The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-26
SH0RTY'S CONVERSION.

mines, an beln' I'll men. we got ter be
blamed tough We didn't have nothin'
TO read, an notniE' to do when we
warn't workin' but to play keerds an
drink whisky, an 50 we sorter sid down
hill into cusSedness, and got to be bout
the hardest lot ever q feller zee.
But one day long in spring, bout
four years ago, a teller come long over
thar holdin meetin's an Sunday schools.
When be fust struck Horsethief Pass we
didn't take much TO i'm, an some o. tho
fellers talked right smart bout givin
i'm q coat O. tar an feathers an ridin'
i'm outen the camp, an | reckon they'd
done 1t but for leetle circumstance
whut happened jest then.
You see old Shorty Brown wuz the
leader in TIE camp, an every Teller
swore by him through thick an thin.
Shorty wuz powerful wicked an could
out cuss a dozen common fellers, but be
had heart il him bigger n a punkin an
nd do anything 10 hoip the boys out.
oval, bout the time they wuz talbin'
o tarrin the preacher Shorty he got hurt
in the mine, an fer week WIZ powerful
bad oil We got ter thinkia' he'd reached
the end O. his Iced an tcat he'd hev ter
cross over the range. Short 4 been the
wust feiler 10 tho camp agin the preacher
and it wuz him that proposed the tar and
feathers, SO when he got hurt the others
dropped the matter, al waited fer him to
git we'll if he WIZ a goin' to.
I'VE wuz worldn' Ike eve'tling then
to git a new mine opened, an we didn't
hev much chance 10 look after Shorty.
20 we had to leave I'm to git long by
hissef. That preacher, he see how it
wuz, an blame my skin if ne didn't jest
20 night down to ShoTty's cabin, an fling
off his coat an turn nuss. An he stayed
by Shorty jest like mother, an waited
IN i'm an give i'm medicine til he pulled
through AL right an got well.
After that we all thought a good deal
more Of the preacher en- as for Shorty
wal, / reckon he'd made short o. any
body who'd = said word agin him.
Shorty wasn't a man to go back on a
friend, an lac never forgot a favor. AS
soon as Shorty was able to git about he
comes down to tho saloon whar we usu-
Ally round o nights, an he says:
Boys, the parsons q goin' to preach
down at my cabin tonight, an want
ever last one o ye 10 come
Want mono Of AS hankerin' to go,
but we could tell by the way Shorty
spoke that he wuz in dead earnest bout
1t, an we mowed it wouldn't be extry
healthy TO refuse, 80 we agreed TO come.
"'An' want you 10 bar in min, says
Shorty, that the preachers my friend,
an that he's got to be treated white. /
want you fellers to behave an act de-
cent, an if any galoot disturbs the meet
in, blamed if / don't put a hole through
i'm on the spot
"Shorty'd q done it, too, an we
knowed it, SO you may Jest bet yer last
dollar that we WIZ a mOGgnty well be-
haved congregation that night as we
squatted agin the wall O Shorty's cabin
an listened to the ssrmont.
AT fust didn't take 40 special inter
est in what the preacher said, an reckon
none o the others didn't neither, but af-
ter he'd talked on a while he kinder
warmed up 10 business, an fer bout a
hour he talked powerful eloquent, shore,
an the way he ripped them old rascals
away back Their to Jerusalem wuz a
caution. Before he'd gone very far we
all got powerful Interested. an could
listened heap longer if he'd KEEP on.
After that we tuck to goin' to meetin'
regular, an aSore many nights we got to
locldn' forrard through the day, an
feekin' sorter anxious to hev night come
an with it another sarmont. Shorty
alters set up in front along o the
preacher. an sometimes when / looked
ND thar an see him so solemn like an
remembered how he ust to cuss ii wuz
bout al could do to keep from laughin'
right out.
wal, the meetin's KEEP on fer a week.
an then one night the preacher said he
recksned we ort TO hev Sunday school,
Shorty SAID Certainly an the rest NV
us agreed. because we thought it I'D
save trouble. You see Shorty had got
monty pious, but the way he fingered
them shootin' irons o his'n made US a
leetle jubous NV i'm. an we didn't know
but ne would break out an shoot some
Nv us fore he knowed what he wuz bout.
80 the next Sunday we met at
Shorty's cabin TO git up Sunday school.
Fust the preacher prayed an sung an
then be read chapter o scripture bout
Judas betrsyin' his master an all that
YOU know. an then he axed Us 10 talk-to
sorter give our notions Of 1t. After
wait;n' awhile, an nobody else not get
tin up, Shorty rose an said:
PellOre, this yere's new lay to me,
an 1t comes bit awk'erd, an l mayn't
be able 10 say nothin' O any count, but
I'm blamed IL don't feel like somebody
ort TO make a few remarks. an I'm will
in TO wag nv cha fer all thar Is In II.
The parson wants our notions o this
we're whut he jest read, an fer my part
haint BACKYARD bout givin' mine. j.
the fust place think them thar jew
wuz emery set, an every blamed galcot
ov 'em ort been made to stretch hemp.
In tho next place. fgger tbet thar low
lived Judas fellar ort 70 a been a dog
goocd snesk1n' coward. don't mind
feiler betn' mean when he's out an ont
in It, but hsint got no use for them IN
derhanded cusses what plays the part o
q friend an Is jest watchin' fer a chance
70 throw of On re. ] put thet thar Judas