News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-12-31


stage hosses, an he gets scent of an ac-
quaintance of his'n-they bein to wind
'ard-which the same is carryin Doc
Peets all easy enuf, an so he says
'HowdyP to him, hoss fashion. Peets'
hoss, he says 'Howdyp back an the
next minute these yere four people is
pilin all permiscus into the canyon
where the ten hosses is, an each
a-shootin. Sos johnson, for that mat
ter, an for a time it's some lively.
When the shootin ceases there's that
man johnson stretched out with his
Lang broke at the knee, an Booth is
busy gettin his saddle off his own dead
hoss to put it onto another Then
they sets Johnson in a saddle after tyin
up his laig, takes the ten hosses, which
is all lookin on, some interested in the
racket, an lines out for home
Just as the outfit is enterin into
long, narrer stretch of canyon where
the walls is high an onclimable, they
hears fifteen or twenty guns behind
'em, an at the same time the bullets
begin to scutter an spatter around in
the rocks. Back they looks and thar's
forty Injuns up the valley half mile.
Obi you wants us, do you9 says
Booth, plenty scornful; well, we'll
just fool you up a whole lott What
do you say, Poets; let's stop an give
'em a rough toss? There's nuthin in it,
of course, but let it go into the minutes
of the meetin under the head of ''good
of the order"'
No, says Peets, let's get out of
the hills onto the fat ground first. Too
good chance to crawl round us yere.
But Pm constitootionally agin al.
lowin Injuns to poster round me this
away, says Jack. What do you ali
say, boysP he continued to Boggs an
Cherokee.
"Boggs was for stoppin, an Cherokee
allowed he don't care none which way;
anything as suits the rest suits him.
Don't get no vote in this yere,
I'd like for to know says johnson.
who sits on his hoss listenin, some pale
with his busted laig, but game an ugly
jest the same. Amt | into this at all?
Well, | should say not, say.
Booth, mighty contemptuous. DO
you think we're comm out yere in the
hills to let q hoss thief vote along of us?
If you do, you amt got our grade, none
at ALL
"All this time the Injuns is closin up,
a-shootin wild an wastin good lead like
they alters do, an so Peets, a-seein how
sentiment stands, sorterdrops the whole
outfit in behind a point o. rocks an be-
gins pumpin it into the hostiles in a
rapid an unpleasant way. This yere
goes on for two minutes, an the Iniuns
sorter drops out of the game long enuf
to count what chips they're short.
:" s'pose,' says Johnson to Peets,
while they're waitin, you alrs shore
due to hang Inc when we gets to Wolf
villeP
"'We most likely will waste lariat
that away says Peets. why, what
ever makes you doubt itY
q Il ain't doubtin of it says John
son; none whatever. This yere's Jest
my way of beginnin a conversation.
Now, what I'm gettin to is this: I'm
goin to hang anyhow, an it hurts my
laig like blazes to ride. Now, what's
the matter of you all givin me a Win
chester and couple of Colts, and say
about 100 rounds of "44's," an lettin
me camp right yere in the rocks an
carry on the war. You all can stroll
off to Wolfville then, an I'll see that no
Injuns go by me- The canyon walls
see they don't go round none, an thar
you be. think she's a bang up good |
scheme, myself, as does me credit. They
can't nohow down me for two hours,
an that'd give you start enuf, even if
you're afoot. What do you say; is it
a goP
What do you all thinkP says Peets
to the rest, sorter thinkin of it over to
himself 1T looks all right to me.
This yere man is bound to go anyhow,
an simply prefers Injuns to US an bull
lets to a rope. would myself, SINH
larly situated. Utmost likely is a-hurtin
of his laig heap to make him ride too.
What do you all say2 Shall we let
him make the playP
1T looks like when a mans done
bound to lose anyhow says Cherokee,
he shore oughter be allowed to say
which card he drops his stack on
"'We might as well let him have his
way says Booth glooInily. 'Packin
him in with his busted knee is a heap
of bother, an when we do get him in
thar we amt got no real good up and
up place to swing him to. Hanging
him to the windmill stops proceedin's
in that quarter for an hour an inter
feres with the water supply. On account !
of not being able to dror water, an
man hangin in the way, the last timo
we runs up on Tucson Dave, Mis-
Rucker gets way behind on her game
at the Garfield restaurant an we
don't see no supper till o'clock. Mis-
Rucker tells me then that's the last
time we ever hangs a man to the wind
mill She says she won't stand no
more of it. Stretchin of a shot man
don't do no good neither. 1t amt no
example
$50 everybody feelin' alike about it,
hey ups an gives johnson a Winches- |
Ter an brace of six shooters, an plants
him down behind rock, with his back |
agin another, turns him over a canteen
of whisky, an says, 'Adios.'
"'You're goin to have a chance now,
Johpson, says Poets, to do somethin |
for society, an 1 shore hopes you i'm
proves it, an don't lay down on it nome
"That's all right boys says John
son, takin a big drink an wavin his
hand all pleasant. When you all gets
in, Jest write on to the commissioner on
Injuns an give him my respects, an tell
him to shorten up his count on Apaches
vt least ten
"'Do you mean to tell me, says |
Faro Nell, her eyes a-flashiA, when they |
stops in front of the Red Light saloon
four hours later an informs the rest of |
us how the game stands, do you all
mean to stand yere an tell me you four
rides off without a mark an leaves a
white man behind with a bullet in his
knee to get shot an skelped by Iujuns9
Cherokee continues Nell, gOin over to
him with tears in her eyes, wasn't |
lookin for no sech play from you, no
how
why, Nellie says Cherokee, this
yeres all right if you looks at it. This |
johnson was due to hang, anyhow; an |
what difference, as he says himself, If
he gets his stack cashed by an lnjunf