Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-05-20
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A "Reminiscences.
He looked rough, ragged and rusty, as
he sat upon a dry goods box, absorbing,
to the fullest extent, the radiant sun
shine. His face had a detected look, en-
graved deeply upon it, by long years of
privation and suffering, and by too long
periodsof time between meals and drinks.
He gripped a clay pipe between his
teeth with grim determination, and he
spat, now and then, upon the sidewalk,
with a savage smack.
"Things amt what they used ter be,
stranger" he said, m%ournfully, as he
gazed with a far-away, woe-begone look
of longing at a book beer sign across the
street. "No, sir, things amt much like
they wuz bout the time we hung Jim
Holcross fer boss stealth" and he heaved
a sigh of heartfelt regret.
"How was that?" queried your re.
porter, becoming interested.
"Oh,, Jim he'd a strange failin' O.
leadin' off bosses that didn't seem ter be
dom anything in p%ertickler. Jim allus
said twas natral, he couldn't help it.
Said he couldn't no more pass a stray
boss than he could pass a beer saloon in
August. Well, the fellus all c%ongregated
n day and went down ter Jim's place,
and told him they'd come ter hang him
ez a special favor-ter stockmen. Bill
Jordan, Bob Fisher and Long Tom Hol-
cross, Jim's brother, wuz along. Jor-
dan, he took along a gallon O. whiskey,
and the fellers all wetted up consid-
rable, and when they got ter Jim's, a
hangin' was just about suited ter 'em.
Fisher, he took along a copy of Hoyle's
games, and he got upon tn table an be-
gan ter make tn funeral Grafton. He
just got to when you're in doubt, lead
trumps,' when Long Tom, he got up an
began ter recite a piece that he said he'd
made up himself. It was:
STRANGER. when you're hangin' with your feet in
the air,
Oh. think of the home over there"
There wuz fourteen verses of it, an
fore he got half way through, some one
hit him with a chair and he went to
sleep. Then they went out an hung
Jim, an after he was dead they carted
him back to the house an put his body
in a wagon an said they'd take his
body to town, an hold an inquest. But
Fisher, he got too drunk to drive, an be
threw the reins away an said "go it,"
and the horses started. 'Run?' did you
say. Well I should say run. They
come ter a little hill after a while an
tumbled Jim's carcass out and Fisher
with it. Fisher, he put his arms aroun'
Jim's neck and said we won't 20 home
till mornin', and down they rolled to the
bottom. Finally he got up and set on
the corpse an said he'd hold the inquest,
cause he was settin' on the body" then
"let's likker, stranger, I'm dry"
He pulled from his pocket an anti
prohibition flask, took a long, deep pull,
and continues:
"Wel], we couldn't get Jim ter town,
SO we hunted up a badger hole, and, as
we couldn't get him in. layln' down, we
stood him up, feet first, and Fisher said
it might crook Jim a little ter get him
in, but Long Tom said he'd been so
crooked when he was alive that it
wouldn't hurt him. It wuz good times,
them" he muttered, sadly. "Whiskey
wuz free as water, and they wuz a hang
IN most evsry day. Now, whisky's darn
hard to git, and I amt seen a right good
hangin' fer some time"
He buttoned up his t~hreadbare coat,
took a long. last, sorrowful look at the
book beer sign, and got down from the
dry goods box.
mo, sir, faint much like old times"
he reiterated.
Then he went away.
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