The Bossier banner., 1892-04-14
THE MAN WHO sQUlNTED.
Ills Ignominious Failure to Hit Cross
EYED Capt. Wheeler.

Eyed capt. WheeieF'
He got On the train at small station |
in South Carolina to ride to a town |
about forty miles away. He was a
thorough native in look, dress and
speech, and he had scarcely got seated
when he pulled out a big revolver and
began tinkering with it. To those OF
us sitting near him he explained:
''Been something wrong with this
we're gun for some time back, but l
didn't fix it because didn't jest wantto
use it, you know"
'And are you going to use it now"'
asked
81 reckon to. ! reckon that when l
get up thar I'll do some shootin'. Deed
that's what I'm going for"
He had screwdriver, an Oil can ana
other implements, and as he took the
pistol apart and cleaned it, he observed:
Reckon it would have been better to
carry shotgun, but l can't get this
arm up high enough to hold it to my
face"
ben hurt?'
'Had some of the muscles cut with a
knife You see this eye, stranger?'
Yes"
sBuckshot struck me in the corner
und left me with a squint. Hahn t done
any shooting since that eye got we'll
| Would you call it bad squint?'
mot so very, but as it is your right
| eye I don't see how you can sight along
the barrel of gun"
81 expect it will come awkward, but
what am 1 going to do? Thar's Capt.
Wheeler up thar who's been tellin'
around that he made my brother Jim
eat mud Jim he's away off in Cali
fornia and he writes me to go up and
shoot the captain. I've got squint,
but I've got to shoot, haven't l?'
"How's the captain?'
Dunno May have a squint and may
not Got to take the chances. Reckon
/ ought to get in pretty close before
open fire. l think this will do now
Seems to work all right. Let me get
sight on you. Now, then, am l aiming
at your right or left eye?"
LEFT, l should say"
II was aiming at your right, and tha
. shows l have bad squint | must ge
pretty close to the captain before
open"
q He got the pistol in good shape an
then read newspaper until the tow
I was reached. Three or four of us wer
, to get off there as well. There wa
| quite crowd on the platform, and w
o followed close after the man with
a sauint. AS soon as he was out
q walked up to a citizen and asked:
I Gould you tell me if Capt Wheel'
n is in town.
k Hes right down thar" replied tn
i man, pointing to some cotton bales
8 the far end of the platform.
G Our friend pulled his gun and head'
e that way. Some one behind him call
$ out to the captain, and he saw him a
d preaching when yet forty feet ava
y He was unarmed and he started to ru
d. The squint-eyed man fred three she
re at him, and then the freight-house
RS tervened Word was passed along, no
IN ever that the captain was unhurt a.
OF had mounted horse and got away
k Ought to have fetched him, but
et suuint knocked me out, said our frle
ne as he put away his gun. 'Gentlemt
We you all know the captain, while nev
all met him. Are his eyes all right"
De "Why, no." answered one of
nj crowd. ''rhe captain he's the Gro
or eydest man in all these parts!"
W lWi' Good Lordr' gasped the squint-ey
ITO man, but I'm in luck after all! I'm ol
fy a sauint to his cross, and by shooting
u, u,' him half a day can hit him sol
lu where! Some of you all go and find
i1S and tell him I've come up to shoot
~ will wait here two days for him!"-
"a Quad, in n. Y. World.