Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-03-06
what belongs to me and what don't.
Nannas the same az other things"

needn't think you're goin' to make any
thin by KNOWN US. You've got to fork
over your cash all the same. and II you
think to make any thing by peach1n' on
us after we've cleared out and left you
peaceful in your bed, you're mistook SO
far as I'm concerned, for I've made the
track clear to get out OF this town De-
fore daybreak, and I don't know when
I'll come back. This place is gettin'
little too hot for me, and you're my con-
cludin' exercise Jerry he sat still for
a minute considerin'. He WASH no fool,
and he knowed that there wasn't no use
pettin' scared, nor cussin', nor hoIler1n.
What's more, he knowed that we was
there to get his money, and II he d1dn
| fork it over he'd get himself laid out, and
that was worse than losin' money any
day. Now, boys says he, III tell you
what I'll do. I'll make you an offer, a
fair and square offer. What money I've |
got I'll divide even with you, each OF
us takin' a third, and I'll try to make
I'D what 1 lose out of my next contract.
Now, nothin' could be no squarer than
that How much money have you got
| Jerrvp saws l; that's the first thing to
know I've got thirty-one hundred
dollars even,' says he, and that Will be
one thousand and thirty-three dollars
and thirty-three cents apiece. I've got
hills to nav tomorrow for lumber and
bricks. and my third will pay 'em. II
don't I'll go to pieces. You don't want
to see me break up business, do your
Now, jerry says l, that won't do. You
haven't got enough to divide into three
parts. Putty and me agreed to go halves
with what we get out of you, and when
1 lay out piece OF business don
make no changes. Half of that money
is for me, and half is for Putty. SO just
hand it out, and don't let's have no
more jabberin'.'
GERRY he looked at me pretty hard
and then says he: You're about the
close-fsted and meanest man ever met
with. Here l offer you third part OF
? my money, and all you've got to do IS 10
, take it and go away peaceable. Ia Do
willin' to bet two to one that it's more
!, than you expected to get, and yet you
are not satisfied; now I'll be hanged II
I'm going to do business for you You
= can be hanged if you like says l, but
= | you'll do the business all the same NO.
/ WON'T says he, and he turns to Putty
:, Henderson. Now, Putty says he'
you've got pile more sense than TINS
pal of yourn, and I'm goin' to see II L
J can't do business with you. Now, you
u and me together can lick this Tommy
Il Randall just as easy as not, and If you Ii
help me do it I'll not only divide the
J money with you, but I'll give you fifty
dollars extra, so that instead of fifteen
- hundred and fifty dollars that's all he'd
given you, if he didn't cheat you-you'l L
have sixteen hundred, and I'll have III
u teen hundred instead of the thousand
and thirty-three dollars which l woulo
L. have had left if my first offer had beer
took. So, Putty, what do you say u
i, that?' Now, Putty he must have beer
1t a little sore with me on account OF thu
IS arguments we'd had about dividln'
IT and he was mighty glad beside
y to get the chance of maxim fifty dollar
N extry, and SO he said it was all right
i'd and he'd agree. Then I thought 1T wa
ut about time for me to take in some
is INV sail, and says L: Jerry, that's pref
t. ty good joke, and you can take my ha
L as soon as get a new one, but of cours
Sc I don't mean to be hard on you, and
W, you really have bills to pay tomorrow
On I'll take third, and Puttyn take al
ig other, and we'll go away peaceful N
y, YOU WON'T sings out Jerry, and wit
nd that he Jumps out of bed right at m'
n and Putty Henderson he comes at m
N. from the other side, and, between tn
d. two, they gave me the worst hckln'
or ever got in my born days; and the
they dragged me downstairs an
nd kicked me out of the front door, and
we had hardly time to pick myself up b
re fore saw a policeman abouta block OF
Tor and if he hadn't been fat one he'd Ia
l me sure. 1t wouldn't have been plea
Tor ant, for 1 was good deal wanted abo'
yas that time"
Mt 81 think you were served exact
US right" said Aunt Martha; land wo
ow der sue. an experience did not indu
he you to reform"
op- sIt did, ma'an, it did" said the bur
at lar. 81 made VOW that night that
SKIS ever again had to call in any one
nat help me in business of that kind
wouldn't go psrd with him. I'd p,
in him SO much for the job, and I'd Ia
'ws the risks, and I've stuck to 1t.
use "But even that don't always wor
ISL Luck sometimes goes agin man, ev
can when he's working by himself.
p a member thing of that kind that W
ell beastly hard on me. A gentleman e
clip ployed me to steal his daughter"
you "Whatr' exclaimed my wife and Au
our Martha. ''Steal his own daught
hin What do you mean by that?"
"That's what it was" said the ste
burglar, mo more nor less. was +
commended to the gent as a relial
party for that sort of thing, and l n
j MIN to talk it over and then he told
lust how the case stood. He and
wife were separated, and the daught
about eleven years old, had been giN
! to her by the court, and she put her il
a boarding-school, and the gent he v
p goin' to Europe and ne wanted to get
z little gal and take her with him.
= tried to got her once and it slipped
2 and so there wasn't no good in his sh'
N. in hisself at the school any more, VIII
N was in the country, and he knowed I
n if he expected to get the gal he'd n
- to hire professional to attend to it.
ID ssNow. when heard what he hat
say, put on the strict pious, and, s
1, That's pretty bad thing you're ash
me to do, sir, to carry away little
or from its lovin' mother, an more
that, to take it from school where
gettin' all the benefits of eddicati
less. sEddication,' says he; that's all st
ltty. What eddication the gal gets at a sch