the tavern, Buck and ]. who had fingered a little, heard old Bogus Leatherwood saying to the four Dikeses:
 "As if you wasn't Hbul at any min- ute to have sono fghtun to do that's wuth somoth'n'. Fightun at you'd be obleeged to do.'
 And then a continuous deep bass growl, accompanied by sundry violent gestures with clonched hands that would have broken mans ribs, each and every one of them. Then the gi- gantic landlord strode off at q rate that put the Dikeses and tho Sparkses and even long Bill Shipley almost ito the trot" to keep in sight of him.
 Buck and sat so long thero on the battlefield talking over all tho events of the day and wondering so much at every thing that had happened, dis cussing the treachcry of the foreign client and the great peril from which he had been so.opportunely rescued by the astonishing sortie of Bogus Leath- erwood from tho jimson jungle, that the moon had dropped down into the thick tops of some gigantic elms on the little island just opposite, and warned us of the lateness of the hour with silent upward sweep of a black shadow that clovo the bright river and the gray plume of the gold-twig willows in two and swept the little grass-plot sudden 1y from our vision.
 Then we roso up silently, woll know. ing that all the doors of Bogusses wero shut for the night; and that any sur- reptitious opening of them was certain to bring tho vigllant wrath of Bogus Leatherwood upon tho laggard; and hence that tho way to peace and bed lay over the roof of the kitchen and so along the shed roof of tho ell directly under the little north window of Polly's bedroom, and SO ill at a little attic window strangely enough constructed in the end of the shed roof and leading into Bucks little bedroom. where, on many such summer nights, and often, with tho winter blasts bowling about the little attic gable, Buck and I had lain awake and talked in almost whispered tones of what wo should do when VIC got to bo mon.
 On this night, with a moro than ordi- nary alertness and caution put into our movements by tho almost tragedy that we had together witnessed on the river bank. VIC climbed liko cats to the shed roof from tho ono available col umn of tho small porcl, in tho kitchen end of tho shod. Crawling stealthily along in tho shadow thrown from the taller roof of tho main building. by a low red moon now pooring between black-crossed limbs of elm troes, we at last reached tho comb of tho oll-roof, and our peering heads wore on level, or even little abovo Q lovol with the sill of Polly's opon north bedroom window. "- ' .s".
 Being in tho load, l was upon the point of lifting my bare foot after the shoes and stockings in my right hand, and which had gono pioneering boldly over the comb of tho roof and down upon that of the attic. when Buck ever more vigilant and alert than l, ever more susceptible to correct pre- monitions of danger or mystery than 1-put his strong hand upon my arm with such grasp that I came near rolling down the shed roof in the belief that had seen Old Bogus Leather wood leaning menacinglY out at Pol ly's open north window. When we were so for down tho side of the gently sloping roof as to be quite out of the