Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-10

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-. aa,inc dinner at a farmhouse
,~s,ana when one Of the children
came - in and announced that : nls",
way tramp had called at the si'V M
aoor and asked for a bite 70 eat
sarnsr was a very fat, very short anu
vary bald-headed man' anu ~ 49,.
.os,master al the corners ana Justice
- M ro,ce In and for the county
He had son called James ano'noa
called Moses, anl hired mah "ho
"a. addressed as Towser 10 SCI
ont word for the tramp TO slI uo ~
I'D rest and AS laugh went "F"u''"
the table he explained; t,..a ~
'i' sf,e, dinner | shall BE- pleased "
show YOU how we encourage Tramp -,
Ais section. This is evidently ~"
man 10 this part OF the STAG VI ''
would never have called here. ~,
Aftar dinner we went out Inc
,,.an,n was sitting under cherry Tree
ir"tIing \. comfortable as you please
and evidently unsuspicloue thai any
thing except dinaer was ia StoFS ~.
him He looked 10 me Ike a Oi'I 'ila .
~ fonI With but the farmer dlah
seem 30 read him that way
Now. then" he said, ~ ne i,aooo1 /,
his fat hands together, you VIII se'hu
up
l $50 be- kicked! | am going 10 ooot
von from this spot down 10 that silver
cd telephone pole.
but, object.
Cant help that As toarth-claas
westminster OF the United states OF
America command you TO arise. = y,
III am kicked somebody sss VIII
get hurt! cautioned the tramp A. nc
got UP.
and for this couuty command you "
disperse,n said the farmer, as he turned
the tramp toward the gate and admth'
istered Kick.
Next instant no received leit-hand'
or on the nose which knocked htm %
to "a coufu4eI heap on the grass, AND
the tramp got out ot his old coat ana
prepared for business.
.Towser. pulyerize hin" shouted
the farmer a. BIZ struggled y hit
knees. In ths name " th" Intlej
States command you 70 knock HIN
lownn
Towssr advanced, mis- big Fists d0lb
led up, but tue tramp danced ." th'
right and the left, and thsn -eDt tn Uu'
on the hired mhn's cummtztary d.
partment which doabIrd him up and
laid him among the hoilyhocSs.
james. Moses, make him prison
err yelled the Old man. ~ he pIt$e'
handful Of grass and held II % hl
bleeding nose.
The tramp chpcktel. Theirs wa' 'p'
ahead
The two boys were strapptns youuI
fellows, strong enough - knock tip@t
An OK, and they were willing 81 ~ IN
As they stripped oil the tramp bacss
up between two current bushes, wHsr'
they could not Hank him aud as the
advanced UPON him he grinuwi al
over. Ile played With them inr
minute or two. and tasn drew Ion
breath, made t,irre or four irints, an
piled them on the grass lD setHst
Neither moved 10 got up tor full tw
minutes Meanwhile the tram
rested and looked over 10 mo an
queried
"You ant one Of the crowd2'
"No.r
"And don't want me to dispersed
mot particularly.
"All right | don't think the Unite
States and his gang want anythin
a more Of me just now and as have d
n engagement down the road m mo,
/ on. When they get washed up hr
i the bandaggs on tell ON used
: scrap with the boys Ia Chicago in day
d gone by, and that held mysstt to m
n let EN- OIL very mild Good-by strange
n Tn, IN, old fatty"
II And he had not been gone Il
a minutes before the po.tma5tcr can
:, over TO me and whispered,
% did you ever" New York Sun.